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Day 7: Letting the train take the strain

Well, all that's left to do is go back home. Depart Time Arrive Time Carlise 09:49 Preston 11.01 Preston 11:17 Birmingham NS 12:50 Birmingham NS 13:04 Winchester 15:26 Then the Blue Star 1 bus at 15:40 back home Well you can guess not

Day 6: Mission Accomplished

Well, amazingly we've made it to Carlisle, our last real destination. And on schedule! Believe me, no one is more surprised than me! But, the original idea was to see if we could actually make Scotland. So all that is left is to pop over the border and we've done

Day 5: Dales and Lakes

You know the day is going to be "alreet" when you start it with a full Yorkshire breakfast! The 580 went from directly outside the farm shop and cafe adjacent to our hotel. In a slight change of plan we caught the earlier bus which terminated at Settle but connected

Day 4: White Roses at that

It's a cold start. Still the hotel is adjacent to Derby bus station. And the Chesterfield bus is bang on time A pleasant ride through Derby's former mining communities, Ripley, Alftreton, Clay Cross etc. And you can see the heritage in the people, stocky, well-built men with faces of leather

Day 3: Roses

A deliberate break today. The plan is to explore Leicester, in particular the Richard III visitors' centre which has been built over the carpark, which was built over the school, which was built over the house, which was built over the friary which housed his remains. Let's start off with

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