Public transport woe

So, I organised to go and see my friend who lives in a town in Suffolk this weekend. In lieu with 'try and use alternative transport' and 'I don't really want to drive in the dark on Friday night' I looked up trains and buses and what have you.

And basically, it's shit. There's a relatively straightforward train journey there on Friday, but to come back on Sunday I have to take a train, a bus, a tube, and another train.

To get a coach on Sunday would mean a journey that would take SIX HOURS as opposed to 2 hours 15 minutes by car. (And that six hours doesn't even include the travel to/from the coach stop).

And the cost of this? At least twice as much as the petrol would cost to go by car!!