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A week on the Pompey's, then a little Anthrax & 2 days on the Mule! 31/10 to 08/11 1987

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The Portsmouth to Cardiff services were due to finish in May 1988, I and many of the Crompton roadshow were spending an increasing number of days out "on the Bash", sometimes using Leave & sometimes just going Sick from work! With so many booked turns to cover and mileage to accumulate, very little time was spent eating or drinking - no breakfast, food on the go during the day from chippy's and then little or no time for Beer! Saturday 31st October Unfortunately the brickworks where I worked had started working on Saturday mornings due to demand, as the only person trained on my Brick stacking machine this meant I could no longer leap on Friday evening for the 2252 Waterloo - Weymouth (booked a 33) but could only make the 1410 Waterloo - Salisbury on Saturday afternoon. EMU  Sittingbourne - London Victoria 44m 40ch 33108 Waterloo - Salisbury 1L09 1410 Waterloo - Salisbury 83m 43ch 33064 Salisbury - Fareham 1O43 1415 Cardiff - Portsmouth Hbr 38m 43ch 33048 Fareham - Ba...

A little bit of Devon followed by stays in Falmouth & St Ives 24/08 to 13/09 2024

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We had planned a holiday with our 2 Grandkids for 6 nights in Falmouth, Cornwall, during the school holidays, so when it turned out they would be with us from the Friday night  I then booked an apartment in Topsham, Devon, for 2 nights above the Globe Hotel. Saturday 24/08   To avoid the Bank Holiday weekend queues at the motorway service stations I had found a pub (on Whatpub) to have lunch in, just off the M5 in Tewkesbury. It opened at 12am & we were in the door about 12.05. This was The Canterbury, we got served food & drinks straightaway in the empty pub.  Only 1 Real Ale available Belhaven Scorcher 4.0%, in reasonable nick. Then slowly onwards to Devon, quite bad traffic-jams from North of Bristol down to about Taunton then steady away through to Exeter. The Globe Topsham We checked in and unloaded the car (no parking outside / 1 way street) our apartment was above the pub - 2 bedrooms / kitchen / bathroom / dining room & a big lounge upstairs above all ...