weekend up north...

Back home after a weekend "at home".

My journey up was very random due to the extortionist cost of train tickets these days. It's Ok if you know you want to travel in 10 years time but if you need to get anywhere quickly, you pay a hefty price. I'd been looking at train fares from Reading and London up to Newcastle and was being quoted over £100 for a standard class return ticket. So, I was on a mission to find a cheap way of getting up north.

I was going up alone for a girls day out to celebrate Helen's 30th birthday so I started checking fares from stations around the Nottingham area as Dan was going to be spending the weekend at his Mam's. Eventually, I managed to find cheap trains from Newark - £16 up and £21.50 back. So the plan was to drive up to Newark on Friday and catch the train from there. My cheap ticket did mean that I was on the 10.30am train back down on Sunday morning!

Saturday was an all day sesh in Newcastle. We met in Lloyds Bar on the Quayside at 12.00pm and I got picked up on Saturday evening at 12.45am!

It was a great day and I managed to come home reasonably sober considering my 12.5 hour session! :o)

L x