Thursday 3rd July 2025, 12:55
Stopped at Carnforth for a snack on the way to the Tesla charger at Tebay.
The town looks pleasant enough. Visited three charity shops almost bought a skirt but it was oddly proportioned tight around the legs (good) but loose around the waist (not good).
Not many cafés but eventually I found the Brief Encounter Refreshment Room. Carnforth station is where the film was made.
Having what was described as a toasted roast beef and blue cheese ciabatta and a mocha.
I don't recommend either, the ciabatta looks and tastes as though it was assembled and then put in a hot oven rather than the contact grill I would have expected and the chocolate syrup in the mocha is far too sweet.
The guy who took my order needs a lesson in customer service. When I ordered he brusquely asked me for the table number and when I pointed at a table and said I didn't know the number he irritably said the numbers are on every table. And so it was but I couldn't see it as it was hidden by all the used crockery.
It looks like they are trying to serve too many tables with too few people both in the kitchen and serving; I've just heard the waitress apologizing for a woman having to wait and saying that she should have been told when she ordered that there would be a longer than usual wait. The same waitress apologized to me for taking so long to deliver my mocha but I didn't mind that because it meant that I at least still had half a cup when the food arrived.
A group of three people are trying to order sandwiches now and being told that there is no chicken, no beef, and no jacket potatoes. It's still only 13:18.
Perhaps it all goes with the 1940s theme.
