Long drives was The world's least favourite airport

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:31:09 +0100, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne) wrote:

>The Reid <mikereidclothing@freedomnames.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne) wrote:
>>
>> >> I'm nearly always driving onwards, so its just a drink or two at the
>> >> start.
>> >
>> >Not even that if you're flying to much of europe. Spain's limit is
>> >almost half that of the UK.
>>
>> I know, did you think I wouldn't?
>
>Quite possibly- lots of people don't.

So how many times over the limit is he with a drink or two at the start?
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Martin

Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne) wrote:

>> while being
>> taken to places for too short a time to fit in a long stop at a
>> prearranged tourist trap.
>
>I would never do something like that either.

Hey, we agree, Do you get a warm glow?

>> Last fairly long train ride was returning from walking the Thames path
>> (glad im not doing it right now!). Before that I did a couple of
>> discounted trips to York and Bath
>
>I wouldn't call them long train journeys, any more than I'd call a two
>hour car journey long. For me, I'd say a journey over three hours begins
>to feel long.

thats the longest Ive done, sorry to dissapoint you. They seemed long
to us. (The return from York took about 12 hours BTW, does that
count?)

>> (on season ticket loyalty scheme)
>> the York one failed to return due to some problem, had to take the
>> next day off work. We are not much interested in british cities as
>> leisure destinations so trains are fairly irrelevant to us.
>
>Oh, that's right. You have the impression trains only go to cities.

Fast convenient trains go to cities from cities.
You have the impression "wild" countryside is other than rarely
convenient for stations. (Rannoch Moor is one exception, assuming you
want to be stranded on Rannoch Moor). Try going dawn birdwatching on
Sheppey this Sunday morning by train.....
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Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne) wrote:

>Is paraphrasing it allowed, do you think?

of course!
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Mike
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Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne) wrote:

>> day off work? It must have happened 20 years ago? There are two or three
>> trains an hour from York to London nowadays. Journey time around two
>> hours. It was already around 2 hours, 30 years ago,
>
>Or it could have been a major problem, stopping everything... Rare, but
>it does happen.

happened a lot when I commuted, happens a lot to my wife still, but at
least I can meet her at any station.
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Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne) wrote:

>> I know, did you think I wouldn't?
>
>Quite possibly- lots of people don't.

Well, you were wrong.
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:39:52 +0100, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne) wrote:

>Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:20:06 +0100, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne) wrote:
>>
>> >The Reid <mikereidclothing@freedomnames.co.uk> wrote:
>[]
>> >I wouldn't call them long train journeys, any more than I'd call a two
>> >hour car journey long. For me, I'd say a journey over three hours begins
>> >to feel long.
>> >
>> >> (on season ticket loyalty scheme)
>> >> the York one failed to return due to some problem, had to take the
>> >> next day off work.
>>
>> day off work? It must have happened 20 years ago? There are two or three
>> trains an hour from York to London nowadays. Journey time around two
>> hours. It was already around 2 hours, 30 years ago,
>
>Or it could have been a major problem, stopping everything... Rare, but
>it does happen.

Only when I use York station :-)
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Martin

Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne) wrote:

>> Hey, we agree, Do you get a warm glow?
>
>No, it must be the red bull you had.

Bulls Blood more likely.

>> thats the longest Ive done, sorry to dissapoint you. They seemed long
>> to us.
>
>They're short, fast, trips.

OK, so I'll say "no" to your original question

>> Fast convenient trains go to cities from cities.
>> You have the impression "wild" countryside is other than rarely
>> convenient for stations.
>
>Ah, right, it's "wild" countryside now.

Ye, it is (in quotes). I dont mean Richmond Park or some farm. They
are the places I (and people like me) go.
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Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne) wrote:

>> >Or it could have been a major problem, stopping everything... Rare, but
>> >it does happen.
>>
>> happened a lot when I commuted,
>
>That you had to take the next day off work?

of course not, you know very well what I mean.
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Following up to The Reid <mikereidclothing@freedomnames.co.uk> wrote:

>>> >The Lake District is blighted by too much car traffic- something the
>>> >tourist authorities are well aware off. While you're at Waswater or
>>> >something, most of the visitors to the area are actually trundling very
>>> >congested roads in parts of the Lake District which are well served by
>>> >PT. They're looking at ways of aleviating this. Maybe a congestion
>>> >charge! :)
>
>>Or a free public transport zone.
>
>wouldnt make any difference in Wasdale.

they came up with a scheme in Snowdonia, where you couldn't park near
the mountains and had to get a shuttle bus that started after the
early walkers and finished before the late ones, all so gawpers in
coaches who were too lazy to get off the bus were not distressed by
seeing a parked car. Luckily it didnt go ahead.
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Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne) wrote:

>> wouldnt make any difference in Wasdale.
>
>Or would it? Wasdale is only a few miles from a train station.

going where?

>If more
>people used public transport, there would be more of it, and more
>demand.

theres never been any as far as I know.

>It would stop people driving too quickly

I dont see fast traffic.

>along country roads for
>a start, which is one blight IME on visits to the countryside.

just get off the roads, why are you walking on roads in the ELD?
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