St Albans done! And some mild turmoil

Yay for frequent blogging! Though I doubt I'll be able to get up to more than a blog every other day by the end of the month: I left some pretty big gaps this month it's fair to say.

First, the good news: I'm 60% of the way there! WHOOP! This is a pretty good milestone in my opinion: granted I've still got Kent, Essex, East Sussex... ah, let's not even go there. The point is I've come a fair way already and not done too badly, which is encouraging stuff. St Albans is one of my favourites on the tour so far: friendly people, plenty of pubs, good market, and one of the best parks in the country if you ask me! But then, the weather was fantastic today, so perhaps my account of it might have been different if it had been chucking it down with rain.

And whilst we're on the subject of Hertfordshire: er, Watford didn't look too welcoming. I did think about checking it out, and it doesn't look as horrendous as people were describing it from a distance, but Watford Junction definitely needs smartening up: there's something not quite right about that station.

To be honest, the tour is in danger of getting sidetracked by some stuff I'm going through. It's more a confidence thing than anything else: bizarrely I find trekking round huge swathes of this island of ours a LOT easier than a task that most other people manage without batting an eyelid. Hopefully by Tuesday I'll have enough confidence and determination to tackle this problem of mine head on: we'll have to wait and see. Don't worry about me or the tour though, I'm not going to quit after coming this far! In fact, I'll be heading off in 8 hours' time to do my feature on Kent, so look out for a mini-blog on that soon!

Cheers for the support guys, and thanks for reading,
Chris