{"id":3624,"date":"2024-01-02T02:29:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T02:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/post-festive-pot-pourri-6-2\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T02:29:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T02:29:30","slug":"post-festive-pot-pourri-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/post-festive-pot-pourri-6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Festive Pot Pourri (6)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Decorative Disaster : Festive Failure?<\/span><\/p>\n The star went on top of the CHRISTmas tree already in place on the garden table. Mary, Joseph and the Messiah were suspended on the central heating flue near the front door …<\/p>\n … and the cross was hung on the kitchen window cill using gaffer tape.<\/p>\n Thus the failed frame was re-created much nearer ground level. With he addition of some twinkling LEDs on the front fence …<\/p>\n Hmm. fbb should have expunged the kitchen illumination before the full delights were photographed.<\/p><\/div>\n The first line to open in 2019 was entirely on Taipa Island running from the ferry terminal (map below, upper right) …<\/p>\n … then in a big loop round Taipa Island to a terminus at Ocean. Yes, fbb knows it is red on the above map and blue on the proposed network map. But worry not, it’s actually colour coded green in reality!<\/p>\n The line is mostly on viaduct as here at the “light” rail Ferry Terminal terminus …<\/p>\n … and at Lotus station.<\/p>\n The other terminus was Ocean, again a substantial building for a “light” railway!<\/p>\n But on 8th December last year the line was extended to Barra on Macau itself.<\/p>\n And it didn’t even involve building a bridge. They used one that they had made earlier! The LRT uses the Sai Van bridge …<\/p>\n … but not on top thereof as you might expect. There is no sign of an LRT train or track in the main roadway. The LRT runs in a tunnel that is part of the bridge’s concrete box construction.<\/p>\n Clever, eh? Quite what uses the remaining tunnel road carriageway is not clear to fbb!<\/p>\n And the new terminus at Barra?<\/p>\n Yep! VERY Light Rail – NOT!<\/p><\/div>\n Historically, before roads and sea wall, Seaton (Devon) had a strange mount on its sea front. It once had a wooden lookout building on the top to aid the essential task of repelling the invading French – who never bothered to invade.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n Although they were very convenient conveniences (visited by an eight-year-old fbb occasionally and his granny, frequently! ), they were closed some years ago on the feeble pretence of a narrow footpath access.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n