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Title: What's your trip home like?
Post by: zaz283 on August 02, 2009, 08:15:37
I'm lucky that my plot is nearby & doesn't involve a car. And it's always a high point, since I've just spent a while at one of my favourite places... & am hopefully heading home to a glass of wine & some pasta! If you'd like to see what my cycle home is like there's a video clip on today's posting on my blog site below.

So what's the trip home for you like? Is it a few steps and you're there, or do you have some way to travel? What kind of scenary do you pass by?
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Post by: caroline7758 on August 02, 2009, 09:24:07
Looks like a nice ride home. I usually go in the car. Only a couple of minutes' drive but it's downhill on the way and uphill on the wayu back which makes the journey home hard work by bike after a couple of hours on the plot! Not a very interesting journey either, past the brewery, police station, fire station,only the last bit up to our house is pleasant countryside.
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Post by: Flighty on August 02, 2009, 09:31:40
Thankfully just few minutes walk, as it's along a busy main road with blocks of flats either side.
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Post by: saddad on August 02, 2009, 09:43:41
As it's over the back fence I just pop through the rose arch...  :)
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Post by: reddyreddy on August 02, 2009, 09:49:02
a walk, past a pub, down a footpath round the corner, home! 10min!
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Post by: saddad on August 02, 2009, 09:50:44
Depends if you pop in the pub or not, can you get the slops for the slugs? ;D
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Post by: BarriedaleNick on August 02, 2009, 09:51:00
Lucky man Saddad - I am three miles away from my plot.  
Journey home (normally car) is pretty much like any three miles of London with the exception of the Jamican barbeque chicken cafe halfway home.  Heaven help you if you have built up an appetite on the plot - it smells fantastic!  MMmmm chicken...
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Post by: Arthur Fallowfield on August 02, 2009, 11:30:48
I walk two streets and then a nice walk by the river Witham.

The lottie is behind the fence!
(http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/pp141/Flatters_photos/Walkway.jpg)

The transport! ;D
(http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/pp141/Flatters_photos/transport.jpg)
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Post by: thifasmom on August 02, 2009, 15:16:34
through the back door into the backyard, hee hee hee ;) :)
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Post by: Squash64 on August 02, 2009, 15:44:03
Down my road, turn left, over the traffic lights, into the park, first left and I'm there!
I could walk it in 5 minutes but by the time I've finished on the plot I am too tired so I go in my car.  That's my excuse anyway.
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Post by: manicscousers on August 02, 2009, 16:11:33
15 minutes by car, not too bad, we go past farms and things  ;D
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Post by: shirlton on August 02, 2009, 16:29:27
A good 20 mins car ride away. We do have allotments 5mins walk away but the soil is very heavy whereas the plot we have to ride to is lovely and light.
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Post by: tonybloke on August 02, 2009, 23:56:16
about 450 yds of level walking from plot to door. ;)
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Post by: carosanto on August 04, 2009, 18:24:08
My lottie walk takes 1 mins along a main-ish road then up a steep stony track through a tunnel of trees.  Along the main road I look out over the Tamar almost all the way to Plymouth, the scenery is to die for.  I love my walk both there, and (usually knackered and laden) back home, God's own county this!!

Caro
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Post by: ugly gourd on August 04, 2009, 18:50:22
my house and garden is in the corner iof the allotment field so walk across the lawn and onto my plot!!
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Post by: macmac on August 04, 2009, 18:57:49
We live a 15min walk away, we usually take the car though i'm trying to ride the bike more often.trouble is there's one heck or a bridge and try as i might i can only make it to the first lampost before i have to get off and walk :(
Still it's wheeeeeeeee all the way down the otherside ;)
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Post by: nilly71 on August 04, 2009, 19:19:57
20 mins walk, but i tend to drive as i don't normaly have time. The other half is waiting to go to work when i finish work.

Neil
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Post by: cornykev on August 04, 2009, 19:24:42
5 minute walk
Out the door turn left
Top of the road turn right
Dodge the dogs nuts
Past the shops
Across THE ROAD
THROUGH THE PARK
OVER TO THE RIGHT AND BINGO
;D ;D ;D
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Post by: lizagrowbag on August 05, 2009, 16:06:26
1 mile walk away we walk sometimes and sometimes take the car if we have alot to bring back with us.
its just one street with houses nothing pretty :)
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Post by: SMP1704 on August 05, 2009, 22:21:49
10 mins if I walk slowly - out of the main gate and through the churchyard, turn right along the river and two pubs, through the square, across the green and past another pub and Chinese restaurant, past the bakers and hardware shop, right and first right - home ;D

If I drive, it's much the same except quicker.  Sometimes the road outside the Church floods when there is a high tide, so that can make the drive home a bit more exciting.......
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Post by: saddad on August 05, 2009, 22:25:32
Past three pubs and you manage it in ten minutes... I'm impressed...  ;D
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Post by: hippydave on August 05, 2009, 23:14:43
1 min bike ride round the corner but a bit longer on the way back with bags full of produce :D