Recent content by Howardh

Your son/daughter giving you three rings to come and collect them, or a reverse charge if they were in difficulty!

The only advantage of using the Avanti site is that if you are delayed you get your delay repay automatically. Otherwise it's really clunky, and other sites can get you standard premium, choice of seat etc. I don't think it will give you a cheaper split ticket option either if another company is...

You know better than I! can't think of any other chain that was around at that time, anyone?? Was in the Greggs next to the station today, for a sausage butty. Good range of shops to pick up snacks for the journey, if you avoid M+S (apart from the Belgian lager!) and WH Smith(?) on the station...

Ibis rings a bell (???) although I'm not sure I'd put it higher than Travelodge! In winter when it's much more affordable, I stay in the Holiday Inn up the road, the one with the indoor pool and breakfast included, luxury! Althoug it's a bit of a hike uphill from the station, plenty of buses go...

Yes, ten pin, the other, usually more expensive, is at the Hub.

Travelodge this week, large room, nice chair, comfy bed, lovely bath, all I needed were the toiletries brought with me. Was a basic one without bar/restaurant/lounge etc, but plenty of shops nearby for snacks. Over loud bathroom fan though!! It's the one in Milton Keynes near the station! As an...

Would be a huge help if a passport was the size of a credit card, and you could have a spare. As for the key lock, I have one hidden outside, which has a key to the garage, in which my house key is hidden. If they can get into the garage, other than my 10 year old car, there's not much to pinch...

Yes, think that's what I'm trying to say! If it's perfectly legit, would a split-ticketing site work out that it's cheaper to "travel" further and offer that ticket with the provision that you alight at your chosen station? The reason I'm asking is I read a post on twitter that a London -...

I was trying to be polite to them! The funniest one is they expect our navy to to enter French sovereign waters without permission to do - well, what, with the small boats they've captured. Yes, Nigel, you wanted us to leave the EU so we lose co-operation in neutral and French/Belgian waters I'm...

If a ticket is cheaper (say) London to Glasgow is cheaper - due to peak/restrictions/whatever; than London to Preston I've always assumed because it's a specific ticket between two station on one train, that would be not allowed to alight at Preston. That's is your ticket was inspected there, I...

Said for quite some time, Reform/Farage don't want government/PM'ship. Evidence? Well, it all went strangely quiet after Brexit, suddenly the big mouths were in charge, they got what they wanted and couldn't handle it (Cameron/May/Johnson - Farage nowhere to be seen) - went through three PM's...

That's a good idea - but if they reduce by, say, 25% it still doesn't help if they all arrive at once! The Irish would still have to go to the passport booth even thought they don't require EES adding to the queues? I imagine, though, that if "popular" airports have restrictions on flights from...

Yes, passports are read on a machine that harvests the data. So, no need for the EES!

Doesn't surprise me; can't see it being brought in until every single visitor has access to working EES machines. The ETIAS is actually a bit easier than the EES, just fill in the form online, pay, and it's linked to your passport for three years, but if introduced now, how can it be implemented...

The railway timetable runs May - December, would it be any use to change that and have a period of July/August where trains - even 125mph ones - are timetabled to go slower, maybe in areas where heat warnings are more frequent (South, East and Midlands); I remember one heatwave years ago where...