365 Project - Week 19
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curiouswombatNot all the pics are from the small island this week, either - we are back in York again, having a week's family holiday. Yes, I know, D-d lives here for 30 weeks a year - but there are touristy things she rather wanted to do, as well!
Most of the week was spent at home - but the high spot is shown in the last pic of the set!
Monday - on the Tynwald Day bank holiday I usually go out and take pictures of my garden - I really will get around to posting them eventually, but here is one of them, just a tiny corner of ivy covered wall with a couple of pots hidden amongst it -
Tuesday - this is a corner of our living room - well seen that D-d is home with a great deal of 'stuff'! By Wednesday it had all gone, tidied!
Wednesday - this is the entrance to the clinic building where I work. This was the only one of a group of boys I spotted climbing up the gate to get into the empty bus depot next door that didn't get over before I got the camera out...
Thursday - I seemed to be busy all week - work, family, getting ready to come away. This is the view from the carpark of the small supermarket where I stopped on the way home for milk and bread on Thursday.
Friday - it was day one of the Manx Rally - I was held up briefly by a traffic jam of rally cars in the middle of the countryside - this is the view of a rally car from my driver's seat!
Saturday - we came to York, so, down to the sea terminal for 7.45am, on the boat until 12.20pm, then a pleasant drive to York, including a lunch stop, arriving about 4.00pm. We are staying in a self-catering apartment - I will put a few more pics up of it soon. There was a complimentary bottle of bubbly stuff - D-d was in charge of opening it, and I just caught her as it began to spill -
Today - S2C was feeling a bit stiff and sore (not his own bed...), he was moaning that he missed the cat (being looked after by a neighbour and my niece), and didn't really want to leave the apartment, his computer and the TV (German Grand Prix). But he gave in, and came with us to the North Yorks Moors Railway.
First we couldn't get into the station car-park - but I found another one, then we had a nice lunch and got to the station - only to discover we were being pulled not by a steam train, but a diesel loco...so, S2C still in only just above 'tolerating it' mood.
Then we got to the other end of the line and - da, da, da, DAH! Sitting in the station, ready to take the next train down, was -
Sir Nigel Gresley! This is S2C's favourite historic train! So - we looked at him, took pictures, and then travelled straight back, rather than waiting for the next train.
So - we spent 65 minutes being pulled by Sir Nigel - one of the things S2C has always wanted to do. OK - it wasn't at over 110mph down the mainline, but even so... And we have watched the Grand Prix highlights after dinner too.
There will be more pictures over the next few days, all being well.
Most of the week was spent at home - but the high spot is shown in the last pic of the set!
Monday - on the Tynwald Day bank holiday I usually go out and take pictures of my garden - I really will get around to posting them eventually, but here is one of them, just a tiny corner of ivy covered wall with a couple of pots hidden amongst it -
Tuesday - this is a corner of our living room - well seen that D-d is home with a great deal of 'stuff'! By Wednesday it had all gone, tidied!
Wednesday - this is the entrance to the clinic building where I work. This was the only one of a group of boys I spotted climbing up the gate to get into the empty bus depot next door that didn't get over before I got the camera out...
Thursday - I seemed to be busy all week - work, family, getting ready to come away. This is the view from the carpark of the small supermarket where I stopped on the way home for milk and bread on Thursday.
Friday - it was day one of the Manx Rally - I was held up briefly by a traffic jam of rally cars in the middle of the countryside - this is the view of a rally car from my driver's seat!
Saturday - we came to York, so, down to the sea terminal for 7.45am, on the boat until 12.20pm, then a pleasant drive to York, including a lunch stop, arriving about 4.00pm. We are staying in a self-catering apartment - I will put a few more pics up of it soon. There was a complimentary bottle of bubbly stuff - D-d was in charge of opening it, and I just caught her as it began to spill -
Today - S2C was feeling a bit stiff and sore (not his own bed...), he was moaning that he missed the cat (being looked after by a neighbour and my niece), and didn't really want to leave the apartment, his computer and the TV (German Grand Prix). But he gave in, and came with us to the North Yorks Moors Railway.
