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Trip to Iceland a few weeks ago, good trip. I was amazed how many Americans where there though. I went a quiet time of year, but any time I saw a group of people they were always yanks.
A kick arse bus (I wasn't on it, it was just parked up)
I did all the touristy bits, but the waterfalls where something else.
The kerið crater was something else as well.
An old plane crash on the beach
But what interested me was that all the pulleys where made out of tufnol (which anyone who has machined it will know how much it stinks). I just wasn't expecting it, but it does make good sense from a materials point of view.
Triple Radiators!
I really ended up liking the Dacia Duster I had hired over there too, I put 1200 miles on it in a week.
At home, I was amazed how much taller the new twingo is compared to the old one. The press made a big deal about the mk3 being shorter than the Mk2. It only 5 mm shorter than the mk2, and 8 mm narrower, but its 84mm taller! crap photo though.
And poor parking was due to a Trafic van that was on one side of me, and a megane on the other side went I parked up (Renault dealership), so I had to sort of park in line with them to fit. The Twingo was there when I came back.
Also I got stuck in traffic behind a house.
A kick arse bus (I wasn't on it, it was just parked up)
I did all the touristy bits, but the waterfalls where something else.
The kerið crater was something else as well.
An old plane crash on the beach
But what interested me was that all the pulleys where made out of tufnol (which anyone who has machined it will know how much it stinks). I just wasn't expecting it, but it does make good sense from a materials point of view.
Triple Radiators!
I really ended up liking the Dacia Duster I had hired over there too, I put 1200 miles on it in a week.
At home, I was amazed how much taller the new twingo is compared to the old one. The press made a big deal about the mk3 being shorter than the Mk2. It only 5 mm shorter than the mk2, and 8 mm narrower, but its 84mm taller! crap photo though.
And poor parking was due to a Trafic van that was on one side of me, and a megane on the other side went I parked up (Renault dealership), so I had to sort of park in line with them to fit. The Twingo was there when I came back.
Also I got stuck in traffic behind a house.
Fantastic thread. Seeing cool stuff while on the road never gets old.
Not my photo, but someone showed me recently where long-distance airplane radar was invented and first tested in 1935. In a small field about 10 miles north of Silverstone Circuit, Northants.
Radar was an early-warning system for Luftwaffe planes and was the single most important technology that won the Battle of Britain in 1940, effectively stopped the German invasion, and arguably more important than the invention of the first programmable computer just down the road in Milton Keynes, Bucks, the Colossus at Bletchley Park in 1943.
All marked by a discreet plaque on the side of a quiet country road.
Not my photo, but someone showed me recently where long-distance airplane radar was invented and first tested in 1935. In a small field about 10 miles north of Silverstone Circuit, Northants.
Radar was an early-warning system for Luftwaffe planes and was the single most important technology that won the Battle of Britain in 1940, effectively stopped the German invasion, and arguably more important than the invention of the first programmable computer just down the road in Milton Keynes, Bucks, the Colossus at Bletchley Park in 1943.
All marked by a discreet plaque on the side of a quiet country road.
The smallest house in Great Britain, in Conwy.
IMG-20150918-02603 by Benjamin 1985,
Sign on the side of Blackburn Town Hall
IMG-20161027-03416 by Benjamin 1985, on Flickr
Police Box in Scarborough
P1050517 by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/37622437@N05/]
IMG-20150918-02603 by Benjamin 1985, Sign on the side of Blackburn Town Hall
IMG-20161027-03416 by Benjamin 1985, on FlickrEdited by Blakewater on Wednesday 26th July 23:50
Police Box in Scarborough
P1050517 by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/37622437@N05/]Edited by Blakewater on Wednesday 26th July 23:51
Fetching and carrying dodgy old cars around the country introduces me to some interesting places; many of them at or near disused second war airfields. Last week I went to one such near Evesham. Cars being there I can understand. Bits of aeroplane possibly. This was a surprise however:
So I went to have a look and found a derelict steam locomotive. No hint of the boiler, just whatever the chassis is called on locomotives, the wheels, quite a bit of the tender and a bit of ruined cab. Someone took it there with high hopes.
I like the last one. Dead arty. It was luck actually. Take loads and some will be okay.
The bits of track seemed to have been taken there just for the trucks and locomotive to stand on. There wasn't actually a railway nearby as far as I could see.
So I went to have a look and found a derelict steam locomotive. No hint of the boiler, just whatever the chassis is called on locomotives, the wheels, quite a bit of the tender and a bit of ruined cab. Someone took it there with high hopes.
I like the last one. Dead arty. It was luck actually. Take loads and some will be okay.
The bits of track seemed to have been taken there just for the trucks and locomotive to stand on. There wasn't actually a railway nearby as far as I could see.
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