We got back late last night after an impromptu visit to North Wales Sunday and monday,it's a stunning area if you've never been before. This gave the opportunity to see how the mpgs have improved since the internal engine clean. Towards the end of the journey where the M6 joins the M1 back home to Rickmansworth there's a fairy long section here of 50mph average speed due to road works.Once we were through i decided in order to try and make it we needed to limit ourselves to 55mph and hope a lorry would pull us along.Lol I Have to admit to just hoping the car would make it back home with the fuel left, but was determined to see what was achievable as the dis was reading 0 miles a few miles before we had even got on the M25 with something like 15 miles to go.
Have to say i drove, Karen doesn't do motorways, the last few miles like a fuel economy deamon,like his life depended on wringing blood out of a stone lol. Here's what the clocks looked like at the Chorley Wood Shell garage just a couple miles from home. Thats not bad on a tank of fuel considering 89 of those miles involved at least 3 cold choke starts and driving on A and B roads up and down steep sections from Rhuddlan to Betws-y-Coed and back. The Dis is reading an average of 52.8 mpgs.
Whilst up there we just had to visit Betws-y-Coed a place we love and have been going to for years, me personally for at least 40 since a child. This was just a flying visit so no real opportunity for nice staged shots of the car and scenery,so these will have to do...............
We had already left and wanted to stop to take a picture of the famous road side waterfall as the water was pushing through more than normal for this time of year due to the recent heavy rain.
We didn't have enough time but did consider to go further into Snowdonia Nation park,look at the signs, that will have to be for the next time.