Back Home Via Bolton
I didn’t go directly home, but broke the journey to see Ipswich play Bolton at the Reebok stadium, which is very close to Horwich Parkway station. This meant changes on both legs at Preston.
I would have preferred to come home via Manchester, but because Manchester United were playing Stoke City, I couldn’t get a train ticket at a reasonable price.
This resulted in having to rush my second change at Preston, as the London train had already arrived, when my local train came into Preston a few minutes late.
But the train was in London at the scheduled time of 20:15.
I’ve talked about the problems of getting gluten-free food on Virgin at weekends, so I didn’t really bother, as they had one gluten-free ham salad sandwich in the Marks and Spencer’s at Glasgow Central station.
And of course, it’s impossible to get any gluten free food in a football ground.
If I’d gone home by Manchester, I could have eaten in Carluccio’s in Piccadilly station. And probably a couple of other places too!
The Anonymous Widower 
There is a Harvester restaurant at Reebok, and I find them excellent for GF food – they will even prepare your salad specially to ensure it isnt contaminated as the stuff in the salad bar might be. They serve a lot of fish, which I know you are partial to, and price wise is similar to Carluccios. They dont recommend their chips in case of cross contamination, but they do other potato options, and I think they do rice option as well.
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