Lost in London

Anyone who's ever travelled by train in the UK will know that things don't always go to plan. Considering I've been using trains for the past six years, I've managed to avoid the dreaded replacement bus. Until now. But more into that later, lets start at the beginning of the day, shall we?

I didn't actually take any pictures this time, so here's one from my trip last year.

My reason for visiting London this time was to see my lovely friend Georgia, who I went to university with. So last weekend I hopped on a train to London Paddington, enjoying the free WiFi and watching the English countryside zoom past. 

When I arrived I had a brief look on my phone to work out how to get to my friends house, decided on the route I thought would be simplest and jumped onto an underground train. I slowly realised that the train was terminating early due to some works going on, and ended up at Kings Cross station instead. It was then that I found out my phone had no signal or internet connection, even when I went above ground!

Five things that made me smile

I thought I'd try out a 'five things' feature this week, so here are five things that have made me happy in the past week or so!!

1) Going on day trips - last week I went to Manchester for a night to see a friend from uni, went to London with my sister and had a shopping trip in Bristol with my best friend. 

2) I'm going to Reading Festival - I applied to be a volunteer at Reading and found out on Wednesday that I've been accepted!! I really hope I get to see my favourite band The Pretty Reckless.

3) Having a surprise boat trip and party for my grandad's 80th birthday - the whole family got together and there were a lot of smiles all round.

4) The rain - finally the weather has cooled down and freshened up. Now I'm able to wrap up in my duvet again.

5) I laughed so much at this picture that my make-up ran, much to my sister's amusement.

source: Dawn French Facebook page

What's made you smile this week?

J :)