I'm going to say it now before the mobile networks go into meltdown. As 2025 draws to a close; remember the good times, remember those we've lost, look after your family, friends & yourself and look forward to 2026.
Happy New Year to you all🍻

It's cold, wet & windy. I've picked probably the worst weekend,weather wise, to go to Amsterdam for the first time with East Midlands Railway, LNER & Eurostar. I'll be using my Airalo Esim with unlimited data to stay connected.

Use my referral code COLIN8820 to get £2.50 off your first Esim.

Oh, that's the @monzo card taken a battering again🤣 An impromptu trip to #Netherlands with @LNER and @EurostarUK 1st time on E ⭐ and 1st time to 🇳🇱 Maybe @Heineken_UK could sort me a ticket to the experience🤞(nudge nudge)

If you don't already subscribe to me at CB-OnTheGo on YouTube; do it now. Because I've got a right 💩🌪️⛈️ of a hotel stay coming up in a day or two. Basil Fawlty would have been proud. Let's just say certain features in my room were shocking 🔌+🚰=⚡. Literally shocking!

Dad would have been 101 today. This is one of the last photos that I got of mum and dad together from when my garden didn't rival the Amazon rain forest. Miss you both♥️

I'd forgotten that this famous railway themed restaurant was in Prague. Well with a visit even if you don't like trains. The food and drink were excellent.

6hrs from leaving home & I still not at Luton Airport for Prague. Cancelled train, Rail replacement taxi gets lost, 2nd train no lights, 3rd delayed. NO visible staff since Lincoln. No apology. I will always fight for public transport's corner.BUT TOC's HAVE to do their bit and get the basics right🤬

The NEW @ukdepartureboards.bsky.social Pro board has arrived (and on time)! My older board is now in the window displaying bus times for the stop outside the house. (If only I could weatherproof it and run it off solar to get it nearer to the garden wall🤣)

At first I thought there was some weird Spanish law banning baseball caps on Barcelona beach. It's just to warn you of €50 fine for buying crap off street vendors🤣 The others are for speed ramps on cycle lanes and warning of GONE OUT pedestrians!

It's wet ☔, it's windy 💨; and I'm off to Barcelona! 🚄✈️⛱️🇪🇸 But, first off it's a @StagecoachEMid bus to the @lner Stadium for some proper footy action with @LincolnCity_FC v Wycombe ⚽ before the Champions League🏆 match on Tuesday.

Busy day tomorrow. 1st off it's @LincolnCity_FC v Wycombe and then: straight off to Gatwick with @LNER & @TLRailUK and my 1st flight with @easyJet for my 1st ever foreign holiday to Spain & the @FCBarcelona Champions League match on Tuesday ⚽🚄,✈️🇪🇸⛱️⚽🏆🍻 #LongDayAhead

@showmeasignbryn.bsky.social would probably not approve of this sign that I spotted in my home city of Lincoln yesterday🤔

It's Travel From Lincoln to Belfast Day! And, to start the day off; I've looked at @Realtime trains & guess what? Northern have "Done a Northern" and cancelled my first train out of Lincoln! That's the padding for the journey out the window and I've not left the house yet!

Full house for The Imps v Birmingham ⚽

So, my first post on here. I'll be following everyone that I can off twitter/x before my busy November of trains, planes, ferries, buses, metros, trams, football, cask ales, Dublin, Belfast, St. Pancras, Barcelona and maybe some sleep in between🤣