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The Cheapest Way to Get Around

By Ferne Arfin. United Kingdom Travel Expert

Ferne Arfin, your Guide to UK Travel, is an American abroad. A freelance writer, guidebook author and native New Yorker, she has lived in the UK for many years. A writer all her life, Ferne started out as a newspaper journalist in Boston. She wrote corporate literature, advertising copy and public relations before seeing the light and turning her attention to full time journalism and travel writing. Now, with her constant traveling companion Wallace - a very discerning and well traveled West Highland Terrier - she spends as much time as she can discovering new places around the UK.

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When is a bus not a bus?

Local transportation

Buses, on the other hand, are always local. In addition to London s familiar, red, double decker buses, all UK cities have some kind of local bus service - many with double decker buses as well. There are also dozens of country bus services.

In the past, I d always found local buses among the greatest mysteries for a visitor. How do you find the stop? Will it pass the places you want to go? Do you need exact change? Yet taking an ordinary public bus is a very cheap way for a visitor to have a good look around.

Thank goodness for the internet!

A little knowledge about where to find the best and most up-to-date information is all you need. Let s take a look first at sources of UK Intercity coach travel information .