On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:03:00 +0200, "theo" <[email hidden]>
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The railway journey seems to be very scenic but it's also expensive. I always used the Skyeways bus, much cheaper (11 BP) and faster. Departure times from Fort Bill (at the back of the railwaystation) to Glasgow Queen Street Station : 8am and 12am. Travelling time 2,5-3 hrs.
no-ooooooooo!!! don't go that tacky; the walk is on a bleedin' bus route arterall!!
Don't use the bus!! On the Cornish Coastal Path 2 years ago my feet were so swollen I couldn't got my boots on so my two pals walked the 27 mile Fowey to Portloe stage without me. As I has never given up on a LDP before I put on my comfy evening shoes and walked 25 miles to Portloe, all at the side of the bloody road. But I never used a bus - phew, it still hurts recalling that day!
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There are also links to 5 great journals from people who have walked the WHW.
Muchos gracias
...hope you don't mind, I need to practice my language skills, I'm well into conversing with the locals!
no-ooooooooo!!! don't go that tacky; the walk is on a bleedin' bus route arterall!!
Don't use the bus!! On the Cornish Coastal Path 2 years ago my feet were so swollen I couldn't got my boots on so my two pals walked the 27 mile Fowey to Portloe stage without me. As I has never given up on a LDP before I put on my comfy evening shoes and walked 25 miles to Portloe, all at the side of the bloody road. But I never used a bus - phew, it still hurts recalling that day!
Oh, and the shoes fell apart the next day - I had to buy new ones in Falmouth - still got them!
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There are also links to 5 great journals from people who have walked the WHW.
Muchos gracias
...hope you don't mind, I need to practice my language skills, I'm well into conversing with the locals!
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:03:00 +0200, "theo" <[email hidden]>
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The railway journey seems to be very scenic but it's also expensive. I always used the Skyeways bus, much cheaper (11 BP) and faster. Departure times from Fort Bill (at the back of the railwaystation) to Glasgow Queen Street Station : 8am and 12am. Travelling time 2,5-3 hrs.
Ah! That interesting to know. SteveO
Just one correction Steve. The Skyeways bus goes from Fort Bill to Glasgow Buchanan Busstation, a 10 minutes walk from Queen Street Train Station. -- Theo www.theosphotos.fotopic.net [email hidden]
The railway journey seems to be very scenic but it's also expensive. I always used the Skyeways bus, much cheaper (11 BP) and faster. Departure times from Fort Bill (at the back of the railwaystation) to Glasgow Queen Street Station : 8am and 12am. Travelling time 2,5-3 hrs.
Correction: 13GBP
4 busses a day: one 8-something (or 7:50?), one 11:20 (I took it), one around 2PM and one later in the evening (around 7PM).
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:58:14 +0200, Chris Loffredo <[email hidden]>
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Just came back from doing WHW last night.
Nice one!
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It was WET! For the first time in my life my boots started getting mouldy!!!
The type of fungicide you're now applying? ;-)
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If you have any specific questions, plese ask...
Cheers, I've just about got my hybrid plans sorted; a few loose ends to attend to - see if they can be tied, that sort of thing - then I'll know if I can go :-)
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Katherine said:
> >Talking of toffee - for years I thought that those Highland Cows on
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> >wrapper of McGowans Toffee bars - gave ready made toffee instead of
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McCowans?/ Were they the lot that had a factory next to Stenhousemuir Football ground?
Stenhousemuir - ooooo I plead ignorance there sorry. The only team I've EVER watched and incidentally totally adored the fun of it - was Greenock Morton. The commentator (a family member) actually interrupted the League match to say: "Would Mr So-n-so please meet his wife at the entrance with the house-keys, as she's locked out!" - laughter stopped play.
Stenhousemuir - ooooo I plead ignorance there sorry. The only team I've EVER watched and incidentally totally adored the fun of it - was Greenock Morton. The commentator (a family member) actually interrupted the League match to say: "Would Mr So-n-so please meet his wife at the entrance with the house-keys, as she's locked out!" - laughter stopped play.
Kay
Got my reg read out at Doncaster once.. left the lights on, after a worrying trip over from a morning it the Goyt. And it was a 0-0.
Talking of toffee - for years I thought that those Highland Cows on the wrapper of McGowans Toffee bars - gave ready made toffee instead of milk.
LOL!! I always think of those milk biscuits as coming straight from cows... Talking of which, I saw some cows today in an unexpected place. They were grazing in Epping Forest in a large area with an electric fence around it. Big horns, white coats with reddish patches, possibly Highland cattle. I think it's part of a plan to fertilise the forest more naturally and to keep the old laws on grazing active.
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Stenhousemuir - ooooo I plead ignorance there sorry. The only team I've EVER watched and incidentally totally adored the fun
of
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it - was Greenock Morton. The commentator (a family member) actually interrupted the League match to say: "Would Mr So-n-so please meet his
wife
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at the entrance with the house-keys, as she's locked out!" - laughter stopped play.
Kay
Got my reg read out at Doncaster once.. left the lights on, after a worrying trip over from a morning it the Goyt. And it was a 0-0.
Made my first trip oop North just last month to a bikers party in Derby. It's crazy isn't it, I've walked all over the place and missed out the middle of England. I couldn't stop being amazed at the beauty - plus Old Speckled Hen is half the price of Cambridge.
Talking of which, I saw some cows today in an unexpected place. They were grazing in Epping Forest in a large area with an electric fence around it. Big horns, white coats with reddish patches, possibly Highland cattle. I think it's part of a plan to fertilise the forest more naturally and to keep the old laws on grazing active.
Despite those horns they are very docile. Very hardy too and able to survive with a minimum of care unlike more modern breeds.
The plan is to keep the forest open by keeping back the scrub, those cows will eat anything. The fence is temporary to keep them straying whist they get used to their new home. -- Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"
