When we got close to Manchester the captain made an announcement due to sever weather in Manchester we may be required to land in Liverpool ! But as we had spare fuel we would circle and hope for a weather window to land ! And that's what happened we circled for a bit and then landed without any further announcements , the weather seemed fine so God knows what that was about , at passport control there was a lane for the electronic passports and the lane for normal passports ,we both have new passports( European ones we shall need new ones again soon because of the brexit ) and can use the electronic passport control , Cammy says remember the last time dad the electronic que takes ages ,I said it should be quicker and the que looked smaller , we split and he beat me through by 10minuits !so 4machines plus two attendants was considerably slower than 4border police at desks again, flying home to Scotland via Manchester has never worked out well for me , this would be my 5th time flying home to here and only once it worked out ok , so I was thinking today will end in disaster like the other times !
Next we had to find the easy jet desk and collect our train tickets ?! well done Bryan the bloke on the easy jet desk had our tickets and the joining letter Bryan sent with it magic , we were well early for our allocated trains and our tickets had times on them , manchester airport to Manchester Piccadilly was our first train and we just jumped on the first train at the station ,and of again at Piccadilly but while on that train cammy checked the web ,the last train out of Glasgow queen street was 19:02 because of the ongoing work !but our bargain £12.90 tickets got us in to Glasgow Central atv19:30 ! . We went to the ticket desk and asked if we could pay for an upgrade , after a fair amount of discussion as he could see our problem was genuine and not our fault the bloke said no chance ! but we could try the transpenine train information desk at platform 14 which we did ,but again after much chat with two attendants ,one who gave me the kind of condescending talk about buying cheap tickets I hate and I said to him look mate we have all bought bargain tickets before I bet you have ! His reply was that he always buys to the journey's end and reads the small print ( erse ) he said It would be £140 for us to buy two new tickets to get to Glasgow on time for the last train to Polmont ! And no deals could be made ! Europe was starting to seem simpler and cheaper , we decided to risk it jump on the next train to Glasgow and play dumb if required ! We had a cover ticket saying Manchester airport to Glasgow Central and 3 other tickets with times on , we would chance our luck and show the cover ticket , ! , we were nearly at Preston by the time our tickets got checked and we were lucky as the train was mobbed and I was giving the trolley dolly a bit of banter and the ticket checker joined in , I said lovely to hear a nice Scottish accent she gave our tickets a fleeting glance and we were safe , big smiles and beers ordered
As we crossed the border into Scotland it was raining ! Cammy said that's the first rain we have seen since Switzerland! But we both agreed the scenery was lovely and the Scottish roads looked great to drive , It's a quick walk from Glasgow Central to queen street and I got a fish out the chippy to eat as we walked it ,after our trek across Europe I was thinking there's nothing wrong with Glasgow as we walked right passed the horseshoe bar , we bumped into Sneds and Sharon at queen street and had a pleasant train journey to Polmont together, it's been a great trip but it was nice to be home with all the usual suspects in the black bull Saturday karaoke
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