I went to Burnley today to see Ipswich play. I went up via Leeds, as in my opinion, First Class on East Coast is so much better than the offering on Virgin Trains.
I also didn’t suffer any delays, but apparently some Ipswich supporters, who took the Manchester route, got to the match at around half-time.
May 4, 2013
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Sport, Transport/Travel | Burnley, Ipswich Town, Lumo, Trains, Virgin Trains |
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I took this picture of an advert for four of the major tourist attractions in London.
What’s Wrong With Me?
I did go on the London Eye once, but you get better views from the Emirates Air-Line and One New Change, at a much lower cost.
But the London Aquarium, the London Dungeon and Madame Tussauds, would be prime examples of the sort of places, I would never chose to visit.
The latter must be one of the most over-hyped rip-offs in London! If I want to see likenesses of famous people, I go to the National Portrait Gallery, which shows Tussauds t0 be the crap it is. And the National Portrait Gallery is totally free, except for the special exhibitions.
May 4, 2013
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Transport/Travel | Art, London, Tourism |
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I took these pictures of the cruise ship; The World at Greenwich.
It would be good to see it go downriver from somewhere like Barrier Park.
May 2, 2013
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Transport/Travel, World | Greenwich, Ship |
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I had actually gone over the cable-car to see if I could get a good picture of the cruise liner; The World. This was the best I got.
The World From The Emirates Air-Line
It has been reported that Greenwich is going to get a new berth for cruise ships, which will be nearer to the cable-car.
May 2, 2013
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Transport/Travel | Emirates Air-Line, Greenwich, Ship |
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It may be just coincidence but on a New Bus for London from the Angel on Tuesday evening, except for the two driver/conductors and myself, everybody downstairs was female.
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May 2, 2013
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Transport/Travel | Buses, Hackney Eight, New Bus for London |
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This old chestnut keeps coming round and the London Assembly has produced a report, as is discussed in the Standard. Here’s the first few paragraphs.
The Government’s claim that the South-East faces an aviation capacity crisis was thrown into doubt today after an influential report suggested London has enough runways already.
The London Assembly study found the capital’s airports are currently underused with two — Luton and Stansted — having around half of their runway slots free.
Even Heathrow, at 99 per cent runway capacity, could fly an additional 20 million passengers a year if larger aircraft were used, it claimed.
To test their premise, that London has enough space, let’s look at Gatwick. Two years ago, I flew out of Gatwick to Greece. Read what I wrote in this blog. The last statement was.
Let’s face it, if I fly again, I’m not going out of Gatwick.
But in spite of that, I did use the airport to go to Budapest, where I had an excellent meal at Jamie’s Italian.
Gatwick seems to have improved immensely in the last couple of years, since the change of ownership, and it’s all been done by lots of small steps. The other thing that helps me is the direct link from Dalston Junction to Clapham Junction.
I’m going out to Geneva on the 17th and it’ll be interesting to see how it goes. On every trip, Gatwick seems to get better.
May 1, 2013
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Food, Transport/Travel | Coeliac/Gluten-Free, Flying, Gatwick Airport, Trains |
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I saw this cash point at the branch of Barclays in Rose Green on my trip to Bognor.
The Cleanest Cash Point In The World?
I’ve never seen one so clean. it was also very welcome, as I needed to get some money.
May 1, 2013
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I was asked this question by a journalist this morning. But somehow it must be in the genes.
My father had been a great traveller before the Second World War and I know he’d gone all the way to the South of France and Geneva by train. One tale, that I can verify is that when he needed to buy a new guillotine from Griegs in Glasgow, he drove all the way up with his Scottish deputy and guillotine operator; Frank Black, or Mack the Knife, to see the machines in the factory. That was something not many people did in the 1950s.
Even at University, I was a bit of a traveller and one summer, I hitched to Glasgow to see a football match, before taking the train down to Manchester and then Paignton, to see friends.
C might have picked up the bug from me, but we were not beyond hitch-hiking together, as we did once to come to London, to tell her parents we were going to get married. I was 20 and she was just 19.
Package tours were not for us and some of the first real holidays we had were when we took our Austin Maxi, down to the South of France, with the three boys in the back. And that was generally before they’d built the Autoroutes.
Later we would drive to Syros and Crete in Greece and Rome in Italy. On one trip we went over the St. Gotthard Pass in August in a severe blizzard and then came down the other side into Italy with rocks falling off the mountains in heavy rain.
We also swapped houses with a couple of Americans and we were in the States for six weeks, travelling as far East as Boston and as far West as Minneapolis.
We didn’t do boring.
After the children got fed up with us and left home, we continued to travel. We drove around Malaysia, took the train from Bangkok to Penang and I flew C and myself, all round Australia in a light aircraft.
We also had some memorable trips in my own plane. Perhaps the longest was going out of Southend and reaching Naples.
Even when C was dying, she was planning another trip, where we would drive around Thailand. Sadly, she hadn’t realised how ill she was, so this trip never came about.
Since her death, I have continued to travel and in fact, my stroke happened on a round the world trip in Hong Kong. I have visited every ground in the English League in alphabetical order by public transport and now I have started a series of fly out-rail home journeys. The first was to Budapest.
Pencilled in to be done over the summer are Palermo, Sumburgh, New Quay, Lisbon, Stockholm, Odessa and Ferranfore.
This weekend it’s more mundane, in that I’m going to Burnley to see Ipswich in the last match of the season, by train from Kings Cross.
May 1, 2013
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Transport/Travel | Flying, Trains |
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it was an uneventful trip to Bognor, except for the loss of the pen. And all at a ticket cost of just £14.75 in a very clean train.
The only excitement on the way down was two Dutch tourists, who in killing time changing planes at Gatwick, decided they’d visit Crawley. Surely, there must be something better to do at the Airport!
Here are some of the pictures I took.
It could all have been Felixstowe, as I remember it as a child.
That town wasn’t the best place to be a teenager. Especially, where you had no transport, buses were rare and there were about three trains a day.
At least Bognor had a bus to get me back to the train station, which seemed to run about every fifteen minutes. I needed the bus, as I’d probably walked about three miles.
Once off the sea-front, I only passed one pub. And I think, I only saw two in the first mile or so, whilst in the town centre.
Did King George V liked a drink, and couldn’t find any in the town? Hence his supposed remarks.
Perhaps, James Joyce went there to stay sober enough to write Finnegan’s Wake.
May 1, 2013
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Transport/Travel, World | Bognor Regis, Buses, Felixstowe, Trains |
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Yesterday, I dropped my pen on the way to Clapham Junction station.
So I thought, I’d buy one there!
But I couldn’t, despte trying about six of the many kiosks in the station.
I got no luck!
In fact, I don’t think I’ve managed to buy a nice standard-issue Bic biro in a station in perhaps the last ten years.
In the end, I bought two in a small general store in Bognor.
But that’s a long way to go for a pen!
I did ask the ticket collector on the train and he said he’d had to buy one himself before he started work. He certainly didn’t think that they were ever used for attacks on staff or other passengers.
I think the solution is to have pen dispensers on stations, where say for a pound or two, you can get a suitable pen. All profits could go to a charity like Railway Children.
May 1, 2013
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Transport/Travel | Charity, Stations |
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