The Magic Bus goes forth!

First outing for the Magic Bus, over to the Tuesday market. Lovely drive through the border countryside, looking its best, dressed in green, lambs gamboling, all of which we can see because we’re high up above the hedges. Down into town, and into the central car parks. A new feature of our journeying; checking which car parks have height restricting barriers and which ones will let something as big as us in. We go straight in and park, reversing perfectly into a space. We congratulate ourselves and head off into town, to the market hall where a couple of Salvationists run the café. All day breakfast and a copy of the War Cry, with giant cups of tea. Excellent. Then it kind of dawns on us all at once that …. no-one put a ticket on the Bus!

A sprint back to the car park confirms our worst fears; a black and yellow Excess Notice stuck right in the middle of the windscreen. First day out, and the Bus already has a criminal record.

The logbook summarises thus:
Miles traveled – 40
Fuel - £60 (they delivered it with less than no petrol in the tank)
Fine - £30
Total- £90
Weather – fine, turning to rain