After having to get up at what I consider to be a too early time (07:30) we walked down to the train station in Winchester to get the 09:30 train to Chippenham (the closest place to Malmesbury with a train station).
We paid for our tickets with the ticketman who had a handheld printer, and after buying our tickets and going to wait on the platform, I commented to Tom that I thought my ticket had cost more than when I looked it up on the interent, but I just assumed I'd made a mistake. Then lo and behold, just before the train came the ticket man came running onto the platform looking for me, he'd made a mistake with my ticket and wanted to refund me the difference, who was I to complain?!
We got the train to Reading and then changed for the train to Chippenham. As it turned out somewhere along the line the train times had gotten muddled and we arrived a whole hour earlier than we'd anticipated at Chippenham. So rather than hang around at the train station for an hour we decided to walk into Chippenham town center for a look around (unfortuantly it was a Sunday so most of it was closed) but it seemed like a nice place.
After getting picked up by Tom's dad, Mike we drove to Tom's Gran's house, where I met two of Tom's uncles and Sam's girlfriend for the first time.
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| Pub we went to for lunch |
After lunch we went back to the house for a bit of birthday cake, and then it was back to the train station and the journey in reverse.
All in all a nice day out.
Photo copyrighted @ Phil Williams
P.S. while we were at lunch, this particular youtube video was a topic of disscusion. See what you think.
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