Tebay is regularly voted Britain's favourite motorway stop.
With its Shell garage, Days Inn hotel, Marks & Spencer, WHSmith, McDonalds, KFC, a couple of other restaurants and some slot machines this is a normal, modern motorway stop.
U.S. presidents have typically received very warm welcomes in Ireland — Barack Obama even had a motorway stop named after him — given the two countries' deep links, but Trump's controversial policies, particularly on immigration, have made him a focus of anger for many Irish people.
So, Wetherspoons has opened a motorway services pub, the Hope and Champion, on the M40 at Beaconsfield, the first of its kind in the UK, though alcohol has long been served at motorway stop-offs in France, for example.
This doesn't necessarily guarantee longevity, but the association with Blumenthal certainly put Little Chef - a brand which had been consigned to most people's memories as the place for a foetid fried egg on a motorway stop-over - back on the food lover's map.
Signs on the hard shoulder could also display the prices at the next few motorway stops, enabling motorists to compare prices.
Then the motorway stops dead, and you are back on a pitted track a legacy, to some extent, of an ousted prime minister, Vladimir Meciar, who had roads built where he thought there were votes to be won, and not elsewhere.Slovenia has done best of the ex-communist countries.
In the last three years, he and I toured and recorded with our great friend Steve Tilston, as the Steve Tilston Trio, and during our many miles on the road we discovered a shared interest in raptors and a love of strong espressos at motorway stops.
The Government of Serbia has transformed this motorway rest stop at Adasevci, close to Serbia's border with Croatia, into a One Stop Centre for refugees and migrants, and UNICEF was authorized to establish a child-friendly space inside the building.
This concertina effect can lead, a few miles down the road, to the bane of the motorway journey – stop-start traffic.
Since 2004 there have been allegations that the governor was running a "pay to play" operation, soliciting bribes from those bidding on contracts for everything from pizzerias at motorway rest stops to concrete for roads.
