Life's and uphill climb!

What a morning! Escorted F.M.i.L. to a physio class in GL1 Leisure Centre in Gloucester. We got the bus at 09:30, just bang on the time so we could use our bus passes.
Got off at the ASDA bus stop as it is closer to GL1 than the terminus bus stop in town. Walked along the road but F.M.i.L. wanted to walk through the ASDA car park so we could walk across in a diagonal rather than an 'L' shape but I convinced her otherwise.
The session was quite amusing with about 7 people, including us, sitting on chairs doing exercises with huge tennis balls, sticks, stretching and bending, can't do any harm. A couple of the attendees were 'special needs', not disabled, so added some humour to the event.
When we left I wanted to walk back along the road as there is no way to cross from the ASDA entrance (you've got to know the place to imagine it. This time F.M.i.L. insisted no matter how much I tried to explain we would have to walk back down to the main road to cross over Metz Way and then walk back up the road to the bus stop.
The consequence was that once she realised how far we'd have to walk back, and a bus was just passing the bus stop that we would have been at, we decided to walk to the next stop. So from leaving GL1 to the Morrisons bus stop we walked for 35 minutes, not a brisk pace though.
All's well that ends well and the bus arrived just as we got to the stop at Morrisons.

Extra photo - When we got on top of the bridge, which crosses over the railway line near Morrisons, there was a freight train passing underneath.These  freight trains are enormous, the engine at at the top of the photo and there must have been another 20 or more trucks still to come.
This is the line that heads towards Swindon and then on to the South for Plymouth and East for Reading and London,
Gloucester station is in a track triangle, another extra photo with thin yellow lines showing the main line and the spurs that go to the station. Going out of the station to the top of the photo is heading for South Wales.

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