A Crazy Day!
Yesterday was a day I won’t forget.
As I said in this post, I was having a lot of frustrations with East Midland Trains, and decided to come back by Virgin from Birmingham.
I also decided to make a day of travelling, as I had someone with an idea, to meet in Manchester, so I decided to go via Preston and then come in to Manchester from the north west.
I left on the 08:30 from Euston and my main reason to go to the city was to see Preston bus station and the city’s buses. Although, I did walk around the market and the shopping area, visit the Preston Martyrs Memorial, looking unsuccessfully for a cup of coffee. It is not a city centre of which to be proud, as I mused here.
I left around 13:00 and took trains 2 and 3 of the day to get to Eccles via Huyton.
Arriving in Eccles, I bought a day travelcard for the trams and then explored some of the new lines, before going back Carluccio’s in Piccadilly station to have my meeting.
I then took trains 4 and 5, from Manchester to Derby after my meeting, saw the match which was a crazy four-all draw and then came back into Euston at 01:30 this morning, using trains 6 and 7.
I’m a bit tired this morning, but it was a good day and it could have been much worse if Ipswich had lost. It would also have been a lot more expensive, if I’d decided to partake of some of dubious and very expensive hospitality of East Midlands Trains.
I must say this for Travelodge, who when I decided to not use the room I had booked, allowed me to painlessly cancel it with no charge over the Internet.
The Anonymous Widower 
You were very near me in Eccles. One time when you are passing through, there is a lovely place in Hale Barns (near Altrincham) which does home cooked food, everything freshly prepared and they are allergy aware, I have never been glutened there, and I took my daughter yesterday and she was fine, and she has more issues than I have. It is my current favourite lunch and coffee venue. No station at Hale Barns, but there is one at Hale and one at Altrincham, and of course Stockport, (and Eccles) and I drive and could pick you up.
Comment by nosnikrapzil | October 2, 2013 |
Thanks for that, Liz. I’ll post about Eccles later.
Comment by AnonW | October 2, 2013 |