The other Friday, Brigg Blog boarded a Hornsby No 4 bus in Cary Lane and then took the 9.15am National Express coach right down to London, returning to the steel town on Sunday at 7pm.
Booking online with National Express meant we went there and back for about £26, which is really good value.
This coach operates between Hull and the capital, which made us wonder whether there is sufficient demand to ask for the coach to call at Brigg on the way down and the way back.
Anyone interested?
Been there, done that....refreshments on board...loo at the back, break at Milton Keynes...then onto Swiss Cottage to Victoria Bus Station....then short walk to Chelsea Bridge: Victoria rail station: London Underground or a quick trot to see the Queen.
ReplyDeleteThe National Express use to offer cheap tickets and/or reduced tickets if one took out a seasonal bus pass thing....
Not the fastest method to London, but stress-free and comfortable...
My start again in my adage to visit my London-based grandkids...I like travelling on the Dockland Light Railway..goes up and down like a slow big dipped above and below the buildings....driverless, so the is a fight to sit in the front seats of the leading carriage...even grown-ups sit there pretending to be the train driver....stops at Canary Wharf and my final stop in Greenwich....then I can pretend to be the skipper of the Cutty Sark...or some famous person, like Isaac Newton at the Observatory....at night they shine a laser light from there showing East from West....then I can pretend to be someone with a foot either side of the Meridian...indeed, the light use to go directly above my daughter's place, so if one moved about the house, one would fluctuate from a Westerner to an Easterner....now the folks have moved further up hill, so everyone becomes a boring Easterner.....unless one goes to the Feathers and then one is back in the West.....blinking expensive tho'...a pint, a small glass of wine and a packet of salted peanuts cost me nearly 13 quid!.....but my offspring does bat an eyelid at the prices...thinks it's quite normal!
But then there's the compensation of cheaper take-away grub...an Indian is about half the price of places in Brigg...Anni puts it down to the high number of customers and the competition between the takeaways...
Then there's the adventure of rolling down the Observatory Hill in Greenwich Park...I tend to roll in a strange arc, while my grandson tumbles in a steaight line to the bottom....my grandson said it something to do with my body-shape....a nice way of saying I'm fat!
.....can I add, if one goes to London, Greenwich is worth a visit...one can even try the pedestrian tunnel under the Thames to the Isle of Dogs...entrance near the Cutty Sark and Greenwich Pier....if one wants a trip on the river, use the River Bus, much cheaper than the tourist boats but without the commentary....Tourist boats offer Senior Cit's a discount if one flashes a bus pass....but still rather costly compared with the River Buses...fast and furiously and one can scour the Thames from Westminster to Tower Bridge...but, if one doesn't know the Thames very well, it would be useful to study a tourist map and then one can identify all sorts of famous buildings\monuments seen enroute.....
ReplyDeleteTower Bridge looking West towards Canary Wharf (building with pyramid top)...to right (off pic) is Tower of London...to right and slightly behind would be HIS Belfast.
ReplyDeleteEnlarge pic and a River Bus (twin-hulled hydrofoil thing) is seen.
I'm waving from the top tower on left!
Tower Bridge looking West towards Canary Wharf (building with pyramid top)...to right (off pic) is Tower of London...to right and slightly behind would be HIS Belfast.
ReplyDeleteEnlarge pic and a River Bus (twin-hulled hydrofoil thing) is seen.
I'm waving from the top tower on left!