Visit to Coventry
Feb. 23rd, 2018 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylDay off to travel to Coventry ahead of tomorrow's family lunch to mark my sister's fortieth birthday. I'd packed yesterday, but A spent a busy hour sorting out what she wanted to take and worrying that she hadn't got enough — or possibly the right sort of — clothes. We got away on time, taking a taxi to the station in deference to A's still reduced mobility. Slightly annoyingly, we didn't get either a confirmatory text or a message that the driver was waiting by looking out of the front windows and, when we got in, he confirmed that their alert system had been down for days!
The train journey was smooth and we travelled on our Two Together railcard for the first time. The discount on the tickets was more than enough both to cover the cost of the card and to provide us with a healthy saving to boot. We got to Birmingham with about 20 minutes to spare, successfully navigated the vaguaries of New Street with both a person on crutches and various bags and found our seats on the Coventry train.
We got to Coventry just after two and had lunch — spinach and lentil soup with bread and cheese &mdsah; with my parents and one of my nephews. When my dad went to pick up my youngest nephew from nursery, we went the first of many walks in the Memorial Park, returning just as my dad returned with child in tow. We then pottered for the rest of the day and went to bed early to prepare for tomorrow.
The train journey was smooth and we travelled on our Two Together railcard for the first time. The discount on the tickets was more than enough both to cover the cost of the card and to provide us with a healthy saving to boot. We got to Birmingham with about 20 minutes to spare, successfully navigated the vaguaries of New Street with both a person on crutches and various bags and found our seats on the Coventry train.
We got to Coventry just after two and had lunch — spinach and lentil soup with bread and cheese &mdsah; with my parents and one of my nephews. When my dad went to pick up my youngest nephew from nursery, we went the first of many walks in the Memorial Park, returning just as my dad returned with child in tow. We then pottered for the rest of the day and went to bed early to prepare for tomorrow.
