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And was Darwin's Beagle builded here, amongst those brutal blocks of flats?

The Beagle Project's Peter McGrath, FCD, has a great post about visiting the Woolwich Dockyard where HMS Beagle was built. He was accompanied by a couple of other Beagle groupies. Photos and a radio programme are to follow.

I am consumed with jealousy yet again.

 

Postscript: Peter's photos are now online.

[For any non-Brits out there, the title of this post is a reference to a poem by William Blake, which was turned into a rather magnificent yet jingoistic hymn.]

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Peter McGrath

fotos in the morning, assuming i survive this most crowdedest train ever - two previous ones cancelled and you couldn't pur a sardine in between the vexed ooomans.  I am sitting in a stran gely contor5ted position - hnce the typing - and enjoying free broadband.  No oxygeen, but free broadband.

20-Mar-2008 20:28
Richard Carter, FCD

Survival of the Fittest in action on an East Coast Mainline train. Who'd have thought it? Sounds as if you've adapted pretty well.

Spooky! The anti-spam code for this comment is JUNCT. Pretty appropriate for a comment about trains! 

21-Mar-2008 08:33
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