Bargains – Walnut Storage Box £20 & National Express 2 for 1 Senior coach card & Black Food Mixer £19.99 & Stainless Steel Fruit Zester £1.50
Another snowy day but Rhys came and collected us from the hotel and another lovely day with them. Lou cooked us a huge delicious Sunday roast. We all sat and watched the football. Mal had been watching the trains on the internet for our journey back. He did this on the way there and we discovered they were still cancelling even though they were not saying so on the internet.
Lou ran us to the station and we left not really knowing whether we would get back to Margate! The train from Cardiff was fine and on time. During the journey Mal kept checking the trains and we couldn’t decide whether to go to St Pancras or change our plans and head for Victoria. As we arrived in London, very little information anywhere. We then decided to stick to St Pancras. Even their notices didn’t tell us what was going on. Eventually we discovered that there was a train to Ashford but “severe delays” anywhere past Ashford owing to a broken down/frozen train! Who knows, I don’t think anyone did. We did discover that because of the broken down train, trains and drivers were all in the wrong place. We decided to get the Ashford train and hope for the best. If all else failed we would find an Ashford hotel.
The same lack of information at Ashford but there was a train on the platform but we all stood there freezing! I have to say, they did their best to crack ice and snow off the train and finally we set off for Ramsgate. They did warn us they would be travelling “not at normal speed”. We didn’t really care as long as we arrived back some time. We came out of the station at Ramsgate (having called to book a taxi) and a lot of snow, far more than in Cardiff or was it that Cardiff roads had been cleared quicker. It seemed none of the roads had been cleared. Our taxi took another half an hour as they were so busy because no buses had been running.
We finally arrived back at a quarter to one in the morning! The snow hadn’t been cleared around the caravan park either so we had to trudge through the snow and carry our cases. At least we managed it!
Thought for the Day – “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” ~ Lin Yutang