Northampton ride to London Saturday 24th March

[AnythingButVanilla]

Even better than Wembley...that was the fifth time I've seen them and they've still managed to raise their game further.

Aye. I saw them last Friday for the fifth or sixth time and they never fail to impress, even if it was almost a carbon copy of the Wembley show two years ago. I loved the bridge and mini stage in the middle of the floor.

 

[topcat1]

I'll be up for this

 

[srw]

Absolutely fine!

Dodo - Mrs W is otherwise occupied, but I'm game. I suspect I'll still go for the intercept option, perhaps at the lunch stop.

 

[velovoice]

Adam - where will the ride end? I'm just looking at trains, wondering if I need Euston-Northampton return or two singles to allow for return from somewhere else... Cheers!

 

[velovoice]

Adam - where will the ride end? I'm just looking at trains, wondering if I need Euston-Northampton return or two singles to allow for return from somewhere else... Cheers!

Oh d'oh it's all in the title!

 

[wanda2010]

Oh d'oh it's all in the title!

It's ok. You're having a hard time at work. I understand

I must remember to buy my outward ticket by this weekend!

 

[Flying Dodo]

Oh d'oh it's all in the title!

You'll only want to go to Northampton once..................there's not a lot there to recommend making a second visit. Bit like Luton really!

 

[velovoice]

I must remember to buy my outward ticket by this weekend!

Just bought mine (now that I know where I'm going )

 

[ianmac62]

You'll only want to go to Northampton once..................there's not a lot there to recommend making a second visit. Bit like Luton really!

Some recommendations:

The Guild Hall - Ruskinian Gothic at its finest, the masterwork of E W Godwin
78 Derngate - complete Charles Rennie Macintosh interior
Royal Theatre - Edwardian interior
Museum & Art Gallery - boasting an extraordinary collection of boots and shoes

All Saints - few finer late 17th-century churches outside London (the poet John Clare spent much time under its portico)
St Peter's - fine, completely Norman, church
Holy Sepulchre - a rare round church, one of only four in England
St Matthew's - Victorian church with 20th-century art ("Madonna" by Henry Moore, "Crucifixion" by Graham Sutherland)
St Giles' - grave of Robert Browne, "father" of the independent / congregationalist Puritans

And, in the cemetery at the bottom of my street can be found the graves of Lucia Joyce (James Joyce's daughter) and Violet Gibson (the woman who shot Mussolini). The finest Bloomsday outside Dublin.

Now, what has Luton got to offer?

 

[Aperitif]

Now, what has Luton got to offer?

"Lorraine in Spain stays mainly on the plane"


All these interiors + history are great, Ian, but you can't see 'em on a bike much - but Luton Airport is a jewel in any moving cyclist's crown of thorns.

 

[Flying Dodo]

I take it all back.

 

[psmiffy]

Some recommendations:

St Peter's - fine, completely Norman, church

The last resting place of William Smith "Father of English Geology"

 

[ianmac62]

Luton Airport is a jewel in any moving cyclist's crown of thorns.

Ah Lorraine Chase! I did pedal out of Luton Airport with a full set of panniers last September, with no adjustments needed to the bike, after flying in from Nice. Bike in CTC plastic bag. Luggage handlers fine. My particular crown of thorns on that occasion was the queue at the "UK Border".

And did I say that the County Cricket Ground was the venue for the only appearances in first-class cricket (and hence in Wisden) of a Nobel Laureate in Literature?

What you will see from a bike on the route Flying Dodo has chosen is: Carlsberg's UK brewery and my local B & Q and Tesco. Northampton takes a perverse pride in being a town and not a city and, for some years, Carlsberg - to return to the adverts of our youth - sponsored a hoarding outside the train station which read, "Welcome to Northampton, probably the best town in the world!"

 

[Aperitif]

Ah Lorraine Chase! I did pedal out of Luton Airport with a full set of panniers last September, with no adjustments needed to the bike, after flying in from Nice. Bike in CTC plastic bag. Luggage handlers fine. My particular crown of thorns on that occasion was the queue at the "UK Border".

And did I say that the County Cricket Ground was the venue for the only appearances in first-class cricket (and hence in Wisden) of a Nobel Laureate in Literature?

What you will see from a bike on the route Flying Dodo has chosen is: Carlsberg's UK brewery and my local B & Q and Tesco. Northampton takes a perverse pride in being a town and not a city and, for some years, Carlsberg - to return to the adverts of our youth - sponsored a hoarding outside the train station which read, "Welcome to Northampton, probably the best town in the world!"

This thread is Absolute Cobblers.

 

[StuAff]

Now booked on the 9.13 from Euston.