On 28 Jan 2019 10:19:40 +0000 (GMT)
Jonathan Amery wrote:
In article , wrote:

This is the UK, not the outback. There are pubs and service stations along
almost all roads. Finding somewhere to stop is usually a 15 min job at most
plus service station toilets are a damn site nicer than some stinking cramped
cupboard on a train.

You must go to some fairly boring places for holiday. We would

Nothing boring about Europe.

frequently travel the last hour entirely on B roads or worse and in

Where are you going where you need to travel for an hour on B roads? Northern
Scotland?

those days rural pubs wouldn't let children in even just to use the
toilets; I have no idea if that's improved since I don't have any of
my own.

These days most "pubs" are just family restaurants in disguise. Whether thats
a good thing or not probably depends on whether you have kids.

For that matter the few motorway services I have the misfortune to
encounter are rarely even as clean as railway toilets.

Its probably a toss up with station toilets vs service station toilets for
cleanliness. But most *train* toilets are usually fairly disgusting in the
few times I've seen in.

In article ,
wrote:
Where are you going where you need to travel for an hour on B roads? Northern
Scotland?

Destinations included the Lake District, Mid-Wales, North York Moors,
and East Anglia (although in East Anglia I suspect those roads were
officially A roads).

Nowadays I don't own a car so...

For that matter the few motorway services I have the misfortune to
encounter are rarely even as clean as railway toilets.

Its probably a toss up with station toilets vs service station toilets for
cleanliness. But most *train* toilets are usually fairly disgusting in the
few times I've seen in.

With the exception of Sidcup station which is basic but kept nicely
clean and Kings Cross where I'm always surprised by the cleanlyness
I'd probably put the train and station toilets the other way around in
the parts of the SE I travel in regularly.

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##### For the truths that still confound us,
#######__o Most of all that love has found us,
#######'/ Thanks be to God. - F. Pratt Green

On 28/01/2019 12:33, Jonathan Amery wrote:

and Kings Cross where I'm always surprised by the cleanlyness

Maybe because no-one uses them because the ones at St Pancras are free?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtJEAud9vao

On 28 Jan 2019 12:33:11 +0000 (GMT)
Jonathan Amery wrote:
In article ,
wrote:
Where are you going where you need to travel for an hour on B roads? Northern
Scotland?

Destinations included the Lake District, Mid-Wales, North York Moors,
and East Anglia (although in East Anglia I suspect those roads were
officially A roads).

You must have driven fairly leisurely then. Few places in England at least are
far from A roads these days.

On 28/01/2019 12:10, wrote:
On 28 Jan 2019 10:19:40 +0000 (GMT)
Jonathan Amery wrote:

You must go to some fairly boring places for holiday.

Nothing boring about Europe.

Frankfurt is a thing in Europe.

(thinking of the /M version... I've only ever passed through /O, which
for all I know might be like Barcelona on a bank holiday Friday when
someone is offering free beer)

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:08:00 +0000
Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 28/01/2019 12:10, wrote:
On 28 Jan 2019 10:19:40 +0000 (GMT)
Jonathan Amery wrote:

You must go to some fairly boring places for holiday.

Nothing boring about Europe.

Frankfurt is a thing in Europe.

(thinking of the /M version... I've only ever passed through /O, which
for all I know might be like Barcelona on a bank holiday Friday when
someone is offering free beer)

I've been to the business Frankfurt once. It was enough for one lifetime tbh.
Clean, efficient, friendly (for germany) but totally and utterly boring as hell.

wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:08:00 +0000
Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 28/01/2019 12:10, wrote:
On 28 Jan 2019 10:19:40 +0000 (GMT)
Jonathan Amery wrote:

You must go to some fairly boring places for holiday.

Nothing boring about Europe.

Frankfurt is a thing in Europe.

(thinking of the /M version... I've only ever passed through /O, which
for all I know might be like Barcelona on a bank holiday Friday when
someone is offering free beer)

I've been to the business Frankfurt once. It was enough for one lifetime tbh.
Clean, efficient, friendly (for germany) but totally and utterly boring as hell.



You didn’t go to the Feldbahnmuseum, then?

https://flic.kr/p/5zgANt

--
Jeremy Double

On 29 Jan 2019 12:20:49 GMT
Jeremy Double wrote:
wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:08:00 +0000
Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 28/01/2019 12:10, wrote:
On 28 Jan 2019 10:19:40 +0000 (GMT)
Jonathan Amery wrote:

You must go to some fairly boring places for holiday.

Nothing boring about Europe.

Frankfurt is a thing in Europe.

(thinking of the /M version... I've only ever passed through /O, which
for all I know might be like Barcelona on a bank holiday Friday when
someone is offering free beer)

I've been to the business Frankfurt once. It was enough for one lifetime tbh.

Clean, efficient, friendly (for germany) but totally and utterly boring as
hell.



You didn’t go to the Feldbahnmuseum, then?

https://flic.kr/p/5zgANt

No, but looks like an interesting place. However we were only in the city for
a day just passing through.

On 29/01/2019 12:20, Jeremy Double wrote:
wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:08:00 +0000
Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 28/01/2019 12:10, wrote:
On 28 Jan 2019 10:19:40 +0000 (GMT)
Jonathan Amery wrote:

You must go to some fairly boring places for holiday.

Nothing boring about Europe.

Frankfurt is a thing in Europe.

(thinking of the /M version... I've only ever passed through /O, which
for all I know might be like Barcelona on a bank holiday Friday when
someone is offering free beer)

I've been to the business Frankfurt once. It was enough for one lifetime tbh.
Clean, efficient, friendly (for germany) but totally and utterly boring as hell.



You didn’t go to the Feldbahnmuseum, then?

https://flic.kr/p/5zgANt

No, but I have been to the Strassenbahn museum. The chap who showed me
round had just been on holiday to Croydon...


--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

On 31/01/2019 18:55, Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 29/01/2019 12:20, Jeremy Double wrote:

You didn’t go to the Feldbahnmuseum, then?

https://flic.kr/p/5zgANt

No, but I have been to the Strassenbahn museum. The chap who showed me
round had just been on holiday to Croydon...

It's a long way to go just to see Croydon!
I hope he at least took in Purley as well.

--
Basil Jet - Current favourite song...
What by Bruce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtJEAud9vao