How lovely to find you on my computer screen. How are you surviving your grim schedule?
Hello, Ana
I've been googling my daughter's new place near Rugby, and how difficult it will be to get to by train. Euston Station is not on any of the easy tube lines. When she was in Oxford there were lots of options from Paddington, or Heathrow. Northampton, not so much. Plus, industrial midlands are not my ideal location.
I shouldn't complain; she could be moving to Leicester, or Birmingham.
It's funny the tube lines you get used to. I find Euston station much more convenient than Paddington. I used the northern and victoria lines a lot. Where did you have to get from/to?
But yes, the midlands aren't my idea of great, though the countryside around is way prettier than I expected.
I like Paddington because I have used it so much that I know it well. It's the connection for Heathrow, and I have stayed near there many times, for the V&A, and other museums. So getting from there to Euston, or from Euston back to Paddington, with luggage, looks like too many stairs.
S says that the countryside is lovely; she's moving to a wee hamlet called Cottesbrooke, far from the ugly industrial bits. And it's not forever, only for 2 or 3 years while her significant other finished his studies.
So I'm not too dismayed, only somewhat concerned.
Yes, I saw that schedule too. No changes is a good thing.
Northampton is a ghastly dump. Rugby is a much better destination. As I live half way between the two, I can say this with confidence. If I go to London, I find it easiest to drive down to Cockfosters and get the tube in. If I go on the train from Northampton, I have the problem that it's hard to park at the station and after 6pm, buses back to where I live are almost non existent.
I always snicker at it, too, and I've been seeing it for decades. It's the one of the end stations for one of the main tube lines, so you have to watch for trains with that name on the front, so you get on the right one. I'm never sure how it's pronounced, so I try to avoid saying it for fear of embarrassing myself.
My God, Hooloo, you'll practically be neighbors; S will be in Cottesbrooke. I won't have to do the driving, or worry about buses, but I will be getting into Paddington late on Saturday from a week in Cornwall, and S will have moved, during my absence, from Wolvercote to Cottesbrooke and I don't want her to have to drive all the way down to London to fetch me in the middle of her unpacking frenzy. Bad timing for a visit, I realize, but plans were made and tickets bought before she decided on this move.
I'll keep the Cockfosters option in mind. I have to get back to Paddington the night before I leave (so I can stay overnight and get up at 5 am to catch the Heathrow Express for a 10:30 flight---oh the joys of trans-continental travel!) .
How lovely to find you on my computer screen. How are you surviving your grim schedule?
Hello, Ana
I've been googling my daughter's new place near Rugby, and how difficult it will be to get to by train. Euston Station is not on any of the easy tube lines. When she was in Oxford there were lots of options from Paddington, or Heathrow. Northampton, not so much. Plus, industrial midlands are not my ideal location.
I shouldn't complain; she could be moving to Leicester, or Birmingham.
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But yes, the midlands aren't my idea of great, though the countryside around is way prettier than I expected.
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http://www.thetrainline.com/buytickets/? And on a sunday too!
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S says that the countryside is lovely; she's moving to a wee hamlet called Cottesbrooke, far from the ugly industrial bits. And it's not forever, only for 2 or 3 years while her significant other finished his studies.
So I'm not too dismayed, only somewhat concerned.
Yes, I saw that schedule too. No changes is a good thing.
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I am snickering, for I am 12. :-)
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I always snicker at it, too, and I've been seeing it for decades. It's the one of the end stations for one of the main tube lines, so you have to watch for trains with that name on the front, so you get on the right one. I'm never sure how it's pronounced, so I try to avoid saying it for fear of embarrassing myself.
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My God, Hooloo, you'll practically be neighbors; S will be in Cottesbrooke. I won't have to do the driving, or worry about buses, but I will be getting into Paddington late on Saturday from a week in Cornwall, and S will have moved, during my absence, from Wolvercote to Cottesbrooke and I don't want her to have to drive all the way down to London to fetch me in the middle of her unpacking frenzy. Bad timing for a visit, I realize, but plans were made and tickets bought before she decided on this move.
I'll keep the Cockfosters option in mind. I have to get back to Paddington the night before I leave (so I can stay overnight and get up at 5 am to catch the Heathrow Express for a 10:30 flight---oh the joys of trans-continental travel!) .
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