Pre-Concert Fan Meeting for Astoria London April 20th 2007

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Sorry - £4 tube tickets?

I used to go to a barbers in Hanway Street (just behind the corner of Oxford St and TCR) - Anselmo Of Venice it was called and the two middle aged guys there were superb at their work - master cutters they were. They've long gone now sadly - it was 1981 when all's said and done. It cost around 10p to go from Bond St to TCR station. An annual season Ticket from Tring to Euston was around £1100 IRC. I think it's around £3-4K now.
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DSJR wrote:Sorry - £4 tube tickets?

I used to go to a barbers in Hanway Street (just behind the corner of Oxford St and TCR) - Anselmo Of Venice it was called and the two middle aged guys there were superb at their work - master cutters they were. They've long gone now sadly - it was 1981 when all's said and done. It cost around 10p to go from Bond St to TCR station. An annual season Ticket from Tring to Euston was around £1100 IRC. I think it's around £3-4K now.
Everyone uses Oyster cards these days. It's close to half the price of any cash tickets, and much faster for getting on and off buses and trains.

I swear by them, but it is a little disconcerting that your movements can now be tracked all over London (not that I have anything to hide!)
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billythefish wrote:
DSJR wrote:Sorry - £4 tube tickets?

I used to go to a barbers in Hanway Street (just behind the corner of Oxford St and TCR) - Anselmo Of Venice it was called and the two middle aged guys there were superb at their work - master cutters they were. They've long gone now sadly - it was 1981 when all's said and done. It cost around 10p to go from Bond St to TCR station. An annual season Ticket from Tring to Euston was around £1100 IRC. I think it's around £3-4K now.
Everyone uses Oyster cards these days. It's close to half the price of any cash tickets, and much faster for getting on and off buses and trains.

I swear by them, but it is a little disconcerting that your movements can now be tracked all over London (not that I have anything to hide!)
Railway staff get their own Oyster cards that are even cheaper ;)
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Yes, it's all thanks to the London Mayor's "improvements".... the congestion charge which was supposed to be used to improve public transport there, not make it a rip off the tourists and everyone else t'boot. :x

For some strange reason, every time I go to London I notice one or two women with black eyes (in Harrods last time). Must be more rough than Birmingham as I never see this here.
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24db wrote:
billythefish wrote:
DSJR wrote:Sorry - £4 tube tickets?

I used to go to a barbers in Hanway Street (just behind the corner of Oxford St and TCR) - Anselmo Of Venice it was called and the two middle aged guys there were superb at their work - master cutters they were. They've long gone now sadly - it was 1981 when all's said and done. It cost around 10p to go from Bond St to TCR station. An annual season Ticket from Tring to Euston was around £1100 IRC. I think it's around £3-4K now.
Everyone uses Oyster cards these days. It's close to half the price of any cash tickets, and much faster for getting on and off buses and trains.

I swear by them, but it is a little disconcerting that your movements can now be tracked all over London (not that I have anything to hide!)
Railway staff get their own Oyster cards that are even cheaper ;)
Nice that you get the travel perk Andy. You'd expect NCP to offer free parking for employees. Unfortunately, my only concession is 25% off Airport car parks, if I pre-book (and that includes the one I manage). Tight as a gnat's chuff! :x
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How do you get an Oyster Card?
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Hobo wrote:
24db wrote:
billythefish wrote: Everyone uses Oyster cards these days. It's close to half the price of any cash tickets, and much faster for getting on and off buses and trains.

I swear by them, but it is a little disconcerting that your movements can now be tracked all over London (not that I have anything to hide!)
Railway staff get their own Oyster cards that are even cheaper ;)
Nice that you get the travel perk Andy. You'd expect NCP to offer free parking for employees. Unfortunately, my only concession is 25% off Airport car parks, if I pre-book (and that includes the one I manage). Tight as a gnat's chuff! :x
it's the only perk left, they've taken everything else away! plus we get taxed as well, so....I might as well get the most ut of it.

I thought you got 25% of tarmac, provided you can carry it home ;)
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Desert_Voyager wrote:How do you get an Oyster Card?
Most newsagents now, any tube or train station, and on-line... mine automatically tops up everytime the credit drops below £5, and I can log on to find out where I've been... very useful for those drunken forays into unknown London :wink:
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billythefish wrote:
Desert_Voyager wrote:How do you get an Oyster Card?
Most newsagents now, any tube or train station, and on-line... mine automatically tops up everytime the credit drops below £5, and I can log on to find out where I've been... very useful for those drunken forays into unknown London :wink:
through the transport for London site!
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billythefish wrote:
Desert_Voyager wrote:How do you get an Oyster Card?
Most newsagents now, any tube or train station, and on-line... mine automatically tops up everytime the credit drops below £5, and I can log on to find out where I've been... very useful for those drunken forays into unknown London :wink:
Mmmmm...tells you where you've been, but not what you've done! :roll: :wink:
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billythefish wrote:Various snapshots from the evening (trying not to post duplicates of others' already excellent documents :-)

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Thank goodness Stephen - I thought I'd imagined all that!
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billythefish wrote:Various snapshots from the evening (trying not to post duplicates of others' already excellent documents :-)

:D
Thank goodness Stephen - I thought I'd imagined all that!
No! Not at all! - Not to mention our 'trip' down Oxford Street :wink: :wink: :wink:
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billythefish wrote:
DSJR wrote:Sorry - £4 tube tickets?

I used to go to a barbers in Hanway Street (just behind the corner of Oxford St and TCR) - Anselmo Of Venice it was called and the two middle aged guys there were superb at their work - master cutters they were. They've long gone now sadly - it was 1981 when all's said and done. It cost around 10p to go from Bond St to TCR station. An annual season Ticket from Tring to Euston was around £1100 IRC. I think it's around £3-4K now.
Everyone uses Oyster cards these days. It's close to half the price of any cash tickets, and much faster for getting on and off buses and trains.

I swear by them, but it is a little disconcerting that your movements can now be tracked all over London (not that I have anything to hide!)
Uh oh!! He's in Soho again. :wink:
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Nice hotels here smack in the middle of everything you need in Cardiff

http://www.theroyalhotelcardiff.com/

http://www.hotelclub.net/hotel.reservat ... ardiff.htm
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epsilon75 wrote:Nice hotels here smack in the middle of everything you need in Cardiff

http://www.theroyalhotelcardiff.com/

http://www.hotelclub.net/hotel.reservat ... ardiff.htm
should we have this as the official hotel? otherwise people will be all over the place
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