Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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Public transportation in Britain is so uncomplicated. We found a bus directly from Heathrow to Woking, from there a train to Portsmouth (they leave every 10 or 20 minutes), then a return, just as uncomplicated, very little waiting around. Easy shuttles two and from the hotel near the airport. Since transit images are boring. Here’s…
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Imagine your wedding ceremony conducted in the gunpowder magazine at the explosions museum in Portsmouth UK. I will say it’s an amazing large, red brick chamber with graceful arches, now empty of gunpowder of course. And your guests can wander through displays of naval weaponry and projectiles from cannon balls to missiles… A different sort…
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Walking from the bus station to our inn, we stumbled upon a statue in a small square. It was a monument to science fiction great H.G. Wells, who wrote War of the Worlds in 1895 while living in Woking. That novel, one of the earliest alien invasion novels (Martians invade Earth), and its author weren’t…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 