Day Nineteen

Said goodbye to Anne and to Doug after he had dropped me off at the station in Aberdeen. The train journey down the coast to Edinburgh, as I mentioned before, is spectacular. At times the track runs along the seashore. In this direction, the Tay bridge is approached on a long bend so that you can get a great view of the bridge, a structure to rival its better known cousin, the Forth Bridge, in Edinburgh. The North of England was very wet with evidence of flooding all over the place. Water from one river was pouring over its floodbanks. Many fields were under water. I arrived in Doncaster and boarded the train to Gainsborough. I quickly realised why the journey was going to take an hour and forty minutes rather than the 30 I would have estimated. we headed off to Sheffield!! This is out to the west and I wanted to go east. we went all the way to Sheffield and then back to Gainsborough by another route. Pat and Colin were at the station to greet me. It was good to be back at Lea Road again.