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Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
Mmmm, where abouts is it? 🤔
Penrith, similar looking town centre to Clitheroe but maybe slightly more common. 😊
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
The building does look like it could be in Clitheroe. 🤔
Have you been there recently and is it a bit rough? I thought it'd be quite 'middle class(ish)'.🤔
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I've not been to Clitheroe for over a year now, Penrith is a similar place, but with a few more charity shops and a Greggs. It's got some nice pubs and independent shops, and used to have The Works bookshop that I always like a nosy around.
The traffic is worse than Clitheroe, same kind of one way system in town but as it's close to the M6, and the A66 passes going from Richmond to Cockermouth it's always busy.
There's a nice old castle ruin opposite the old railway station, which then has a McDonald's next door, but they redeem themselves by having a Booth's just down the road.
dicko
Guru
- Location
- Derbyshire
Advice for our holiday in Canada. It’s an action packed holiday no sitting around in hotel lobbies but riding the Rocky Mountaineer. The brochure says smart casual dress, will my dark blue jeans be ok?
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Dag Hammar
Senior Member
- Location
- Essex
No, your dark blue jeans will not be OK. Jeans look terrible unless they are being worn on a building site.
Get yourself some chinos, casual but a whole lot smarter.
Marchrider
Über Member
that's what I would be wearing
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Yes, they will be fine, so long as they are clean and not torn.
Ignore any fashion police who say silly things like jeans only looking OK on a building site.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
You missed the word "less" before the last word there.
On most people, good jeans are smarter than chinos.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
I haven't worn jeans for about 5 years. I still have the last pair I wore, just in case I fancy wearing them again. They are navy, not quite the ink shade which I'd say is the smartest. I'd say yes, jeans for your holiday will be suitable and fine. I've just looked it up. The Rocky Mountaineer holiday sounds and looks quite impressive. My uncle who must be 90 now if he's still alive, used to do European train holidays in the 1960's and 70's. He was train obsessed, working in the signal box at a train station near to Blackburn, Lancs. I think he was train obsessed, so he got a job working with trains, rather than getting a job working with trains, then becoming train obsessed. I remember as a child being forced to listen to his then a novelty, stereo LP's of steam train sounds moving from one speaker to the other at the other side of the room.
You'll have to send some photos to CC from your holiday as you go along. When are you going?
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DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
England football top, shorts, bucket hat , sunglasses & flip flops, one would hate to be mistaken for an American !
dicko
Guru
- Location
- Derbyshire
I haven't worn jeans for about 5 years. I still have the last pair I wore, just in case I fancy wearing them again. They are navy, not quite the ink shade which I'd say is the smartest. I'd say yes, jeans for your holiday will be suitable and fine. I've just looked it up. The Rocky Mountaineer holiday sounds and looks quite impressive. My uncle who must be 90 now if he's still alive, used to do European train holidays in the 1960's and 70's. He was train obsessed, working in the signal box at a train station near to Blackburn, Lancs. I think he was train obsessed, so he got a job working with trains, rather than getting on job working with trains, then becoming train obsessed. I remember as a child being forced to listen to his then a novelty, stereo LP's of steam train sounds moving from one speaker to the other at the other side of the room.
Thank you Accy, we go late April and we are doing the grand circular fifteen days. My wife has always wanted to go so we are going probably the last big holiday. I like trains but not as much as she does my interest is the track system as I was a track design engineer before retirement. I want to see how the American/Canadian system is designed. I hope to send photos as long as I can get internet which I am looking into right now.
