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From: Rowland McDonnell on 3 Jun 2010 08:54 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > > > What time does the coach leave and from where? > > Hard luck- it's now the Imperial War Museum. Which is, of course, an > exhibition entirely about human madness. On that scale Rowland is just > another nutter- not worth seeing. <cough> I'd like to point out that I'm nothing like /that/ mad. [snip] Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 3 Jun 2010 09:00 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: [snip] > I'm not sure 'bus pass' and 'pleasurable' should be in the same > sentence, unless the bus is the (otherwise empty) one from Porthmadog > to Pwllheli and back to our campsite at Llanystumdwy. [snip] <grumble> I like that part of the world. What are you doing going there? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: James Jolley on 3 Jun 2010 09:24 On 2010-06-03 10:39:14 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) said: > T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> It's funny, living 12 miles from 'The City' and working there for some >> of my life means I try to avoid the place like the plague. > > Seems to me that that's an over-reaction. Now I'm truly ancient, my bus > pass provides me with an infinity of pleasurable experiences. > > But the IWM is well worth a visit. Intelligent. Not jingoistic. Also a > splendid building. HEy, if you do lose your eyesight, you're guaranteed even better experiences. See if they do braille busspasses, announce the stops when out of london, etc. Every bus trip is a sight for closed eyes, especially if you're not given the stops and the driver forgets. That short journey soon becomes a long day out, and all this for free!
From: T i m on 5 Jun 2010 06:22 On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 10:31:00 +0100, Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote: > >That's an area of the world I know very well due to multiple visits to >Portmeirion over the years., just over that bridge and then to the >right (assuming you're leaving Porthmadog). Ah, never been there and I can't remember following 'The Prisoner' much back then (which I assume is how it became famous?). Once over the bridge we tended to stay that side and didn't quite see all we wanted at that. > The bridge has been >widened slightly I believe - used to be great 'fun' driving a wide'ish >car over there whilst caravans came the other way, and I've seen plenty >of times when that bridge was closed by two coaches trying to cross >each other's paths - the resulting reversing nightmares could take a >very long time to sort out. I can imagine. Luckily being on motorbikes meant we didn't tend to be affected by that sort of thing, unless they are actually stuck side_by_side etc. > >Toll - I thought the bridge was toll-free these days? Oh it could well be, I'm going back quite a while now. > Seem to remember >it was a few years ago anyway. The toll wasn't exactly murderous either >- 5p. ;-) On a bike it's more the stopping and gigging out the cash rather than the cost per-se. Lovely part of the country and we would happily go back there (and Scotland, apart from the midges) again. Cheers, T i m
From: Rowland McDonnell on 5 Jun 2010 06:48
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote: > > > > >That's an area of the world I know very well due to multiple visits to > >Portmeirion over the years., just over that bridge and then to the > >right (assuming you're leaving Porthmadog). > > Ah, never been there and I can't remember following 'The Prisoner' > much back then (which I assume is how it became famous?). Portmerion being famous is why they shot The Prisoner there[1], not the other way round. [snip] > On a bike it's more the stopping and gigging out the cash rather than > the cost per-se. > > Lovely part of the country and we would happily go back there (and > Scotland, apart from the midges) again. Autan brand insect repellant works on 'em better than the usual types. There are two main insect repellent chemicals - most of 'em are *that* one; Autan uses the other. Rowland. [1] Well, that and the way it's the right sort of freaky place. Could even had been an inspiration for `doing the series trippy like that', the fact that Portmerion was there as it was. And don't tell me it's not trippy, not after the final episode. I loved it - better than drugs, seriously. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |