The South Coast is rubbish for access to the rest of the country. I used to live down there. The only motorway there starts at Southampton and heads up to London. Not much use if you want to go... well... anywhere else!

I saw a train on the M4 once. It was very odd and appeared to be driving backwards. I also once saw the fuselage of a plane on the back of a lorry - dunno what sort, probably just a small one, but things like that always seem so much bigger when you see them out of context!

Around bristol, things that I've seen that have amused me are:

A bus being towed away by a recovery truck (they have special bus recovery trucks! )

A police car being towed away by a (more conventinal) recovery truck.

A tank on the back fo a lorry (actually... that was probably on the M4).

You gotta admire the maneuvering skills of some of these guys. I can barely drive a van, let alone a big truck!

You don't however have to admire the maneuvering skills of the average Asda lorry driver, who's goal, it seems, is to block the road near my office for as long as possible while they reverse into an enormous loading bay that they should be able to manage with MIR, let alone a lorry. They're rubbish.

On the M8 (The most congested motorway in Europe) a few months ago there was a car pulled over in the hard shoulder - a few feet away was a woman squatting depositing a No2.

Now as disgusting as this is it was the bravado in which she was doing this - no running into a bush - no this woman was squatting with her bottom facing the road kinickers at her ankles bum in the air.

Like I said most congested road in Europe traffic was bumper to bumper in a slow tailback so there was no escape.

-- Edited by HaloBurn at 12:57, 2008-02-13