It's not so much the travel to Durham, it's the travel to Barnard Castle ( a 60 mile round trip) to 'test' his eys, including a nice little walk along the river bank - on a day that just so happened to be his wife's birthday.
There's is no fathomable justification for that and exposed his contempt for the rules.
There's is no fathomable justification for that and exposed his contempt for the rules.