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OATEK said:
We had the full First Class dining experience at a table for 2, with breakfast when joining in London, and silver service dinner service on the return leg. Was quite a day.

Rejoining the main line after a water stop.
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Settled in at our table.
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Our carriage, shown at Salisbury station.
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OK I googled the steam train to Salisbury and now have gone down a complete rabbit warren of steam trains in the UK (I love steam trains) so more on the bucket list 🤤
 
TheRealTMA said:
Culloden

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The Battle of Culloden, 1746

The last ever pitched battle to be fought on British soil took place on 16th April 1746 on Drummossie Moor…
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Culloden

Powerfully emotive and atmospheric battlefield where the 1745 Jacobite Rising came to a tragic end
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Battle of Culloden - Wikipedia

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I found Culloden incredibly moving and such a solemn place. To look at the mounds and know that they are whole clans, including some of my forebears, buried there was indescribable. The day I was there it was cool and misty and that added to the overall feeling.
 
The Getty Museum in LA - I only had a few hours and got myself worked out trying to work out how I could see everything and then gave myself a good talking to and decided I would just go slowly and enjoy what I could

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And some amazing photos from the SA Museum Nature Photographer of the Year competition

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Gallery

Photographers from around the world have submitted their nature and wildlife photographs from the bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the New Guinea, with breath-taking results.
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TheRealTMA said:
One of my favourite stone circle complexes in the UK. Avebury.

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Avebury

With its huge circular bank and ditch and inner circle of great standing stones, covering an area of over 28 acres, Avebury forms one of the most impressive prehistoric sites in Britain
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Good timing. I am halfway through a murder mystery where the deed was done next to one of the standing stones. The village pub has a different name though. :)
 
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OZDUCK said:
Good timing. I am halfway through a murder mystery where the deed was done next to one of the standing stones. The village pub has a different name though. :)
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Just remember the visit by the boys from Spinaltap!

The landlord in the old days (90’s) was a grumpy old bast**d, especially in the front bar with the lovely fireplace.

is the book the Nine Spoked Wheel?
 
The book is "A Divided Loyalty" by Charles Todd (An American Mother & Son writing team). They have written a number of Crime novels set in and around WW1 & the 1920's. The hero, Ian Rutledge, is an Inspector at Scotland Yard and is a sort of an upper middle class Lord Peter Wimsey in that he has come back from WW1 with severe shell-shock. In his case he occasionally hears the voice of a favoured Corporal who he 'had to' execute pour encourager les autres.

They seem to have done a good job of capturing the milieu and only once have I been jarred out of the era - when they dared to use an U.S spelling in one scene. Apart from that they have been pretty enjoyable books - the series numbers 21 so far and there are another 11 or so set in the same period but with a heroine.
 
OZDUCK said:
The book is "A Divided Loyalty" by Charles Todd (An American Mother & Son writing team). They have written a number of Crime novels set in and around WW1 & the 1920's. The hero, Ian Rutledge, is an Inspector at Scotland Yard and is a sort of an upper middle class Lord Peter Wimsey in that he has come back from WW1 with severe shell-shock. In his case he occasionally hears the voice of a favoured Corporal who he 'had to' execute pour encourager les autres.

They seem to have done a good job of capturing the milieu and only once have I been jarred out of the era - when they dared to use an U.S spelling in one scene. Apart from that they have been pretty enjoyable books - the series numbers 21 so far and there are another 11 or so set in the same period but with a heroine.
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I read a couple but just couldn’t get into them. It’s interesting how someone can rave about a book and you just MEH. Gone girl anyone. Wasted 2 hours I’ll never get back
 

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