Trolley hunt 1

With only three weeks or so to go, it seemed best to see what could be done in Tunbridge Wells, since we were there.

Cut across to the railway station to check in the car park there. Promising, but nothing. Then checked around the Range (reference 1). Again, a promising looking place, which I had not come across before, but nothing.

Worked our way up towards St. John's Road, checking various interesting side streets, alleys and car parks. Still nothing.

We had thought the bus station in St. John's Road might have been a good place, but it turned out to be a bus garage rather than a bus station, in any case all closed up with half the roof missing.

The large St. John's church was complete with pleached trees, but was firmly shut, for the second time of asking, as I recall.

Refreshments at Basil of reference 3. A whole food establishment with some quite decent looking cakes. Mine was a sort of light brown cake involving nuts and a lot of some sort of white goo on top. Not bad at all. There were also various gluten free offerings, pretty much de rigueur these days. Not like when FIL started out as a coeliac maybe sixty years ago now.

In the end, we settled for a basket, as a consolation prize, tucked in between the Saint John's Yard bar (reference 2) and restaurant and the small Sainsbury's next door. The small Sainsbury's didn't want it as they had moved onto plastic. Headed back towards town centre and tried M&S at the BP petrol station. Ditto. Tried the fairly newly opened Waitrose at the Shell petrol station. Ditto.

We were now stuck. Also confused by the fact that the basket was a lighter weight affair than the baskets usually deployed by the bigger supermarkets. Decided to abandon the half point we might just about have scored for it, and it is now destined for gardening duty here in Epsom.

Reference 1: https://www.therange.co.uk/stores/tunbridge-wells/.

Reference 2: https://www.saintjohnsyard.com/.

Reference 3: http://www.foodbybasil.com/.

Reference 4: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2016/03/after-some-years-visiting-town-we.html. Memory fails again, as it seems we did actually get into the church mentioned above back in 2016, a getting in which I had completely forgotten about. But I am still fairly confident that we had been refused by a cleaner before that.