First we couldn't get into the station car-park - but I found another one, then we had a nice lunch and got to the station - only to discover we were being pulled not by a steam train, but a diesel loco...so, S2C still in only just above 'tolerating it' mood.
Then we got to the other end of the line and - da, da, da, DAH! Sitting in the station, ready to take the next train down, was -
Sir Nigel Gresley! This is S2C's favourite historic train! So - we looked at him, took pictures, and then travelled straight back, rather than waiting for the next train.
So - we spent 65 minutes being pulled by Sir Nigel - one of the things S2C has always wanted to do. OK - it wasn't at over 110mph down the mainline, but even so... And we have watched the Grand Prix highlights after dinner too.
There will be more pictures over the next few days, all being well.
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Date: 12/07/2009 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/07/2009 07:43 pm (UTC)You'll see quite often pictures of my back yard or the supermarket. But for me you could post a hundred pictures of snow and I would still be fascinated!
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Date: 12/07/2009 08:18 pm (UTC)I love trains. It's a shame they are rarely used as transport in the States.
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Date: 12/07/2009 08:34 pm (UTC)The steam trains are all preserved ones - the NYMR is a preserved line run by volunteers - but for them to HAVE the Sir Nigel Gresley is amazing - it holds the British post-war steam train speed record, and is named after the designer of many steam trains, itself included. It is a bit like going to take a ferry ride in New York and finding that, today, they are using the Queen Mary...
But there are good modern trains running almost all through Europe - we will happily take a train between any two places we want to go, rather than the car - especially as parking is always difficult in strange cities!
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Date: 13/07/2009 01:41 am (UTC)With the Midwest to the west coast, though, everything is so far away from one another and the population centers so small that passenger trains don't make sense. If we wanted to take a train to Tampa, Florida, it would take three days there and three days back! There goes the vacation. And it's twice as expensive as flying.
Oh, an exceptional train was the Sir Nigel--how fortuitous!
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Date: 13/07/2009 04:47 pm (UTC)Most of the long distance trains are well able to travel at over 100mph, so the 260 miles as the crow flies from Newcastle to the centre of London takes about 3 hours, even with stops at three or four stations en route. Flying it, allowing for getting out of town to the airport, and into the centre of London at the other end, check-in time and so on, will not be a great deal different!
But I can see why train journeys would be a bit long winded in the US! We just don't have the distances to cover.
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Date: 12/07/2009 09:20 pm (UTC)I already have quite a few pictures - but mostly the apartment and the trains so far!
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Date: 13/07/2009 08:01 am (UTC)I don't think it would be a viable business somehow - it would be not dissimilar to trying to herd them!
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Date: 13/07/2009 08:57 am (UTC)Love the ivy and surfinia (sic) too! Big ivy fan here!
That engine looks a lot like the Mallard which is my favourite historical train. Glad S2C got his dream and is ever so slightly jealous. North York Moors Railway? Is that the one that goes through Haworth to Skipton?
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Date: 13/07/2009 04:34 pm (UTC)The little supermarket is on a fairly busy road - but as the road climbs up behind the promenade, the edge of the car park looks out that way - it has often struck me as a rather good view, wasted on a car park!
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Date: 13/07/2009 04:51 pm (UTC)Sir Nigel Gresley is capable of fast travel - but was restricted to about 50mph on this line, sadly. The A4 Pacifics are that shape at the front, not for streamlining, but to direct the air so that the smoke is all taken up away from the passengers even if the windows are open - how neat is that?
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Date: 14/07/2009 05:46 am (UTC)And D-d cut her hair! It looks really cute!
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Date: 14/07/2009 09:17 am (UTC)D-d's hair is really cute - I have a couple of other pics in which it shows better that I will post over this week as I have time.