[PrintOwners] I'm back

[Dan Huntingford]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernard Bahn" <bbahn at creativeimaginginc.com>

> Tube was cheap though; not sure why it's so high now.
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Four Pounds ($8.00) a trip is the base rate.  If you used it every day you 
can get passes, or deals of some kind.  But with four of us it was way less 
to just take a taxi several time, depending on how far it was.  Or busses.
We did trains too.  And LOTS of walking.
And stairs everywhere.
And cobble stones and uneven paving stones, and worn out stairs.  I never 
fell, but I almost tripped many times.  I saw several people tumble, one 
poor guy landed right on his nose and was bleeding all over the street.  And 
the idiot signs that say "Mind the step"  and "Mind your head" don't really 
help a lot.

I really enjoyed driving over there.  The roads are so narrow, with stone 
walls and hedge rows you couldn't possibly pull over, so the cops don't even 
bother to try pulling anyone over.  There are almost no stop signs. All 
intersections are Yields or as they put it "Give way".  And the traffic just 
moves right along.  In city speed limit is 30 MPH as opposed to our 25 or in 
downtown Port Townsend 20.  And when you hit the end of a town, they have 
end signs and it's right back to 50 or 60.  Excellent signage for curves and 
narrow spots and stuff.  Terrible signage for directions. My wife and I took 
turns as driver or navigator and both agree, that navigator is far harder.

I'm heading home, it's midnight in England.  Almost made it through the 
whole day.

Dan Huntingford
SOS Printing
2319 Washington Street
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Member NAQP/NAPL/PIA/GATF
sos at olympus.net
(360) 385-4194  Fax (360) 385-5860