Planes and trains

[nmg]

Just boarded the sleeper to Glasgow (alas no sign of Skimbleshanks). From there I'll be heading to the Western Isles, where I will do my best to avoid any large anthropomorphic wicker constructions.

The shame of it is that this is just a flying (day!) visit to examine a PhD; if it hadn't been for the demands of work, I would have happily spent a couple of days in Stornoway.

Comments

[nelsolidarida.livejournal.com]

Uni of Highlands and Islands? I think that's one of the few around here that I haven't knowingly encountered anyone from yet...

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Yes, UHI. Not that I've managed to get there, thanks to a complete fuck-up on the West Coast mainline.

[nelsolidarida.livejournal.com]

Just saw your other post - guess it happens and is harder to resolve overnight, but sucks that your plans got trashed because of it. I'm pretty shocked that the sleeper doesn't have wifi/electricity, pretty much every train I've done the Scotland/England journey has at least had somewhere decent to plug things in and advertised some form of wifi.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

They had power (in the lounge car only, not the sleeping cars), but the amount of current that could be drawn was only enough for phone chargers, not laptops.