As a sign of impending retirement, this morning, I applied for my Older Persons Bus Pass.
I understand that I’ll receive my pass just before my sixty sixth birthday and be able to use it from that date.
I am about be become a twirlie (too early).
I am still not one hundred percent sure as to where I can take a bus to. Initially, I thought that the area was the same as that for the trains (see earlier post for a map). But, reading a few things on, where else, Google it looks possible that I can travel on ANY bus in England as long as it after 9:30 (or at weekends).
One thing that worries me, and this is going back to a film, staring Timothy Spall, as a new widower who decides to travel from his current home in John o’Groats to the home where he and his wife grew up at the other end of the country, namely, Lands End using his trusty bus pass.
The bit that causes me some concern is when he is humiliated and removed from an English bus as his pass is not valid.
A little more research (a posh way of saying checking on-line) reveals that an English bus pass cannot be used in Scotland (or Wales for that matter) and vice versa. Perhaps that’s why he was ejected.
I suppose one way to find out could be to get a bus to somewhere outside of the West Midlands; somewhere like Malvern perhaps?