Bus

On Monday, Shirley said she wanted us to go down to London to see Ian and Sarah and our two month old grandson Zach. I didn't fancy driving down to our capital city again so I checked out public transport options for today - Friday, returning on Sunday afternoon.

Travelling by train would have cost close to £400 in total - that's $507 US or  $756 AUS.. The very high cost quoted is down to the fact that we wanted to make a late booking. If we had booked a month ago, the cost would have been much cheaper.

The train from Sheffield to London St Pancras takes around two hours and ten minutes but a National Express coach takes double that amount of time. However, the cost of two return tickets on the bus was only £60 - that's $76 US or  $113 AUS so that is what we have gone for. After all, £400 is quite outrageous - it represents over £1 per mile of rail track.

I will be able to get plenty of reading done aboard the bus.

It is now one in the morning and the coach departs at 11.00 am so I had better get to bed pretty soon. If you haven't already done so, I hope you will still read my post about "Mr Bates Versus The Post Office" - just below this blogpost.

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