It’s funny how, in one thing not happening, a whole other stream of things occur, which eventually conclude in a given period of time later.

I’m taking Tallis and myself to Download festival this year. I hadn’t yet booked the train tickets, until today. I would have booked them on Saturday, as I got paid, but unfortunately my bank was closed and my account was overdrawn, so I couldn’t pay any cash in.

I went into town today to pay £200 into my account, which was a further £20 overdrawn than it was on Saturday. It’s annoying that money can be taken out of your account on a Saturday, but you can’t go to pay cash in. I asked the Chinese lady to tell me what my account balance was now that I had paid that in, and she told me it was around £120, which I knew was enough to buy train tickets for both of us (which I had previously looked at online, and calculated that they’d come to £110).

I went to the train station to book the tickets, and discovered that they don’t take Electron cards (fucking things; I want a credit card). So I walked up to the cash point, which I have to say is in a fucking stupid place, as it is 5 minutes away from the 30 million cashpoints on the high street, wondering why I bothered paying all of that money into my account in the first place. Checking my balance revealed that the transaction hadn’t yet processed, and I only had a small amount of money available (which was odd, because I was overdrawn and don’t have an overdraft). I withdrew £10 because I was stupidly hungry, and retired to the cafe for chips and a hot chocolate; it was raining.

I came home and went to purchase the train tickets online. I was going to use thetrainline, as I had seen the tickets on there, and knew how much they were, but I decided to type “cheap train travel” into Google anyway, which is when I stumbled upon raileasy. A few clicks on their fantastic website, which I am very pleased with, and the train tickets to Derby for Tallis and I are booked for £43.80, so I saved myself a good £65.

So, if you’re planning on travelling by train anywhere, do check out raileasy.

It’s odd though, isn’t it? How, at the train station I was ready to hand over £110, and would have done it if they accepted my card or if the money had been available at the cash point. Silver linings are nice.