I stayed with Mike yesterday who has no central heating 
:blink: :angy: so woke up alreadt pretty tired and ratty. He had to be at work for 5am today so off I toddled to the station for the 5.13 to brum. I arrive there and am told that there is no service to Birmingham until 8.02 when a bus would be available that takes 4.5 hours AT this point I rang up National Rail Enquiries and checked the internet too, both of which were showing th service at 5.13 as running!! I mentioned this to the station manager who refused to believe me until he checked himself. He then told me there was no option but to wait for the 8.02 bus service (no waiting room as that doesn't open until 7am) in the cold. An hour later he came to see me and said that they would lay on a taxi as it was clearly bad information. Great I said and proceeded to wait for the taxi. And wait. AND WAIT. At 7.56 (that's right - 6mins before the bus was leaving anyway) the taxi finally arrived but as there was someone else in the same predicament, I had to go via Harwich!!!!!
I nearly cried. I finally got home at around 10.30
I do wonder how other countries can get it so right while we lag an embarassing amount behind.
:blink: :angy: so woke up alreadt pretty tired and ratty. He had to be at work for 5am today so off I toddled to the station for the 5.13 to brum. I arrive there and am told that there is no service to Birmingham until 8.02 when a bus would be available that takes 4.5 hours AT this point I rang up National Rail Enquiries and checked the internet too, both of which were showing th service at 5.13 as running!! I mentioned this to the station manager who refused to believe me until he checked himself. He then told me there was no option but to wait for the 8.02 bus service (no waiting room as that doesn't open until 7am) in the cold. An hour later he came to see me and said that they would lay on a taxi as it was clearly bad information. Great I said and proceeded to wait for the taxi. And wait. AND WAIT. At 7.56 (that's right - 6mins before the bus was leaving anyway) the taxi finally arrived but as there was someone else in the same predicament, I had to go via Harwich!!!!!I nearly cried. I finally got home at around 10.30
I do wonder how other countries can get it so right while we lag an embarassing amount behind.
