My husband had to go to Edinburgh on Monday. He got a train ticket, which was for a specific train at 7.45 am from Manchester Piccadilly.

He is a cautious man, and so on Sunday evening he wanted to check whether the train would really go as scheduled, especially in the light of all the fun we've had already with the railways here. He tried to find a website which would inform about the train departures, but was not very successful; all the websites he's found seemed to only display part of the information. And none of them had the 7.45 Edinburgh train.

That was suspicious of course, but we did not panic. There may be some info missing somewhere, or who knows what. That would be no surprise here. However, there was the little doubt inside his head already.

On Monday morning, it was finally confirmed: there is no 7.45 Edinburgh train. Instead, there is another train which goes to York, and there you have to change and go by another train. Which arrives approx. 1 hr later than the original (nonexistent) train.

Well, at first, I thought, this cannot be possibly serious. How come that the railway people sell tickets for trains they know wouldn't go? Seriously? The ticket was only purchased few days before the travel, and they had to know already.

Well, I am just adding this to the list of the UK funny railway stuff.

And now for something completely different. I think I've mentioned already that English people come to work dressed casually, and they only change into dress-code-compliant stuff once in the office. Well, you'd expect them to do such thing somewhere in private, right?

Ha ha! No. Today, I have seen one guy walking the corridor and trying to put a belt into its place. O_o Imagine how ridiculous it looks, a guy in suit and everything, trying to wrestle his belt and put it in the tiny loops provided on the trousers, while walking an office corridor during an ordinary morning...