srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Stu, if I've read my emails properly - he's carrying on to Belgium. Be scared, be very scared.
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ianmac62
Guru
- Location
- Northampton
Enjoy yourselves!
I have a rather good Soviet "Small Atlas of the World" with lovely transliterations of place names like Wellingborough (= Uellingboro) and Northampton (= Nortgempton). Enjoy "Tscherbur"! It's on a bookshelf alongside "Leningrad in Three Days".
Bollards may cause an international incident. There's a railway, converted into a bike path, from Aachen to Monschau. As a result of various treaties, the railway was - and the bike path is - Belgian sovereign territory. Our leader warned us about bollards before going to close to one himself. He went one side while one of his handlebar drops went the other. The cable from his bar-end shifters wrapped itself around the bollard and stopped his progress. The rider behind fell off, rolled down the embankment and lay still for what seemed a little too long. People rushed to her while I'm ashamed to say I thought how I was to fill in the reporting / claim form to the insurers when the accident happened in Belgium but the body came to rest in Germany.
I have a rather good Soviet "Small Atlas of the World" with lovely transliterations of place names like Wellingborough (= Uellingboro) and Northampton (= Nortgempton). Enjoy "Tscherbur"! It's on a bookshelf alongside "Leningrad in Three Days".
Bollards may cause an international incident. There's a railway, converted into a bike path, from Aachen to Monschau. As a result of various treaties, the railway was - and the bike path is - Belgian sovereign territory. Our leader warned us about bollards before going to close to one himself. He went one side while one of his handlebar drops went the other. The cable from his bar-end shifters wrapped itself around the bollard and stopped his progress. The rider behind fell off, rolled down the embankment and lay still for what seemed a little too long. People rushed to her while I'm ashamed to say I thought how I was to fill in the reporting / claim form to the insurers when the accident happened in Belgium but the body came to rest in Germany.
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
I am. Getting on at Victoria so I'll see you on the train.
frank9755
Cyclist
- Location
- West London
For Portsmouth people:
I'm on the train from Newhaven (leaving the car there) which gets in at 14:13, so I'd expect to be at the port around 14:30.
I've got the group ticket so we need to meet up!
Can anyone suggest the best meeting place?
I'm on the train from Newhaven (leaving the car there) which gets in at 14:13, so I'd expect to be at the port around 14:30.
I've got the group ticket so we need to meet up!
Can anyone suggest the best meeting place?
The pub we gathered in for the 2013/4 expeditions (The Ship?), Its right by the ferry terminal but a bit hidden. Calling @StuAff for idiot-proof directions ...
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ianmac62
Guru
- Location
- Northampton
I think @StuAff still needs to be scared. A boy I taught history for every year of his secondary school career is now "Minister for Portsmouth".
mmmmartin
Random geezer
Interesting appointment, entirely due on merit and his superb education, no doubt.
But how things change: pompey was a solid Labour seat when Frank Judd held it and I was a student at the Poly. In the local Labour party then was an untrustworthy chap I disliked by the name of Hancock. He left for the SDP, then various other parties and lost the seat a few weeks ago. There was some shenanigan involving a woman, or women, one of whom seemed to be from eastern europe and attach herself to MPs with knowledge of UK defence. Very strange.
So now Cameron has guessed the tide might turn against him (or, more likely, his successor as he has said he won't stand for a third term). So the city has its own minister - can't see why. Do other cities have their own minister?
It'll be interesting to see how that works with my MP, Greg Clark, who is minister of state for running local government and presumably in charge of the whole shebang.
Sorry, Friday Peeps, for going off topic.
[Busily prepares a FOI Request ... stunningly concealed in a pint glass]
frank9755
Cyclist
- Location
- West London
I was thinking of somewhere in the port itself rather than the pub!
Its the closest place you can get to where you have to show your tickets which we ain't got. And it serves food, good food.
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
Ship and Castle, Rudmore Square.
Idiot-proof directions follow:
From your station of choice- you all know mine is Fratton- go to the Ferry Port entrance. Instead of entering the Port, head north along Wharf Road, till you reach this junction where you bear left. Whacking great Brittany Ferries building is a handy clue. Ship and Castle is over on the right hand side, past the Lok & Store building, here.
@frank9755, this is going to be by far the easiest place for your cat-herding duty needs. Everyone's got to go to the Port anyway, it is two minutes ride (if that) from the car lanes, the terminal building, as lovely though it is, is inexplicably barred to bicycles, and cyclists are supposed to use the car lanes anyway. And you know as well as I do how much this lot love a pub...
And, provided the weather stays fair, we can sit outside and watch our bikes without bothering to unload or worry. I think I can already smell the sausages ...
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Lots of stomach lining foods for a ferry trip of that length I think!
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