Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder, taking you to the four corners of the world or indeed to the heart of London, which is where I am today.

Specifically, I'm on the streets just about a mile or so from Buckingham Palace, close to Waterloo Station,

the busiest transport terminal in Europe as it was, and I think it may yet be again.

I want to talk about the Jubilee weekend and what's happening in terms of transport

because there's an awful lot of nonsense being taught

and that's one of those three wheelers going past very very fast I wouldn't recommend them

necessarily unless you've got large amounts of disposable cash so there is one story which I chuckled

all the way through in a quite important newspaper

which claims there will be travel chaos over the bank holiday weekend which as you know is

Thursday the 2nd, Friday the 3rd, Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of June in London.

It's one of those stories where you think,

oh, that was so cruel.

An editor would have said, presumably, to a junior reporter,

go and find some chaos.

Junior reporter presumably reports back,

but there isn't any, and is told to write the thing anyway.

Compared with almost all previous bank holidays, there will be very, very little disruption to trains,

in particular those coming in and out of London.

There's a little bit of line pressure and that's happening well between Lewisham and Hayes in Kent.

Short time it's about four or five miles of line there but there are plenty of other alternatives.

And between Prondi Prith and Mertha Tipville in South Wales.

Also on the Sunday of the Jubilee weekend,

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