We slept in til 10.00.
Made our way to the train station, we had checked two bags in to the left luggage office before our Orkney tour 5 days ago. There are no such things as luggage lockers anywhere in Britain anymore, thanks to terrorism. It cost us $140 to leave two bags for 5 days.
Jumped on the train and headed for Durham, tomorrow is the big wedding.On the way we passed over the viaduct we had photographed on our last camper van day at Berwick upon Tweed.
This is the view as we passed over the Viaduct from the train window.
We set the Sat nav on the train to follow our course and were a bit surprised to see we were travelling at 191 klm per hour. The Sat Nav was set for roads and it's little bell started chiming telling us to slow down. It was a bit hair raising when another train going the opposite direction passed by about 300mm from ours, passing speed of 400 klm per hour.
We arrived in Durham and caught a taxi to the hotel, it is rather plush and we have a view of the river. This is the first hotel in Britain we have stayed at that has a fridge in the room, no more warm lager.
The views from our window.
Like Ma and Pa Kettle on holidays the first thing Tammy did was to start washing clothes in the bathtub and hanging them around the room to dry. Whilst Steven started pulling the mini bar apart to get his cans of lager to fit, including his latest beer discovery 'Skull Splitter' at 8.5 percent alcohol.
Whilst redistributing our luggage we understood the basic principles of travelling light, lot's of books and concrete garden ornaments are not a sensible choice of souvenir.
A funny thing about Scotland, they have three banks and they all print their own money, so we have three different 10 pond notes.
We went to a pub for tea, good food and even better pints. then back to the hotel were we caught up with Tammy's Mum, Geoff, Christina and Cameron, Auntie Julie and Uncle Byron.
More pints
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