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GregP Jul 2022 6:52am, 17 Jul 2022 137,132 posts	0 GregP Wagamama bang bang cauliflower is really good. I learned this yesterday but am posting now.
smoke free Jul 2022 7:36am, 17 Jul 2022 152 posts	0 smoke free Also learned yesterday but posting today: When we eventually buy our adventure vehicle it will be coach built rather than a panel van.
macca 53 Jul 2022 9:28am, 17 Jul 2022 30,179 posts	0 macca 53 Also learned yesterday Interrail is still a thing, and available to oldies and can be a viable option to sitting in airports wondering if your flight will leave! A lot slower, mind - but we have no time constraints.
macca 53 Jul 2022 9:28am, 17 Jul 2022 30,180 posts	0 macca 53 [Up yours, BA 😡]
GlennR Jul 2022 9:55am, 17 Jul 2022 64,408 posts	0 GlennR ^^^^ a good point well made.
Cerrertonia Jul 2022 11:28am, 17 Jul 2022 17,007 posts	0 Cerrertonia [One of the first things we did after I stopped work was to take a long train trip around central and eastern europe. Tickets are mostly very cheap, trains generally pretty good, much more interaction with locals, and we changed trains in a few railway junction towns (Villach, Austria and Poprad, Slovakia for example) that were unexpectedly lovely, not at all like Crewe or Swindon. The man in seat61 is your guide seat61.com ]
stilldreaming Jul 2022 3:52pm, 17 Jul 2022 958 posts	0 stilldreaming There are three Air Force One planes .... I guess, so that the baddies don't know which plane the President is flying in? Seems a very expensive way of doing things to me! (Source of info: Mr SD went to RIAT at Fairford yesterday).
GregP Jul 2022 4:01pm, 17 Jul 2022 137,134 posts	0 GregP Ah - I know that from when Barry O'Bama flew in for London 2012 and my employer copped part of the protection duty. Fun times. TOP tip about Interrail. Thanks for that.
GregP Jul 2022 4:02pm, 17 Jul 2022 137,135 posts	0 GregP We need to put that Seat 61 link somewhere. Glenn's scrapbook wire seems as good a place as any
Fields Jul 2022 4:05pm, 17 Jul 2022 5,505 posts	0 Fields Believe Air Force one sometimes makes a technical stop in the UK as it’s a friendly country on the way back from wherever it’s been