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It Will Be A Holiday Bus<\/span><\/p>\n … and a more realistic “Paris” sign.<\/p>\n … and an open top Lodekka with a hut on the upper deck!<\/p>\n But fbb is more interested in static holiday accommodation like this …<\/p>\n … or thia:-<\/p>\n On his re-fettled Routemaster, fbb will try to give the impression of bedrooms upstairs plus something that might contain a WC …<\/p>\n … and downstairs cooking and noshing equipment.<\/p>\n In reality, most of these conversions will rely on bunk beds which may well be tricky to model and, anyway, you won’t be able to see them from the normal viewing distance.<\/p><\/div>\n A lot can be achieved with curtains at the window!\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n Google Earth has yet to find the new Durham bus station, currently only showing the cleared site of the old facility with the rebuild pending. Buses exit vis the upper right hand cotner of the site.<\/p>\n Entry is off the roundabout upper left where they come to a setting down stop …<\/p>\n … from where a foorpath in the rain lsds to a back entrance to the stands.<\/p>\n But video evidence suggests that buses unload on the stands unless they are going to the layover bays.<\/p>\n The station is typical of modern design with seats at each bay …<\/p>\n … departure lists …<\/p>\n … and (hopefully real time?) electronic displays above the exit doors.<\/p>\n The rear wall and the two end walls are replete with more screens …<\/p>\n … and the tantalising word “information”.<\/p>\n But now the negatives. None of these displays showed departures in route number order. Joe public wants to know (or confirm) when the next 21 leaves and from what stand. Very rarely will anyone want to know “where can I go at 1220?” So why are departures not in route number order<\/span>?<\/p><\/div>\n However, both the videos of the new place showed just a blank wall at this location.<\/p>\n Astoundingly this shiny new bus station built at vast ex[ense to serve Durham’s residents and zillions of visitors would appear to offer no enquiry office amd thus no human assistance<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n … but fbb spotted not a single network map in the real world<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n There seems to be other rooms above he non enquiry office, so a caff there might be good?<\/p>\n Talking of Refreshments …<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n Lymeswold, which was delicious, creamy and with a taste of tang, ceased production in 1992. Its aim was to produce a blue soft-ish cheese to compete with some well known European names.<\/p><\/div>\n It is made with an unusual added ingredient. It is called ..,<\/p>\n But beware – ot is a bit more pricey than a slab of Tesco’s mousetrap!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n A few months back he reported to Parliament about buses and Sheffield’s clean air zone.<\/p>\n In theory, Sheffield buses fitted with the faulty gubbins could have to pay \u00a350 every time they entered the city centre. Of course, private cars are exempt from such charges; and no, it makes no common sense or even air quality sense whatsoever!<\/p><\/div>\n… and it claims to be made with coal. fbb can report, incontrovertibly, that it<\/span>\u00a0does not taste of coal;\u00a0but it has a slight grittiness on the palate which might have been a smidgen of sanitised coal dust.<\/span><\/h2>\n
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