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[his_sarah_jane]

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Environmentally Minded Grad Student Faces Frustration Over Ticket Booking for Transportation to Cardiff
By: Sarah Jane Smith

An incoming second year Masters student at the Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment discovered that travelling by train is much easier when in the possession of a Britrail or Eurail pass today, Sunday June 1, 2008. Jenny, an American-European hybrid, has spent the last week travelling about the Netherlands with her parents and younger brother, who she claims isn’t necessarily all that easy to get along with. When making plans to visit a friend in Cardiff accompanied by her mother who would “possibly kill me if I accidentally (and miraculously) ran in to John Barrowman without her,” she found that trains are far more expensive when travelling without a pass.

“It was easy,” she explained. “Last year all I had to do was write in the day and hop on the train. Now? There are prices. And crazy expensive ones at that. Seventy-one pounds for a round trip for two? Riiight – way too much money.”

An alternative is currently being investigated: a round trip coach ticket in place, which is little more than half the cost of train fair. Yet, as the intrepid traveler resides in Amsterdam for the next twelve hours from the tri and is unable to get to Victoria Station to purchase said tickets, all may not bode well yet! Websites, specifically that of the National Express coach service, have been reported not to work when investigating purchasing options.

She does, however remain optimistic that this cause will not be lost. At the very least, Jenny (of no relation to the Doctor’s daughter, despite the creation of jen_anomaly) has every intention to put forth as much money as necessary so that she alone can visit Wales’ capital.

“It would be lovely to have Mom come, too. But I really want to see my friend. And more to that? I want to see that Torchwood door entrance I missed last year. Plus? Maybe I’ll finally do that statistics work I’ve been needing to do if I’m stuck on a bus or train for hours.”

Comments

[shot-my-shoes.livejournal.com]

The train prices have been going up for a long time. But £71 for two people for a return is not bad.

My mun wants to point out that you seem to have picked up a lot of American English from your mun.

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

My mun argues that, given the fact that the American dollar is so horribly weak right now, it is in many ways a lot of money for her and her family.

As for the American English, she says she tries to keep me sounding British, but writing late at night after a whole day out and about makes it rather difficult at times.

[shot-my-shoes.livejournal.com]

My mun agrees it is a lot of money, but she would have thought it would be a lot more than that.

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

My mun's mum has decided that, lots of money or not, she'd rather the train after all as we're fifteen or so minutes from Paddington Station.

Meanwhile, my mun continues to laugh at the fact that she wound up in the Notting Hill area that I currently live in with James and Valerie in the Milliways universe.