Dotted along the main roads are service stations that mostly cater to long distance lorry drivers. The buildings themselves vary in size and grandeur but they all feature a massive forecourt for the enormous lorries that frequent them. They vary in quality but all serve food and drink and provide toilets. A few also have showers, laundry and accommodation attached. Sometimes the toilets are clean and maintained, other times they are gross! (Toilets could be the subject of a whole blog entry!) You have to pay for showers (about £1.50); laundry is a washing machine (again about £1.50); whilst most people sleep in their vehicle, there are also sometimes bunkbeds in a shared dorm or rooms on the upper floors.
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