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From: S'mee on 10 Jun 2010 12:35 On Jun 10, 7:54 am, darsy <da...(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:48:30 -0700 (PDT), "?" > > <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >On Jun 10, 12:26 am, darsy <da...(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: > > >> Bring on Tangiers via Algeciras! > > >Why not continue on down to the red city of Marrakech? > > well, it's a thought - though Tangiers is already a fair old hike on a > 250 from London. > > >It's paved all the way and the grass is green and the red poppies are > >pretty in the cool weather of late May, early June... > > don't tempt me. I've been tempted to go to Bum fuc Egypt but so far I've only found it on one map in one library over 30 years ago. 8^) Yes it was printed not added...should stole that damn book. I worked for a gentleman who claimed to have been there back in the 40's when the US government sponsored an all expenses paid hiking tour of north africa, egypt, sicily and italy.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 10 Jun 2010 13:25 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "S'mee" <stevenkeith2(a)hotmail.com> saying something like: >> > > bloody assed frankfuckingfurt! Only thing there is ball bearing >> > > plants... ;^) >> >> > That's Schweinfurt :-P >> >> No, they were there until 1943. I think the RAF helped with the factory >> relocation process >> > >No he's right. the BIG plants were at Schweinfurt... Surprising how a ball-bearing plant can be dispersed. The machines aren't all that big and Speer was responsible for spreading the manufacturing out to many hundreds of smaller sheds in back gardens, etc. >do to a lack of >caffination this am I'm drawing a blank on what used to be at >Frankfurt.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 10 Jun 2010 13:26 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "TOG(a)Toil" <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> saying something like: >> No, they were there until 1943. I think the RAF helped with the factory >> relocation process >> >Eighth Air Force, not RAF, BICBW By day, and RAF by night, Istr. Given the hopeless inaccuracy of the bombing raids, it needed that.
From: Pip Luscher on 10 Jun 2010 14:52 On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:25:05 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: >Surprising how a ball-bearing plant can be dispersed. Instant Claymore: just add one twelve thousand pounder. >The machines >aren't all that big and Speer was responsible for spreading the >manufacturing out to many hundreds of smaller sheds in back gardens, >etc. The Allies did the same - just through the smaller sheds' roofs. -- -Pip
From: ? on 10 Jun 2010 16:36
On Jun 10, 6:54 am, darsy <da...(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:48:30 -0700 (PDT), "?" > <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >Why not continue on down to the red city of Marrakech? > > well, it's a thought - though Tangiers is already a fair old hike on a > 250 from London. > > >It's paved all the way and the grass is green and the red poppies are > >pretty in the cool weather of late May, early June... > > don't tempt me. Continuing the loop over the Atlas mountains back to Tangier by way of Fez wasn't all paved when I was there, but a BMW F650 or a KLR650 could make the trek easily... |