Feltham fiasco.

I think the trains here are really great. We don't use trains like this at home and it's just cool how it works and how that's the normal way to get around. However, I've found out this week that maybe it's not the greatest that everyone relies so heavily on the trains. I guess that while I was in the Midlands last weekend we had some really crazy weather and quite a bit of damage was done to a bridge in Feltham. Because of the bridge being unusable, everyone is having to take different trains and buses and it's an absolute mess! Last night, it took Curtis over 2 hours to get back to VW from London and he had to hitchhike the last bit of it when his train broke down! How crazy is that. It usually only takes 45 minutes to get into London and it's taking people 2+ hours because they have to be rerouted everywhere. It's awful. I guess it might be 4 weeks until they have everything repaired and ready to go again. What a dreadful inconvenience.

I'm a bit worried about it slash seriously bummed out too because I was just making all of these plans to spend more time in London exploring. I can still do it, I'll just have to spend more time traveling. I'm going to Belgium early Saturday morning so I'll be staying in London with Ed again on Friday night. I've decided that to completely avoid the Feltham fiasco (take the train to Feltham then take a bus to Twickenham or another station then wait for a train into London Waterloo), I'm going to take the train in the opposite direction from here to Reading (40min) and then from Reading into London Paddington (30min) and, really, it won't be that bad.

I just think it's so crazy that millions of people are being inconvenienced by this one little bridge mishap and it's not going to get fixed quickly. It's like when it snowed last Christmas except, well, not as cold.