When we woke up on Saturday Morning at Karen's Matt rang and asked if we had heard the news. We hadn't. We were totally oblivious to the flooding on the M5, if we hadn't crossed the Severn Bridge to Wales on Friday afternoon we would have been stuck on the motorway overnight. I'm sure we would have survived in the camper but it wouldn't have been much fun. As we listened to the travel reports the best thing to do seemed to be to head up through Monmouth to Mum's at Hereford and stay over another night.
Sarah and Jon set off from Cornwall the same day and got home with no problem. We on the other hand arrived at Hereford (1 hour drive from Chepstow) after following the swollen River Wye and promptly got stranded at Mum's for 2 days. Hereford became an island with no route out for us. Roads were flooded or had been swept away. The dining room in Lyde became an internet cafe for us to keep up with the travel news!
Gordon and Rachel looking terribly upset to be stranded in Hereford
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