A train update
Dec. 27th, 2009 01:54 pmWe are on a train from Inverness.
We wanted to catch the 9.40 from Inverness direct to Edinburgh, but that was cancelled. The announcement came through after we had gotten ourselves along the only slightly snowing platform to the full first class carriage (we have first class tickets for this leg, in an effort not to be standing for ten hours of train travel, as happened on the trains to Inverness.).
We didn't get on the 9.55 that would have taken us through Aberdeen in the hope that the 13.25 would still be running direct. It would have gotten in at about the same time as the train through Aberdeen, because there was a two hours change at Aberdeen. This train, also through Aberdeen, has only a 25 minute change, and gets us in about an hour after the later direct train would have. We were wise to take the chance that the direct train was cancelled. All trains between Perth and Inverness are cancelled due to something that happened overnight, and the only way out of Inverness is to head toward Aberdeen.
The landscape looks extraordinary. Blanketed by snow, except for the occasional field with very spiky grass. The sheep are able to eat the grass out from under the snow, and are quite comfortable sitting it. It makes me feel a little sorry for the sheep in Australia. They are so not built for the Australian climate. There are bits of blue sky and bits of foreboding grey sky. It was snowing quite thickly (although there was little wind) when we left the hostel and it was actually quicker for us to walk there than it would have been to catch a taxi, because it would have taken a taxi at least half an hour to drive to us.
There was a rabbit nibbling at the weeds in the retaining wall outside the kitchen window at the hostel last night, which a robin hunted for things under the snow weighted trees.
We wanted to catch the 9.40 from Inverness direct to Edinburgh, but that was cancelled. The announcement came through after we had gotten ourselves along the only slightly snowing platform to the full first class carriage (we have first class tickets for this leg, in an effort not to be standing for ten hours of train travel, as happened on the trains to Inverness.).
We didn't get on the 9.55 that would have taken us through Aberdeen in the hope that the 13.25 would still be running direct. It would have gotten in at about the same time as the train through Aberdeen, because there was a two hours change at Aberdeen. This train, also through Aberdeen, has only a 25 minute change, and gets us in about an hour after the later direct train would have. We were wise to take the chance that the direct train was cancelled. All trains between Perth and Inverness are cancelled due to something that happened overnight, and the only way out of Inverness is to head toward Aberdeen.
The landscape looks extraordinary. Blanketed by snow, except for the occasional field with very spiky grass. The sheep are able to eat the grass out from under the snow, and are quite comfortable sitting it. It makes me feel a little sorry for the sheep in Australia. They are so not built for the Australian climate. There are bits of blue sky and bits of foreboding grey sky. It was snowing quite thickly (although there was little wind) when we left the hostel and it was actually quicker for us to walk there than it would have been to catch a taxi, because it would have taken a taxi at least half an hour to drive to us.
There was a rabbit nibbling at the weeds in the retaining wall outside the kitchen window at the hostel last night, which a robin hunted for things under the snow weighted trees.
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