Monday 31 March 2008

Bliss of the bus-crawl

Over-60s are set to ride free on all England's local services. It's liberating...

...The best companies too (which are often the small ones) will happily recommend their most enjoyable journeys (this is how I discovered the Western Greyhound 556 and now know that the 501 Newquay to St Ives, summer only, is worth trying too). In places like Cornwall, the time to make these journeys is now, before its roads are clotted with cars, and buses run late, and connections are missed and the joys of the liberation that is ENCTS from tomorrow may not be quite so unqualified. more>