tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post8269119994451741969..comments2024-03-27T14:03:14.775+00:00Comments on Captain JP's log: Thames Trip: Motivation and RouteJPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475536270807856327noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-88520937753242520832010-06-03T18:25:39.029+00:002010-06-03T18:25:39.029+00:00Carol Anne: buses are like that aren't they? I...Carol Anne: buses are like that aren't they? I remember arranging to meet someone at Heathrow and took a bus there and it seemed to go all round Hounslow before arriving.... I was rather late :(<br /><br />And the line (if you follow Carol Anne's link)<br /><br /> "The night we went to Glastonbury by way of Goodwin Sands" <br /><br />- lovely!<br /><br />Chris: alas not, we just had the boat for the bank holiday weekend. Another time....JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749223049615363296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-6979039941036771002010-06-03T12:17:01.731+00:002010-06-03T12:17:01.731+00:00Carol Anne is probably familiar with G.K.Cheserton...Carol Anne is probably familiar with G.K.Cheserton's <a href="http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/rolling.html" rel="nofollow">The Rolling English Road</a> which starts...<br /><br />Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,<br />The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.<br />A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire...Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-23700694914181839972010-06-03T07:43:38.748+00:002010-06-03T07:43:38.748+00:00I don't suppose you are returning to Pangbourn...I don't suppose you are returning to Pangbourne for the Thames Boat Show this weekend? Always fun.Chris Partridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883064324795042491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-641487208918609402010-06-03T06:10:51.057+00:002010-06-03T06:10:51.057+00:00Oh, and before any of my fellow Americans comment ...Oh, and before any of my fellow Americans comment about how that seems to be an awfully indirect way to get from one point to another, let me add that the bus route went meandering around and about all over the place. All of the wandering added to the enjoyment of the journey. It was fascinating to see all of the changes of the seasons in the fields and woods.<br /><br />Besides, the British don't go in straight lines anyway. It's sort of like a sailboat ... <a href="http://itsfiveoclocksomewhere.blogspot.com/2008/06/poetry-corner-gk-chesterton.html" rel="nofollow">one tacks a lot</a>.Carol Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07201269435839112134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-63861644831552776992010-06-03T05:51:22.083+00:002010-06-03T05:51:22.083+00:00Beautiful countryside. The place where I stayed th...Beautiful countryside. The place where I stayed the year I lived in England is just on the edge of that map -- I was on the southern side of East Hagbourne, on the Blewbury Road. I went to school in Wallingford; the bus I took went through Brightwell and Cholsey and a bunch of other villages.Carol Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07201269435839112134noreply@blogger.com