Monday, March 25, 2013

Six in the City

Apologies for the lack of words, but the first script was wiped out by some blogger malarky..

This is my group for the day, there are three Austrians amongst them

Rain

Steak and Ale pie for breakfast?

Porridge

I order mushy peas for Mrs N  - she has been feeling a bit peculiar of late


Take your pick

One Greek, one Austrian and two mongrels

The pipes on the right represent the West Coast mainline

Boat trip for brass monkeys

Going straight

Tower Bridge - camera on incorrect setting

Canary Wharf


Improving modern art

A dose of converging verticals

The River Thames or Isis if you are in Oxford

This is London

This is London

Land of Hope and Glory at the Albert Hall

23 comments:

  1. Thank you. I now have the Wombles singing in my head - underground, overground, Wombles are we...
    And these probably aren't the correct lyrics.
    Sx

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  2. Blimey, N, you got around a bit! Manage to get any jellied eels or pie and mash?

    "Underground, overground, wombling free, the wombles of wimbledon common are we" - sorry, just thought I'd help out as your resident Londoner.

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    1. I'm strictly a black pudding and spam man these days.

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  3. Wombling around the Thames. Bundled up ye are!

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  4. Great pictures Nikos. It looks like a great day wandering with friends.

    And you got to eat at the Ace - jealous.

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    1. As far as I was concerned going to the Ace was the sole objective of my guided tour that day - unfortunately they wanted to see Tower Bridge too - blooming tourists!

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    2. @ the ace, have u met mr mark w. or mr g.t.?

      next time there, ask them: where's the greek boss???

      :))

      cheers patrioti

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  5. Nice pictures Nikos, looks a little blustery and cold though!

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    1. It certainly was and remains so brrrrrrrrrr

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  6. I like my porridge toppled with cinnamon and cane sugar, am I peculiar, too?

    Thanks for the tourist pics, I was wondering if Big Ben is still there...

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    1. Just avoid mushy peas, only the best of us eat porridge!

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  7. Great tour of London - thanks. Might get there one day - too bad it's such a long swim (smirk).

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    1. We have a tunnel now, so Europe is not cut off anymore. The Atlantic is more of a challenge!

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    1. I'll see if I can get my spelling right this time...

      Hmmmmm....... more like "The Clanpetts do London" perhaps? ;-)

      Gold Star type tank, BSA twin. Rocket Gold Star?? If correct, a very rare beast!

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    2. You had better come over soon to inspect the BSA in person!?

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  9. Brilliant, Scarley: I was wondering why they'd (rather counter-intuitively) put 'Underground' above 'Overground', but it's so's we can sing the lyrics to the Womble song!

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    1. I preferred the Magic Roundabout - never liked Wimbledon Common much

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  10. wooooo hoooooooo - I have spam at last!

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  11. Dear Sir:

    Well this is spiffy. I love London, and have been here a number of times. I think Tower Bridge is one of the coolest places on earth. I think steak and ale pie for breakfast beats mushy peas and eggs any day of the week. As you are aware. I love trains, Can you explain the odd rail arrangement?

    Why do I even ask this, you never explain anything.

    Fondest regards,
    Jack/reep
    Twisted Roads

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    1. Jack,
      The lines are electrified with a four-rail DC system: a conductor rail between the rails is energised at −210 V and a rail outside the running rails at +420 V, giving a potential difference of 630 V. On the sections of line shared with main line trains, such as the District line from East Putney to Wimbledon and Gunnersbury to Richmond, and the Bakerloo line north of Queen's Park, the centre rail is bonded to the running rails.

      As you said, I never explain anything, thanks for looking at my humble offering, reading my blog, and passing comment, N

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