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Crossing the road to the bus stop opposite, we next board the 1612 Stagecoach in Lincolnshire service InterConnect 100 to Scunthorpe bus station that arrives there at 1805 on Thursday afternoon.
The only travel option which avoids a night in Hornsea is the EYMS service 240 leaving Hornsea Market Place at 2202, arriving at Hull, Paragon Interchange at 2255 Thursday evening.
The only available option at this time of night which is available, and is just within the permitted minimum connection time of five minutes, is the 2300 Northern service 2W54, which we take to its terminus of Beverley, arriving there at 2313 on Thursday evening.
We take the four minute walk to the bus stop on New Walkergate and board the 2330 EYMS service X47 to Cottingham (Hull Road) that arrives there at 2350 on Thursday evening.
That appears to be it for the rest of the night now. We are too far from the railway station, which is a shame as we could have taken a train elsewhere and unfortunately we are stuck on bus routes that only really go back to Hull, so we board the 0620 EYMS service 105 to Hull (Bond Street), arriving there at 0634 on Friday morning where hopefully we will be able to go onto another destination that has plenty of connections from there.
We take the 10 minute (0.5 mile) walk to Hull Train Station and take 0700 Virgin Trains East Coast service to London Kings Cross arriving at 0955 on Friday morning.
Leaving the railway station, we take the very short walk to the adjacent bus stop on Mount Pleasant Road and board the 1223 Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company The Regency Line service 29 to Lewes bus station that arrives there at 1300 on Friday afternoon.
We continue this view of rurality by boarding the 1443 Compass Travel service 123 to Kingston (adjacent to Gows Croft on Ashcombe Lane) that arrives there at 1455 on Friday afternoon.
We take the two minute walk to the bus stop on Eastern Road and board the 1732 Brighton and Hove service 1 to Mile Oak (Shops on Mile Oak Road) that arrives there at 1824 on Friday evening.
Having been to Mile Oak, I can assure you there is nothing of any interest there other than a takeaway and a corner shop, so we return to the bus stop and board the 1831 Brighton and Hove* service 1 to Brighton (Churchill Square), arriving there at 1903 on Friday evening.
(* - I've been referring to them as Brighton and Hove Buses for all this time but their app and their website says they just trade as Brighton and Hove now which I didn't know about as I haven't been for a while! Oops! I have since updated my previous posts to show the correct name of the operator).
That appears to be it for the night so the next available bus goes from the stop at Fishbourne Road West (NW-Bound) where we take Stagecoach 700 Coastliner service at 06:44 as far as Somers Town, Middle Street (W) where we arrive at 0736 on Saturday morning.
We take the eight minute walk to the "stop E" bus stop on Commercial Road South and board the 0829 First in Hampshire service X4 to Southampton (West Quay on Castle Way) that arrives there at 0953 on Saturday morning.
We take the 10 minute (0.5 mile) walk to Southampton Central where we take the 1024 South West Trains Serive as far as Bournemouth where we arrive at 1100 on Saturday morning.
Exiting the station and taking the ten minute walk to the bus stop opposite Griff Island, we then board the 1620 Travel de Courcey service 78 to Walsgrave (University Hospital), arriving there at 1710 on Saturday afternoon.
We make the three minute walk to the "WH" bus stop at the Caldrum Centre on Hospital Roads and board the 1727 National Express Coventry service 16A to Keresley (Somers Road) that arrives there at 1832 on Saturday evening.
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