Peshwari Naan

James Kirkup writes on 27th May 2009...

Whoa there, I almost forgot to go into severe detail about my troubles with National Express the other week.

Let me start of by saying how mega the coach is, it’s brilliant. I’ve found myself traveling up to Leeds every couple of weeks and if I book far enough in advance I can get a return journey to Leeds from London for about a tenner – quids in! However the journey truly sucks balls, I’m a pretty tall fella and there isn’t much room for me pins, along side the fact the lights always screw up so reading is a no no and there’s no power to help my laptop survive an episode of the wire.

So she ain’t near perfect but it get’s me up north for the weekend for next to nothing which is the main thing. However last week when I was going up late friday evening I decided to make the not so wise decision of sitting at the front of the coach for leg room related purposes. What a mistake this turned out to be though as I caught the driver not only texting his beloved but playing the death trap of all mind games, tetris, whilst driving in the wet! What the douche.. this guy was mixing some pretty wobbly driving, whilst trying to rack up a top score. I thought I was going to die.

I tried to capture the exact moment on me camera and I’m waiting on National Express for a good bit of compensation.. until next time Death Coach!

Bus Pass Pilgrims reports on 24th April 2009...

We all slept well at our various hosts homes. We met at the York train station at 9.30am and after leaving our luggage in the left luggage office we went off to explore York. Colin and Ken decided to visit the railway museum, Di went for a walk around the walls and by the river to take some photographs. Sue, Gina and Joyce went to the Jorvic centre and spent time around the Shambles.
Pat, Rennie and Maggie made for the shops. We all met at 1.30pm for lunch together and then after more walking around the walls and through the town, we finally met at the train station, collected our bags and waited at the bus stop for our 16.25 national express coach to arrive. We waited and we waited and eventually it arrived 1 hour later. Due to this we missed our X5 connection at Milton keynes, so instead of finishing in the manner we had become used to, by using our passes, we had to hire a mini bus and a car to bring us all back to Bicester. At least it took us all home to our own homes. We were all grateful to see Bicester again, but on the whole everyone said it was well worth doing and we all got on together so well, it made it all worthwhile.