Girl on a Train

I like travelling by train and it was only the excessive cost that made me book a flight to London. After 7 hours sitting in the airport (electric storms, apparently) I gave up and jumped on the sleeper.
I've travelled London - Venice and Luxor - Cairo by sleeper, but it's my first time on the Caledonian Sleeper. What fun!

And don't we take travel for granted? I casually book transatlantic flights for my grand weans and think nothing of flying 400 miles for a wee course. And yet these trips are momentous. My time at the airport was enlivened by a precocious 7 year old. He was bored of waiting, but thought it would be much harder if had to walk 400 miles or go on his bike. I told him I thought he was pretty smart. Not really he replied, sadly, I still don't know all the 4x table. I said I still wasn't sure about 7x8, but I'd managed to reach 65 without it mattering too much. I don't think he believed me.