Petrol to rise to £2.30 a Litre ?!!

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

It's Barbican or bust for me I think.

My personal preference is for just west of the City, but each to his own!

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

No, north Cornwall - we've stayed near Camelford twice, and near Port Isaac (had to give DS a look at "his"port!)

I presume you get off at Bodmin Parkway then. Lovely looking little cafe in the old signal box there!

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Back of an envelope calculation. If, say, we were going to Penzance for a week in July, sat to sat, it would cost us as a family £195 to get there and back by public transport (train) or £146 by coach.

By car, it would be a round trip of 636 miles. At a cost of, say, 40p a mile, this would cost £255.

Ah, I guess if you're planning ahead you can get it cheaper. Whenever I look for train times/prices it's usually "next week or sooner", so the cheaper tickets have gone.

Blimey. Pricey car. I'd price my car today at 25p/mile.

I don't like trains, but that's for a couple of reasons. One of which is travelling alone. There's nobody to watch your stuff if you want to go to the loo. You also can't wander. And even if there is a buffet car there (they always seemed to close down when they got to Devon when I was on trains) you still have problems going because of nobody minding your stuff.

I like Port Isaac. I looked at buying a house there, back when they were cheap (1998/1999), but I felt it was too remote. There's not enough there for full-time living really.

Going to Penzance by train is dead easy. As the train ends there, it goes there. But up Camelford etc way, it's another bus to get up there. 45 minutes if you get the right bus, 2.5 hours each way if you time it wrong.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I presume you get off at Bodmin Parkway then. Lovely looking little cafe in the old signal box there!

Thassa one. It's a tiny little bus-shelter-like station!

PasturesNew wrote: »

Blimey. Pricey car. I'd price my car today at 25p/mile

I used 40p a mile as it's the IR figures, not just petrol, though.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I like Port Isaac. I looked at buying a house there, back when they were cheap (1998/1999), but I felt it was too remote. There's not enough there for full-time living really.

I like it too, but think I agree with you about full-time living. Had to give Isaac a look at it, though!

jamescredmond

Generali wrote: »

I live in the 'burbs and I hate them.

You know that Betjemin poem Slough?



Live in the country or the city. Anything else is a hateful compromise IMO.

I went to a golf club at the weekend. Slacks and jackets and reserved parking spaces for the Club Captain and the Lady Captain. Tailored shorts and collared shirts. 4 gins and then drive home slowly.

Tinned minds.

oddly enough, I do (or sort of).

'come,friendly bombs, and fall on slough'. or similar.

got betj into a lot of trouble, if memory serves my reading of it..

prescient bloke, our john.

lives could be just as empty 70yrs ago.

I've been to slough. the luftwaffe obviously weren't listening.

could have saved us all from 'the office'..

mr.broderick

m00m00 wrote: »

do you work for a one brand dealer mrB or just generic used cars

have you seen any change in buyer attitudes and mentality caused by the fuel situation, it would be interesting to get an anecdote from someone in the industry.

I've seriously considered a BMW M6 a couple of times, but I must be getting old, when the thing that's put me off most, is it's MPG.

Good afternoon, i work for a main nissan dealer but we do sell non franchise cars aswell.
My tip to beat the credit crunch is the audi a2 1.4tdi preferably. If you can get a 52 plate with sub 50k for around £5500 you'll be on to a winner. 60mpg £35 a year rfl and german engineering.

Austin_Allegro

Of all the reasons I've heard for not taking trains, being worried about leaving your suitcase unattended when you go to the loo/buffet is a new one on me!

You could always do what I did when inter-railing round Europe in my teens - get a cheap bike lock and lock your luggage to the rack. Failing that, ask a honest looking person to keep an eye on it. Old ladies are usually willing to oblige.

PasturesNew

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

Of all the reasons I've heard for not taking trains, being worried about leaving your suitcase unattended when you go to the loo/buffet is a new one on me!

You could always do what I did when inter-railing round Europe in my teens - get a cheap bike lock and lock your luggage to the rack.

I am 5'1". Firstly I could never reach the rack on old trains. Secondly, I've not noticed them on modern trains, but if they exist they're up there out of reach.

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

Old ladies are usually willing to oblige.

I see my reputation goes before me!

m00m00

the problem these days is if you leave a suitcase unattended you are likely to come back to it and find it blown up by some anti terrorist squad, while you are carted away for 42 days pending your transfer to camp X-ray

WTF?_2

m00m00 wrote: »

the problem these days is if you leave a suitcase unattended you are likely to come back to it and find it blown up by some anti terrorist squad, while you are carted away for 42 days pending your transfer to camp X-ray

Quite right. Hopefully Derek Davis' actions will bring the issue of civil rights to the forefront. Currently it seems that the public has been brainwashed by the media.

PasturesNew

So now I can't pee while on a train or I'll go to jail for 42 days???

Blimey, you can see why I don't get out much!