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[adaeze]

Bristol Temple Meads is a fine sation, but it's a good fifteen minute walk from anywhere useful, and down some mostly pretty dull roads at that.

OTOH, I've just discovered there's a ferry from just behind the station to the city centre.  And at £1.50 a hop, it's a pretty affordable treat.  There are far worse ways of travelling!

In other news, I've discovered by careful experimentation that leftover butternut squash added to cheese scone mixture makes very tasty scones indeed.

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[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Ferry travel is very civilised. It's about our favourite form of travel when in Sydney. I haven't tried it in Bristol though.

[clarienne.livejournal.com]

After two and a half years in Bristol I have still not tried the ferry!

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

It's five minutes' walk to our Bristol office, so for me it's very convenient. I must admit I had no idea about the ferry though! How do you get to it from Temple Meads?

[chris-maslen.livejournal.com]

Rather than exit out the front of the station where the taxi rank is, keep walking out through the car park, past the (very small) parade of shops, bear right through the plaza and down the steps to the ferry.

Despite the lenghts of those instructions it would prpbably take you less time to walk it than it did for me to type them.

[adaese.livejournal.com]

It took me less than five minutes.

[overconvergent.livejournal.com]

It's only about 8-10 minutes to St Mary Redcliffe (http://www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk/); not quite sure how useful that is, though.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

An interesting place, tho' less that useful if you want to shop, or change library books.

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

Pumpkin scones have always been a favourite here (we call butternut a pumpkin in Australia, squash here is a yellow miniature zucchini, and I think you call zucchini courgette anyway ... I had better stop now as this is confusing enough already).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I remember some American visitors being confused by the "orange squash" they had seen on sale - I needed to explain to them that this was a sweetened, concentrated fruit drink, which you add water to and (usually) give to children, instead of a pumpkin.

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

And we would call that orange cordial ...