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  1. Last night on a 30 mile ride, I decided to visit my favourite local place, this remote spot where
    no one walks to, as it's a mile walk to a dead end and then back again, so it provides a great
    place for a bit of solitude on a summer's evening watching the shipping on the Humber and the
    wading birds .

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    As it was starting to get dark, I headed back, only to find the locks gates open here. The
    Zeebrugge ferry had left the docks and they decided to leave the flaming gates open, even though
    it's a right of way.

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    Not wanting to trespass on the dock and use the other set of gates, I had to wait until some speck
    on the horizon turned up and enter the lock, which left me there for over an hour. The infuriating
    thing was, the Rotterdam ferry was barely 100 metres away in the river and I could smell all the
    gourmet food wafting across from the restaurants

    (Mr Pedantic says the wind was easterly last night and you were east of the ferry, so you couldn't
    have smelt it.) Yeah well, I could hear the cutlery.

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    Simon Mason Anlaby East Yorkshire. 53°44'N 0°26'W simonmason.karoo.netsimonmason.karoo.net

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    Last night on a 30 mile ride, I decided to visit my favourite local place, this remote spot where
    no one walks to, as it's a mile walk to a dead end and then back again, so it provides a great
    place for a bit of solitude on


    a

    Quoted message said:

    summer's evening watching the shipping on the Humber and the wading birds


    .

    Quoted message said:


    makeashorterlink.commakeashorterlink.com

    As it was starting to get dark, I headed back, only to find the locks


    gates

    Quoted message said:

    open here. The Zeebrugge ferry had left the docks and they decided to


    leave

    Quoted message said:

    the flaming gates open, even though it's a right of way.

    makeashorterlink.commakeashorterlink.com

    Not wanting to trespass on the dock and use the other set of gates, I had


    to

    Quoted message said:

    wait until some speck on the horizon turned up and enter the lock, which left me there for over an
    hour. The infuriating thing was, the Rotterdam ferry was barely 100 metres away in the river and I
    could smell all the gourmet food wafting across from the restaurants

    (Mr Pedantic says the wind was easterly last night and you were east of


    the

    Quoted message said:

    ferry, so you couldn't have smelt it.) Yeah well, I could hear the


    cutlery.

    Quoted message said:


    --
    Simon Mason Anlaby East Yorkshire. 53°44'N 0°26'W simonmason.karoo.netsimonmason.karoo.net

    you should be careful hanging around the docks late at night 😉

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