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Kevin K Kelehan · 08-03-2006, 21:40

Ghana sounds rough but it is West Africa and I will at later stage tell the story of the bus in Bolivia where three children managed to puke, **** and piss five feet away from me and throw bags filled with same a further 5 feet down the aisle needless to say the mother had bought only a single ticket and the person to my left had paid 5 bols more for his ticket than me and the guy to my left had paid 10 bols less

North Wales;

I left Birmingham on the 2033 Arriva trains service that departed at 2105; arrived in Shrewsbury 30 minutes late which resulted in a missed conection; got a train with 4 passengers to Chester where a 2 hour wait in sub-zero temps was encountered with the coffee machine turned off and the toilets all locked. The train for the boat left 30 minutes late and amazingly arrived only 5 minutes late so the boat was caught by the skin of the teeth. Any line that can have a 25% time padding margin is a joke and since arriva took tha franchise from Virgin this line has gone seriously south.

08-03-2006, 21:40	#20
Kevin K Kelehan Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: West Tower Posts: 355	Ghana sounds rough but it is West Africa and I will at later stage tell the story of the bus in Bolivia where three children managed to puke, **** and piss five feet away from me and throw bags filled with same a further 5 feet down the aisle needless to say the mother had bought only a single ticket and the person to my left had paid 5 bols more for his ticket than me and the guy to my left had paid 10 bols less North Wales; I left Birmingham on the 2033 Arriva trains service that departed at 2105; arrived in Shrewsbury 30 minutes late which resulted in a missed conection; got a train with 4 passengers to Chester where a 2 hour wait in sub-zero temps was encountered with the coffee machine turned off and the toilets all locked. The train for the boat left 30 minutes late and amazingly arrived only 5 minutes late so the boat was caught by the skin of the teeth. Any line that can have a 25% time padding margin is a joke and since arriva took tha franchise from Virgin this line has gone seriously south.