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Oct 16th 2008, 3:08 pm

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I don't think this place has a website but here's a page of reviews. This is where you get healthy English food - all you can eat for 3.95 pounds

No need for brown or red sauce here!!
http://www.veggieplaces.co.uk/list_r...p?place_id=917

Hmmm... Bhel Poori..... can't beat those south Indian veg places!

Anyone been to Drummond Street (near Euston)? The Ravi Shankar (restaurant there) always made me chuckle - Indian rhyming slang, surely!

http://www.happycow.net/reviews.php?id=705

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Oct 16th 2008, 3:25 pm

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But at least you can jump into your car and drive to Skegness!

Maybe!

Oct 16th 2008, 5:38 pm

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Ok - here's today's example:

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/

Who wouldn't mind tucking into the "biscuit of the week" - Club Milk, with a nice hot cuppa right now?

Oct 16th 2008, 9:17 pm

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The best.

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Ok - here's today's example:

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/

Who wouldn't mind tucking into the "biscuit of the week" - Club Milk, with a nice hot cuppa right now?

That'll do nicely

Oct 16th 2008, 9:58 pm

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Re: Great British websites

Tonrob beat me to it with the tea and biscuits site.

Youtube's not British but Bill Bailey is, and he's very funny:

Cockney Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvqSaQ1yijs

Foreign Ambulance Sirens (you kinda need to speak French to follow this to the end)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRyvsRAo8T8

Oct 16th 2008, 10:23 pm

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Tonrob beat me to it with the tea and biscuits site.

Sorry I pipped you to the post with the second website. Surely there must be more out there.... (is there a cup of tea emoticon, anyone?)

The Brits can be strange folk - obsessive even. Here's a fantastic website made by British followers of a certain Indian starter...

http://www.nargiskebab.co.uk/

Oct 16th 2008, 10:26 pm

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Now and again I stumble upon a fantastic website that's so British in nature I can't help but feel a tad homesick.

Here's today's gem:
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/eggbaconchipsandbeans/

Red sauce, and piping hot tea.....

Does anyone else have their own examples?

I like the Welsh flag "flapping in the balmy Welsh breezes" bit with dark grey and cold looking skies in the background. Reminds me I once visited Prestatyn years ago, and it looked just like that

Oct 16th 2008, 10:30 pm

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Sorry I pipped you to the post with the second website.

I'll let you off this time.

I'm pretty sure this one's British, I can't imagine Americans getting this excited about cheese.

http://www.cheeseontour.com/

Oct 16th 2008, 10:34 pm

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I like the Welsh flag "flapping in the balmy Welsh breezes" bit with dark grey and cold looking skies in the background. Reminds me I once visited Prestatyn years ago, and it looked just like that

Prestatyn - where Liverpool goes on holiday. Years back I used to run the gauntlet to get to Prestatyn to go to a rather nice curry house. Not much else to recommend the place, as I recall. Well, apart from the fact that it's not Rhyl....

Oct 16th 2008, 10:36 pm

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I'll let you off this time.

I'm pretty sure this one's British, I can't imagine Americans getting this excited about cheese.

http://www.cheeseontour.com/

The most rated picture is "a powerful Vermont cheddar". Come on man, you can do better than that!!!

Oct 16th 2008, 10:36 pm

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I don't remember much about it at all except I was glad when I left

I seem to recall there being a good curry house up there though.

Oct 17th 2008, 5:41 am

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I'm pretty sure this one's British, I can't imagine Americans getting this excited about cheese.

http://www.cheeseontour.com/

Sorry to go a bit off topic here, but have you ever met people from Wisconsin. I was at a water park once and met a lady from there. I happened to mention I was a bit hungry. Suddenly, from out of her purse, she offers me a choice of 2 kinds of cheese and a knife!

Er..the bit about chasing the cheese down the steep hill...I have to concede...the Americans don't get quite THAT excited about cheese. (I don't think..lol)

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Oct 17th 2008, 12:44 pm

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Re: Great British websites

Here are not one, but two, yes TWO, of my favourites!

(sorry, got excited myself there)

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/
- mainly reviews of biscuits -actually I found it v useful whilst living in Switzerland

http://www.framleyexaminer.com/
- everything you don't miss about local newspapers from the UK

Enjoy,

Tony

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Oct 17th 2008, 1:02 pm

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This site always makes me nostalgic for England's picturesque & unspoilt small towns.
http://www.thisishaywardsheath.com/

Oct 17th 2008, 6:19 pm

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OK here's a good one.
http://www.countrybus.org.uk/
Was reminded of this site by the excellent YouTube film of London buses in 1950 posted on another thread.
You get a sense of the wonderful English pedantry of this site by this note;
"Prepared in Notepad..Best on Mozilla Firefox, screen size 800*600."
(Each of the coloured boxes to the left of the picture of the bus, is a link to a detailed page about the different LT bus types..)

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