We had purchased a train pass for the British railway that provided a few consecutive days on a train and then the use of a car. Our plan was to more or less travel north by train until we reached Inverness Scotland, from there we would rent a car and travel the West Coast of Scotland southward until we reached Liverpool. (more…)
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Landed in Gatwick Airport and stayed for a few days to discover London. Then traveled West by foot along the Ridgeway Path gradually heading south into Wales. Made our way North through the center of Wales and once back on English soil utilized the train system to explore the middle of England.
England: London, Reading, Swindon, Bath, Caippenham, Avebury, Swinden, Coventry, Birmingham, Worlester, Gloucester
Wales: Monmouthshire, Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, Shrewsbury, Birmingham, Penzance,
England: Oxford, Coventry, Rugby, Northhampton, Canbridge
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One cold morning, while we were huddling on a train platform like lost ghosts in a graveyard, a young man with a weathered face wandered up to the two of us. It looked as if he had been working the local mines and hadn’t showered in some time but approached us with a smile anyway. (more…)
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Headed back to London just to swap trains and then continued north through the middle of England until we reached York.
England: London, Cambridge, Peterborough, Leicester, Doncaster, Sheffield, Nottingham, York
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I was disappointed that Jim didn’t have the same level of interest in seeing these local sites. I started referring to Jim as “Stationary”, because literally, he’d stay in the train station and read a book while waiting for me to return from my trek. Wasting opportunities like these between the pages of some romantic novel seemed foolish to me when this is all new. (more…)
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