Train trip to Aberystwyth....lots of pictures !

 An early start...I was NOT going to miss that bus!!

I was out just before 7, having packed the night before and been up for over an hour!

The bus was on time...and at Ayr station I had the choice of a train straight away...or the one I'd been booked on ten minutes later....

So off to Glasgow...just under an hour...

And an hour to wait...

And then the train heading for London....but there are TWO...leaving three minutes apart...not stopping at the same stations....cue a LOT of people.. including myself...rushing from one to the other!!

This leg of the journey to Wolverhampton was just over four hours.

The upper reaches of the Clyde!

Another hour's wait for the train to Aberystwyth 

On the first half I had a lovely conversation about languages with a woman from Africa..whose first language was French, but she also spoke fluently half a dozen others and was brushing up her school Italian language with Duolingo!

Then half an hour's hot walk up Penglais hill to the Arts Centre where the International Ceramics Festival is being held ...a Biennial potters' Beanfeast, here since 1985 ( I was the treasurer on that one 😳)

Booked in, had supper in the café and walked over to my lodgings in the  Student Village. I'd never stayed in the part on the other side of the main road...and the maps were confusing...but found it in the end!

A simple room, not ensuite, but the shared bathroom has...a bath....bliss!!