Delivered my car to Tesla Solihull to have the fan module replaced. No point waiting on site because Tesla don't want actually start work the moment you deliver the car but just when they get around to it. Estimated time of completion is always 17:00.
So I looked up cafés on Osmand~ found several within easy walking distance. So now I'm in the Stables having a just about ok mocha and a very good piece of carrot cake.
The background music is slightly more up to date: Human by The Killers, 2008.
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The walk from Tesla to the Stables is about 2 km and is surprisingly interesting and varied.
First the walk is through the modern Blyth industrial estate which is actually very pleasant and has good wide footpaths, grass verges, trees. The buildings are all very new looking. Then you enter a new housing estate which, for a change, is not pretending to be something from pre-Victorian times.
The path runs along the edge of the estate past a pond complete with moorhens and rushes then it heads on to a public footpath across a rather poor field and on to a narrow country road. Less than a hundred metres along the road is the entrance to a riding centre and in the yard is the café.
@skimpyboy It's just a new build housing estate. If you went looking for an interesting place you probably wouldn't notice it. Or to put it another way: everywhere is interesting but we usually don't notice because we see them all the time. Except that we mostly don't see things, we just drive past them.
I often feel that there is more of interest in a city street than in the grand vistas that the producers and consumers of tourist brochures are obsessed with.
