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[Arch]

I live a long way from the sea . I've taken out laser/toppers out two or three times but I haven't been on a proper boat unless you mean walking around on the cutty sark and things like that. Actually I suppose I have been on a boat twice - a cruise trip down the Ouse as far as Monte Carlo Naburn and once on the Thames. Yeah I suppose very occasionally. Not for travelling from a to b though, for fun.

I used to live in Leicester, you don't get further from the sea than that!

I love boats - little boats, big boats. And I don't mind roughness too much, so of course every ferry I go on is flat calm...

I once took a minibus of US fieldschool students from Fishguard to Rosslare. Turned out most of them hadn't been on a ferry either and where asking about the big doors in the prow, so while we waited to board, I entertained them with tales of the Herald of Free Enterprise.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Foot - All last week skiing in Bavaria, 2 miles in ski boots through Kempten on Monday was a killer.
Plane - Last Night - Friedrichshafen to Stanstead
Train - Last week - Stanstead to London (cancelled flight) London to Brussels on Eurostar - met David Coulthard, Highspeed train Brussels to Koeln.
Automobile - in the last week drove 180 miles to Stanstead, hired a car in Koeln and drove 600 kms in one go to Bavaria. Drove 180 miles back from Stanstead.
Bus - Last night Oberstdorf to Friedrichshafen

 

[Night Train]

I drive everyday, almost.
Yesterday. Parked near the college where I work and had to walk over a mile to the building where I study the Cert Ed.
31st Jan I took taxi to the airport and a plane to Inverness and hired a van to do a house move.
I took a train back from Manchester on 2nd Feb after dropping off the hire van.
I last cycled, outdoors, when it was a bit warmer last autumn.
Can't remember the last time I was on a bus.

 

[gbb]

Foot- a walk to my SIL last week (about 4 miles round trip) I quite enjoy walking.
Bike- to work this morning. I commute 4 out of 5 days a week.
Car- This last weekend, for decorating materials.
Bus- errr, cant remember, so its been a while
Train- errr, probably about 1977
Plane- August last year, holidays. I do fly moderately often for work tho.
Boat- 2006, a variety of lovely day trips in Turkey.
Taxi- cant remember. I hate spending money on taxis (with a vengeance)

Ah yes...18 months ago In Uruguay. 2 trips every day , 3/4 hour each trip...plus a 3 hour trip back to the airport. I seem to remember the bill was several hundred quid

 

[marinyork]

I might go on a ferry this year. Some people I know were talking about doing a cycling tour somewhere but I can't remember whether they said it was a faff taking it on the boat, they'd fly from now on, or it was the other way round . I've met people that think it funny that I haven't been on a big ferry trip but unless I do a Fitzcarraldo there's not too much use for it round here.

 

[Arch]

I might go on a ferry this year. Some people I know were talking about doing a cycling tour somewhere but I can't remember whether they said it was a faff taking it on the boat, they'd fly from now on, or it was the other way round . I've met people that think it funny that I haven't been on a big ferry trip but unless I do a Fitzcarraldo there's not too much use for it round here.

I've never tried to take a bike on a plane, but from the stories I've heard about them getting bent, I'd go for the ferry everytime unless I had a bike that packed into a hard case. Plus, you get to go to the front of the queue to load up (well, we have, everytime) and on a trike you don't even have to worry about slipping on the ramp, so you can have a race...

 

[Smokin Joe]

You've never been on a boat! Plane, I can understand, but a boat?

Having once been violently seasick, I don't blame him. Nine hours bobbing up and down like a cork on the Irish Sea was the most miserable night of my life. I started off thinking I was going to die, and ended up wishing I had.

 

[summerdays]

Foot - Saturday a tramp to the Downs, and the LBS
Bike - today (commuting, school drop off/pick up, shopping)
Car - 2 days ago (as a passenger to pick up my daughter back from her exchange trip)
Bus - 4 months ago? or Tomorrow (very complicated after school plans)
Train - July last year (Devon C2C)
Plane - Oct last year (Switzerland - holiday, August to Belfast (ekk 2x in a year))
Boat - 18 months ago (Larne to Cairnryan)
Taxi - Oct (on the way back from the airport)

 

[marooncat]

Foot - Lunchtime - always go out for a 30-45 min walk and think I do it about 3.5 mph.
Bike - 13 days ago Bl**dy snow
Car - 1 hour ago - back from work
Bus - last weekend, going out for a night out
Train - start of Jan, going to collect BF new car
Plane - Early Dec - holiday to Cape Town
Boat - Middle of last year between Harris and North Uist for work
Taxi - mid Jan - night out

 

[TVC]

Foot - On Sunday, needed some fresh air
Bike - 15 days ago, please go away snow!
Car - 1 hour ago, trip to M&S to get goodies for Mrs C for Saturday
Bus - October last year, Cairns Queensland
Train - 22nd June last year, NYMR - a steam puffer!
Plane - 1st November, Singapore to Heathrow
Boat - October last year, a 12m schooner on the Great Barrier Reef
Taxi - Weekend before Christmas, returning from the works do.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Foot (has to be over 1 mile) - today, lots of walking around Sao Paulo. I also run about 4 miles every day, 6 on Sundays.
Bike - January (I have no bike here in Brazil!)
Car - last week when I went with my host to the university
Bus - on Sunday to the airport
Train - Metro today, mainline (has to be the UK, there are no mainline trains in Brazil)... at Christmas to my parents and back.
Plane - Sunday (from Curitiba to Sao Paulo)
Boat - October, Newcastle to Amsterdam.
Taxi - Sunday from the airport to the centre of Sao Paulo.

 

[asterix]

Foot (has to be over 1 mile) - Yesterday, carrying a bike frame to be repaired, to York station
Bike - Monday, into town
Car - Yesterday, to dump stuff at the tip recycling centre
Bus - December? 2008
Train - Yesterday, carrying a bike frame to be repaired, to Shipley station
Taxi - 5 years ago in Athens. Charged 3 times the proper rate. All part of the tourist experience. (In Barcelona 2006, I had my wallet dipped all they got was a credit card which they used on the toll roads.)
Plane - June 2008 to/from France
Boat - December 2008 from France
Van - Monday to collect a book-case

 

[Keith Oates]

Foot (has to be over 1 mile) - Today
Bike - today (commuting)
Car - 5th January
Bus - Long time ago not sure of date
Train - Years ago
Plane - 5th January
Boat - Today (Local river ferry)
Taxi - 4th February (Work related trip)

 

[LLB]

Foot (has to be over 1 mile) - Sunday 3 mile walk
Bike - Christmas break (20 miles)
M/cycle - Christmas break (70 miles)
Car - Today (commute)
Bus - 6 months ago (in London)
Train - 6 months ago (if you class the tube as a train)
Plane - 6 months ago (holidays)
Boat - 22 years ago (over to Belgium the day after the ferry went down)
Taxi - 6 months ago (London when the Tube station was shut and the bus connection was just as expensive for 3 of us as a taxi)

 

[barq]

Foot - Last night I walked to the pub and back.
Bike - Sunday morning I went for a short MTB ride.
Car - A month ago I used someone's car to drop them off at the station.
Bus - Just before Christmas to go shopping in Woking.
Train - Two weeks ago to meet a friend in London.
Plane - Four months ago to get back from Detroit.
Boat - A few months ago... Staten Island Ferry.
Taxi - Also a few months ago... went from JFK airport to Rockland County (vaguely up state New York). It cost $190 (+ tip).