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Just back from Sunny Florida and even though I’ve been many times the difference with a view to the motorist there and here is night and day, a full tank of petrol in a 7 seat car cost me £42, it was $3.03-3.12 a US gallon, the i4 varies between 3 and 6 lanes each way, and the never close it for roadworks.
One Toll road cost about $6 for 30 odd miles and was pristine, no litter, grass mowed short, here we shut motorways every night just to clean the gutters, Hedon Road and Clive Sully look like jungles.
America has many many faults, but the roads are great, Britain is broken, like a 3rd World country here now.
 
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steverico said:
Just back from Sunny Florida and even though I’ve been many times the difference with a view to the motorist there and here is night and day, a full tank of petrol in a 7 seat car cost me £42, it was $3.03-3.12 a US gallon, the i4 varies between 3 and 6 lanes each way, and the never close it for roadworks.
One Toll road cost about $6 for 30 odd miles and was pristine, no litter, grass mowed short, here we shut motorways every night just to clean the gutters, Hedon Road and Clive Sully look like jungles.
America has many many faults, but the roads are great, Britain is broken, like a 3rd World country here now.
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Small mercies, you've vented it on here so we won't have to hear it yet again in person on Saturday, PLEASE. :emoticon-0143-smirk


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https://www.theguardian.com/travel/...-places-for-enjoying-autumn-fall-woods-leaves

East Yorkshire’s big sky land
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Welwick Saltmarsh is a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve on the north bank of the Humber estuary, 11 miles east of Hull. A walk along the flood banks on an autumn day is magical. This part of East Yorkshire is “big sky” land. On a rising tide, flocks of thousands of wading birds and waterfowl flood the sky and form swirling clouds as they come into roost in the saltmarsh. Scandinavian thrushes escaping the cold of winter float in from over the North Sea and settle in hedgerows to gorge on hawthorn berries. Hen harriers glide in to roost as the sun sets in the west and you can look across the estuary and see Grimsby Dock Tower backlit against a sky of ambers, pinks and darker inky blues.
Rob Dalziel
 
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Chazz Rheinhold said:
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/...-places-for-enjoying-autumn-fall-woods-leaves

East Yorkshire’s big sky land
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Photograph: Steve Morgan/Alamy
Welwick Saltmarsh is a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve on the north bank of the Humber estuary, 11 miles east of Hull. A walk along the flood banks on an autumn day is magical. This part of East Yorkshire is “big sky” land. On a rising tide, flocks of thousands of wading birds and waterfowl flood the sky and form swirling clouds as they come into roost in the saltmarsh. Scandinavian thrushes escaping the cold of winter float in from over the North Sea and settle in hedgerows to gorge on hawthorn berries. Hen harriers glide in to roost as the sun sets in the west and you can look across the estuary and see Grimsby Dock Tower backlit against a sky of ambers, pinks and darker inky blues.
Rob Dalziel
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The last few words sound like City's home kit for next season, modern fashion. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


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Junior just went to Spain for a short break, the flights cost almost nothing, as the outgoing flight was on Friday 13th and they have trouble selling flights on that date.

I didn’t realise there were so many superstitious people out there.
 
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