About 10 minutes from where instant coffee was invented. The small town still smells of coffee to this day, as there is a sizeable Nespresso plant. About 30 mins from Lausanne. TS Eliot wrote some of the Wasteland there, Dickens hung out there for a short while and a bit of the town features in the end of Hemingway's Farewell to Arms. I was operated on (knee) at the same clinic the hero's wife dies in, while the narrator is drinking in the Buffet de la Gare a few hundred metres down the road. That used to be about 7 minutes walk away from my last house. By a strange coincidence, the first place I lived in in Lausanne was 100m away from where my grandmother was born in 1899. I didn't even know she'd been born in Switzerland. It's not as if she was remotely Swiss.
That really is extremely unpleasant. You should only post stuff like that on a thread with a warning in the title.
No I am not from Slough I am more than happy to say The other end Egham, englefield green, Virginia water etc If I lived in slough the Panigale would of been stolen long ago NO Offence to anyone living in slough, from personal experience a bike in slough is readily stolen
I assume the standedge tunnel took the title away in 1811? I think it became the highest, longest and deepest in the UK. Its quite an engineering masterpiece. I am fortunate to not live to far away and enjoy visiting and walking the surrounding area. Very interesting stuff Standedge Tunnels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I live near this. It's lovely Constructed in 1862, it was designed by WJ Barre with carvings by Joseph Robinson Kirk. The monument carries a colossal statue of Captain Francis Crozier, and on the weathering of each of the buttresses at the base of the statue stand grieving polar bears - See more at: Banbridge's Forgotten Hero | Culture Northern Ireland
I stay next door to the famous Jim Baxter, who told me the week after I moved in that he used to breed English Bull Terriers...one night, the bitch had come into heat and her brother in the next kennel was howling the place down.. My considerate neighbour, not wanting to keep the estate awake all night and in his own words...."just went down to the kennel and w***ed it off..... Wasn't famous before, but bet you tell everyone you know now.....
(North) Lincolnshire has Guy Martin, Kiyo, HRC, Cadwell, BBMF, East Kirkby and Just Jane... Italia Moto, a cathedral, some decent steak restaurants and the Caistor to Horncastle road... Why live anywhere else?
Lincolnshire always makes me think of that Talking Heads song: "We're on a road to nowhere..." When I went to Cadwell, I just got the impression that I was heading for the North Sea, via a turnip field. Quiet though, I'll give you that.
