[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Omg I did a long bus journey on the greyhound bus in Aus too. Was by far one of the worst and longest journeys ever and never would I do that again.

Me and Gav went to Melbourne a few years back, just a short trip for a friends wedding, one of the days we said we'd do a bus tour to Sydney, they gave us the wrong meeting point and had to transport us to where the coach actually was leaving from so by the time we got there we were last on, there was only two seats left, not next to each other, two window seats one in front of the other, the people each of us were sitting next to were a husband and wife who refused to sit next to each other because they'd had an argument that morning and didn't want to be next to each other We decided to get off at the first stop, make our own way home and get a refund from the company

[Crimson Dynamo]

I remember the good old days when a massive BBC rapist paedo would tell you all about how
relaxing taking the train was

Youtube video

[Livia]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I mostly drive everywhere I have to be.

However it would always be train I'd choose on the occasions I wasn't driving myself.

Me too. I take the train in to work in London but there aren't any bus routes near us so we have to drive everywhere.

[MTVN]

I generally prefer trains but the delays, cancellations and overcrowding can make it quite unpleasant. Spent too many journeys standing up crushed against the luggage rack.

At least on a coach you're guaranteed a seat and it's about a third of the cost

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Me and Gav went to Melbourne a few years back, just a short trip for a friends wedding, one of the days we said we'd do a bus tour to Sydney, they gave us the wrong meeting point and had to transport us to where the coach actually was leaving from so by the time we got there we were last on, there was only two seats left, not next to each other, two window seats one in front of the other, the people each of us were sitting next to were a husband and wife who refused to sit next to each other because they'd had an argument that morning and didn't want to be next to each other We decided to get off at the first stop, make our own way home and get a refund from the company

You would have been better off flying up.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

You would have been better off flying up.

On the plus side the place we got off was the Beach at the end of Point Break - Bells Beach so we saw that at least