Getting off the Queen Mary 2 and travelling to Edinburgh

It seemed like such a simple thing to do - get off the ship with our bags, get to the train station and grab a train to Edinburgh. Easy right!?! Well I started the day with a sore throat, achy body and head ache. I thought this should not be a problem as we had reserved seats and would be able to sit together and rest. We managed to get to the train station, grabbed some snacks for the train snack bag (you do not want to travel with Evi when she is hungry!) and just hop that train! First train was ok but then then due to train malfunction we missed our connection in Birmingham. And our reserved seats rolled away without us. So we managed to get on a train to Edinburgh from Birmingham but had to find seats separately. Thankfully we were in the same carriage! From there we had a quick train to Eskbank where we finally found our AirBNB. We were too exhausted to do much except eat some toast and go to bed. I spent the next day just recuperating and even though I was not 100% I had to get into Edinburgh to start checking it out and see what we missed the last time we were there.