Watched the rugby, as was my duty as an Englishman, but then decided that I was far too frustrated and agitated to stay indoors.
Toyed with various schemes before settling on a trip to Winchester. It was always going to be tight, setting out at 11:30 on a Sunday morning, but hopefully I'd get a brief look around.
All was well until I encountered unexpected engineering works meaning services were terminating at Westbury. Coach from Westbury to Salisbury, then a long wait for an SWT Brighton service to Southampton. Quick change onto a Basingstoke-bound service, eventually arriving at Winchester at 16:15.
Needed to work out how I was getting back pretty quickly, so paid the excess fare for a NOT LONDON route to replace my VIA SALISBURY ticket, and headed to Reading on Virgin's 16:28 for York, then back via Great Western metals.
Arrived back at 20:25, having spend a total of 13 minutes in Winchester! All-in-all, a successful day which diverted and exhausted me completely!
Lost::MikeGTN
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.
