This was a notice displayed during a walk through Beck Hole, a small village near Goathland, last summer. What the source of the wasps’ anger was, I never did find out. Instead I chose to take the advice given, and turn off the path in order to head towards the village, where the atmosphere was… Continue reading >

Last night I watched episode 2 of The Tube, the BBC series which goes behind the scenes of the London Underground. The episode documented the work of ticket inspectors on the network, and focused on the number of journeys which are said to be made without a valid ticket. The estimate is that 60,000 journeys… Continue reading >

There were two good things to come out of an horrendous train journey to London last week. The first was an upgraded room for my wife and I on arrival to our docklands hotel. Who knows if we’d have been given such a treat if we had arrived much earlier in the day, as we… Continue reading >

As headlines again focus on the Government’s proposals for high-speed rail link connecting London with major cities across England, and the push towards a greater use of public transport continues, I have experienced a weekend of rail disruption which illustrates exactly why many people simply don’t have enough confidence in trains to get them to… Continue reading >