Travel Experience to Dundee

As the first day of the Scotland study program coming, I was getting more and more worried about our trip from London to Dundee. We decided to enter the U.K. through Heathrow Airport, and get to school by train. Since we have this 15 days traveling train passes, which allow us to catch any train in the U.K. for a random 15 days within two months, in that way, we could save a lot on the round trip plane tickets between London and Edinburgh.

We lived pretty close to King’s Cross station. So it was not a problem to get to the station. What I really concerned was, how do I know which bus is the best option for our trip? We heard about many terrible cases claiming that schedules of train in U.K. might not be that reliable. They might switch the platform all the number and even at the last minute. Or, the train might not even be on time. So we read so many blogs teaching us how to easily traveling in the U.K.

However, the best way to plan the trip is still using Google Map. Due to the three super large suitcases we had, our preference was to stay on the same train that could take us all the way down to Dundee. However, most popular option was to at least switch the train once in Edinburgh, and that is also what most people do. So under that condition, I have to say that Google Map is totally a godsend to us. It helped us to find an East Coast Line train that could take us straight to Dundee!

Screenshot from http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

Picture from Google Images

At the end, I would like to share an interesting thing happened over the trip. We bought a bottle of water at the food court and paid with a 20 pound notes. After giving back the changes to us, the food court was officially running out of coins. So when we got back to the carriage, we actually heard a broadcast, asking whether passengers can exchange their coins with them. And it seemed like everyone wanted so bad to get rid of coins, so many people rushed to them for exchanging, and the the food court was forced to tell everyone that they already have enough coins and thanks for people's help.