Declan wishes he'd had Wellington boots at Marble Arch

We've sent him out on the road to find out what issues really matter to you.

This week, he's been to Chichester, Gravesend and Swansea. And in Central London, we made him climb to the top of the Wellington Arch, on Hyde Park Corner, for a bird's eye view of what's wrong with traffic and transport.

The catch? If you've caught any of this week's programme you'll know: he's travelling in a motorcycle side-car.

Catch up here with Declan's week on the road:

Tricky thing, weather.

When we broadcast from the top of Wellington Arch in London, we should really have brought a pair of Wellington boots too.

It rained. And it rained. And it rained.

The first drops started a few minutes before our first broadcast. And of course, the downpour fizzled out shortly after the programme ended.

In between, it was unremitting.

It rather spoiled the magnificent views from up there, not just the ones you saw of Hyde Park and Knightsbridge, but also the rest of the panorama that our camera couldn't reach - Buckingham Palace, Green Park, the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye.

But we can cope with bad weather. It's much more difficult when it's good.

Sunny Swansea

The next morning in Swansea was bright and sunny - eye-piercingly so - which gave both me and our cameraman John a bit of a problem.

Breakfast's umbrellas turned into parasols in Swansea

Every time the sun popped out from behind a cloud I started squinting, making me look even shiftier than usual, while John had to do something technical to cope with the extra light.

The umbrellas we needed to keep dry in London could easily have doubled up as sun shades in Swansea.

Everyone else was loving it, especially our mystery bike rider, who was lying flat out across the seat, basking in the sunlight like a seal

In fact he was practically immobile for most of the morning - except for the ten seconds he was on your TV, which was when he decided it was time for a stretch and a scratch.

Also enjoying the sunshine was the two-year-old toddler, who came down to watch the broadcasts along with his mum. They lived just a few streets away from our vantage point overlooking Swansea, and decided to pop along.

The little boy soon had a look of wide-eyed amazement as he sat on the motorbike, peered into the sidecar and examined our satellite truck. I hope he didn't believe me when I said the engineer was Bob the Builder's dad.

Asylum

They weren't the only Breakfast viewers in Swansea to call on us.

A few drove to our broadcast location to wave and shout hello, which is always appreciated - we know you have many other things on your plate first thing in the morning, so we're grateful when you go out of your way to welcome us to your patch.

But one woman stopped for a long chat with us about the attitudes shown towards asylum seekers in Swansea. She thought asylum seekers were not treated sympathetically enough, and she was worried about the opinion Breakfast viewers across the country might form about south west Wales.

It's a conversation that might lead to some interesting reports later in the year, so we gave her our details and asked her to keep in touch.

Your views count

And all the while we're on the road during this election, we're hoping you'll keep in touch too.

Even if you don't get a reply to your emails and texts, we still read them all. We use them to reflect all the different views on the topics we're covering back to the whole family of Breakfast viewers. So please stay in contact - even when I'm in the sidecar.