BillT said:Coral Springs, right next to Margate. C-S is now a city of about 130,000 (was a cattle ranch/bean farm until the '60s).
We just got a Total Wine & More, so no need to travel to find something interesting
Danno said:Coral Springs was just starting to develop when I was there in the 70s. Did a bit of work out there at the time, but I remember it was still a bit swampy. Working (on stilts) one day in an apartment complex, I looked out the window and spied a huge 'gator sunning himself on the far side of the canal, where a seawall had yet to be built.
BillT said:Danno said:Coral Springs was just starting to develop when I was there in the 70s. Did a bit of work out there at the time, but I remember it was still a bit swampy. Working (on stilts) one day in an apartment complex, I looked out the window and spied a huge 'gator sunning himself on the far side of the canal, where a seawall had yet to be built.
Sold my last pair of Dura-stilts 5 years ago. I'm now on the other side - City Building Inspector.
I think the gators are more common now than they were then. I see them all the time.
nickguzzi said:Another beer shop/cafe in Ely. http://www.3at3deli.com/ Went here before in the summer and sat outside having a beer, bit chilly yesterday, so sat inside. It's located on Three Cups Lane. Which is a path.
They claim to currently have 181 bottled beers - they reckon it would take you 3 1/2 months to sample your way through. At 1 per day.
Useless info from the back of a beer bottle - Empress Sisi, wife of Emperor Franz Josef* of Austro Hungary, visited Cromer in Norfolk.
Perhaps you need to visit Cromer to see how unlikely that sounds. It is a nice town, in an old fashioned English seaside sort of way, but a destination for the wife of one of the most powerful heads of state in pre WW1 Europe?
Famous for their brown crabs which are delicious. Maybe not so unlikely after all.
*The dad of the one that got shot in Sarajevo, precipitating WW1
comnoz said:So did ya know -today is national beer day.
What a coincidence -it's also my birthday....
comnoz said:Well it is 5:30
Cheers