A new plan!

[heleninwales]

I wasn't really feeling like a 2 hour drive to Mid-Wales, but we now have a new and better plan. We will meet our daughter in Shrewsbury on Tuesday. We'll travel by train, as will A. We'll meet and have several hours to wander about the historical bits and walk by the river.

It is rather ridiculous that it's easier to meet over the border in England, but there are no trains down the middle of Wales and the buses are slow and infrequent. This will save both me and A from some tedious driving and still allow us to meet and have a good catch up. I've already booked the tickets using the Transport For Wales app. :-)

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[eve_prime]

OH good! So she's in the southern part of Wales and you're in the north? What I wish for Oregon is a good passenger train from here to the coast. We would get a lot more tourism from East Asia if it were easier to visit the coast.

[heleninwales]

Yes, we're in the North West of Wales but our son and daughter went to university in Cardiff which is on the south coast of Wales and then settled down there because there are more jobs.

Though not a huge distance in terms of miles, it's a 3.5 hour drive from our house to theirs. I can no longer do this as a day trip. I did it back in the day when I was hauling the kids and their belongings back and forth for the university terms, but now it would have to be a real emergency for me to consider doing 7 hours of driving in a day. Besides, once you get there you more or less have to turn straight round or be very returning home.

In the past we've done successful meetups in the middle of Wales, but to be honest there's not much to do there so I think a day trip to Shrewsbury should be a nice change.

This YouTube video demonstrates the problem of travelling N-S in Wales.

https://youtu.be/9DpLuZ60XZ4?si=d_PRnVEr8tcPrd5x

[eve_prime]

Ha ha, with my vestibular issues I'd better not watch very much of the video, but the lyrics are pretty amusing.