In a former life I used to travel a lot in the UK, up and down and criss crossing the country, stopping for a well earned cup of tea becomes an expensive pastime if you only stop at the uber-commercial motorway service stations. The main non motorway roads in the UK are called A-roads and they are peppered with generously sized stopping places which will often be furnished with caravans or trailers which have been converted into mobile cafés. Not cafés that you sit it (with a few exceptions where old coaches and buses are used), you order your polystyrene or plastic tea or instant coffee, chocolate bar, all day breakfast, toast, bacon sandwich or other culinary delight at the hatch in the side of the trailer. While ordering (I only ever have tea,with the occasional Kit Kat for a treat) you are bathed in the distinctive British aroma of greasy spoon café which even standing outside in the cold and wind will not expel from your hair or clothes for several hours. These little oases of calm are not the easiest subjects to photograph. You may have to contend with a very narrow lay-bye and the café facing into the road which means you have to get as close to the 70mph traffic as you dare and holding still for as long as possible. If it’s all facing the other way, you have to contend with barbed wire, grass verges, prickly hedges or ditches in an attempt to get far enough away to fit it all in. Even a wide angle lens does not guarantee dry knees or bottom. It’s been a fascinating project and I’ve seen some great sites and drunk a very wide ranging quality cups of tea have been grateful for each successful photograph!