Royal Pain

Broken Down

Here in the UK, we have the Royal Family, Royal Navy, Royal Mail, and based on our experience today, the Royal Pain. That describes our 150 mile trip from Edinburgh to Fort William, where we plan to spend a couple of days. It took eight hours. Do the math, that is less than 20 miles per hour.

Our train from Edinburgh to Glasgow was just fine. We changed there to the Fort William train. Oops, sat on non-moving train until being told it had broken down. Directed to different train not going to Fort William; told not to worry, it will be fine. Wrong. Royal Pain. Although that train did eventually move, it broke down as well (see photo). Not to worry we were told again, a bus is coming to take you. Oops, bus did not go there; dropped us off in a small village and told to walk up hill to yet another train station. That train did eventually get us to our destination; since it was a local, we got to stop at every small village along the way. Royal Pain.