Where are you on the transport network?

[T & P]

Jordan Highway 65- nearly 400m below sea level at this point. The northern end of the Dead Sea is just about visible behind the trees.

 

[Winot]

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Jordan Highway 65- nearly 400m below sea level at this point. The northern end of the Dead Sea is just about visible behind the trees.

Great country. Are you going to Petra or Wadi Rum?

 

[T & P]

Great country. Are you going to Petra or Wadi Rum?

I’ve been to both sites in previous visits- mind-blowing places. This time we’re just in Amman for the week visiting the in-law, but fancied a couple of days sunbathing and floating on brine.

The drive from Amman to Petra/ Aqaba/ Wadi Rum is not for the faint hearted though

 

[Sue]

I’ve been to both sites in previous visits- mind-blowing places. This time we’re just in Amman for the week visiting the in-law, but fancied a couple of days sunbathing and floating on brine.

The drive from Amman to Petra/ Aqaba/ Wadi Rum is not for the faint hearted though

Jordan was my last trip before Covid (Jan/Feb 2020). I did the typical Amman/Wadi Rum/Petra/Madaba/a few desert castles/Jerash (which was fantastic) route. Quite a lot of religious Americans there for the Old Testament sites.

OTOH, the postcards I sent when I was there have literally only just been delivered so I know now not to rely on their post.

 

[tim]

No sign of Aphrodite.

 

[Elpenor]

No sign of Aphrodite.

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Try going to her rock, in case she’s been seen near there, that’s just off the Limassol - Paphos road for transport network reference.

 

[chainsawjob]

At the docks, watching this moving about.

 

[marty21]

Massive graffiti at Dalston Kingsland Station

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[Elpenor]

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The ‘ding, Platform 8/9

 

[teuchter]

Everywhere on the GWML now easily recognisable as such by the preposterously overstructured wiring.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Everywhere on the GWML now easily recognisable as such by the preposterously overstructured wiring.

In the Brunel tradition. One of his bridges as seen from the Thames path on my way back…




A monster that was built to last.

Thames Path from Streatley to Reading, thought it would be flat, like a towpath, nope. Really hilly, one hill had steep stairs cut in to it ffs.

 

[Elpenor]

It’s not the Thames Path but I find crossing at Pangbourne / Whitchurch and going via the Mapledurham estate into Caversham to be a better route than the Thames path

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It’s not the Thames Path but I find crossing at Pangbourne / Whitchurch and going via the Mapledurham estate into Caversham to be a better route than the Thames path

Should I do this ride again I think some beers in the Bull at Streatley followed by a train to Reading would be more suitable.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It’s not the Thames Path but I find crossing at Pangbourne / Whitchurch and going via the Mapledurham estate into Caversham to be a better route than the Thames path

As it goes I did go through Pangbourne and stayed on the road after that, but the main road, didn’t know any back routes…

 

[Elpenor]

Were you riding on the ridgeway? I’ve run from Streatley as far as a few miles past the Wantage Monument, some very steep hills especially in the last few miles coming into Streatley

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Were you riding on the ridgeway? I’ve run from Streatley as far as a few miles past the Wantage Monument, some very steep hills especially in the last few miles coming into Streatley

Yes, Swindon to Streatley, then on to Reading. Had lunch on the Wantage Monument, which was the first place I ever set up a sound system on the Ridgeway back in the distant past...

 

[T & P]

En route to LHR from the Middle East (a few hours ago as no free internet aboard). The Italian Alps in all their glory

 

[marty21]

Clapton Station , rush hour

 

[marty21]

An autumnal Clapton Station

 

[chainsawjob]

Winchester Services, London bound.

 

[Elpenor]

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Winchester Services, London bound.

I stopped there (on the southbound side) for a cup of tea and some food shortly after my Mum died earlier this year, just as lockdown no 3 started. It was about 9pm and I was the only person in the entire building apart from the Burger King staff. It felt very eerie.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[Supine]

Ramsgate's abandoned hoverport. Didn’t know it even existed.

 

[tim]

Tessa Jowell Health Centre.


I was reminded of this thread.


'Unseat Tessa Jowell.' Unseat Tessa Jowell.

The wonders that being dead can do for a politicians reputation. I pity the good folk of Southend.

 

[tim]

Dp

 

[teuchter]

This is one of those places that's being ruined by people from London coming down for the weekend, to visit their friends who live there after having moved down from London. It's an outrage.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[existentialist]

This is one of those places that's being ruined by people from London coming down for the weekend, to visit their friends who live there after having moved down from London. It's an outrage.

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(((teuchter)))

 

[chainsawjob]

Woolley Edge services, near Rotherham I think!