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Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by TOG, Jul 24, 2007.

  1. TOG

    Cab Guest

    Rope wrote:

    Ah right, so it's accurate, give or take 16m? Nice.
     
    Cab, Jul 25, 2007
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    CT Guest

    Actually, it's OK[1]. It has a nice beach[2] and some reasonable bars
    & restaurants. Get away from the ferry terminal & hypermarkets and go
    into the 'town proper' and it's fine. Of course, it was about 12 years
    ago that I did this.

    [1] Jeez, last week I was defending Malaga and now Calais. Wherever
    next?
    [2] Sandy and fine f you like watching car ferries coming in and going
    out of the port.
     
    CT, Jul 25, 2007
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  3. Um? 10 year old ERS2's SAR had (or still has?) a topography resolution
    of 3m and a bathography (or is it bathymetry?) of 0.3m (or it could be
    the other way around).

    And as for its reaction to trees, running C band radar it can see to the
    bottom of the oceans so:

    Trees what trees?

    All from memory from being at it's launch from Kourou, can't be arsed to
    look it up.
     
    Mick Whittingham, Jul 25, 2007
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    Eddie Guest

    *cough*

    I'll have you know I (and AndrewR) went to see said author on the book
    launch tour.
     
    Eddie, Jul 25, 2007
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    Paul - xxx Guest

    I was trying to be sarcastic. ;)
     
    Paul - xxx, Jul 25, 2007
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    Eddie Guest

    You're just jealous.
     
    Eddie, Jul 25, 2007
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    Cab Guest

    Heh, are you temporarily insane?

    I would (just about) defend Malaga. Too many bloody tourists.
     
    Cab, Jul 25, 2007
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    CT Guest

    It wasn't too crowded when we went in March.

    There's the Picasso museum, the Alcazaba and there's a decent beach.
    It's a nice Spanish town (IMO) esp. when you wander off to the bits
    which most of the tourists don't bother with.
     
    CT, Jul 25, 2007
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    Des Guest

    Proximity to England.

    D.
     
    Des, Jul 25, 2007
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  10. Because most of it is used as a public lavvy by the inhabitants. The
    first tour over there it took me a while to get used to the rural
    inhabitants habit of wandering over to the side of the street for a
    quick slash.

    Phil
     
    Phil Launchbury, Jul 25, 2007
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    Ace Guest

    The smell drifts south across the channel, I imagine.

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    Ace, Jul 25, 2007
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  12. You do realise you just made the same comment as Des?

    You may wish to make a will before using the straight razor.

    Phil.
     
    Phil Launchbury, Jul 25, 2007
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    dog Guest

    it was at this point that i made a saccade back to the subject line.
     
    dog, Jul 25, 2007
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  14. The market near where we were based (the nearest beer shop) had a small
    side street where the smell was indescribable. All the market traders
    used it despite the fact that they had perfectly usable public toilets
    in the market square.

    Still - we only needed to go there when we ran out of beer or wine so
    it wasn't too bad.

    Phil.
     
    Phil Launchbury, Jul 25, 2007
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    Des Guest

    LOL!

    I hate the fucking North. A bint I used to live with came from Lens
    (actually born in La Sarthe (72 [1]), which they say contains the most
    backward people in France), and whenever we had to go to see her mum and
    sister (the latter having the most _perfect_ pair of pert breasts I've
    _ever_ seen), I was like on a downer for the whole week before going. We'd
    go to the local 'Champion' (a supermarket inside a dreary, depressing
    shopping centre, 80% of the shops in it being boarded up), and everyone
    would be knocking about in shellsuits (as I believe they used to be called
    in Blighty) and white trainers, with white socks. Maybe that repulsed me
    because it was a little too close to the Scotland which I'd fled to escape
    from classless pikeys.

    The 'Ch'ti' [2], as they're known, are reputed for being very warm people
    (in the same way that the Scots are known for stopping to help tourists in
    Glasgow or Edinburgh who stand with a map in their hand [3]), and it's
    true, they are sort of down-to-earth, gritty types. But the place is just
    so dreary, and when you take the TGV, you know you're in hell when the
    landscape becomes flat (punctuated by the occasional abandoned mine), grey
    and rainy (the rain always starts at Arras at the latest).

    D.

    [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarthe
    [2] http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch'ti
    [3] I still do this in Paris, and people often look at me as I'm trying to
    lift their wallet..
     
    Des, Jul 25, 2007
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    Des Guest

    Don't tell him, he'll get big-headed.

    D.
     
    Des, Jul 25, 2007
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    M J Carley Guest

    You make a will before having a shave?
     
    M J Carley, Jul 25, 2007
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  18. That's a very big bladder you have there. Been to Fool School?

    Phil
     
    Phil Launchbury, Jul 25, 2007
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    Ace Guest

    Aaaaaaagh! No, I didn't, of course, but I could have guessed.

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    Ace, Jul 25, 2007
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  20. I don't shave. Me with a razor? I wouldn't want to tempt fate :)

    Plus it makes me look like something off the butchers slab after about
    3 days.

    Phil.
     
    Phil Launchbury, Jul 25, 2007
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