Tag: Aberdeen
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Aberdeen Again
This one’s mostly a photo dump. Aberdeen Beach has a bunch of food trucks/trailers parked along it, though the only one that was open when I went there was a double decker bus turned into a café. You had to place your order from outside, through a little window, then come in past the kitchen…
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Thurso to Inverness to Aberdeen
My traditional paranoid room check involved looking under the bed, which answered the question of “how come the shower drains so slowly? are they not clearing the trap?”. Given that the under bed area had an empty water bottle and a large-size beer can, I’m going to guess that deep cleaning isn’t a thing that…
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Aberdeen
I stayed at this hotel a year or so back, during my tour of dying British seaside towns, as the coworkers called it. From memory, I decided on the location, at least in part, because it meant I could take the sleeper back to London in a set of circumstances where I could enjoy it…
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Ten Days In Aberdeen
Folks at work have referred to my travels as a tour of Dying British Seaside Towns, and they maybe have a point. Bournemouth clearly has had better days, and Blackpool is less ‘faded glory’ and more ‘decaying remnants’, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that Aberdeen isn’t the crumbling industrial wasteland it was described…
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A Brief Stop In Aylesbury
A brief badly planned stop, as it happens. I left Blackpool on the Friday & made it to Aylesbury in pretty good time thanks to a lucky connection at Preston where the train arrived as I got to the appropriate platform. The reason for the trip was a birthday BBQ “Sausage Party” for Becs on…