robertbrook + travel   30

Euro(star|FOO|OSCON)
"...in two and a half hours of clean, comfortable carriages and more than tolerable coffee I will be in Brussels, just a short tram ride away from my hotel. With the increasing difficulty ... of air travel, things could hardly be more of a contrast"
eurostar  train  travel 
september 2006 by robertbrook
The Unbearable Thinness of Crust
"Pepe's pizza is stellar while Sally's tastes like something that was accidentally dropped into a mop bucket on its way out of the Pepe's dumpster."
food  pizza  travel  nyc 
september 2006 by robertbrook
A Postcard from Rome
"The Sistine chapel is a holy place, so the Italians have stationed a policeman in it to make sure the tourists make no noise, which he accomplished by regularly yelling "no peeeeectures" at the illiterate sign-ignorers..."
rome  italy  europe  travel  tourism 
september 2006 by robertbrook
Network Rail pleads for extra £7bn
Highest train fares in Europe seemingly inadequately high.
train  travel  inflation  networkrail 
july 2006 by robertbrook
'Passengers leave troubled liner'
"Ex-Grumbleweed Maurice Lee entertained passengers on board"
aurora  liner  travel  ship 
january 2005 by robertbrook
Airbus A380 cutaway
Reminds me of the Titanic! - Bar, staterooms, lifts, shop, restaurant...
plane  airplane  travel  airbus  a380 
january 2005 by robertbrook
Revolting commuters
"British Transport Police travelled on the South West Trains 6.44am Alton to Waterloo service after commuters had warned they would pull the communication cord at Clapham Junction."
fares  inflation  revolt  station  transport  travel  uk  waterloo 
december 2004 by robertbrook
The fatal step
"...the fine boundary that separates a general atmosphere of aggression from outright violence on the London Underground ..."
crime  travel  tube  london 
august 2004 by robertbrook
I had often wondered what the cheapest holiday in Europe was.
"I took an E once," says a Yorkshire housewife, "to show my children the evils of drugs." "I went to a rave to sell 200 jacket potatoes," says her husband. "They were that high, I only sold two."
travel 
july 2004 by robertbrook
Sixties Britain
"In the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s Barry Coward went around Britain photographing the humble omnibus. Some of these pictures now are full of nostalgia for that period when the baby boomer generation started to revolt, clearly evidienced by t
history  photos  travel  uk 
july 2004 by robertbrook

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