I am very much looking forward to this concert with poetry in Cambridge on Saturday 15 February!

A fine concert, but, for the record:

“Rail” travel in Britain has become so picturesque and seventeenth century. They should advertise it as such to tourists. Went to Cambridge for the concert yesterday by train to Audley End, then coach to Cambridge North (because of planned engineering work), train to Cambridge, and finally taxi to the venue. The trip back on the last but for 40 minutes the only means of transport began with coach at 11.55 to Royston, to find in Royston (wherever that is) the last train into Finchley Park – the only one into London – had been cancelled because of either a faulty train or a fault on the line or the sad death of a driver. There were (luckily) only three other passengers that cold and lonely night (which it was) we waited in the waiting room for an hour until the cab ordered for us by an intrepid young member of staff in a yellow jacket arrived for us and we piled in. We travelled for many miles through the deepest countryside with no mention of London on the signs as the driver played us Indian House. Finally at Finsbury Park, I changed to the tube, then at Seven sisters I changed onto a nightbus. Home by 3 am. If they changed the coaches to coach-and-horses type coaches it would have been the most perfect adventure.