TRAVELLING through Evesham is not the five-star trip you see in a glossy brochure.

It’s more like Scooby Doo running through a house and every third door is a repeat of charity shops, replacing family butchers, fruit and veg and retail.

Most supermarkets are out of town.

Some trips can be delayed, others need a little more planning because of traffic hold-ups.

But they all prove one thing — a good road trip isn’t just about the vehicle.

Sure, everyone dreams of driving a red Ferrari into a pink sunset.

Or should it be an ambitious road trip like Route 66.

The lack of amenities from traders and work in the town centre means that ‘Joe Public’ heads through and out of town.

A journey chronicled in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath?

An exercise of self-restraint and frustration.

The town centre has become a congested slow crawl of tarmac interwoven and overlaid with road works since the construction of the bypass decades ago now.

You could visit back from a few years ago but the situation hasn’t improved.

And, as for the Vin Diesels, what about a giant ring road that laps the town so you always end up back where you started.

At least as you whizz about you won’t get lost!

Rose Hughes

Evesham

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