Posts Tagged “york”
Posted by: Geoff in General, tags: air canada, bus, calgary transit, firstgroup, government, greyhound, light rail, public, transportation, york
I was recently out in the United Kingdom on vacation. If you know my travel habits, you know I rarely stay in one place for long — I like to move around. (Yes, this often fuels or is fueled by my mild obsession with trains.) It means that I often pay close attention to public transit, and how it operates.
While we were in York, a thought suddenly hit me. I’m sure I’d seen this elsewhere, but it hadn’t really registered. The buses weren’t run by York Transit, or Transit Yorkshire, or anything directly related to the city/region government. The buses were privatized through FirstGroup PLC.
And suddenly I thought: Why couldn’t Calgary do the same?
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Posted by: Geoff in Children, Family, Photography, Trains, Travel, tags: abbey, british airways, caledonian, castle, churches, flying scotsman, glasgow, heathrow, inverness, iona, iona community, loch ness, london, mallard, mull, national railway museum, oban, ramada, scotland, shambles, st. alban's, urquhart, york, york minster
In the few minutes I have before I dive back into another conference session, figured I’d cover some of the items of our last vacation. This was a 2.5 week excursion mostly to Scotland, with a few days in England. Alex planned most of the trip, with me handling things like the transportation and hotels to stay along the way. Overall, about a 50/50 split on the events et al.
Sadly, at the end, it wasn’t a usual vacation. Until now, it’s always been either just me, or myself and Alex. Now there’s three of us, and the Wee One doesn’t have our stamina for travel and has a pseudo-schedule that needs to be followed from time-to-time.
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Posted by: Geoff in Travel, tags: chicago, england, illinois, inverness, iona, las vegas, london, nevada, scotland, usa, york
I love travelling — I honestly believe that I don’t do enough of it. Always makes me feel more energised, and sitting on my duff all day long really makes me pine for it.
So I’m lucky to be getting around a bit in the next few months.
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