Mike & I had a fun day today. Rather than just walking to our local grocery store, like always, we decided to walk 4 miles east to the closest Sainsbury's. We haven't shopped at a Sainsbury's since London and it was a lot of fun seeing the familiar packaging of the Sainsbury's brand, reminding us of our time there this past summer.
The reason for our grocery shopping detour was due to the ScotRail vouchers Sainsbury's was giving away. For every purchase over £15 you received a voucher to travel anywhere in Scotland for only £19 return. Mike & I were just saying how sad it was that we've been in Scotland now for over a year and we have yet to make our way up to Loch Ness. But, when we researched prices, train tickets were running about £35 each, and we just don't have £70 worth of excitement in us about Scotland any more. But, now that we have these vouchers, we can definitely muster up £38 worth of excitement.
Train travel in the UK is expensive. Actually, all travel in the UK is expensive. It's cheaper to purchase a flight to somewhere on the continent than it is to go to Edinburgh (sadly, though, we have to go to Edinburgh in order to fly to the continent). Accommodations here aren't cheap, either. We booked a hostel in Inverness for one night and it cost £36. Inverness, people. That's more than we paid for a hostel in Edinburgh. There's no reason for a hostel in Inverness, in February, to charge those prices.
All that aside, now that we have cheap travel to a whole new area of Scotland, to a place we've always wanted to see, we're excited again about exploring Scotland. Inverness is the capital of the Highlands, situated on the River Ness, near Loch Ness, and we get to spend a weekend there thanks to our Sainsbury's vouchers.
Besides the voucher situation, though, we had a whole lot of fun today just on our weekly grocery shopping trip. We're simple people with simple pleasures who enjoy walking 4 miles one way to go grocery shopping. Receiving a voucher for cheap travel was just the gravy.
1 comment:
Hey Desi, I finally had a chance to read your blog a little. I like this post. Just walking to your grocery store and making that fun's definitely a sweet thing to cherish. Especially considering the travel prices. I don't even want to consider what it'd cost to have a car, fill it up and drive there.
Anyway, good story. Keep 'em coming.
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