If so, you've most likely heard Billy Bragg's "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea".
Coming from England, the song was written because Bragg couldn't visualise the American towns on the classic "Route 66" which led to him penning his own version.
However, I'm from the UK and I've only been to a handful of places mentioned in the song. So I thought it would be cool to sequence some glimpses of this journey.
I punched the co-ordinates in Google Maps
Which gave me this route
Hit play
and its off we go!
Starts down in Wapping
By-pass Barking
Straight through Dagenham
Down to Grays Thurrock (to the right)
Basildon on your left
Pitsea
Thundersley
Hadleigh
Leigh-on-Sea
Chalkwell? (By mistake, I dropped the google street dude in an old clock shop that offered a 360 panaromic walk around.)
(I tried to find the kitchen - cup of tea hunt - but ended back on the street mesmerised by the ghost cars. AHEM, back to the song...)
Chalkwell
Prittlewell
Shoeburyness
Phew!
Well, it's one way to synchronise a 2 hour journey to a 2 minute song.
