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Maybe it won't be so bad getting to Donington...

The day after our journey to Belvoir Castle, we decided give the bus another try and head to the Donington Race Park to see the Donington Grand Prix Collection, the world's largest collection of grand prix cars. I could tell by the bus map that there was a stop very close to the track. When we got on the bus I asked the driver if that was the best stop and he said yes and he'd let us know when to get off. Great. Good to know we won't be having any 'adventures' this outing I thought to myself. Wrong. We proceeded to the back of the bus as we had the past two trips. Well, that would turn out to be a big mistake. There were quite a few stops and at each stop more people got on the bus than got off the bus. The bus was so full there were people standing all along the aisle. People were commenting that they had never seen so many people on the bus. Lucky us. We tried to make our way to the front of the bus well before our stop, but of course we weren't successful. I pushed the 'stop' button but the driver apparently didn't hear. As soon as we made our way up there and told him we were going to the track (something he must have forgotten as soon as we pulled out of the bus station) he pulled over and pointed us in the right direction. After walking along the motorway for more than a mile and some fence jumping (see picture below), we arrived at the track.

Here are a couple of pictures taken inside the race museum. I've got more, but Blogger is again being an uncooperative pain in the arse. I'll just put them in a new post.

posted by Yankee Girl @ 3:03 PM