It was 3:pm; I hurried to Llandudno Station, looked for a shop to buy water and snacks for the journey – but there were none. Neither in the station or nearby. Still there was enough time to sort this out when I got to Llandudno Junction … but to my surprise Llandudno Junction has no catering facilities and it’s not exactly conveniently located to the town so I was not able to get my water and snacks there.
It was a hot day. The weather in the days preceding had been kind to me, but I was annoyed that I wasn’t able to prepare myself properly for the long journey that I had to do.
At first all went well, the train hurried along and reached Chester with no problems at all. Again, like the previous day it was nice to just sit back and not think about taking pictures.
Then we were in Wrexham. Fifty minutes later we were still in Wrexham. There had been an incursion onto the line at a level crossing south of the station and the Transport Police were “sorting it out”. The Train Manager broke open a cupboard with water bottles in it. Thanks goodness for that. Without that I think I’d have been in a quite different shape when we eventually arrived in Cardiff some 33mins late. I caught the Rhymney Line train 30mins later than I’d originally booked, but soon Jenny was there at Llanishen station to pick me up and take me home.
All I had to do then was process in excess of 400 images and videos, and remember all I’d done, and construct this series of posts. I hope that someone, somewhere, reads them and gets some enjoyment from them. For me, it’s the only way I know of remembering what I’m doing these days.
Cheers.