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Post by MJB on Mar 3, 2024 12:54:35 GMT
Anyone fancy a gathering in Salisbury on the 6th April. I've got the weekend off and for the first time in nearly 40 years the cathedral has no scaffolding up. Pratchett fans will also recognise some locations from Ankh Morpork, lots of historic buildings, wildlife along the rivers, and being market day plenty of 'street' photo ops. If its wet there's a great aviation museum on the outskirts of the city. Good rail links from London Waterloo (direct trains), decent road links, and a good Park & Ride system. There's also that rarest of beasts, an independent camera shop (Castle Cameras)
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Post by daves on Mar 3, 2024 13:24:03 GMT
I'll say maybe. Gmaps says 1 hour 15 mins, so easily doable but I have an appointment at Bournemouth hospital on the 4th to check how my eye is getting on.
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Post by gray1720 on Mar 3, 2024 13:51:30 GMT
Sadly I am out, we are heading for the Lakes that day so going in the opposite direction.
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Post by peterob on Mar 3, 2024 16:06:42 GMT
I've put it in the calendar but it is a bit unlikely that I'll make it. Too far for a day out unfortunately.
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Post by MJB on Mar 3, 2024 21:08:49 GMT
If anyone is wavering, we could also do the Skripal's bench, that litter bin, and a really interesting clock.
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Post by willien on Mar 3, 2024 21:24:50 GMT
If anyone is wavering, we could also do the Skripal's bench, that litter bin, and a really interesting clock. You don't fool us that easily, the bench was taken away for questioning. |
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Post by spinno on Mar 3, 2024 21:45:40 GMT
If anyone is wavering, we could also do the Skripal's bench, that litter bin, and a really interesting clock. You don't fool us that easily, the bench was taken away for questioning. But it wasn't a stool pigeon |
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Post by zx9 on Mar 4, 2024 9:30:54 GMT
I haven't looked closely but the trains are marked as rail replacement bus service out of Waterloo on the 6th April on the Train Line website.
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Post by spinno on Mar 4, 2024 10:09:24 GMT
Trains all over April appear to be all over the place, looking at other journeys due to be made.
Get your walking boots on
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Post by Kath on Mar 4, 2024 15:19:28 GMT
Anyone fancy a gathering in Salisbury on the 6th April. I've got the weekend off and for the first time in nearly 40 years the cathedral has no scaffolding up. Pratchett fans will also recognise some locations from Ankh Morpork, lots of historic buildings, wildlife along the rivers, and being market day plenty of 'street' photo ops. If its wet there's a great aviation museum on the outskirts of the city. Good rail links from London Waterloo (direct trains), decent road links, and a good Park & Ride system. There's also that rarest of beasts, an independent camera shop (Castle Cameras) I was literally in Salisbury this weekend. Sadly, on the 6th April, I'll be at Duxford. Well, not sadly, I'm really looking forward to it but I'm not good at being in two places at once! |
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Post by gray1720 on Mar 4, 2024 16:53:58 GMT
Anyone fancy a gathering in Salisbury on the 6th April. I've got the weekend off and for the first time in nearly 40 years the cathedral has no scaffolding up. Pratchett fans will also recognise some locations from Ankh Morpork, lots of historic buildings, wildlife along the rivers, and being market day plenty of 'street' photo ops. If its wet there's a great aviation museum on the outskirts of the city. Good rail links from London Waterloo (direct trains), decent road links, and a good Park & Ride system. There's also that rarest of beasts, an independent camera shop (Castle Cameras) I was literally in Salisbury this weekend. Sadly, on the 6th April, I'll be at Duxford. Well, not sadly, I'm really looking forward to it but I'm not good at being in two places at once! Duxford is not such a bad day out, y'know. |
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Post by Kath on Mar 4, 2024 17:13:47 GMT
I was literally in Salisbury this weekend. Sadly, on the 6th April, I'll be at Duxford. Well, not sadly, I'm really looking forward to it but I'm not good at being in two places at once! Duxford is not such a bad day out, y'know. No, I know - we used to go regularly when I lived in Cambridge. It's my husband who has never been and I don't even know why I was talking about it but he suddenly announced that he wanted to go there over our Easter break. It was a fairly loose 'That would be nice' kind of a conversation when his boss asked if he could just come in over his holiday to do some maintenance in the building (he is not a maintenance man) and he said no because we would be down South in Duxford. So now we have to go. |
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Post by gray1720 on Mar 4, 2024 18:36:54 GMT
I grew up quite close so, as a plane-mad kid, went c as often as my folks could afford (which wasn't often).
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Post by Ivor E Tower on Mar 4, 2024 18:37:25 GMT
Pencilled in, subject to trains running OK and not too many Easter school holiday crowds
EDIT: Coming from London, it appears that there will be "replacement buses" from Andover to Salisbury. It seems now that every single year there are major maintenance works in the southeast region over the Christmas and Easter holidays that prevent people using trains to go visiting or have days out
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Post by Fenris on Mar 5, 2024 9:58:26 GMT
EDIT: Coming from London, it appears that there will be "replacement buses" from Andover to Salisbury. It seems now that every single year there are major maintenance works in the southeast region over the Christmas and Easter holidays that prevent people using trains to go visiting or have days out That's because it is (apparently) okay to disrupt the general public (and tourists) over the holidays when they might have a chance to spend some time with family and visit different places boosting the local shops and communities of where they visit. And it's not okay to disrupt important businesses during the working week as big businesses are more important than small local businesses and the tourism industry  |
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