Newbie Questions: Aussie coming to blighty

I can't visualise that. I keep coming up with some sort of Planet of the
Apes outtake.

 

platypus says...

*ding*

 

You've got to grow one for the BOSM, and we can all have a laugh. Then we
can shave you for charidee.

 

ogden says...

 

platypus says...

I won't, I absolutely hate facial hair on me now

 

Oh, go on.

 

and I suspect the Greater London figure is a bit old as well.

Let's just agree that London is big, like the outer ring-road (M25) is 117
miles (187kms) long.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Emerson"

so mind-bogglingly big...

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the cont known as Lozzo says...

Tell her to have a shave then

 

Well I won't argue that that is on the agenda

Naah I won't be doing that, I'm only good on the drinking side of the
bar. Besides I'm a bit old for the traditional backpacker schtick.

Hehe, as do yours when they come and invade Bondi every summer, which I
don't mind in the slightest, British lasses seem to have little
inhibition about getting their boobs out

JL
(It's all good)

 

Some idea but not totally au fait. I've been there twice briefly on
business, I know it's big (and bloody expensive in a cab from Heathrow).
I've not seen anything outside of a couple pubs, hotels and offices,
plus the airport - ie nothing much outside the city.

Yeah, I figured, hell it takes me an hour to get out of Sydney on the
weekend (I live in the inner city). But there's a difference between
that and "it takes an hour and half to get to the outskirts and then
you have to ride 3 hours up a motorway to find good curvy road (ie ride
4 hours to get to good riding)". Is it the case once you clear the main
city you get onto fun roads (ie is it maybe, under 2 hours to get to the
good stuff ? ) Obviously it depends on where you'll be living but
assuming city centre-ish.

IIRC it's more like 17m and 20m respectively, but regardless, yes, big
city, that's one of the reasons I want to live there,

No idea yet, I'll be getting there in early '06,any suggestions where I
should look ? Should be able to earn a decent wage* so I'd like to live
somewhere reasonably nice, not planning on backpacking it or sharing a
squat with 40 others.

So it doesn't matter where you head, there are that many good riding
roads ? No favourites ?

JL
*something significantly better than average weekly earnings anyway

 

Yeah but almost half of them are in the UK According to the SMH anyway.

On the other hand we have over a million Poms in Oz...so it's currently
running in the UK's favour.

JL
(the big difference is the Aussies come back when they retire)

 

Cab scribbled on the back of a napkin:

And that makes him different from all the other politicians exactly how?

 

Persactly. Which was the only time on ukrm, that everyone seems to be
in agreement. Nearly.

 

Isn't the pope head of state for Vatican city?

<thinks>

So is there *anyone* on the not a **** list then?

 

Mine is silver/gunmetal... I've grown it because of the cold
weather... It makes me look like an older version of me, not
surprisingly...
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A sort of Jean Reno look?

http://www.cbo-boxoffice.com/full/p4137.jpg

 

snip

In the right light...
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John Littler wrote:
[...]

There's a few good roads inside the M25 (London circle road),
and many more just outside. 4 hours gets you to fucking Wales
or Scotland. It's a bloody small country. I used to ride year
round around London (with a few days off for snow and the like).
Further north it gets a little bit colder.

Course, haven't been there for almost 3 years now, so things
might have changed.

 

Thanks. Any particular areas to head for, for preference ? Or just go
for a ride and see where you end up(1) ?

JL
(1)<Mental note: buy GPS>
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