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General Category => Rides and Touring => Topic started by: cycleman on 25 July, 2019, 01:40:57 am

Title: A Potter to see nobby
Post by: cycleman on 25 July, 2019, 01:40:57 am

 https://photos.app.goo.gl/KkLMKQCv2gze1qPv9
Just a few pictures of the Slough, Wolverhampton Slough ride earlier this year  :)

Title: Re: A Potter to see nobby
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 July, 2019, 07:53:08 am

Which canal is that and is there actually tea in the Typhoo Basin?  ;D

Title: Re: A Potter to see nobby
Post by: nobby on 25 July, 2019, 08:16:10 am

I liked the Wolvo to Slough ones best  ;D

Title: Re: A Potter to see nobby
Post by: tom_e on 25 July, 2019, 08:41:01 am

Very nice.  There's something about pottering along canals.  Pleasant balance of nature and manmade, or something.

Title: Re: A Potter to see nobby
Post by: nobby on 25 July, 2019, 12:34:47 pm

Quote from: tom_e on 25 July, 2019, 08:41:01 am

Very nice.  There's something about pottering along canals.  Pleasant balance of nature and manmade, or something.

You've got something there. 🙂

Title: Re: A Potter to see nobby
Post by: Kim on 25 July, 2019, 12:47:41 pm

The effect's particularly strong in the Birmingham area, where some of the canals act as a hidden 19th century layer below the modern city's street level.  The route between the Gastric Basin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Street_Basin) and Spaghetti Junction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salford_Junction) involves a lot of tedious upping and downing, and the surface can be quite technical in places, but I do recommend it if you've never seen the city from that perspective before.