Pleasant journey

Jan 23rd, 2025

Pleasant journey

I’ve got the journey to Norfolk down pat having done it four times now. My preferred (preferred in the sense of least awful) is Helensburgh, Edinburgh, Peterborough, Ely, Kings Lynn by train, and then the last leg to Walsingham by the coastliner bus.

Actually I’ve been known to moan about this journey but I’ve grown to quite like it. It is quite relaxing zooming along with no training course to write or dishwashers to load or boxes to pack. I particularly like the run down the east coast (with all its cathedrals and castles), and the last bit along the north Norfolk coast.

When we were approaching Ely, the announcer said “Could all customers for the Kings’ Lynn hurry under the tunnel where your train is waiting for you on platform 1”. I thought this was a bit odd (if nice), because they don’t normally hold a train back because another one is five minutes late. I realized why though, when every single person on the train got off and headed off to that platform. Obviously everyone was going to Kings’ Lynn.

There was a spectacular sunset over Hunstanton – every bit as nice as R’s sunrise over Dunoon yesterday.