After a long wait at Euston we boarded the Caledonian Sleeper for Glasgow, and got settled into our bunks for the night. Unable to sleep, I lay awake thinking about the people and places I had left behind, and hoping that they would find the time to stay in touch with me.
A few hours later, the light steadily began to improve and the murky grey shapes forming outside began to fill with colour as a new day dawned. There was a heavy mist, and I lay for a while watching the electric cables outside dancing on a white sky background as the train gently rolled from side to side. Steadily, Scotland began to appear through the mist: a brown landscape, dotted with spindly tress that looked at though they had been drawn with charcoal. Streams could be seen running down hillsides, which rose in the background like a painted backdrop.
2 comments:
The way you wrote that I could almost imagine I were there..Dad x
What beautiful writing!
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