Dartford Crossing

After a bit of retail therapy and lunch at a local garden centre, we headed back home along the M25 with some wondeful cloud formations over the North Downs - but of course nowhere to stop. I knew there was a place to stop on a side road just above the entrance to the Dartford tunnel and headed there - but disappointing the best of the cloud formations had disipated.

The stopping place was originally set aside as a viewpoint for the Queen Elizabeth Bridge, and included a beacon, which you can just see on the far left. Today the car park entrance is blocked by lumps of unattractive concrete, and the site is covered in litter and very overgrown. However a careful walk onto the site still affords a view of the bridge and the Thames Estuary.