Now anyone who's kept up with my blogging should by now have come to the conclusion that I don't have the best run of luck when it comes to British Rail! Overrunning engineering works, missed connections, cancelled trains ... it hasn't been all bad! My trip north at New Years didn't run to plan, however there was such a fuss that Virgin trains offered a free 1st Class return to anywhere in the UK. It would be unAustralian of me not to take advantage of a freebie, so I figured it was time to travel north again and visit another part of Scotland ... the beautiful city that is Edinburgh. Naturally, given it was a freebie and compensation for being stuffed around once already, one would assume it was smooth training to Scotland - relaxed, no
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