View Full Version : Cardiff to deepest Cornwall and back...do able on a sat/sun?
hiya
wondered what the best way to do an in out job from cardiff to cornwall?
chepest/quickest/most reliable etc, and how hard is it going to be to get back on the sunday/monday, i can envisage grief but would like to try and minimise it.
train is £17each way afaik
and anyone interested in a rather good shindig, pm me please
thanks :)
Got to be the train for comfort...
Next Sunday and Monday I would not bother, unless you have penchant for sitting in traffic jams.
Sunspots
25-08-2005, 10:03
train is £17each way afaik
For the distance involved, that sounds like a good price.
Avoid the traffic, and relax on the train. :cool:
fat hamster
25-08-2005, 10:27
Whereabouts in Cornwall are you headed, ddraig? I might be able to fix you up with a return lift from Bristol for a share of petrol...
For the distance involved, that sounds like a good price.
Avoid the traffic, and relax on the train. :cool:
now £21 each way according to rail.co.uk
FH, incoming :)
RubberBuccaneer
25-08-2005, 11:52
Ditto re the train, went to Devon last week , took ages re the traffic , looked even worse coming back on a saturady afternoon.
Even just going to neighbouring villages was a nightmare, and yes we were part of the problem :(
Isambard
25-08-2005, 12:02
Even on a Sunday there 2 or 3 trains direct from Cardiff to Cornwall
They do stop at a few scary "local" places in Somerset ;) but the timings not that bad.
yeah and only 5hours!
took me ages in traffic last year
got rid of the car now i am in a city anyway
yeah par :confused: , 'where do u live?'
'par'
'what?'
'par'
'par what?, don'
'no just par'
'right, hmm'
To Par?
You could get a train to Bristol, fly to Newquay and then get a train from Newquay to Par.
The flight is 20 mins but obviously you have to factor in the checking in time.
RubberBuccaneer
25-08-2005, 17:04
Get the ferry (if it's fixed in time ) to Ilfracombe and bus it from there.
Style :)
no geri
not going to par, just responding to isambard
train planner said i have to change at par
Get the ferry (if it's fixed in time ) to Ilfracombe and bus it from there.
Style :)
thought they didn't go anymore :confused: asked last year
and it's this sat/sun/mon
edit
can you actually get a ferry from penarth or barry to devon/cornwall then? :confused:
this don't make sense to me timetable (http://www.waverleyexcursions.co.uk/bchannelwaverley.pdf)
sooooo
Get the ferry (if it's fixed in time ) to Ilfracombe and bus it from there.
Style :)
It takes flipping forever to get to Ilfracombe on that thing!
train planner said i have to change at par
For where?
King Biscuit Time
25-08-2005, 17:13
It takes flipping forever to get to Ilfracombe on that thing!
You're better off on the train because N.Devon public transport is shite.
You might be able to get a bus to Barnstaple, then another to Bude, but that will be most of the day gone! And Barnstaple is only on the shitty little Tarka line, so if you want to go down further by rail you'll have to head back to Exeter (5 trains a day - 1hr20mins to get there) before carrying on!
Bad idea!
(Fascinating fact - When I took my girlfriend (from Swansea) to Ilfracombe for the day (I know, no expence spared!) she was quite shocked to discover you could get there by car (We were in Barnstaple) - she'd been there on the ferry when she was a nipper and was convinced sub-consciously that Ilfracombe was an Island somewhere!)
i was taken with my cousins by my gran when we were nippers
my dad dropped us off and i was bawling my head off thinking we were getting shipped off abroad. :D
geri - i 'think' i'm going to newquay
geri - i 'think' i'm going to newquay
Plane it is then!
Newquay is going to be manic this weekend though!
Plane it is then!
Newquay is going to be manic this weekend though!
You've still got to get from the airport to newquay itself and that can be expensive. Add that to the cost of the stansted express and it's not a bargain financially or timewise. Add that to the fact that newquay is a shithole and you'd be better off staying at home :D
fat hamster
25-08-2005, 18:47
Check PMs ddraig. Not sure how much use a Bristol - Truro lift is gonna be, though...
Plane it is then!
Newquay is going to be manic this weekend though!
the plane is £99 one way on sat :(
anyway, bugger it, train or nothing atm
edit - thanks anyway FH :)
the plane is £99 one way on sat :(
anyway, bugger it, train or nothing atm
edit - thanks anyway FH :)
The train isn't too bad. At least it's scenic :)
Check PMs ddraig. Not sure how much use a Bristol - Truro lift is gonna be, though...
He can get a bus from Truro to Newquay - no 87 I think, although there might be a more direct one.
I wasn't being serious about the plane BTW - I checked it out myself and there's only one back per day, at 6am or something equally ridiculous!
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