Day 4 - Cambridge to Birmingham

A long day from Cambridge to Birmingham. We caught the excellent X5 from Cambridge to Bedford at 9.40am. This bus runs every half an hour, seven days a week, from Cambridge to Oxford, from early in the morning till late at night. We used it on our last trip from Milton Keynes to Oxford. Then we had a rather tedious slog through Northampton (the only repeat destination on our trip from Berwick to Land’s End), some pretty villages, Rugby, Coventry and Solihull. Then there was a bit of post graduate bus planning. I had found a bus from Solihull which came into Birmingham on the Stratford Road which, as a Brum girl, I knew would intersect with the 11C circular bus route and take us to Cotteridge where we are staying (and where I went to secondary school). I had even photocopied the appropriate page of the Birmingham A to Z. This meant we didn’t have to go into the centre and out again. The plan worked perfectly and we arrived at our hosts at 6pm.