Today we had to get up early because we're going home..... we made sure everything was packed up!
And then we had a cuppa tea and breakfast. A little later, we said goodbye to Lilly and then Bev drove us to the coach pick up point
We drove past these standing stones - there's one from each of the stone quarries in Portland!
There's Chesil Beach!
It's still very blowy outside but not as bad as yesterday!!
This is the only road on and off Portland!!
And here we are!!! We're getting the coach back home because it'll be 2 or 3 trains plus a replacement bus if we went by train. The coach is just getting on board the coach and it takes us direct to London. Much easier!! So we said goodbye to Bev and thanked her for having us! It was a lovely trip!
And on this coach, Andrea made a point or reserving a seat just for us!!!
Just as well though - a bit later on, another lady got on wanting to have our seat. We told her to bugger off because we booked this one for us lot. She made a point of blocking the aisle for other people getting on and the driver came up and told her to go sit somewhere else because she's blocking the aisle.
So Ner!!
So this seat with a tray in front is OURS!!!
We said IT'S OURS!!!!!!
And then we set off!!!
There's some posh buildings along here...
See what I mean?!?!
There's some weird stone mushroom things over there!!!
We had a quick stop at Dorchester station.
And then we headed off again past a cemetery
There's lots of countryside around here!!!
Not sure where we are now....
Oh, we're going past another cemetery now...
This one's a big cemetery!!
See what I mean?!
Then we had a stop at Bournemouth ......
Where we changed driver and picked up some more passengers.
And then we headed off again!
And then we got the Jaffa cakes out!!!!
YAY!! We love Jaffa cakes!!!
We also had our sarnies too.
We also had a stop at Basingstoke, too. We got slowed down a little by roadworks around Winchester but we're still making good headway....
And then headed towards the Hammersmith flyover
Here we go!!!
The Brighton to London coach goes across here too!!
Those are Bug Hotels!!!
We're in London now!!!
Oh I recognise that mosaic swan!!!
Ooo, not seen that before!
Oh that's the entrance to Holland Park!!
And that's the Prince Albert memorial at Hyde Park!!
And here's Hyde Park Corner!! We were getting a little worried now, because it's now 1:30 pm and our train back to Brighton leaves at 2 pm and we're held up in traffic trying to get to the Coach Station!!!
BUT WE MADE IT!!!!! Yippee!!
We then had to make a mad dash up the road to get to the side entrance to the train station. Luckily it's not far!
And then we got there with 10 minutes to spare - and found that the trains are delayed by 10 minutes because of track safetly inspections at Gatwick Airport!! So our train arrived at 2:10pm and we ended up having plenty of time to walk down to the front of the train and get on!! We got our own seat by the window, and everything!!!
And we're off!!!!
We crossed over the Thames..... and then when we got to Gatwick, we were held up a little bit because there's only one track that all the trains can use so we have to wait and take turns. Then they said that because we're running late, the train's going to go fast all the way to Brighton and not stop anywhere else!
YAAAYYYY!!
We crossed the Balcombe viaduct - you can see our train's shadow! Isn't that fun!
And then we finally arrived home!
We didn't have to wait long for a bus either which was handy
and then we got off here and just had to walk down the road!!!
And we finally got all our passports stamped as well!
That was a fun trip that was!!!
