Nottingham Riverside Travelodge......it's the eve of the Rollapaluza grand UK tour, 3 weeks of Roller racing at university campuses the length of the country...unlike last year there are 2 sets of rollers at 2 different locations each day...i'm in team 2 with Caspar and John....unaware of any solid details for tomorrows race we are blogging out of a very familiar Travelodge family room...every room in the Travelodge is exactly the same as the previous one, you can wake up in any room and be at the gateway to another city, another adventure awaits outside the walls of these familiar four walls.....the inspiration for the Tardis maybe, Dr Who was written in one or more of these budget roadside hotels. It's not the spaciousness of that time machine but the ability to step out of that same interior into another world that came from the writers experience....it could be Nottingham, Loughborough, Birmingham or Warwick behind that door and thats exactly what it will be this week......team 2 is rolling so who knows what tomorrow will bring, except for the certainty we will fall asleep in an identical room again after the day is done.
As an aside to Winston and team one we ate at a Turkish restaurant tonight and the food was amazing...stuffed peppers and homous and a complimentary Cherry brandy to finish, a dangerous precedent to set ourselves in our quest for quality food....knowing a trail of takeaways and Wetherspoons and Pizzas could quite easily become the weeks norm, we will fight it as much as we can.