classic33
Leg End Member
You're off early tonight, long trip ahead!
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Reynard
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I'm watching MOTD and nibbling on curry-coated peanuts.
The nuts aren't actually that nice. The crispy coating is all heat and no flavour.
The nuts aren't actually that nice. The crispy coating is all heat and no flavour.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
While more unusual than a novelty, I have got what may have been a promotional watch from Korean Air (I think) which has two dials on the face so it can be set to show local and home times for travellers.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
I made the first homemade pizza of the New Year.
Still waiting on my Citizen Eco-Drive watch(also the cost of a takeaway) to ship,
so I can replace my old stainless steel Caravelle New-York with its titanium presence.
Needs a bit of a clean-up
Still waiting on my Citizen Eco-Drive watch(also the cost of a takeaway) to ship,
so I can replace my old stainless steel Caravelle New-York with its titanium presence.
Needs a bit of a clean-up
Reynard
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Two-time watches are actually a "thing" - quite clever really, they tend to squeeze two movements into the case. Some of the older ones are actually quite desirable.
Reynard
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I quite fancy an eco-drive, but they seem to be going for silly money here at the moment.
Reynard
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Oh, and speaking of promotional watches, I have a Rothmans Williams watch that I bought in the duty free shop on board the Reine Astrid while sailing from Oostende to Ramsgate. Was about '95-ish iirc...
classic33
Leg End Member
Reynard
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
She sailed Dover-Oostende and Ramsgate-Oostende for the best part of a decade and a half, because she was on loan to the Belgian government (Stena Nautica) prior to being purchased in the early/mid 1980s. That's her in the old Regie voor Maritiem Transport colours of the time. She then briefly sailed in Townsend Thoresen livery, and then plain blue & white before the final Oostende Lines iteration. The flirtation with Ramsgate was brief, and then shortly after, all the remaining ships* (Reine Astrid, Prins Albert, Princesse Marie-Christine and the virtually new Prins Filip) were sold and replaced with the seacats Rapide and Diamant for the last hurrah of the ferry service.
* The other belgian government car ferries were the Prinses Maria-Esmeralda and the Prince Laurent. My uncle (mum's brother) served as a purser on pretty well much all of these ships. And on many of their predecessors as well.
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Reynard
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I think she's probably been scrapped now, but she was a fairly lively ride. You definitely wanted to find space forward of midships, as she tended to be tail-happy in all but the calmest of seas. The Reine Astrid was actually the smallest and slowest ferry in the fleet, but I do have very fond memories of the old girl. She was bought primarily for her excellent freight capacity.
Reynard
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Right, time I went to the Land of Nod via the intermediate stations of Wooden Hill and Hot Bath.
Nunnight one and all xxx
Nunnight one and all xxx
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
congratulations, we made it as well.took a while, but we got there. opted for no TV all evening. it was different
craigwend
Grimpeur des terrains plats
Right, time I went to the Land of Nod via the intermediate stations of Wooden Hill and Hot Bath.
Nunnight one and all xxx
Bit of a ride that... Land of Nod is the name of a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located at the far end of a two-mile-long (3.2 km) road, which joins the A614 road at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor (53.8185°N 0.7215°W).[11]
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Time for a ride me thinks
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Good morning. The small person has yet to wake up so I'm drinking a cup of tea in the quiet.
