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April 15th - The Complications Of Heading North In The UK

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

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The New Caledonian Sleeper

From next april, the cost of aviation within the u k is going to fall. Instead paying 13 pounds to reach scotland in air passenger duty, you will instead pay just six pounds 50. Pontin says he almost exclusively fly between london and aberdeen or inveness. He would always take a day train or a flight instead of that. The railway, whether the independent, privately run lomo or state run l n e r, is anybody's guess.

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