Train ride from Penzance to Edinburgh
10/21/15 • Written by Julianne
I love riding trains almost as much as ferries. And since I have been driving, I have hardly gotten enough trains around here. So, as I am ending my stay in Britain, I decided to take one of the longest train rides available. I traveled from Penzance, Cornwall to Edinburgh, Scotland where I am spending my last few days before leaving the country.
Thanks to my Senior Railcard, and to purchasing ahead, I saved so much money that I felt able to upgrade to first class. As you see in the above photo, not that many others were traveling first class on a Sunday morning from Penzance. The car filled up later though. But all I had to do was sit back and enjoy the scenery, order coffee, relax with my books and sudokus, chat with fellow travelers as they got on and off. A sweet day.
Plymouth Harbor, the first big city from the Penzance end. I am reading the Patrick O'Brian series of seagoing adventures in which Plymouth figures prominently. If you have not read them--they are a great read about a naval captain and his surgeon sidekick during the Napoleonic wars. A great read and just the right thing for a long train journey.
The midlands with farms and wind farms.
Taxi to my temporary home in the New Town neighborhood of Edinburgh.
