And we Complain about traveling times

[Mowjo]

I've just been looking on Broadland Memories and came across this, it's from the log book  of a holiday on a yacht called Frolic in 1918, the two days include an over night stop on route, but just for fun I Googled the time it takes on todays roads and it came out at just under three hours, by Train it's four and a half hours, I'll never complain about the two and a half hours it used to take me to drive up from London,, the Log is quite an interesting read, I never realised there was so much good stuff on the site,,
 
 http://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/documents/memories/champness_log_1918.pdf
 
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16TH 1918
Arrived at Wroxham about 5 o’clock in the evening after travelling from Rugby and taking 13½ hours to get here. Thus ended our 2 days travelling under not too enviable war conditions and which we were glad enough to finish.
Enquired at the “Kings Head” for a room and found that a “gentleman from the Admiralty” had the only vacant room.
Having admitted my identity as such we got our room which was a very nice one.
We had tea first and then had a look around the place and at the old familiar haunts not seen since the good old days of 1914.
Had dinner at 7.30 and had a quiet smoke in the Kings Head garden before turning in early as the journey had been tiring and tiresome.

[diesel falcon]

They certainly liked potatoes and bovril, just show,s the effects of the ww1

[Mowjo]

I'm trying the Corned Beef, Eggs and Beans with Bovril, and I'm so used to buying my milk in bottles and cartons I sometimes forget it comes from Cows,,,,

[NorfolkNog]

There's loads of good stuff on Carol's Broadland Memories site - a fascinating read. Great photos and videos too