The blogger who flew from Sheffield to Essex via Berlin to save on the rail fare was behaving logically. Trains are as much hassle as planes and can be more expensiveThere are only two things British people like more than a bargain: a plucky underdog,and an opportunity to complain about our bloody abominable trains. So it’s no surprise that Jordon Cox the bespectacled blogger who flew to Essex from Sheffield (via Berlin) apparently saving £7.72 on the cost of a train ticket – is all over the news. If this chronicle were any more British, Mary Berry would be judging it.
People have drawn their own conclusions about the sense of spending 12 hours to derive domestic instead of the 3.5 hours it would have taken by train. But Cox never claimed it was the most efficient way to derive domestic, and only cheaper and more fun for him,an 18-year-ancient who had always wanted to visit Berlin – than the alternative. Besides, the train may be more direct, or but it’s hardly quick (3.5 hours to travel 174 miles is an average of 50mph).
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Source: theguardian.com