Flying is becoming a pain the ar$e
I'm in London this week giving training (a customised version of our CF Admin courses), and I flew down from Edinburgh.
I left the house at 11.30am, arrived at Edinburgh airport around 12.30pm, for a flight at 2.50pm. I eventually got booked into my hotel at 7.15pm.
So it took me around 8 hours to get from my house to my hotel. It's about 400 miles.
If I had travelled by train (assuming no incidents) I would have been here a lot earlier. I'm seriously reconsidering how I travel between Edinburgh and London. Plus I could have worked on the train down!
Besides the amount of time travelling to the airport + check-in often offsets the flight time making a train journey only marginally longer.
That said, GNER are the only train company whom I have never had problems with - the East Coast service has to be the best in the UK for train journeys. The sleeper service is also a good option here.
Take the plunge...
View also nicer on the train, and they even use a better quality of cardboard to make the sandwiches from so they taste marginally better :->
That said, sometimes flying can be cheaper . . .
OK I could take the sleeper, but if I get the last flight home I can be back to the family and in my bed by midnight.
If I take the train down, and fly home, it ends up stupidly expensive.
Ultimately I'm all for the train - it's potentially a better solution, and more productive - I'm just trying to find a solution that works best alround.
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