{"id":10342,"date":"2015-10-11T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T05:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2018-05-03T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:05:23","slug":"scotland-2015-day-10-day-trip-to-dundee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=10342","title":{"rendered":"#Scotland 2015 Day 10 – Day trip to Dundee"},"content":{"rendered":"

#Scotland 2015 – Sept 20, 2015<\/h1>\n

Today we were off to Dundee to wander the streets and see the locations my crime-writer friend, Chris Longmuir<\/a>, used in her novels.<\/p>\n

We decided to take the 10:34 train from Broughty Ferry into Dundee so we would have the entire day to see and do things. The only train that stops there on the return trip leaves Dundee at 17:22 so we’d have plenty of time and not feel rushed.<\/p>\n

The station in Broughty Ferry is unmanned and not even a machine to buy your tickets before boarding the train. This meant having to purchase them after we got on. We chose the last carriage because that’s usually where the conductor starts coming through to sell tickets. And since you need your ticket to get out of the station, the idea (while somewhat appealing) to ride for free doesn’t work. Since we were only going one stop, it made no sense to try to find a seat so we stood. The conductor started toward the front end of the carriage then stopped, turned and headed back the other way. Hubby followed him and in so doing, found Chris. What were the chances of the three of us meeting on the train instead of trying to find each other somewhere in the station?<\/p>\n