Tag: trains
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God’s gift to nature!
Over Christmas I was searching for something to watch on TV for a bit of a chill out on the sofa. Thing is I was not at home, we were at my wife’s mum’s house and her TV is more complicated than ours. It’s one of those arrangements where the TV provider, in this case…
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Impromptu drinks?
I have mentioned before that when travelling by train in our car-free-dom when things go wrong unexpected benefits can emerge. Most notably that it offers an opportunity for an impromptu drink or whatever is on offer nearby your impending or delayed train departure. The other weekend we were quite fortunate as both times (we were…
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Some reservations
Booking train ticket in the UK can be complicated. However, on most train services you can reserve a seat as part of the ticket cost. Some train companies don’t allow seat reservations, for example, I have never been able to reserve a seat on Northern or South Western. Apart from local trips most of the…
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Too hot, too cold
I am a big fan of trains. But as I have written about before, of course, train travel can and does present a few challenges at times. Some challenges can be fixed by sticking on a pair of headphones, taking some quality ‘time-out’ from a missed connection, or by buying tickets well in advance to…
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Sore feet?
In car-free-dom the good news is that you will be more active because without a car you’ll need to move around more under your own steam. On the flip-side if that moving around involves walking then you may get sore feet. In many ways having used your body to move around and become tired is…
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Don’t go around in circles
Car-free-dom means that when you head out walking – which we do a lot into the Peak Districk, UK – you don’t have to return to where you started. I mentioned these car-free point-to-point possibilities in a post a while back. By point-to-point I mean simply that you can start a walk somewhere, i.e where…
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Money back
In an ideal world your train runs on time. As I have written about before a missed connection can be as much opportunity as challenge. But it is nice to get where you are going on time. Heading back from a trip to parents recently things were going very well with our train travel. Connection…
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Being on time
One the things you need to be for public transport – bus, train etc. – is on time. Unless of course whatever public transport you are trying to get is not on time. But, let’s assume that it often is. When we head out on a weekend to go walking in the Peak District the…
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Watch out little ones!
It’s spring and that means new life. Over the weekend we returned from an evening out to find three fox cubs exploring the road outside our home. We’ve not see fox cubs before – they looked like they might be on their first outing as they were so little. We live in the middle of…
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Waiting for the tectonic plates to move
There is a very funny comedy panel programme in the UK which has been going for years – ‘Would I lie to you?’. In one episode David Mitchell, one of the two team captains, was quizzed about his lack of ability to drive a car. David was asked by one of the panel members, who…
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