Compact solution

After a last-minute hectic day in the office at home, I packed up, met Fred and headed for the Fort William sleeper. The sleeper is a huge train that splits at Edinburgh to go to various destinations around Scotland. Unfortunately, the Fort William part of the train at Euston doesn't have a carriage with storage, so people with bicycles have to struggle up at 4am to shift their bikes from the Inverness part of the train to the newly attached storage carriage on the Fort William train. We cunningly avoided the disrupted night's sleep by taking the folding bikes, each of which fits neatly beside a bed. Hooray! The folders also have the added advantage that if we got stuck for any reason we could pop them on a bus or in a taxi. In the end, we didn't need to do this at all on the holiday.