I think my plans for today need a rethink. I was intending to visit Spanish City by public transport and to wear something a bit more suited to the place than, for instance, a denim miniskirt. Perhaps this dress from May this year in Tetbury
or this from May 2022 in Brighton
with the less practical hat from the first picture
But it's raining and the forecast for Whitley bay is for a maximum of 17 C with a 7 m/s breeze. I was intending to wear the red heels too but I don't want to get them wet.
It's going to be drier and sunnier but even colder and with a stronger breeze, 11 m/s with a maximum temperature of 15 C!
I don't have a coat I could wear over any of my dresses, they just wouldn't look right. So I'll have to rethink the outfit.
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Finally back at my hotel after nearly an hour on the bus from South Shields. Is bus travel the way it is in the UK because only poor people take the bus, people who do not have the resources to make effective complaints, people who no one listens to because they have no economic power?
It was a double decker bus suited only to urban traffic, and then barely. Every slight irregularity in the road caused everything to rattle. The seats are uncomfortable, the seat spacing too tight for comfort, and despite this being a relatively long journey the bus is set up for a considerable number of standing passengers.
Thank goodness the weather was temperate because the bus appears to have no climate control and the only ventilation is by opening the tops of the windows. There are big notices asking passengers to please leave these windows open for ventilation. And the windows are, of course, single glazed.
