Death on the roads! Nightmare coach crash! Take double decker coaches out of service! Britain has been in the grip of coach crash paranoia over the last two days after a nasty accident on the M4 close to Heathrow [BBC]. Suggestions in the newspapers have ranged from compulsory seatbelts (sensible) […]
There’s no other sensible way to get from London to Porto than to fly; I’m afraid I don’t have the time or the money to take the train via Paris and Madrid. But the economics of my trip to Porto are both interesting and quite scary. First of all, the […]
I’m a big fan of Eurostar, the highspeed rail service between London and Paris / Brussels. It’s efficient, reliable, and so much better than flying. Further, thanks to the recent security problems at UK airports, the company is doing excellent business. But what about their advertising?
I’m jinxed. Whenever I travel to The Netherlands, things always go wrong. I’m sat writing this on the slowest train I’ve been on for quite a few years. It’s the small local service between Maastricht and Liège, via Visé. Somehow the points were wrong upon departure from Maastricht, so the […]
I’ve spent far too long this weekend on London buses, first of all on the torturously slow 341 bus route on the way back from Ikea in Edmonton, and then today on a variety of different routes, including route 171 of London General (pictured).
I’m sat writing this at Stockholm Arlanda airport; I’m stranded here all day today as my flight to London was cancelled due to a technical fault with the aircraft. It’s my last visit to Stockholm for some time, and I will not be flying anywhere for the next 10 weeks […]
