England and Scotland 2023

Eileen and I spent time in England and Scotland. 2023
A direct flight! Amazing!!
I had figured that First Class would be great as they had meals. Was I wrong. There really was no difference between First and Second class other than Eileen got a cup of coffee free and I got a cookie. No meals, not much else diffent. Should have saved the money!1

None of the below was true, don’t waste your money on a First Class train:

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"First class gets you wider seats with more legroom, fewer families & kids and more businessmen & laptops.  You'll get complimentary food and wine served at your seat on weekdays, although just tea, coffee, sandwiches & biscuits at weekends."  FALSE!

We did use the Flex pass, a lot. It was nice to jump on any train at any time and go. We took a total of 19 trains. We had wanted to go and spend two days in Scotland and two days in Wales, but there were no trains to Wales over that weekend?!? Engineering problems they said. I had non-refundable reservations in Wales that I had paid for, but they gave the money back as we could not get there.
So we enjoyed four days in Scotland!!!

This was my BritRail pass. You can put it on your phone, but on paper is much better. Photo paper if you have it, because mine was quite battered after putting it on the scanner 40 times! The guards on the train turnstiles can glance at it and send you right through if there is any problem! Very very easy!!
We got off the train in Dover and our hotel was right there, just across the street. We caught the manager and she let us drop our bags, so off we we went to explore!

For the photos of our trip go to August 2023 and scroll down

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