frank9755
Cyclist
- Location
- West London
Sorry Sam
What goes on tour stays on tour!
What goes on tour stays on tour!
Thank you!Apparently it's a stylised tree - perhaps an apple tree? - that is derived from a recurring motif on the tapestry.*
YES! This has always bugged me.*Embroidery. But everyone calls it a tapestry.
Thankfully, the silly buggers eventually came to their senses.the Brits were very suspicious of this newly fashionable excessively bitter and floral aromatic and took a long time to be persuaded that hopped beer was better than unhopped ale.
That's the one.That lunch stop looks like L'Escapade...was it?
I am surprised- food was great a couple of years back but it took a long time to come, Simon was somewhat agitated...That's the one.
He and Susie buggered off somewhere fancier. Louise and friends were spotted coming out of a side street where they'd completely failed to spot the excellent creperie where Olaf and Katarina, Titus and Rachel and me ended up - deliberately avoiding the first place we saw so that everyone else wouldn't follow us....I am surprised- food was great a couple of years back but it took a long time to come, Simon was somewhat agitated...
Except on a Monday in anywhere vaguely smallish.......(I speak from recent, hungry experience...).He and Susie buggered off somewhere fancier. Louise and friends were spotted coming out of a side street where they'd completely failed to spot the excellent creperie where Olaf and Katarina, Titus and Rachel and me ended up - deliberately avoiding the first place we saw so that everyone else wouldn't follow us....
A thought for @mmmmartin and @Gordon P for September based on that experience and the equivalent experience on day 2 - if you're dumping people in a town to find food, ride them past all the restaurants first. There's a huge subconscious fear that if you don't take the first opportunity for food you'll discover it's the last.
I knew he wouldn't.....He hadn't forgotten, and referred to the service as 'risible' as we rode past the place this year.
He hadn't forgotten, and referred to the service as 'risible' as we rode past the place this year.
Excellent time management there!!After finishing my starter quickly, I then headed back into town to wait for the bike shop to open, buy a new chain for Claud and get back, and still be back in my seat before my main course arrived. After eating that, I was then able to fit the chain and go back to the table to discover that the others were waiting for their dessert to arrive. Nice food though.
Excellent time management there!!
Having looked at my big Collins bird book - yes, I think you're right. Possibly one of the other Harriers - I was tootling along at the time and didn't really know what to look out for.Bird watchers - there was some discussion of the identity of a large brid of prey seen - after consulting some of my books at home with reference to the description, it may have been a marsh harrier. Although extremely endangered in the UK, they remain relatively stable in N. Europe.