National Express - Scotland

We have a travel restriction on with work at the moment which means we're having to be a little creative in terms of how we get around. I had to travel up to Scotland this week and normally I would fly. This time however, I thought I'd try the train and was really pleasantly surprised! I caught the National Express train from King Cross to Edinburgh which took about 4 hours or so. We then went up to Aberdeen, did our talk and then stayed over in Inverrurie. The following day, we headed north to Elgin. Diageo are building a new distillery at Roseisle in whch some of our equipment was being used. Impressive site I must say very hi-tech.

We headed back down to Edinburgh and I caught the train back down...all very smooth and I would definitely do it again...

In Bruges

So, for SJ's birthday, I booked the Eurostar to Bruges for a couple of nights. This was somewhere we'd both wanted to go since seeing the film - In Bruges. The trip itself was really simple, train to St Pancras, change on to Eurostar, then change at Brussels to a local train to Bruges and that was it!


Bruges is a beautiful city...just like being in a fairytale...we stayed in the Hotel de Tuilerieen and what a hotel! Its rated as one of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World and was the place Colin Farrell et al stayed in when they were filming In Bruges!


The first night we ate at the No. 1 rated restaurant in Bruges - Rock Fort...absolutely fantastic...second night was Pieter Pourbus, again a fantastic meal and the second highest rated restaurant in Bruges. We ate Turbot for the first time and it was amazing...

Teeside

We had to do an exhibition this week in Teeside - I won't name the hotel other than to say it was worse than Hi-de-Hi! A terrible place with even a "Sun Lounge"...dreadful, truly dreadful...

Berkhamstead Castle

Partytime