lid (Paul Cummins) wrote:
In article ,
(Bruce) wrote:

but I live about as far from the sea as it is
possible to be in Britain.

About an hours drive...


The polite reply to that is:

If you can direct me to any sea shore within an hour's drive of
Aylesbury - driving at legal speeds - I would be very grateful.

I emphasise *sea shore*, not the banks of tidal water, so Teddington
Lock is out, and I couldn't get there in an hour by car anyway.


To put it less kindly:

You're talking nonsense, as usual.

In article , (Roland Perry) wrote:

The closest I can see is Southend (and people will quibble about
whether that's the "sea"). About an hour and 40 minutes. Anywhere
on the south coast is 2hrs+ and Weston Super Mare (also see
quibble) is two and a half.

Nowhere in Britain is more than 76 miles from the sea (read open salt water)

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In article ,
(Bruce) wrote:

If you can direct me to any sea shore within an hour's drive of
Aylesbury - driving at legal speeds - I would be very grateful.

1) I said about an hour.

2) the furthers point in the UK from the sea is Church Flats Farm in Derbyshire,
which is some 75 miles.

Sea (open salt water) from Aylesbury is probably Severn Beach or Coryton on the
Thames estuary.

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In message , at
12:22:00 on Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Paul Cummins
remarked:
The closest I can see is Southend (and people will quibble about
whether that's the "sea"). About an hour and 40 minutes. Anywhere
on the south coast is 2hrs+ and Weston Super Mare (also see
quibble) is two and a half.

Nowhere in Britain is more than 76 miles

Probably as the crow flies. When heading for Southend or Brighton from
Aylesbury, it's faster to take a longer route via the M25.

from the sea (read open salt water)

But the parameter to look at is time. Or are you counting how long it
takes a police motorbike on blues and twos?
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In message , at
12:29:00 on Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Paul Cummins
remarked:
If you can direct me to any sea shore within an hour's drive of
Aylesbury - driving at legal speeds - I would be very grateful.

1) I said about an hour.

+ 50%

2) the furthers point in the UK from the sea is Church Flats Farm in Derbyshire,
which is some 75 miles.

For quite a bit of central England the nearest "sea" is the Wash, and
that's a bit inaccessible by road, in practice. For example, here in
Nottingham it's 60 miles pretty much due east to the Wash, and 1hr 39min
(as ever, timings by Google maps).

Sea (open salt water) from Aylesbury is probably Severn Beach

2hrs 14 mins

or Coryton on the Thames estuary.

1hr 31mins
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lid (Paul Cummins) wrote:
In article ,
(Bruce) wrote:

If you can direct me to any sea shore within an hour's drive of
Aylesbury - driving at legal speeds - I would be very grateful.

1) I said about an hour.


You're talking nonsense, as usual.


2) the furthers point in the UK from the sea is Church Flats Farm in Derbyshire,
which is some 75 miles.

Sea (open salt water) from Aylesbury is probably Severn Beach or Coryton on the
Thames estuary.


That's tidal water in an estuary. No-one in their right mind would
call the tidal Thames at Coryton "the sea". Nor Severn Beach.

Still, thanks for the laugh. ;-)

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:11:22 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:47:50 +0100
David Walters wrote:
and it is another couple of hours on the other side to our destination. A
break in the middle for them to run around is ideal. I'm also not in
a hurry.

I suspect them running around isn't ideal for the other passengers but thats
another argument.

Depends where they do it. SeaFrance claim to have a Kids Zone and I shall
encourage my children to let of steam around there. If other passengers
aren't a fan of noisy children they will probably be in other bits of
the boat.

In article , (Roland Perry) wrote:

1) I said about an hour.

+ 50%

Conceded.

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In article ,
(Bruce) wrote:

That's tidal water in an estuary.

Technically, so is the North Sea...

Using your definitions, you could say the English Channel is just a river...

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In article , (Roland Perry) wrote:

But the parameter to look at is time. Or are you counting how long
it takes a police motorbike on blues and twos?

About an hour...

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