It would take three days, and I might go via the Welsh borders or rural Lincolnshire. These days, youngsters just aren't as adventurous. They think a bus is a thing that gets in the way of cars.

Most of us are middle-aged, white and male. I'm single myself, but I had a bus-spotting friend who got married a couple of years ago. His wife was horrified when she found out he owned 10 buses.