CycleChat investigates...London

[Andy in Germany]

We have to go through there when travelling on the Eurostar: we change from St. Pancras to Kings Cross and see quite enough of the place in that time thankyouverymuch. How people spend more than a day there is beyond me.

Incidentally, there were supposed to be trains running north of London to places like York when Eurostar was started, but they decide there wasn't the demand. This left several Eurostar sets redundant which were hired for a while for use on the east coast line because they were short on capacity, so it was possible to get off a Eurostar in London, get on another Eurostar and carry on to York.

But not to travel through, because there isn't any demand for that...

Then we realised we could catch the train to Amsterdam instead and take the ferry to Newcastle, or from Rotterdam to Hull, either is a far more pleasant alternative...

 

[Freds Dad]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0ay9u1gg4

 

[Andy in Germany]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0ay9u1gg4

Oh, that's why people kept running away last time...

 

[classic33]

Oh, that's why people kept running away last time...

Probably why folk shied away from me.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Probably why folk shied away from me.

True, a bit hard to stop grinning in your case.

Scythe probably didn't help either

 

[Milkfloat]

For those of you who think London should be wiped off the map, could you not reproritize and consider such places as Birmingham, Stoke and Grimsby first? At least London has some redeeming features.

 

[Globalti]

I was born in that London and I enjoy going there. It's clean and smart, in the centre at least, it has interesting things to do and see and it's easy to get around by tube.

 

[Drago]

The nay camp are in the lead, but the yay boys are coming up their rear. Bulldozers held in abeyance in case there is a last minute change of fortune.

 

[Andy in Germany]

For those of you who think London should be wiped off the map, could you not reproritize and consider such places as Birmingham, Stoke and Grimsby first? At least London has some redeeming features.

It could be argued that comparing London with Birmingham (I can't speak for the other two), it's a bit like trying to look pretty by choosing ugly (and less wealthy) friends.

 

[Cavalol]

Love the place, most of my family are from there originally. At one time I'd have lived there, couldn't stand the pace of life there now (my age) sadly. Oddly enough going back tomorrow for a couple of nights stay at a nice hotel again. Love the history, the atmosphere, the lot, even watching people bombing round everywhere and the hardened cyclists and motorists. One day will take a bike with me and go for a few early morning laps.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I don't know the first thing about it, except for the clock tower on the Parliament ,(Big Ben, ) and the little fort they call a tower, and the palace or two. And there's supposed to be a good roast beef place there somebody said was better than Arby's.

 

[classic33]

I don't know the first thing about it, except for the clock tower on the Parliament ,(Big Ben, ) and the little fort they call a tower, and the palace or two. And there's supposed to be a good roast beef place there somebody said was better than Arby's.

Big Ben is the bell, not the clock tower.

Both it and the Liberty Bell were cast at the same foundry, and both have a crack.

 

[Drago]

Sadly, it appears the naysayers have it.

The bulldozers have been ordered to flatten the place. However, I have asked them to spare Markymarks cardboard box and his shopping trolley with his possessions. What's left will them be renamed Markytown.

The capital will be relocated to Bristol, in order that cockney rhyming slang may live on.

Watch this space for the next episode of Cyclechat Investigates.

 

[Markymark]

Sadly, it appears the naysayers have it.

The bulldozers have been ordered to flatten the place. However, I have asked them to spare Markymarks cardboard box and his shopping trolley with his possessions. What's left will them be renamed Markytown.

The capital will be relocated to Bristol, in order that cockney rhyming slang may live on.

Watch this space for the next episode of Cyclechat Investigates.

Unfortunately all the northerners you got to do this are all still in bed or drunk. The fund you setup to pay for it was £0 as the dole office isn’t open until tomorrow. And the advance party you sent down managed to ask for enough 2ps outside kings cross to buy some special brew when the off license opens

So we’re spared. And continue to be awesome whilst running and paying for the country.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Unfortunately all the northerners you got to do this are all still in bed or drunk. The fund you setup to pay for it was £0 as the dole office isn’t open until tomorrow. And the advance party you sent down managed to ask for enough 2ps outside kings cross to buy some special brew when the off license opens

So we’re spared. And continue to be awesome whilst running and paying for the country.

Call in the Vogons I say.