Mornington Crescent - Return Ticket

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  • Weston-super-Mare
  • Now to give a choice of next moves Southport, which is it to be electric or diesel?
  • ferry, of course
    Wemyss Bay
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich
  • Hmm, where else can we see historic ships? I was going to say Chatham, but it's quite a walk from the station to the Dockyard. M Shed (Bristol Harbour Railway) will do.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Ipswich
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited June 2019
    Are you really sure? What would D. say? St. Botolph's.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    These days when Ipswich is mentioned, what D. says is, "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear". :cry:

    Next season they'll be playing Colchester ...
  • This allows a smash to Scollay Square in Boston. Don't forget the extra nickle to leave
  • And back to the proper Boston and hence to Thorpe Culvert.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Hmm. Should I go for Kilburn

    No. But sticking with the same watercourse…

    Sloane Square
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    I was thinking to go there on the previous move. But seeing as we're there now...Maida Vale (which, btw, I thought was Maid Of Ale until I saw it written down when I moved to London in my late 20s)
  • Kew Gardens: not for the horticulture but the delicious "Maids of Honour": https://theoriginalmaidsofhonour.co.uk/
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Oh, if we're talking about FOOD ... there are some seriously good eateries in

    Covent Garden


  • or there's Borough for Borough Market
  • I thought of that - but London Bridge is much nearer.
  • (But we've been to London Bridge lots, and I was trying to find more interesting places to go.) Hammersmith for the River Café
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    You have to mind your step going over Hammersmith Bridge, just as you have to mind your pronunciation as you go to Anerley.
  • well, "I nearly" went there too, so I'll head , instead, for Hampstead
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    WK, you're such a wee pet - you handed it to me on a plate, decorated with strategically placed parsley sprigs ...

    MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

    Now that that's out of the way, I think we'll head slightly North:

    Doncaster
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Why stick at ‘slightly’…


    Thurso
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Why indeed?

    Bergen
  • Hell.
  • End of the World (Southern Fuegian Railway)
  • balaambalaam Shipmate
    Le Havre go Lionesses.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Paris Gare du Nord
  • Stratford International
  • Canada Water
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Canary Wharf
  • Turkey Street
  • Thorpe-le-Soken (the the Sokens apparently had an unusual status under ecclesiastical law)
  • Wivenhoe - on the same line, very pretty little riverside settlement with folklore that the name derived from the wyvern. It didn't, it relates to Saxon etymology.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    My father-in-law came from Wivenhoe. Meanwhile, while we're in Essex,

    Kelvedon

    Sorry about that ... :mrgreen:
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Returning to civilisation via Queens Road Peckham.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Well, not to go against the groan grain…

    Peckham Rye
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    As the Proper Tennis™ season has begun, Wimbledon would be appropriate.
  • Jengie JonJengie Jon Shipmate
    edited July 2019
    Oh you want tennis in which case we better head for Five Ways for Edgebaston Archery.
  • But you don't want Wimbledon for the tennis, you want South Wimbledon or West Kensington for Queens Club.
  • Wet KipperWet Kipper Shipmate
    edited July 2019
    a common mistake, surely?
    Ealing Common
  • Hampton Court for some real tennis
  • Or there's real tennis in Hendon Central, to get us back on the Underground.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    D's new passport arrived yesterday, so by a slight tangent:

    Pimlico
  • Pimlico is for Tate Britain, so let's head to St Pauls for Tate Modern
  • Oh, in that case, the next play is James Street, Liverpool for Tate Liverpool
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Whereupon, some Londoner will get confused and think you mean they ought to go to Liverpool Street.
  • London Bridge is just next door. Well, alphabetically anyway
  • or the antipodes Dunedin railway station
  • that seemed like a bit of a non-sequitur.
    And talking of secateurs, how about Island Gardens
  • Have you been to Island Gardens? It's fun because it's the nearest entrance on the north side of the Thames to the Greenwich foot tunnel, which is an experience everyone should have at least once, but not a lot of use for secateurs. Before the DLR went south of the Thames we used to use that route to get to Greenwich.

    While we're playing DLR, how about Gallions Reach
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    If it's tunnels we're after, then a much more uncommon walk underneath the Thames is to go through the tunnel that shares its name with another station: Rotherhithe

    n.b. It's really rather an unpleasant walk. The pavement is narrow, the air is foul and drivers like to honk their horns at you just as they are passing.
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