The Northern Tour
Or eight hours of driving...
Well after a few weeks of looking and any number of phone calls Jules got offered two jobs (and I am still looking...)! She had the choice of a contract with TNT in Leicestershire and the other one in Staffordshire for the Staffordshire county council. Not sure which one to take we decided to take a bit of a drive to check out both Leicester and Stafford (and their surrounding areas).
So we headed north along the motorway to Leicester (the closer of the two to Southampton). Man was the weather bad. The snow was extremely thick and I am surprised there were not a lot more accidents on the road! We went fine though and before we headed to Leicester we had to stop at a pub for lunch.
The plan was to drive around the centre of Leicester first and then park and walk around. To say it is not a nice place would be an understatement. It is pretty dire actually and Jules would not actually be working in Leicester but at the TNT head office about an hours drive away in Atherstone. So that was one strike against TNT.
After our walk we headed towards Stafford, via Atherstone and a little known place called Tamworth (alas instead of country music they had an indoor skiing place).
Once we reached Stafford we parked, walked around and headed to Cafe Nero for a coffee. It was decision time for Jules. Stafford or Leicestershire. Stafford eventually won out for a number of reasons (the town was a lot nicer and it was nice and close to Birmingham - England's second largest city). So she phoned the recruitment agents to let them know her decision and we headed back home via Pizza Express for dinner!
Snow!
The pub lunch.
3 comments:
Did you know that anybody could put anything in these comments, no restrictions? "Justin sucks!", heh-heh! ;-) You don't even have to talk about the post at hand! Er..., "that skiing a month or so back was good!"
Right. Why am I reading this again?
No, this seems a good opportunity to speak to John Q. Public. A sound scheme would be a bit of a review perhaps on the Grand Adventures. How is it all going anyway? Enjoying it? Yes, yes, hmmn, (strokes beard, nods).
Yes, 83% of you agreed with the phrase, "It's certainly interesting, where's my money?", but I'm not sure it's very grand though. No chandeliers or or posh dogs or ponderous language. Spelling could do with some work, can you here me people? But I think we can all agree that the simplest publicity stunt would be to have more pictures of me... ;-)
I dont see your blog anywhere Peter. Could that be because you are too busy doing other things such as sleeping and picking your nose and arse?
Peter has just informed me that I should have added links to my comment. But that is like Peter all criticism and no work. Perhaps he should just go back to his nose and arse... ;-)
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