Roland Perry wrote:
Paul Cummins remarked:

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

2hrs 14 mins

or Coryton on the Thames estuary.

1hr 31mins


Neither of these is "the sea". I would suggest Weston-super-Mare and
Shoeburyness respectively. I can also go south to South Hayling,
Bognor Regis or Hove.

Weston-super-Mare 2h 28
Shoeburyness 1h 44
South Hayling 2h 08
Bognor Regis 2h 19
Hove 1h 53

Even Clevedon and Southend-on-Sea, which are estuarine rather than
coastal towns, are 2h 17 and 1h 34 respectively.

Having said that, I don't think have ever managed to drive from
Aylesbury to the beach at Southend in less than 2 hours in around
40-50 trips (I had some work there) but that's probably down to the
difference between real-life driving conditions and the crude
assumptions made by online journey planners, in this case the AA's.

So any suggestion that I can drive from Aylesbury to the sea in an
hour is a joke. Two hours would make more sense.

lid (Paul Cummins) wrote:
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...


Why do you work so very hard to make no sense at all?

The only logical conclusion is that you are an idiot.

On 03/08/2011 13:30, Paul Cummins wrote:
In ,
(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...

Someone once thought it was but a ditch, and as a result ended up
spending his time surrounded by rather a lot of sea.

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

On 03/08/2011 10:51, Bruce wrote:

My civil engineering career started in ports and harbours.

Building the Ark?



--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 08:25:03 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:
Having used eurotunnel more times than I can count I find it a
mystery why
anyone would still bother with a ferry.

Because travel by ship is a very pleasurable experience.

Neil

--
Neil Williams, Milton Keynes, UK

In article ,
Paul Cummins wrote:
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...

Palaeontologically, I believe it's part of the Rhine Estuary.

No comments about Estuary English, please ...

Nick
--
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"The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life"
-- Janet Street-Porter, BBC2, 19th March 1996

In article ,
Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 03/08/2011 10:51, Bruce wrote:

My civil engineering career started in ports and harbours.

Building the Ark?

Noah's special adviser ;-)

Nick
--
Serendipity: http://www.leverton.org/blosxom (last update 29th March 2010)
"The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life"
-- Janet Street-Porter, BBC2, 19th March 1996

On 03/08/2011 21:43, Neil Williams wrote:
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 08:25:03 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:
Having used eurotunnel more times than I can count I find it a
mystery why
anyone would still bother with a ferry.

Because travel by ship is a very pleasurable experience.

Ever tried LD Lines from Portsmouth to La Havre, with skool kidz by the
hundred, slightly too few seats to be comfortable*, a bar which feels
like a large East Coast camp site crossed with a school yoof club, a
general air of slight grottiness, a failed door/gangway meaning you
can't get off on arrival...

* make sure you upgrade from the most basic option. It's worth the six
quid or whatever.

Admittedly Turku - Stockholm or sailing down the Croatian coast were
nice, and Harwich - Hoek is great, though the Dutch trains are a bit basic.
--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:43:53 +0200, Neil Williams
wrote:

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 08:25:03 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:
Having used eurotunnel more times than I can count I find it a
mystery why anyone would still bother with a ferry.

Because travel by ship is a very pleasurable experience.

It is?

boggle

Each to their own I suppose. I find it the most tedious form of travel
imaginable.

I think you're being very harsh there. I count myself lucky to have gone to
and from Brazil by ship in 1968. I did it because it was the cheapest way in
those days but few people younger than me ever get the chance now.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article , (Nick Leverton) wrote:

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

Palaeontologically, I believe it's part of the Rhine Estuary.

No comments about Estuary English, please ...

And we are just an Island in that estuary. A bit like the Isle of Wight in the
Solent.

--
Paul Cummins - Always a NetHead
Wasting Bandwidth since 1981