{"id":23355,"date":"2024-04-06T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23355"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:32:12","slug":"turas-fada-long-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23355","title":{"rendered":"Turas Fada (Long Journey)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I finally arrived in Oban about an hour ago. It&#8217;s dark, it&#8217;s raining, and I&#8217;m about 3.5 hours late. I was hoping to see a bit of the town while it was still light, but at least I made it here. My trip from Bangor to Glasgow went smoothly, with most of the trains being on time and not too crowded. Things went a bit off the rails after that.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/53643588558\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Oban \/ An t-\u00d2ban\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53643588558_ee0d8b90ce_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Oban \/ An t-\u00d2ban\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>The view from my hotel room on Sunday morning<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I arrived at Glasgow Queen Street station, I discovered that the train I was supposed to take to Oban was cancelled. Fortunately there was another, although I had to wait 2 hours, and it was late arriving in Glasgow, so more like 2.5 hours. It was a nice sunny day, though a bit windy, so I had a wander, sat in a caf\u00e9 for a bit, did some work, and then we were off.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/53643836255\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"George Square, Glasgow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53643836255_549ab11687_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"George Square, Glasgow\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>George Square, Glasgow<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While I was waiting, I heard that the ferry from Mallaig to Armadale on Skye that I was planning to take tomorrow will not be sailing due to bad weather. So I had to find an alternative route. Fortunately there is a bus from Oban to Broadford on Skye (two buses, actually), and I&#8217;ve arranged a lift from there. If everything works out, I should be at Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig by tomorrow afternoon. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/53643590848\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Tyndrum \/ Taigh an Droma\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53643590848_0128a894d4_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Tyndrum \/ Taigh an Droma\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>Tyndrum \/ Taigh an Droma, where I changed buses<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve applied for compensation for my cancelled train from Glasgow to Oban, so might get some money back from that. <\/p>\n<p>While I have a driving licence and could have rented a car (I don&#8217;t own one and never have), I prefer to travel by train, even though there are often delays, cancellations and other shenanigans.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I like about travelling by train, or other public transport, is that you often overhear conversations in a variety of languages. Today, for example, I heard conversations in English, Welsh, Thai, French, Cantonese, Mandarin and German. There may have been other languages that I didn&#8217;t recognise as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I finally arrived in Oban about an hour ago. It&#8217;s dark, it&#8217;s raining, and I&#8217;m about 3.5 hours late. I was hoping to see a bit of the town while it was still light, but at least I made it here. My trip from Bangor to Glasgow went smoothly, with most of the trains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23355"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23365,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions\/23365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}