Haha!! Yes! I feel your pain.
We were just shopping plane/train rides to Glasgow this morning cuz neither of us have been to Scotland yet; Northern Lights, yata yata. Got dang! Scotland's right up the street yet we can fly to about 3 European countries and back for the price of 1 Glasgow ticket.
What's that about? About £300 for both of us to go there and back.
Fump knows, it costs a fortune on the Train the plane and now with petrol, the automobile!
Glasgow is way cool though, you can get to loads of other parts really easily from here or if you don't travel far can see some really cool parts!