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st599_uk wrote: https://twitter.com/beckymiller33/statu ... 88800?s=19

Last year I took my bike on an ancient train in Bulgaria. The design of the bike storage was similar to that, but not quite as bad.

I've always understood that Eurostar works to airport-like security levels, so no knives would mean no knives. Should be fine in your toolkit on your bike though, where you don't have access to it. I've taken a bike on LNER between London and Leeds several times, and never taken the panniers off. Th...

MarcusT wrote: ... the best plan is to go to the ticket booth and advise them you have a bicycle and for which train...

Depending on your facility with the language. You can also buy tickets - for you and the bike - from the ticket machines, which offer to talk to you in English.

We were touring in Italy in June/July, two of us with two bikes. We took them on about twenty trains without any advance booking, never a hint of a problem.

In a perfect world, you'd follow the Leeds & Liverpool's Rufford branch to the sea-lock at Tarleton, then hitch a ride on a boat up the Ribble to Preston, where you can join the Lancaster canal. Failing that, you probably follow the L&L up to maybe Riley Green, then do a few miles on-road in...

Drakes Cycles – excellent shop, but they're in Harehills, not Meanwood. Couple of miles different.

Call me a pedant, but it's worth remembering that it's Strasbourg not Strasberg. And in French the pronunciation would be completely different.

There's a campsite at Lyons-la-Foret, which is a reasonable halfway point if you're doing Dieppe-Paris in two days. Nice place, but the night I was there, there were a few bars open, no shop, and no restaurant/takeaway. I had a bag of salted peanuts for dinner IIRC.

Third Opinion: Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC in 1991.

Thermarest have a reputation for being very good about warranties – they replaced my first thermarest without question when it failed after five or six years – so it's worth going down that route initially if you can. I had two Thermarest Prolites, that both failed in exactly the way you describe, a...

What is McDonalds? It is run by the Cardiac Surgeons Union in a cabal with the Dieticians Trust to guarantee full employment for their members. I've not used McDonalds in the UK, but I've often had the sense in small-town France that it's not only the only place in town that's doing good business, ...

brynpoeth wrote: How do they taste?

Personally, I think they taste horrible. Yet strangely, whenever I eat one, I find myself wanting another. And another. And another. That's a genius piece of product design.

Jamesh wrote:13 years time when my youngest is off to uni and before the oldest has any grandchildren!!!

There's many a slip...
twixt cup and lip

I have half a recollection that I once solved a similar problem by putting the bolt in from the other side, so that the – slightly larger – head contacted the stopper. Or I may have imagined it! Maybe worth a try?

Pneumant wrote: the Venice of the north no less

Nobody - neither Brummies nor northerners - is going to thank you for suggesting that Birmingham is in the north!