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Oh dear damned if you do, damned if you don't. Too much exercise and you're in trouble, but then the war wound prevents you sitting around on your bum as well!
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Is Severn Beach more mud kind of beach than sand?
I spent some days last week on the Somerset coast at the Haven in Doniford Bay, and was amazed they advertise as being near to the beach, which was just a mud beach!
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For the genuinely desparate, a return Temple Meads to Severn Beach costs a mere ^3 for a 26 mile round trip. Don't expect a beach, although there is a Severn. It has its charms.
Hexcuse ME! The Severn Beach Line is listed by Thomas Cook as one of the Great Railway Journies (see here). I think you'd have to be pretty tired of life not to find the combination of North Bristol's cityscape, the Avon Gorge, industrial Avonmouth and the Severn Estuary exhillerating. And at three quid, it's quite a bargain. And you'll be home in time for a swift couple, followed perhaps by a slower couple, at the Barley Mow. What's not to like? If you're looking for more entertainment, do it twice! A Bemmy Boy! I speak in jest, and agree that it is a trip well worth making for its own sake. The only ugly bit is Avonmouth, and that is fascinating. There is talk of cruise liners calling into Avonmouth. I have pointed out in Another Place that the savvy travvy (Mrs FTN and myself are veterans of 4 cruises thus far) will realise that rather than taking a fifty quid excursion to Bristol or Bath, he can catch the train for a mere ^3.00, see Bristol in its pomp, and still be back at the Royal in Gloucester Road Avonmouth in time for pre-embarkation cocktails, canap^s, and dancing (alright, cider, crisps and a fight/shag/both). Spike Milligan was right. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You can get it out with Optrex*" (*Other eyecare products are available) |
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« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2013, 21:44:16 » |
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Oh dear damned if you do, damned if you don't. Too much exercise and you're in trouble, but then the war wound prevents you sitting around on your bum as well!
S'okay. I got one of those comedy inflatable doughnut cushions for sitting around on. In answer to richwarwicker. It's pretty much mud at low tide all the way from Severn Beach to Porlock. |
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« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2013, 22:00:31 » |
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A Bemmy Boy!
Other Barleys Mow are also available - I meant the one in The Dings! |
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« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2013, 22:02:53 » |
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Well worth a quick stroll over the rickety stainless-steel bridge from Temple Meads, I'd say... of course, some people prefer the Kernigguts Templar. Hey ho.
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I blow my nose at your so called Arthur King. You and all your silly English Kerniggits! I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! You're mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.  Sorry to the OP▸ . Blame Red Squirrel for giving me the lead in to Monty Python. |
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Come on, BNM. "We're Kerniggits of the Round Table, we dance whenever we're able". Or so I thought over drinkie-poos last Wednesday.
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For the genuinely desparate, a return Temple Meads to Severn Beach costs a mere ^3 for a 26 mile round trip. Don't expect a beach, although there is a Severn. It has its charms.
Hexcuse ME! The Severn Beach Line is listed by Thomas Cook as one of the Great Railway Journies (see here). I think you'd have to be pretty tired of life not to find the combination of North Bristol's cityscape, the Avon Gorge, industrial Avonmouth and the Severn Estuary exhillerating. And at three quid, it's quite a bargain. And you'll be home in time for a swift couple, followed perhaps by a slower couple, at the Barley Mow. What's not to like? If you're looking for more entertainment, do it twice! A Bemmy Boy! I speak In jest, and agree that it is a trip well worth making for its own sake. The only ugly bit is Avonmouth, and that is fascinating. There is talk of cruise liners calling into Avonmouth. I have pointed out in Another Place that the savvy travvy (Mrs FTN and myself are veterans of 4 cruises thus far) will realise that rather than taking a fifty quid excursion to Bristol or Bath, he can catch the train for a mere ^3.00, see Bristol in its pomp, and still be back at the Royal in Gloucester Road Avonmouth in time for pre-embarkation cocktails, canap^s, and dancing (alright, cider, crisps and a fight/shag/both). Spike Milligan was right. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You can get it out with Optrex*" (*Other eyecare products are available) Indeed, on a recent holiday to Tenerife, my tour operator was selling full day coach tours of the Island for 75 Euros per person, (children 50% discount). Considering there was my wife, 2 children and myself I did a little research on the routes they tour, and took the decision to hire a car. The car cost me 35 Euros per day which was a mid sized hatchback, and petrol was around 1 Euro a litre. Based on this I was amazed to see the coach tour leaving our hotel full everyday (our hotel was the last pickup). I hired for 4 days, and used around 30 euros petrol. People will buy whatever the tour operator / cruise company are selling regardless of price for their excursions which totally amazes me. |
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