travel

[Ironside]

i am going to be flying into bristol on the friday and home on the monday
anyone else that wants to share a taxi or train journey

[kinboshi]

I'd love to...

[boldie]

how are flights for bristol Iron? and where are you flying from? I had a look at flights to cardiff and the best deal is BabyBMI (30£ return or something like that) but the times they fly suck (early sunday afternoon/late monday evening..neither of them any good really.

[Ironside]

i am flying from inverness on easyjet for £80 return

i cant get into cardiff from aberdeen or inverness

and it would be too long a trip flying from glasgow or edinburgh

[Ironside]

easyjet fly glasgow to bristol 3 times a day

[boldie]

easyjet fly glasgow to bristol 3 times a day

yeah just noticed that. pardon this poor foreigners lack of geographical knowledge but how far from bristol to cardiff?

[Ironside]

about 25 miles i think

[Ironside]

according to the rac's website its 45 miles

[turny]

according to the rac's website its 45 miles

all downhill iron so just leave your break off 

[Ironside]

according to the rac's website its 45 miles

all downhill iron so just leave your break off 

but then who changes the tires when i get to cardiff?

[Laxie]

OMG!!!  SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  glad I finally read the BB5 thread again!  I'd checked airfare to Cardiff and they wanted nearly €400 for hubby and I.  NO WAY I was going to convince him to spend that, so I'd given up on the idea and stayed away from this section.  Didn't realise we could go to Bristol and be 'close enough' at that.  Flights only €40 for both of us!!!  Hmmmmmmmm...time to put on the thinking cap and come up with me latest reasons why hubby would really like to make this trip...that way he'll think it's his idea by the time I'm done.  lol

[Ironside]

OMG!!!  SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  glad I finally read the BB5 thread again!  I'd checked airfare to Cardiff and they wanted nearly €400 for hubby and I.  NO WAY I was going to convince him to spend that, so I'd given up on the idea and stayed away from this section.  Didn't realise we could go to Bristol and be 'close enough' at that.  Flights only €40 for both of us!!!  Hmmmmmmmm...time to put on the thinking cap and come up with me latest reasons why hubby would really like to make this trip...that way he'll think it's his idea by the time I'm done.  lol

tell him if he does fly into bristol on the friday and home again monday he can get a train with ironside and never stop laughing for the rest of his life

anyone thats traveled with me will know thats there is a better than even money shot something will go wrong

[Laxie]

OMG!!!  SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  glad I finally read the BB5 thread again!  I'd checked airfare to Cardiff and they wanted nearly €400 for hubby and I.  NO WAY I was going to convince him to spend that, so I'd given up on the idea and stayed away from this section.  Didn't realise we could go to Bristol and be 'close enough' at that.  Flights only €40 for both of us!!!  Hmmmmmmmm...time to put on the thinking cap and come up with me latest reasons why hubby would really like to make this trip...that way he'll think it's his idea by the time I'm done.  lol

tell him if he does fly into bristol on the friday and home again monday he can get a train with ironside and never stop laughing for the rest of his life

anyone thats traveled with me will know thats there is a better than even money shot something will go wrong

As it turns out, that's the schedule I was looking at, but can't see him laughing if we miss our flight home.  You promise that won't fall into the 'something will go wrong' category and you've got yerself a deal.   

[Ironside]

i promise the misshap will happen to me

my first trip away after leaving the army i went to the vic

i arrive everything was going well, but by the time i pay the £50 taxi to the hotel BA have gone on strike

now i am shitting myself, but its ok the night before i am due to fly home they say talks are going well and
when i get up the news is that flights will start back at 10am

good my flights not untill the afternoon but i will get there early just to be safe
i get there at 10:15 (£50 taxi) only to be told that they have gone on strike again
and that i need to get a train 500 yards from my hotel (£50 taxi)
i get a train £120 to aberdeen airport where my car is parked the airport is closed and
i havent enough money on me to pay my parking ticket (i got charged an extra day)plus
i had to pay full short stay rate as there was no staff to give me the cheaper long stay rate
the disabled used to get
so i had to get a taxi back into town get money out the bank and then a taxi back to airport
to get my car and drive the 90 minutes home

never again i said

but it didnt stop me traveling to blackpool by train with my friend dawn
we get up early for the long day which gave me about 2 and a half hours grace between arriving in blackpool and playing

we get to dyce (the airport and last stop before aberdeen where i was changing train) and the train stops for ages now we only had 20 minutes to change train in aberdeen so i am worried, the train going the other way had a problem and could only head back to aberdeen so they decided to swap passengers but dyce doesnt have anyway for me to swap platforms so i get 2 old men carrying me accross the line. anyway we get to aberdeen and luckierly for us our trains been held up by some idiot not wanting to pay for his ticket before he got on the train and pushing past a guard the local bobbies were called and held the train up so we now made our train.
unfortuntely we werent going to make the time up for our connecting train in glasgow where we had to change stations by taxi, although promised that the other station staff had been told we had missed our orginal train and that we were on our way to catch the next one they werent prepared and were refusing to let us on the train even though it wasnt due off for 3 minutes because he would be fined if the train was late and he couldnt be arsed getting the ramp at the other end of the station after a few threats of legal action which i told him would of cost more than the fine from the regulators i got on the train but abandoned in the middle of the corrider as they couldnt find the wheelchair spaces on the train.
too much for one journey? well obviously not for our friends on the railways dispite me asking the guard on numerous occasions to make sure that our friends in preston knew i needed off there was no one there with a ramp to help me off when we arrived and dawn and 2 other passengers refused to clear the door while the guards were trying to send the train on its way
eventaully we get checked into the hotel and down to the casino with a few minutes to spare

then there is the punctures at bB2 and another in luton, not forgetting the lost mobile and bank card in luton and the bug in ireland

i just dont know why i travel

[Laxie]

BLIMEY!  OK, we promise to help you if they don't have ramps, so it's a done deal.