{"id":1886,"date":"2009-09-30T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/30\/traveling-back-to-manchester\/"},"modified":"2009-09-30T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T16:21:00","slug":"traveling-back-to-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/traveling-back-to-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling back to Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I went to sleep relatively early Tuesday night, I woke up early Wednesday morning.  I was at the hostel\u2019s free breakfast as soon as it opened at 7:00 am and was on the train back to Manchester at 8:00 am. <\/p>\n<p>Once again, I was nervous that I would need to pay a one way fare from Glasgow to Carlisle since I only had an England BritRail pass, but, once again, the conductor glanced at my pass and went onto the next passenger.  I had successfully taken the train to and from Scotland and England four times without a penalty fare even though I had specifically bought an England only BritRail pass.  I bought the pass in August before realizing there would be three matches I would want to attend in Scotland.  If I planned to attend the Scottish matches originally I would have spent the extra $90 on the England and Scotland BritRail pass.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived in Manchester at 11:18 and checked into the Hatter\u2019s Hostel \u2013 the hostel I had booked a week earlier knowing I would attend the Manchester United Champions League match versus Wolfsburg.  Of course, I was again too early to check into the hostel even though I had a single.  However, this time I could check in by 1:00 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I went to sleep relatively early Tuesday night, I woke up early Wednesday morning.  I was at the hostel\u2019s free breakfast as soon as it opened at 7:00 am and was on the train back to Manchester at 8:00 am.<br \/>\nOnce again, I was nervous that I would need to pay a one way fare from Glasgow to Carlisle since I only had an England BritRail pass, but, once again, the conductor glanced at my pass and went onto the next passenger.  I had successfully taken the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[145,144],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}