Car Crashes and Rugby, oh my!
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The last post was called Test, as my internet connection crashed on me while posting. Arrrrg! I was un able to add, that while we were on our way to Falmouth the other day, A car had spun off and hit a wall, blocking the road in front of the bus for 10 mins. It was only a small car, but the roads here are so narrow, that this blocked BOTH lanes of traffic.
As you may have summarized, driving here is a little different. People here drive 40% faster then in Canada and 30% closer to each other on roads that are 20% smaller. Large Grey-Hound style busses happily zip through narrow village roads that I would be too scared to drive my mom's Mini down. Transit style busses will pass each other at full speed, on the same size road, while the drivers cheerily wave at each other. It goes with out saying that the sidewalks are fare game.
Having said all that, the drivers here have one skill a lot of Canadian drivers do not: They can drive. Not to insult anyone back home, but 90% of the drivers in Victoria would be wiped out the first time they let there car perform such standard Canadian practices such as not signaling, driving 10km/h in the fast lane, or my personal favorite: Not using the indicators WHILE TURNING. A traffic circle/round-about in Victoria would confuse people to no end. We might even have to do a special course on those strange triangle shaped signs, the ones everyone in Canada assumes are stop signs that were not cooked properly.
Ok, Sorry about that, rant over.
England won it's Six Nations tournament rugby match against Wales ( The country, NOT the mammals). Yay! Scotland also won against favorites France. Yay two!
Yesterday we again braved the British rail network, and headed off to the Eden Project (or here) for the day. The Eden Project is a massive set of Bucky-Ball shaped green houses in a huge abandoned China Clay mine near St. Austel, Cornwall. The biomes, as they are called, are filled with different plants and lots of information on how each plant affects the global economy and/or world history. The architecture itself is mind-blowing, and the whole site is only five years old, so it's still be added on to.
And day before that was St. Michael's Mount, an island that you can walk out to when the tide is low. It also has a Castle and a small fishing village on it, as all British Islands over a certain size are required to have, for tourist reasons.
The last post was called Test, as my internet connection crashed on me while posting. Arrrrg! I was un able to add, that while we were on our way to Falmouth the other day, A car had spun off and hit a wall, blocking the road in front of the bus for 10 mins. It was only a small car, but the roads here are so narrow, that this blocked BOTH lanes of traffic.
As you may have summarized, driving here is a little different. People here drive 40% faster then in Canada and 30% closer to each other on roads that are 20% smaller. Large Grey-Hound style busses happily zip through narrow village roads that I would be too scared to drive my mom's Mini down. Transit style busses will pass each other at full speed, on the same size road, while the drivers cheerily wave at each other. It goes with out saying that the sidewalks are fare game.
Having said all that, the drivers here have one skill a lot of Canadian drivers do not: They can drive. Not to insult anyone back home, but 90% of the drivers in Victoria would be wiped out the first time they let there car perform such standard Canadian practices such as not signaling, driving 10km/h in the fast lane, or my personal favorite: Not using the indicators WHILE TURNING. A traffic circle/round-about in Victoria would confuse people to no end. We might even have to do a special course on those strange triangle shaped signs, the ones everyone in Canada assumes are stop signs that were not cooked properly.
Ok, Sorry about that, rant over.
England won it's Six Nations tournament rugby match against Wales ( The country, NOT the mammals). Yay! Scotland also won against favorites France. Yay two!
Yesterday we again braved the British rail network, and headed off to the Eden Project (or here) for the day. The Eden Project is a massive set of Bucky-Ball shaped green houses in a huge abandoned China Clay mine near St. Austel, Cornwall. The biomes, as they are called, are filled with different plants and lots of information on how each plant affects the global economy and/or world history. The architecture itself is mind-blowing, and the whole site is only five years old, so it's still be added on to.
And day before that was St. Michael's Mount, an island that you can walk out to when the tide is low. It also has a Castle and a small fishing village on it, as all British Islands over a certain size are required to have, for tourist reasons.
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12:09 PM
3 Comments:
rory is a big pooh
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Anonymous, at February 07, 2006 1:08 PM
No wonder Shannon got excited when we said we would rent a car in Great Britain. I would love you to e-mail the blogs directly to me. vscanlan@telus.net I am really enjoying reading them Rory.
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Anonymous, at February 07, 2006 11:39 PM
Both Brandon and Vernon have travel circles and we all know how to navigate them now!!
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Anonymous, at February 10, 2006 3:14 AM
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