Trains, buses, and taxis.

A lesson from the now ever wiser. When you are planning your tracked through the United Kingdom make sure that you have several hours between trains and buses and planes. Why you might ask? Well here's the answer. Delays. Almost every single form of transportation that we used during our time here in the United Kingdom has experienced at least one delay. Our train from Inverness back to London had a stop and change from one line to another in Glasgow that required we switch stations. That would have been fine if two things hadn't happened. The first being that our train intow Glasgow queen st station hadn't been delayed by a half hour. The second that on that very same night the Labour Party had decided to protest in the streets of Glasgow causing severe traffic jams and bumper to bumper traffic making us even later for our connecting train. Both of these factors caused us to miss our connecting train back to London and for my stress level to absolutely skyrocket. Thankfully though the people at Virgin Trains (our connecting train company) took care of us and made arrangements for us to get halfway from Glasgow to London where they had then hired a private taxi to take us the rest of the way directly to Heathrow Airport to catch our early morning flight to Norway. However, had we hired the taxi ourself and paid for it or had another connecting train in Crewe, we would have been back up shits creek without a paddle because that train was delayed over an hour as well due to a major fire between Glasgow and London that has put a stop to ALL trains north and south bound. So. Always provide yourself ample time between connections and taxis or busses because more than likely you will need it.