- Location
- U.K.
NWR Silly little things that delight you
- Thread starter G. W o l f f
- Start date
- Location
- London, Europe
Engineering like this.....
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Underwater bike garage solves Amsterdam station’s storage headache
Central station is replacing its messy, overflowing cycle parking facilities with a low-cost area that’s tucked away out of sight
- Location
- London
The Dutch are brilliant engineers, especially if it involves water. One of my favourites is on the A4 from Amsterdam to Den Haag where there is a canal that crosses the eight lane motorway about 20 meters above it. You can often see canal boats passing over your head as you drive.Engineering like this.....
Underwater bike garage solves Amsterdam station’s storage headache
Central station is replacing its messy, overflowing cycle parking facilities with a low-cost area that’s tucked away out of sight
- Location
- Nottingham
This is Bull Bridge at Ambergate in Derbyshire. The canal crossed over the road and the railway which in turn crossed the river.
- Location
- London, Europe
When butchers serve meat like this....
It also reminds ne of the butcher Hilary Briss from league of gentlemen...
It also reminds ne of the butcher Hilary Briss from league of gentlemen...
- Location
- London
- Location
- England
Munster Tyres. Like a time warp. The loo makes the one in Trainspotting seem luxurious! Fantastic place. Should be in a Hidden London tour book.
- Location
- London
Looking forward to dancing my way home from my local Ginger Pig tomorrow…
…or maybe for the full package I should ask them to deliver?
- Location
- London
“We do do [sic] a selection of snacks and nibbles if you’d care for a light bite”
- Location
- Deep South of Cambridgeshire
Things like this... Even if they were done knowingly.
- Location
- St Albans
Brilliant!Things like this... Even if they were done knowingly.
- Location
- St Albans
James Arthur O'Connor, 1834: Bernkastel 
Just spotted this in Nelson, New Zealand. It made my day!
- Location
- Scotland
When you pop the cork on a bottle of sparkling wine (mainly Champagne though) and you get that whiff of what's about to be poured into the glass. The aromas fill the air around you for a couple of minutes.
- Location
- Dorset, England
Taking a case out of bond & paying VAT on the purchase price of a wine for which the price has increased by 150%, within three years. (Red Burgundy, unsurprisingly).
- Location
- London
- Location
- London
- Location
- London
Does the same map have the pedestrian crossing on Abbey Rd marked up?
- Location
- London
Naturally.
My all-time favourite, since disappeared, was “Pub noted for its ‘fake library’ wallpaper”
- Location
- London
BBC Singers: decision to scrap choir reversed after public outcry
Rejoice! let us hope this also means an end to the senseless dismemberment of their orchestras, all to save the price of a few pints and a piece of string.
Rejoice! let us hope this also means an end to the senseless dismemberment of their orchestras, all to save the price of a few pints and a piece of string.
- Location
- Winchester, UK
Hot-smoked anchovies. How did I not know about these? Smokey, fishy, salty - possibly the greatest nibbley thing ever invented.
- Location
- London
In the Ritz the pianist is playing, in the Richard Clayderman style, House of the Rising Sun, kind of an anthem for this type of operation
- Location
- London, UK
Overtaking someone on an e-bike when I am riding my road bike.
- Location
- London, UK
Taking a tight bend on a bike where everything is perfectly in balance. Strangely but serenely satisfying.
The wine-list on a frequently-travelled airline finallybeing updated after months of unchanging, very dull stuff.
Added bonus: most of the new wines on the list look much more interesting too. (Even just a change from old dull to different dull would have been appreciated, but there is a white from Le Marche and, for reds, Rioja and a Loire Cab. Franc, among other new things.)
Added bonus: most of the new wines on the list look much more interesting too. (Even just a change from old dull to different dull would have been appreciated, but there is a white from Le Marche and, for reds, Rioja and a Loire Cab. Franc, among other new things.)