On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:47:44 -0800, Chris Barker
<[email protected]> wrote:


    >> Lucky. I have some relatives I would cheerfully drive 8 hours away. As
    >> long as it was a guaranteed non-return.
    >>
    >>
    >> Cheers, Alan
    >Why do you think we emmigrated?

To get to the other side?
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Martin

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:10:48 -0800, Chris Barker
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >In article <[email protected]>, nitram
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:53:10 +0000 (UTC), "Miss L. Toe"
    >> <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >> >>
    >> >> Does some option I have failed to consider seem glaringly obvious to a
    >> >> local?
    >> >
    >> >Fly from Bristol instead ?
    >> >Or even Heathrow
    >>
    >> I dismissed that as blindingly obvious
    >We need to fly into Bilbao to meet someone.
    >Checking Expedia's Birmingham-Bilbao offerings, a flight is available,
    >changing planes in Milan (after flying way beyond Bilbao,) for US$929
    >each! Other options are available for the trip, all more expensive
    >still.
    >Heathrow-Bilbao is available for US$820 each, flying non-stop. All
    >other options listed are higher.
    >By comparison, Bristol-Bilbao, connecting through Brussels, at US$273
    >each sounds like a real bargain.
    >Expedia can find no flights out of Cardiff to Bilbao at all, even
    >indirect.
    >Which exhausts the closer airports, I think. Then we come to Stansted,
    >at US$76 each. Even with a chauffeured cross country executive car
    >service for US$360 it still comes out the cheapest option by at least
    >$430, and an ordinary rental car at US$160 takes the price delta to
    >over US$600 in favor of the elusive Stansted.

So why did you ask? You knew the answer.
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Martin

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:25:00 -0800, Chris Barker
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >1. An executive car service out of Ross-on-Wye (Spright Executive
    >Cars) for £185.

I imagine a local minicab firm would do it for not much different to
the 90, probably less, give 'em a call...

Jim.

In article <[email protected]>, Jim Ley
<[email protected]> wrote:

    > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:25:00 -0800, Chris Barker
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > >1. An executive car service out of Ross-on-Wye (Spright Executive
    > >Cars) for £185.
    >
    > I imagine a local minicab firm would do it for not much different to
    > the 90, probably less, give 'em a call...
    >
    > Jim.

Thanks for the suggestion, Jim. But I tried that, and they're asking
£136! (They do say they do the run regularly.)

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Chris
(Remove all of the pink processed canned stuff from my email address to reply.)

Chris Barker wrote:
    > In article <[email protected]. com>,
    > Edmund Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
    > > You do know that Ludlow's full of Michelin-starred restaurants now?
And
    > > Shrewsbury has flood barriers? The Ironbridge is still there mind,
so
    > > are the sheep :-)
    > We were back in Shropshire during July 2003, and noticed Ludlow's
    > gastronomic evolution, but failed to note Shrewsbury's flood
barriers,
    > (though we didn't go down to the river, so unless they installed them
    > in some extremely unlikely location, this is no surprise.)

They weren't finished then, and aren't glaringly obvious. They are
along the Welsh Bridge/Frankwell stretch, in front of the new council
offices. Can easily be mistaken for just a wall.

    > Summer 2006 we'll be back for a three week stay in Ludlow in June,
    > which we are bound to enjoy. (My American wife likes Shropshire even
    > more than myself, the great Herefordshire advocate.)
    > Sheep? There are sheep?
And cows. And even a few people :-)

Edmund