Trains

There is something completely liberating about jumping on a train, unless it's a bloody commuter's train in which case there is something very brain damaging about trying to jump on a train. Trains are arguably the best way to see a country and the same applies to England. London is full of train stations: Paddington, Kings Cross, St. Pancras, Marylebone, Waterloo, London Bridge, Marylebone, Farrington and so many more, the starting point of myriads of invisible lines that connect this city to the rest of England.

During my time here I have taken many train journeys. These were the Midlands trains that took me back and forth from Nottingham during my first job at Capital One, the Eurostars that took me to Paris for a volleyball tournament or for a weekend ending at L'Unsolite, the Heathrow Expresses, the Gatwick Expresses, the Stansted Expresses, that took me towards my travels, for fun, for work, for desperation. These were the trains that took me to Stoke on Trent on improbable business journeys, that took me to Cornwall for a wedding with my past, to Bristol, to Brighton to visit friends.

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Trains in England are incredibly expensive and if you buy a ticket on the day of travel you will end up paying a fortune.

Trains can be booked online on http://www.thetrainline.com/

If you are a Londoner and would like to add/ammend this tip for the Londoner wannabes, please leave a comment.