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It will be interesting to see what happens to the price of the Dayrider ticket over the coming months now that you have the £2 single fares in your part of Scotland. Before the £2 fares were introduced in England in January 2023 my Dayrider ticket, which I used for return trips into town was...

Hotel prices in some tourist areas of Scotland have really increased in recent years. I’m going up to Dundee tomorrow for a week. I’m planning to visit St. Andrews and walk some of the Fife Coast path visiting the fishing villages. It’s one of the few parts of Scotland I’ve never been to. Hotel...

Most of my hotel stays are for between 3 and 7 nights. That’s another reason why I rarely use Premier Inn and Travelodge these days. They may have some very good low prices which can be taken advantage of for short one or two night stays, but random extremely highly priced nights can make longer...

That was definitely me in the past. If I was booking a hotel for a few days away I would really only look at Premier Inn. If I couldn‘t find one in the location I wanted then I would reluctantly consider a Travelodge instead. I even occasionally did whole week stays in a Premier Inn. Then about...

It must be around 12 years since I was last at Blackpool North. I have heard that the staff are nowhere as unpleasant these days as they were back then. I still remember how rude they were to me when I was staying with friends in Blackpool and for a week and I dared to use a 7 Day North West...

It‘s good to see that an hourly stop by XC at Chesterfield has been restored in recent timetables. I understand the overcrowding issues with passengers on short journeys between Chesterfield and Sheffield, but omitting calls at Chesterfield is a big inconvenience for long distance passengers...

Also no return of the Mon-Fri Nottingham to Mansfield Woodhouse trains. Mansfield still only has 1tph Mon-Fr except for a couple of peak time extras. Pre Covid there had been a service of 2tph since the line reopened around 30 years ago.

Without including the current £3 single fares, passengers in the Chesterfield area of Derbyshire have quite reasonably priced day tickets from Stagecoach which allow travel into Sheffield and beyond. The Silver Dayrider is priced at just £6.50. The same unfortunately cannot be said for cross...

Stagecoach East Midlands do but I’m not sure if this is a council defined thing. As far as I know no other bus companies operating in the same area do. It‘s quite confusing in some parts Derbyshire where both Stagecoach East Midlands and Stagecoach Yorkshire run buses in the same area. I...

This could very well be correct for constituencies similar to Gorton and Denton. Areas which are part of large city conurbations with younger populations especially students are more likely to vote for the Greens. These areas are also often quite multi cultural with large numbers of Muslim...

I’m planning on doing quite a few sections of the Fife coastal path next month. It will just be a selection of short sections. As I’m now approaching my 70th birthday, and will be walking on my own, I will be avoiding the chain walk! It‘s one of the few parts of the Scottish coast l have never...

What a wonderful thing to do. I’ve never walked those sort of distances in a day, although I did do a few 25 mile sponsored walks for charity around 50 years ago when I was in my teens. Most of my walking has been between 10 and 15 miles at the most in a day but now as I get older 8-10 miles is...

I don’t know about Yorkshire but there were large John Menzies high street shops just to the south in Mansfield and Chesterfield.

I always get my Senior Railcard added to my Oyster Card at the TfL Visitor Centre within Kings Cross St Pancras Underground station. It’s on the right as you enter the tube station through the arches from St Pancras at the main Euston Road end of the station. The staff there have always been...

That section of the path north of the quayside at Little Neston was almost impassable when I was there 3 years ago in May 2023, so I’m not surprised that it is now closed. I had the visited Ness Botanic Gardens and began my walk north along the cycle track near Burton. I really liked that...

There was a report from near Dore and Totley Station on ITV Yorkshire Calendar News last night. They showed the large crane and the closed car park. The main focus of the report was the amount of cars parking all day along the main road, making it difficult for people local people to find...

Knowing that area very well, especially many of the ex mining communities, you are right. The fish and chip shops are still there, but they are small in number compared to all the other fast food/ take away businesses which have opened up during the last few years. In many of these somewhat...

Thanks for that information. I haven’t used my smart card since I was up in Aberdeen 2 years ago so I wanted to check. Now that I have an ENCTS bus pass I don’t use my smart card anymore when at home in England.

A couple of years ago I stayed at the Ibis right by Cambridge Station. I was very impressed. It’s a quite a modern hotel and was very well maintained and clean. I especially remember how good the breakfast was and if I ever visit Cambridge again it would be my first choice. It’s quite a walk...

I completely agree with you that 1tph has no place in large cities. I would also add that 1tph has no place in large towns. Mansfield in Nottinghamshire was once the largest town in England without a station until the line was reopened in 1995 with a service of 2tph to Nottingham. During Covid...