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A consumer blogger discovered it was cheaper to travel home to Essex from Sheffield via Berlin than to take the train.

Jordon Cox, 18, from Brentwood, Essex, was in Sheffield for a lecture and found a one-way train ticket home would cost £47.

He opted instead to fly from East Midlands Airport to Berlin and then fly from Berlin to Stansted.

Mr Cox said the journey, on 20 January, saved him about £8.

He admitted it was not an environmentally-friendly way to travel or the quickest.

It took him 12 hours to get home compared with the three-and-a-half hour train journey.

"Obviously it isn't for everyone. Some people will just want to get home, but if you like travelling and saving money then its a great way to do it.

"The scenery was also 10 times better than any train trip would have been."

Mr Cox, who blogs on the Money Saving Expert website, took a train from Sheffield to Derby and then a bus to East Midlands Airport, from where he flew to the German capital.

He said the trip gave him time to visit the centre of Berlin, which he probably would not have been to otherwise.

The two flights, bus fares and lunch cost the blogger £44.07, while the train trip plus bus fares and a sandwich would have cost £51.79.

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Practicalities aside, it shows how ridiculous train prices are in the UK.

 

Was there not a similar point made about London house prices last year as well? I think a boy moved to Barcelona and flew across for work every day and it was cheaper than renting a flat in London.

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