The cattle have been successfully herded and are now comfortably ensconced in their roomy motel room with a separate sitting and sleep area and plenty of sitting options. It was quite the traveling process and to throw in another metaphor we felt both shaken and stirred.
Long story short, two late, very crowded trains. I stood for the full 2+ hour journey in the entry area of both trains unable even to enter into the seating compartments due to no room for my bag and/or no room to sit. Bob was able to get a seat on the first train but had to hold his big but more flexible bag.
On the 2nd journey when we were both standing in the entry compartment with at least 4 others and their bag, one young man spent the entire trip talking loudly on his phone, including proving a username and password to something.
Once we finally arrived in Coventry, we had to search for a kiosk to print out our tickets for Sunday which will have us on both a train and then the tube to get to our hotel at Gatwick Airport.
A couple of views from our room on the 16th floor of the Ramada Inn in Coventry, which is part of another of our hotel programs (Wyndham).
Peckish Travels 