(04 Jan 2015, 8:55 pm)aureolin wrote I'm not a huge fan of having trips around by myself, if I don't know the place well at all. Hence not getting any Teesside Sapphires on route, as I have no idea what any areas down there are like. I'm fine with it up in Tyne and Wear, as I know where to have my witts about me!
I am usually fine on trips to unknown places but can sometimes get worried if I'm not 100% on somewhere like the other week when I wanted to catch the 19 in Bedlington I couldn't see the 19 on the timetable so was worried, eventually figured out it stopped on the opposite side of the road, if I didn't figure this out I would have just jumped on the X21/X22 back to Newcastle.
I did both the 5/5A and X3/X4 when Sapphire was launched but extensively searched parts of the routes on Google Maps and only jumped on/off at key points in the route, this went a bit wrong too as on the X3/X4 trip the announcements weren't working on some of the StreetLite's and I ended up accidently getting off in Marske somehow. It was fine though, I hope to do these routes again in the summer as there is some cracking spots on these routes for photos.