Strangest thing you've seen/heard on a bus.

[Deerfold]

That reminds me of a long time ago when traveling on the Nat Ex Huddersfield to London service in the days it was Rapide with refreshment and served a lot more places such as Leicester, Milton Keynes, Luton both town and airport. As I was a regular traveller the driver who took the coach from Huddersfield to Nottingham asked if I would help the driver who took over the driving find the places on route has he had never done it before. It meant I got a free breakfast when we stopped at the services for a comfort stop.

I don't remember it stopping at all those - I was a regular on it in the mid-nineties when I had a girfriend who lived in East London and again in 2001 when my current wife and I were looking for somewhere to live together before I moved South.

I recall it serving Leicester on the overnight service and Milton Keynes on at least one daytime service - first previously mentioned girlfriend caught it up from Milton Keynes on Good Friday in (I think) 1994. I met her at Halifax bus station and recall that I had planned to catch the last local number 564 after she got off the NatEx 564 if it was bang on time - that would have been at 1815. We actually got the 2200 service 560 :cry:

How long before did it serve Luton?

Hmm, looks like 1 service a day still does serve Milton Keynes Northbound, 2 Southbound.

 

[Busaholic]

I don't remember it stopping at all those - I was a regular on it in the mid-nineties when I had a girfriend who lived in East London and again in 2001 when my current wife and I were looking for somewhere to live together before I moved South.

I recall it serving Leicester on the overnight service and Milton Keynes on at least one daytime service - first previously mentioned girlfriend caught it up from Milton Keynes on Good Friday in (I think) 1994. I met her at Halifax bus station and recall that I had planned to catch the last local number 564 after she got off the NatEx 564 if it was bang on time - that would have been at 1815. We actually got the 2200 service 560 :cry:

How long before did it serve Luton?

Hmm, looks like 1 service a day still does serve Milton Keynes Northbound, 2 Southbound.

I think if I'd had all the girlfriends/wives you've had I'd be a better-travelled person.

 

[Deerfold]

I think if I'd had all the girlfriends/wives you've had I'd be a better-travelled person.

I've not had many - only 2 long term - but they both involved a lot of travel.

One I met at Uni but I visited her parents' in the summer - and she left a year before I did - and then I went to Yorkshire.

My current wife lived further away than I thought - when I met her I asked where she was from instead of where she lived (turned out she was just back for the weekend - and when I asked for a phone number - pre mobile - she gave her mum's so I assumed she was local! We moved in together after going out for a little more than 2 years and toured the home counties before returning to Yorkshire. Now we both travel a lot - she's in Germany at the moment.

 

[Busaholic]

I've not had many - only 2 long term - but they both involved a lot of travel.

One I met at Uni but I visited her parents' in the summer - and she left a year before I did - and then I went to Yorkshire.

My current wife lived further away than I thought - when I met her I asked where she was from instead of where she lived (turned out she was just back for the weekend - and when I asked for a phone number - pre mobile - she gave her mum's so I assumed she was local! We moved in together after going out for a little more than 2 years and toured the home counties before returning to Yorkshire. Now we both travel a lot - she's in Germany at the moment.

Well, good luck and happiness to you both.