Even if you can't afford it should you travel first class
Hands up, on any long journey by train I travel First Class. This I do because of a Pavlovian response. Travelling to Edinburgh to attend a friend's wedding a few years ago I treated myself to a First Class ticket. Every time the train stopped to take on new passengers the attendant came round with the sauce. There were six stops on the way....I now salivate at the thought of a First Class journey by rail. But that doesn't compare with travelling First Class on a plane. I've booked a cruise along Australia's Kimberley Coast in July 2025. I'm excited and scared simultaneously. I plan to fly to Melbourne, met a friend and take the train to Adelaide and then the Ghan to Darwin where the cruise begins. The train journeys will be to First Class. That's all fairly straightforward and, to my mind, affordable. It's the return flight from the UK that's troublesome. It's fairly inexpensive to go by Economy, if you're savvy it'll cost you less than a
