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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 15:37:25 GMT
Having done walking tours of cities away from home, we decided to do a walking tour of Manchester. I was the only Mancunian amongst about 15 people and apart from Espadrille the only one to live in Manchester.
It helped that the guide was excellent who delivered his talk in an intelligent, passionate yet witty and light way, but I really enjoyed it. Yes I knew many of the facts, but the background and little insights indicated he had done his homework. I can now bore more people about the best city in the world, in particular the price of place it holds in terms of the international scientific, commercial, industrial and social revolutions that took place between say 1790 and 1920.
Anyone else done a tour of their home town?
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Post by Humph on Jan 13, 2019 17:10:15 GMT
Sounds interesting. A long time friend of mine, now a retired police officer, runs guided tours around our old home city of Edinburgh. I keep meaning to book a place on one, mainly to heckle him really.
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Post by Rob on Jan 13, 2019 18:01:01 GMT
We've done a tour of the Manchester town hall - probably arranged by the same group that did your walking tour. Seem to recollect there was probably a walking tour starting from the same point that day (Midland Hotel).
I haven't done a walking tour in the UK and not sure I ever will. Once did one as part of a bus tour in Tuscany in Sienna.... we soon headed off in our own direction because it wasn't for us. When we got to San Gimignano we immediately went off on our own. Didn't have enough time there (tour implied it was one of the main visits) so we eventually had a week's holiday staying in the medieval town itself. That was a good base although cars need to be parked in car parks outside the walls.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 19:30:18 GMT
It was this one.... Free Manchester Walking TourStarted from the Turing statue in Sackville Gardens. We have only ever done these type of tours when we are in a city on an independent trip. The ones we have done have been very good, but you never know until it starts how good it will be. Last year on our Berlin trip we did a cycling tour. We were the third tour at that time with two native Engish speakers for the first two and a young French girl for our. My heart sank. Then it revived as I realised very quickly that she had an excellent command of colloquial English and a great personality. It appeared to eb the best tour of the three.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jan 19, 2019 11:26:15 GMT
...you need to be careful taking walks around the local area, however, you never know what you will come across........ SWMBO and I are in the habit of taking a promenade most days (very bad weather generally being the only inhibitor) direct from home, and in the order of 3 to 5 miles. As we can drop almost directly into the forest, the natural tendency is to head out there, and it doesn't take very long to be off the beaten track, and we rarely see many other people (maybe the odd dog-walker). A couple of weeks ago, having reached the further point of our stroll, and just as we were about to turn back, out from the path we were to turn back on (and at maybe 200 degrees on the left) strolsl a bloke completely in his pink and crinklies, as naked as god intended, with only an old rucksack on his back! He continued to walk on along the path in front of us, from which we were turning back on the path he had just come from. It was f..........freezing, as well! Due to the undergrowth, and the angle of the paths, we got no warning of his approach, though it was less of a surprise than it might have been, as one of my acquaintances from up the road also walks regularly in the forest, and had mentioned passing him some time last year ("didn't know where to look"). SWMBO did a web search (she would, wouldn't she ) and found he maintains a blog somewhere (and apparently there is a video on Youtube or similar taken by a cyclist who passed him). And no, it's not Stephen Gough.
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Post by Humph on Jan 19, 2019 13:36:15 GMT
Don't look Ethel...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 0:06:02 GMT
>..strolsl a bloke completely in his pink and crinklies, as naked as god intended,
In the early 90s I was seconded to our development team in Austin to help with an X.25 device driver (yes, I'm that old). It was February and unusually cold. One Sunday morning we'd gone out to Lake Travis for a walk. We parked up and walked down towards the lake. A couple of hundred yards down the path we came across a young guy coming the other way wearing just cowboy boots and a stetson with his clothes under his arm.
He lifts his hat, says "Howdy ma'am" and carries on walking.
Turns out that we'd parked up at Hippie Hollow which is a nudist area on Lake Travis. Not sure I'd want to parade my stuff when the temp is in single digits though.
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Post by Humph on Jan 20, 2019 8:29:08 GMT
In that temperature, it might though be a case of "nothing to see here" ? 🤔
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Post by tyrednexited on Jan 20, 2019 8:34:58 GMT
In that temperature, it might though be a case of "nothing to see here" ? 🤔 ......Undercarriage completely retracted....
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