The journey up (London Victoria to Whitehaven, Whitehaven to St Bees)

Me and Tom got to the coach station at around 10.55, 5 minutes before our coach was scheduled to leave. Chris was already there but not particularly happy as he had to fork out an extra tenner to buy his coach ticket at the station rather than online like me and Tom had done. Anyway we set off just after 11am and immediately set to work demolishing our £40 worth of food. Me and Tom had done a 6 mile warm-up walk earlier that morning and had not had any breakfast so were more than ready for the massive food intake. About an hour later and a few thousand calories later we were pretty full and spent the next few hours just talking about what lied ahead. After a very long 5 hours or so I started to feel a bit sick and regretted eating so much earlier. I spent the next hour or so concentrating on breathing/getting off at each stop for some fresh air. At one point I felt really bad and despite being pretty cold turned on my air conditioning positioning the little grill so that it blew straight at my face and put my warm top on - good call. I soon felt ok and we eventually reached Whitehaven at I think around 7.30 in the dark. We were fortunate enough that the taxi rank was right where the coach stopped and we were able to get a taxi to St Bees immediately for a reasonable £10. We asked the driver if he knew any cheap B&B's in St Bees as none of us fancied camping anywhere which was suggested between ourselves on the coach. Luckily we found somewhere reasonable straight away and managed to get the initial group quote of £60 down to £50 and managed to blag cereal, toast and porridge for the morning- massive result. The lady showed us upstairs to our room which we were very pleased with. We were initially gonna go to he pub but that soon out the window as soon as Chris and Tom got into bed. So it was a pretty early, sensible night (between 10 and 10.30pm) before the big start and big breakfast in the morning.