Forum: Day Trippin'
08-12-2011, 04:54 AM
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Replies: 9,763
Views: 3,645,363
Sympathy
TDP, My sympathy for your loss. I lost my father 15 years ago; he's still never far from my thoughts, and I don't want him to be. Even after this time I like to be reminded of what he did for me...
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Forum: Ride reports
07-19-2011, 04:44 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,015
New Zealand
Did a fly ride to NZ this year. The North Island is spectacular and you think you've arrived in heaven, then you get to the South Island. English doesn't have enough superlatives!
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Forum: Day Trippin'
05-27-2011, 04:49 AM
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Replies: 9,763
Views: 3,645,363
Happy birthday GGB
I heard this morning (on BBC Radio, so it may be wrong) that today is the anniversary of the first traffic over the Golden gate bridge. so I thought this would a good place to wish the bridge a happy...
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Forum: Vendors
04-30-2011, 01:59 AM
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Replies: 310
Views: 27,871
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Forum: Ride reports
04-04-2011, 08:50 AM
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Replies: 101
Views: 23,818
This wasn't the trip
Thanx for the RR. I was just flying into Auckland as you left and then spent three weeks with Mrs MarkE on what I thought would be a once in a lifetime experience. I have now come to the conclusion...
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Forum: Day Trippin'
12-03-2010, 04:46 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,660
A long list
Last year I was working in Ireland with some people from Bulgaria and they said I should add Bulgaria to my list. It was already there, but your pictures have moved it up a bit which is good because...
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Forum: Ride reports
10-11-2010, 04:48 AM
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Replies: 1,826
Views: 1,205,283
Sorry I'm late
Sorry to reawaken the thoughts on war, but I've been way for a few days and thought what I regard as one of my most significant formative experiences is relevant; when I was young we used to holiday...
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Forum: Ride reports
09-10-2010, 05:29 AM
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Replies: 1,036
Views: 296,546
Delighted to see you back
Delighted to see you back and restored to health Tagesk. Also looking forward to the next update on your Greek ride.
BUT I must complain that you tried to quietly slip away instead of saying a...
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Forum: Ride reports
06-21-2010, 04:27 AM
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Replies: 166
Views: 14,916
Paint it?
I sometimes wish I had the patience and skill to paint the views I see but sadly there seems to be a link broken somewhere between the eye and the brush - when I try to draw or paint what comes out...
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Forum: Ride reports
06-15-2010, 04:18 AM
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Replies: 166
Views: 14,916
In
Productivity may be reduced for the foreseeable...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-28-2010, 04:28 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,059
Sweet
Steve
If you use that route regularly I'm surprised you've never passed me. When I was working away I used some of your stuff to show my colleagues where I'm from and to feed my homesickness -...
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Forum: Ride reports
04-05-2010, 06:20 AM
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Replies: 1,689
Views: 1,824,811
Pleased to have met you
In "Love Etc" Julian Barnes has a character who believes we are destined to be reincarnated as everyone we meet as we go through life; on that basis I am delighted I met you at the Ace a few weeks...
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Forum: Ride reports
03-26-2010, 04:47 AM
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Replies: 75
Views: 18,245
Thanx for the memories
I spent last year working in Dublin and took the opportunity to see some of Ireland. I took the bike over and managed to get around the coast from Wicklow, along the south coast and abour half way...
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Forum: Ride reports
03-24-2010, 09:43 AM
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Replies: 92
Views: 15,213
I got it half right!
I use my bike as much as I use my car, and sometimes that has meant using the bike to collect or deliver one or other of my daughters to school, starting when they could sit still and hold me (on...
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Forum: Ride reports
01-25-2010, 04:41 AM
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Replies: 212
Views: 73,034
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Forum: Ride reports
01-11-2010, 04:48 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 998
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Forum: Ride reports
01-08-2010, 04:42 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 998
Love Sicily
Thanks for the slideshow Charlyno; I love Sicily and would love to go back, but my first wife was Sicilian (a small village in the Caltanisetta region) and explaining to the second wife that we...
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Forum: Ride reports
12-02-2009, 04:54 AM
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Replies: 1,036
Views: 296,546
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Forum: Ride reports
12-02-2009, 04:51 AM
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Replies: 1,036
Views: 296,546
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Forum: Ride reports
12-01-2009, 04:22 AM
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Replies: 1,036
Views: 296,546
I was planning to count that as part of the...
I was planning to count that as part of the Atlantic (having just checked that is how it is described by wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Sea and that will do me for this). If I count the...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-24-2009, 05:01 AM
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Replies: 1,036
Views: 296,546
Tage
As you have taught me so much history...
Tage
As you have taught me so much history in this tread I hope you won't mind me making a small correction; The comment was made by LB Johnson about President Gerald Ford. Apparently former...
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Forum: Ride reports
10-22-2009, 04:42 AM
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Replies: 346
Views: 73,965
Take your time
Sod
You're telling a fascinating story really well. Don't stress about the pace - I'd rather wait for steak than have a quick burger here.
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Forum: Ride reports
10-13-2009, 04:28 AM
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Replies: 119
Views: 16,011
Loved the words as well as the pics
Bones
I can't speak for others, but I have enjoyed both words and pictures in this RR. A picture may be worth a thousand words but sometimes a well chosen word can replace a picture and your...
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Forum: Day Trippin'
10-06-2009, 04:27 AM
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Replies: 9,763
Views: 3,645,363
Just an echo
I can only echo the sentiments expressed by others. This thread has shown me a part of the world I may never see; big deal, many threads do that but far more important, it has introduced me to a...
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Forum: Ride reports
08-28-2009, 04:32 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 6,726
I must learn one day, mustn't I?
Whenever I'm travelling ports are always somewhere to get through on the way to somewhere else. But ports (especially old ports) tend to be strategically important and such places must, by...
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Forum: Ride reports
08-21-2009, 05:28 AM
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Replies: 119
Views: 11,959
The French (of all people) having a banner in...
The French (of all people) having a banner in English!
More seriously, I buried my father about 12 years ago (not even close; it's a child's job to bury their parents in due course, you buried...
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Forum: Ride reports
08-18-2009, 05:38 AM
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Replies: 116
Views: 34,445
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Forum: Ride reports
08-04-2009, 05:05 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 1,803
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Forum: Ride reports
03-11-2008, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 1,036
Views: 296,546
Thanx for the memories
Tagesk: the first Mrs MarkE sono Siciliana and we visited a few times (her father still owned his house there, so we had cheap holidays); you've refreshed a few memories. You missed a lot of the...
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Forum: Ride reports
02-07-2008, 08:04 AM
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Replies: 298
Views: 38,031
Good manners
I'd like to say how pleased I am to see the generally good manners being shown here, especially to fallen enemies.
My mother's family were soldiers and her father died before she was ten, so she...
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Forum: Pics, pics, pics...
01-22-2008, 07:06 AM
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Replies: 5,981
Views: 1,983,278
Well named road
No photo I'm afraid (photochopped, retouched or legit), but the A666 through Bolton in Lancashire (UK) is called St Peter's way! Honest!
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