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Post by foss on Jul 16, 2014 20:54:31 GMT
 Well Canada in the New Forrest ,LOL still it was 61 miles on the old girl . Foss |
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Post by velocipete on Jul 16, 2014 21:29:56 GMT
Foss,I once rode to Gibralta,it was in Lancashire.Also to California,can't remember
where that was at the mo,may google it later.
Could start a new thread with this,places I've been to,but,not where you think.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Post by Jem on Jul 16, 2014 21:37:00 GMT
There's a California near Derby but as far as I know, no one ever refers to that area as such, but it does say it on the maps.
Foss, you would be a good tabloid headline writer. You drew me in with that title!
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Post by foss on Jul 16, 2014 22:05:21 GMT
I had another Epic "titled" ride in mind but I don't think there is a sign post as it's a small hamlet and 45 miles is a long way for no photograph for the "Places I've been to but not where you think" Album , though there is a place in America not far from Foss Towers .
Foss
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Post by sprockit on Jul 16, 2014 22:36:12 GMT
Pete,
There's a seaside village in Lincolnshire called California, though I don't recall there being much there.
We have a California (and a Baltimore) locally, so it could have been that when you frequented these parts, and you will no doubt have been to Slack Bottom!
It's also possible round here to set off from Scotland and travel north to Egypt!
Place names can be weird and wonderful.
Sprockit
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Post by cusqueno on Jul 17, 2014 6:48:27 GMT
I'm intrigued to know what you did once you got to Canada? Turn round and go back to Bognor? Or take a train or support vehicle a la TdF?
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Post by velocipete on Jul 17, 2014 7:03:37 GMT
Pete, There's a seaside village in Lincolnshire called California, though I don't recall there being much there. We have a California (and a Baltimore) locally, so it could have been that when you frequented these parts, and you will no doubt have been to Slack Bottom! It's also possible round here to set off from Scotland and travel north to Egypt! Place names can be weird and wonderful. Sprockit Thanks Dave,it was the California in Lincs.I have been to Slack Bottom,and there appears to be an outbreak of them in towns close to shops with a very large "M"! Cheers, Pete. |
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Post by cusqueno on Jul 17, 2014 8:45:18 GMT
Pete, There's a seaside village in Lincolnshire called California, though I don't recall there being much there. We have a California (and a Baltimore) locally, so it could have been that when you frequented these parts, and you will no doubt have been to Slack Bottom! It's also possible round here to set off from Scotland and travel north to Egypt! Place names can be weird and wonderful. Sprockit Of cause there's Washington, Tyne & Wear as I recall, and Boston in that flat bit to the east - Lincolnshire? |
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Post by foss on Jul 17, 2014 19:02:44 GMT
Mr cusqueno I cycled to Canada as that is wher the In-Laws live , the wife wanted to go to a certain Swedish shop So I got on the bike . As to what happened when I got there , I had a pint of cold French beer  Foss |
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Post by velocipete on Jul 17, 2014 19:27:04 GMT
Foss,should have been half a litre of French-Canadian beer.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Post by goldie on Jul 17, 2014 21:39:33 GMT
That sounds like the best way of dealing wiht the onset of the swedish shop. There's a limit to how much lingonberry sauce you can eat in one lifetime. And trips to the swedish shop always seem to result in a list of jobs when we get back home.
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Post by sprockit on Jul 17, 2014 21:41:27 GMT
I've also done the trip, in Lincolnshire, of about 12 miles from Boston to New York - and passed through Bunker's Hill on the way!
New York is about 2 miles south east of RAF Coningsby.
Could be an idea for a themed ride to places with American or other similarly connected place names.
Sprockit
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Post by velocipete on Jul 18, 2014 7:21:13 GMT
If we had a burger at each American named place,we'd soon end up with "Slack Bottom"!
Cheers,
Pete.
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