It was three weeks ago. We sat, stationary in my car, on Edgar Street.
The cars did not move. Nor did the trucks, the lorries, the buses. All around us the engines throbbed and hummed, pushing out carbon and particulate emissions.
Jesse Norman was on BBC Hereford & Worcester this morning talking to Elliott and Toni about the problems faced by students from Hereford Sixth Form College, Herefordshire and Ludlow College, Hereford College of Arts and other schools and colleges trying to catch trains using the much-reduced services from Transport for Wales.
The River Wye is one of the great glories of Herefordshire and the Marches. Rising from the slopes of Plynlimon in mid-Wales, it winds its way through to Hay-on-Wye and Hereford and on to Ross, before heading down to Symonds Yat, Monmouth, Tintern and the Severn estuary.
The universal experience of visitors to Herefordshire is that they leave having had a marvellous time, dazzled by the beauty of the landscape, stuffed with great independent food and produce, and delighted by the warm welcome they have received from the locals. "I had no idea it was so lovely", they say. "We will definitely be coming back."