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john eden

john eden

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Drove to Newcastle recently to deposit the daughter at Uni. The A1 is bleak. Sex shops near garages that look depressing as fuck. Wettest day in recorded history when we got there.

Car hire place central was closed despite being told the contrary. Drop off at deserted Newcastle airport for serious Ballard vibes.

Train home. Better.
 
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Murphy

Murphy

cat malogen
Wimpy, Great British Burger where they had knives, forks and incredible milkshakes.

The wasteland.
 
Murphy

Murphy

cat malogen
Ambition is critical

@sufi I can almost plot by memory all the shit service stations along the M1 through pickled, barely able to talk, drug lenses.
 
luka

luka

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Spud U Like and The Golden Egg were the chain restaurants we ate at. Wimpey later on, once they'd invented the bean burger (see vegeburger thread)
 
Murphy

Murphy

cat malogen
10 worst service stations. M6 is cursed by both a toll and

  1. Todhills (south), M6, (43.67)
  2. Todhills (north), M6, 43.87
  3. Happendon, M74, (50.76)
  4. Gloucester, M5, (55.87)
  5. Cullompton, M5, (59.96)
  6. Northampton, M1, 63.23
  7. Sandbach, M6, 63.24
  8. Pease Pottage, M23, 63.3
  9. Birch (east), M62, 63.71
  10. Tebay, M6, 67.97
 
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catalog

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Tebay is really good! Probably one of the top service stations ever. Lots of nice scenery and good food.

Birch and Sandbach are also fine as far as i remember.

Anyone read the cortazar book where him and his wife go for a holiday around service stations? One of the psychogeography bibles, before it was such a thing

archipelagobooks.org

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute - Archipelago Books

A love story, a travelogue, a collection of stories and snapshots, both visual and verbal, irreverent and brilliant. "The journey undertaken by Cortázar and his wife and collaborator Carol Dunlop is quixotic in the largest sense. At one level, it is an adventure stood on its absurd head. At...
archipelagobooks.org archipelagobooks.org

Some excerpts: https://brooklynrail.org/2008/02/fiction/excerpts-from-autonauts-of-the-cosmoroute
 
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Cullompton has a McDonald's now, last time I went there there were 40 min to an hour queues, people visiting from all around. you could barely class it as a service station before that.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
catalog said:
Tebay is really good! Probably one of the top service stations ever. Lots of nice scenery and good food.

Birch and Sandbach are also fine as far as i remember.

Anyone read the cortazar book where him and his wife go for a holiday around service stations? One of the psychogeography bibles, before it was such a thing

archipelagobooks.org

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute - Archipelago Books

A love story, a travelogue, a collection of stories and snapshots, both visual and verbal, irreverent and brilliant. "The journey undertaken by Cortázar and his wife and collaborator Carol Dunlop is quixotic in the largest sense. At one level, it is an adventure stood on its absurd head. At...
archipelagobooks.org archipelagobooks.org

Some excerpts: https://brooklynrail.org/2008/02/fiction/excerpts-from-autonauts-of-the-cosmoroute
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Never heard of that but it sounds interesting.
 
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