The Train.....To Nowhere.....
The Best-Laid Schemes of Mice and Women....
We've been to Grenada before and we had one thing there that we wanted to do that we hadn't been able to do before.
We'd seen the Grenada Discovery Train on several YouTube videos and it looked like a lot of fun to us. The train takes you to some places that most tourists don't get to see, especially if you're less than mobile. Grenada is fairly hilly and not the friendliest walking place.
On our previous trips the train had not been running but on this stop it was and we excitedly bought our tickets, ready to go on our train adventure. We told the folks at the ticket booth that we'd tried twice before but had been shot down, they said "No worries, it's up and running today". Finally, we'd get our trip.
We were booked on the 12:30 trip and it was about 12:00 when we saw the young lady from the ticket booth walking our way. We thought she was going to tell us that the train was coming so we should get in line but alas, it was not meant to be.
She told us that the train had developed a small oil leak and because of the oil and wet city streets they were unable to make it up the hills so once again our train trip slipped (literally) from our grasp. We almost felt bad for the young lady, she was so apologetic and you can see she really didn't want to be the bearer of the news. We said it's not a problem for us, we'll be back again on another trip and we'd catch it then. She walked back with us to the ticket booth and refunded our tickets, a refund we really didn't want but accepted.
As we left we saw the train sitting on a side road so Niccy decided to pose for a shot and show her displeasure!
As a side note we didn't know that they were collecting to help out some of the less fortunate on the island during the holidays. Had we known we would've gave them our ticket price as a donation.
PS:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!
The Train.....To Nowhere.....
The Best-Laid Schemes of Mice and Women....
We've been to Grenada before and we had one thing there that we wanted to do that we hadn't been able to do before.
We'd seen the Grenada Discovery Train on several YouTube videos and it looked like a lot of fun to us. The train takes you to some places that most tourists don't get to see, especially if you're less than mobile. Grenada is fairly hilly and not the friendliest walking place.
On our previous trips the train had not been running but on this stop it was and we excitedly bought our tickets, ready to go on our train adventure. We told the folks at the ticket booth that we'd tried twice before but had been shot down, they said "No worries, it's up and running today". Finally, we'd get our trip.
We were booked on the 12:30 trip and it was about 12:00 when we saw the young lady from the ticket booth walking our way. We thought she was going to tell us that the train was coming so we should get in line but alas, it was not meant to be.
She told us that the train had developed a small oil leak and because of the oil and wet city streets they were unable to make it up the hills so once again our train trip slipped (literally) from our grasp. We almost felt bad for the young lady, she was so apologetic and you can see she really didn't want to be the bearer of the news. We said it's not a problem for us, we'll be back again on another trip and we'd catch it then. She walked back with us to the ticket booth and refunded our tickets, a refund we really didn't want but accepted.
As we left we saw the train sitting on a side road so Niccy decided to pose for a shot and show her displeasure!
As a side note we didn't know that they were collecting to help out some of the less fortunate on the island during the holidays. Had we known we would've gave them our ticket price as a donation.
PS:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!