Services Terminate at Westbury 22 years ago
Posted in Railways on Sunday 16th November 2003 at 9:26pm
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!
Daylog Entry for 16/11/2002 23 years ago
Posted in Updates on Saturday 16th November 2002 at 12:11am
Early start for the City of London. Arrived later than I hoped due to Underground complications. Much literary wandering. Starting from The Monument, via the Walbrook and Fleet valleys, London Stone and lots of landmarks, to Bunhill Fields to pay respects to William Blake (and Defoe and Bunyan who are keeping him company there), into Clerkenwell and eventually Bloomsbury. Off to some bookshops off Charing Cross Road. Became entangled in huge shopping crowds on Oxford Street. Got back very late and very tired.
Daylog Entry for Thursday 16/11/2000 25 years ago
Posted in Updates on Thursday 16th November 2000 at 12:00am
Should never have complained about the lack of updates - another new gnome-core, gnome-applets and a host of other bits and bobs have arrived. Generally feeling a little better than of late, but need to focus attention on my job hunting. Very confusing and slightly frustrating evening trying to discuss subatomic particles and embedded systems with the Williams Brothers.
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.
