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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 27, 2020 8:00:19 GMT
Lancaster isn't in the same league as York, Chester, or Durham. It's fairly disappointing, remarkably small (hang on, I sound like my wife now), and the places which look interesting, such as the castle, are closed to the public. I did used to go out with someone who lived on Golgotha Road, which was a perfect name for a goth. Not been for a few years, mind, the uni seems to have gotten enormous since I was last there.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Jan 27, 2020 8:21:45 GMT
Ah, it's maybe not quite in the same league as those places and it IS small, but it's charming in similar ways (well preserved, basically). The castle is open to the public now (at least more of it than there was) and the large number of students mean there's a few more hip places to eat and drink. I had a really excellent coffee and brownie in this place yesterday ) And John Shuttleworth was magnificent.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Jan 27, 2020 14:44:03 GMT
Anyone want to travel around the UK (and maybe Europe) with me by train?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2020 17:23:05 GMT
Anyone want to travel around the UK (and maybe Europe) with me by train? I don't suppose you'd volunteer to clean dishes in any shared room?
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Post by Crunchy Col on Jan 27, 2020 18:27:19 GMT
'shared room'?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2020 18:29:57 GMT
Yeah, we could play gin rummy at night.
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Post by hippopotamus on Jan 27, 2020 19:56:49 GMT
Anyone want to travel around the UK (and maybe Europe) with me by train? I thought the point of this thread was all about how you hate trains in the UK. I ALWAYS want to go on train trips. I extremely want to go on the newly refurbished Flying scotsman overnight trips www.belmond.com/trains/europe/scotland/belmond-royal-scotsman/accommodationBut recently I realised I have never done a PROPERLY long train trip... you need to go somewhere with a large mainland to cover the appropriate distance, but I also worry its something one does in the Folly of Youth.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 27, 2020 19:57:50 GMT
Coan and sloop
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Post by Crunchy Col on Jan 27, 2020 20:01:42 GMT
Anyone want to travel around the UK (and maybe Europe) with me by train? I thought the point of this thread was all about how you hate trains in the UK. Ah, it's a love/hate thing, K. I LOVE trains when everything's right. Too often, especially in this country, they're not. Yes, I worry about that too. The last time I took a night train in Europe was about 10 years ago, and it was a miserable experience. But I was acutely aware that the sort of things I was moaning about then (noisy, pissed-up travellers, crowded compartments, constant through-the-night announcements) were actually the things that made the journeys FUN when I was in my twenties!
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Post by tory on Jan 27, 2020 20:40:37 GMT
I've done most of Europe on trains. I've been across America, Australia and Japan too.
I'd love to do it again, but will reserve it for a time with my boy.
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Post by Cousin Lou on Jan 27, 2020 22:15:14 GMT
Traintravel is fantastic. The longest I did were:
1/ rotterdam - Thessaloniki 2/ johannesburg - capetown 3/ St. Petersburg - Moscow
I was quite a bit younger then but I think I would still do them again.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Jan 28, 2020 7:33:47 GMT
I still can't tell the difference between Manchester/Lancashire and Yorkshire accents. It's strange.
Liverpool quite clearly has its own thing, Newcastle too, but put someone from Sheffield next to someone from Wigan and I wouldn't be able to tell you who was who.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 28, 2020 8:03:04 GMT
Fucking racist.
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Post by tory on Jan 28, 2020 8:38:34 GMT
I can just about make out a really heavy Yorkshire accent, but put them next to a Manc one and I'm struggling.
The one accent I can identify is a Cheshire one - more scouse than anything, but not as definite.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 9:50:31 GMT
Lancaster isn't in the same league as York, Chester, or Durham. It's fairly disappointing, remarkably small (hang on, I sound like my wife now), and the places which look interesting, such as the castle, are closed to the public. I did used to go out with someone who lived on Golgotha Road, which was a perfect name for a goth. Not been for a few years, mind, the uni seems to have gotten enormous since I was last there.
It reminded me of Hexham more than Durham, for a North East equivalent. Although Durham's castle is closed as well (it's used as the University halls).
I can't say I've been too impressed with any town in the North West outside of Manchester and Liverpool, unfortunately.
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