The Biggest Idiot In The World Award goes to...

Do you ever have days were you wonder if there actually any intelligent life sitting in that head of yours? I have certainly had my doubts, about what's going on in mine, today!

It's 4 days until I fly off to Israel so time to pay my sister a visit up in Edinburgh. Getting the train up from Newcastle and spending the day together. Great. Simple... or so you would think.

Roughly a month previously I had missed my train from Newcastle to London. I had bought an advanced single for about 30 quid and ran down the platform just in time to see the train roll away right in front of my eyes. Gutted. Then with additional sting of having to pay 80 quid for an on the day ticket for the next train. That's 110 quid to go to London and I wasn't even travelling first class! As it happened I had a fantastic time down there so it didn't really matter..but anyway back to today's trip.

After the London experience I was determined to get there on time. I did I was about half an hour early. Got my self a classy cup of coffee at Burger King. Go through the ticket barriers 10 minutes before my train is due to arrive. We are good to go.

I don't think I looked this dignified running for my train

Wrong! Seems I can't read in the morning if I haven't eaten breakfast. Guess who proceeds to the wrong platform and gets on a train to London!? The opposite direction! Yup that would be me...

IDIOT!!

Luckily my brain finally kicked in when I heard them say they would be arriving at London Kings Cross at such and such a time. I managed to get off before it actually left the station.  However the train I had booked a seat on to Edinburgh had been and gone by the time I got  to where I should have been in the first place! This prompted a long series of expletives to irrupt from my lips.

15 mins later, after blowing off some steam on the phone to a friend, I was on a train in the right direction. I sat down and heard the ticket man coming down the aisle saying "all tickets from Newcastle please." I braced myself for the expensive hit.

But finally my luck changed!  Using my smile and charm I managed to convince the lovely ticket man to let me go without buying a new ticket. Woohoo! So aside from being half an hour late to meet my sis, no harm done and I got a story about my spectacular stupidity for you guys to laugh at.

The rest of my day has turned out great too. Met sister, had tea and delicious cream filled Sicilian pastries, watched the new Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine, helped my sis make moussaka, ate said glorious food with a bottle red wine AND successfully got a train down to my mum's, here in Lancashire.

Tune in next week for more mishaps!