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« on: September 23, 2019, 02:56:33 »
It has been lovely spending the last ten days sampling the north east coastline of the USA - Boston and Newport (Rhode Island), New York, Portland (Maine) and Bar Harbour, but it's lovely to get out of the heat, hussle and bustle, ratrace and queuing and feel the cool air flowing into our cabin on board "Aurora" as we set sail, via a couple more Canadian ports, for home. Lisa and I have never taken a holiday of over a fortnight before (and that was exceptional) and at home we have plenty of space to be within each other's orbits, whilst not being in each other's pockets. So some concern on how this would go. We needn't have worried, though!   Here's come pictures from the USA, and here's hoping you'll have me back.

Can you place which picture is which of the visits listed above?

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« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2019, 17:28:28 »
You can tell we're back in Canada. 





See http://www.passenger.chat/22198 for other pictures from Canada.
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2025, 20:29:16 »
I've just stumbled across this topic, while I was looking for something else.  So, with my humble apologies for such a belated reply:

1.  Boston.  And (at least) one of those muskets laid out on that table is a British army 'Brown Bess', probably dating back to the American War of Independence.
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« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2025, 17:48:53 »
5 looks like Bar Harbor
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« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2025, 18:17:25 »
Thank you, eXPassenger: I'm now even more glad that I have resurrected this 'ancient' topic, in the course of my ongoing 'tidying up' here on the Coffee Shop forum.  Wink
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner."  Discuss.
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« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2025, 19:52:50 »
Any bonus points for identifying the pink Routemasters as being from Halifax, Nova Scotia?
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« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2025, 19:55:44 »
Quote from: eXPassenger on January 18, 2025, 17:48:53
5 looks like Bar Harbor

Quote from: Chris from Nailsea on January 18, 2025, 18:17:25
Thank you, eXPassenger: I'm now even more glad that I have resurrected this 'ancient' topic, in the course of my ongoing 'tidying up' here on the Coffee Shop forum.  Wink



Bar Harbour, indeed, and had me looking back through my old piccies
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« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2025, 12:00:32 »
The Clifton Suspension Bridge seems to changed design since I last saw it!

But very pleased that 'our' Clifton doesn't have a car park as vast as that one.
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