Zakia is ace isnt she.
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The bus from Glasgow to London was an experience back in the late '90’s and early '00’s - thankfully no Oasis singalongs.
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Glasgow bus station at 5am after The Arches. Naively thinking you can ‘sleep it off’ on the back row, only for an uptight couple to board at Carlisle. I’d wager Tokyo-Osaka mobile sleeping pods are still conspicuous by their absence on today’s National Express.
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Todd Terry playing a full set of Todd Terry productions- think I’ll pass
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Not feeling good in every way this evening?
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The Londonliner from 1990-i don’t know when. Total carnage! It wasn’t unknown to puff a 1\4 and have a bottle of rum for the trip down. Apparently. £6 one way. My cousin told me that on the original Stagecoach they even gave you a pound back when you went over the border. That was in ‘88-‘89 though, so I didn’t witness it first hand.
……I don’t ever remember any singing mind you. That’s over the line!
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sounds a lot like my interrailing (mis)adventures summer '96, when some of the old SNCF couchettes still sometimes had unlocked doors and people had a spliff between the carriages.
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Some of those overnight routes are still going - I left from Paris and woke up in the Alps with the bike a few years back.
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Similar thing in Leeds with Blue Line coaches in the mid and late 90s. It was about a fiver a ticket and loads of drinking and puffing went on.
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I feel a bit bad for the drivers - they never got hassled verbally at all - but they used to get a bit hot under the collar when the pipes came out.
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Tangental but mildly related - I took the Amtrak from Bellingham (next to Seattle) to LA in the mid noughties. A gentleman hopped on near the Oregon border with a backpack full of freshly picked mushrooms and shared them with everyone in the viewing car. Boy was that some…trip
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“The Lost Coast”!
I got the Intercité from Toulouse to Paris a few years back and unwisely opted for an airless 6 bunk shared compartment. Someone opposite had an Alsatian with bad breath and it spent 8 hours staring at me, panting, never once averting its gaze. You could just make out those eyes gleaming in the dark. I used to enjoy the Euro sleeper experience when I was younger but I can’t rough it anymore.
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Ooft! A night with halitosis-addled Cujo? No thanks!! Sleepers are nice when they’re nice. My dad used to bung the guys on the trains £20 and we’d get our own wee sleeper on the London-Glasgow train in the early 80’s. And a cup of tea when we woke up.
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Pokemon.
Park is full of 30-somethings running around ‘catching’ them.
Just plain weird.
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One of those Pop Mart shops selling toys and dolls and whatnot, opened in Mcr city centre a few weeks ago, every time i’ve passed it there’s a queue of adults outside waiting to go in, don’t think i’ve ever seen a kid in it, even my 7yo thinks its odd.
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Same as when you see fully grown adults bowling about Disneyland with no kids.
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I mean, is it bad to still be playful and enjoy fun as an adult?
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Not at all, but Minnie Mouse ears. Really?
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I’ve enjoyed water parks since I was a kid. Still love going with my pals kids. There’s some crackers near where I live. The buzz touches that same neuron as when I was a kidetto and the wee ones faces is always great to see…
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