Living in Newcastle (and actually walking past hadrians wall often!) I regularly have to suck up the expenses and travel down south and up North.
I love going to Scotland, but as I was discussing with Wild Card Kitty yesterday, all of a sudden it has become very expensive to get to. Last year I could easily get a train ticket in advance for about £15 return, now it's £60 easy. The Megabus however is a wonderful thing except for my recent adventures on it
However, I've just booked tickets for London next week for £120 return. Considering I do this trip probably twice a month it's ranged from £20 return to £200.
I will travel where the work is, quite simply. It doesn't do me much good; late nights and sleeping in strange places plus sitting still for too long does terrible things to me but I feel happy to travel to do events. This is also why I no longer do unpaid work and it upsets me when promoters believe I'm above myself. Considering the travel involved, which takes nearly a day in most cases; I believe I am perfectly entitled to be paid.
But seriously, the UK is such a small country it's worth travelling about to see different events. Next month I have to travel Edinburgh to Newcastle to London, to Brighton, to Portugal, to Brighton, to London, to Newcastle in five days so a simple jaunt on a train or a coach really is a piece of piss
I actually believe I'm in a great place for work, London is three hours away; Edinburgh is two. Manchester is a stupid five hours away because of the rail network which is why I rarely work there and Nottingham is about four hours away. I would like to live in London one day, but feel I'd probably live in Scotland before the big smoke!
So everyone who can; get off your bottoms and come see the amazing events happening this summer up North! National Express always run special tickets for the fringe festival so I'm sure there are bargains t be found!
xx