An excellent excursion by train today from Durham to Newcastle. Very easy, except why, oh why do we have to be charged to park at the station? I know the answer of course, but it seems so silly to penalise me for using the environmentally friendly option. £4.80 for a return trip, […]
I use Expotel’s hotel booking service which is normally very good. However I arrived at the Palace Hotel in Manchester last night to find they were fully booked and my name was not on the list. At 10.30 pm this was not a huge joke. A quick look on the Web showed them my […]
The GPS tracks are really an excuse to play with a new toy. I have a Garmin 296 aviation GPS which will happily work on trains or cars too. Except Virgin Voyager services which have some electromagnetic shielding in the windows. Tracks can be downloaded out of the GPS and then manipulated by software. […]
One of the fastest services north from London on the East Coast is the GNER 15:00 London to Glasgow. It makes York in just 102 minutes, cruising at 125 mph most of the way. In theory. This means a convenient 9 minute change in York onto a Virgin Voyager at 16:51 gets you […]
A rare treat this morning to take a very small part in some pomp and circumstance. The inauguration of the 8th General Synod of the Church of England, of which The Boss was elected a member for the second time earlier this year. The Synod is the church’s parliament, and gets to decide […]