Train trip....!
Its fair to say I have always enjoyed train travel (mostly!) and more often than not enjoy visiting our great capital. The other day I combined the two by visiting London to do a due diligence survey on a 1920's hotel. All good stuff even though it was bitterly cold and snowing!! The problem came with the transport there and back, 45 minutes delay in the morning and guess what...? 45 minutes delay on the way back. Sum result being I left home at 5.30am and didn't get home much before 10pm!!!
The worst bit (though I couldn't help but laugh!) was leaving Paddington at 6pm there is the usual rush hour scuffle for seats or risk standing to at least Reading and possibly even Taunton. I was able to get a seat but soon discovered that I was sat next to a student who it turned out was more camp than the caravan club!! He spent almost all of the trip back to Plymouth on his violet mobile phone to Adam, thumbing through the pages of Vogue and applying his lip moisturiser and facial powder from a compact mirror with a brush. Apparently he thought Tunbridge Wells was in France! Debs reckoned he was in touch with his feminine side!! I've no wish to appear homophobic but if he touched me with his feminine side it would have taken special equipment to remove him from the gap behind the seats opposite!!
Next time I may take the sleeper where you get a cabin of your own!!
- Posted by Rob Luscombe on 17/03/2006.
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