Managed to check out from the Student Village with ten minutes to spare. Headed for Gloucester Services, the fancy place with high priced food and drink for sale in the shop and fairly decent food in the cafe. I still miss the old days of Welcome Break when you could get a proper pot of tea of a cafetiere of Douwe Egberts coffee.
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@turbineman40 It's what we call a motorway services here. This one is a small chain. I think they have only three locations. All three are far better places to eat and drink in than the other chains. They also have shops attached that sell high priced locally made food and drink as well as clothing and some household articles.
But you can't buy a book, a newspaper, or a bar of chocolate there.
I still pine for the heyday of British motorway services when you could buy newspaper, compose your own breakfast from a buffet, and get a proper pot of tea or a cafetiere of Douwe Egbert coffee
