http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT: ever wanted to run your own high-class visitor attraction? en Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:02:02 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274620 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:41:30 +0000 rider73 274620@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>it was brisbane.</p> <p>and in fact they rebuilt it too after washing away - i also think there are new sections being added all along its route</p> <p>look at the sun!</p> <p><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-23/people-walk-along-the-riverwalk/5762046">ABC news Brisbane</a></p> <p>ahaaa - edit - better URL<br /> think i'm moving to Brisbane if they have the attitude of doing this</p> <p><a href="https://southernstainless.com.au/project/brisbane-riverwalk-rebuild/">Pics</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274597 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:02:37 +0000 I were right about that saddle 274597@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah yes it was in Cameron's Tea Rooms where my mum once famously asked 'Do you sell cups of tea?'. Waitress with perfect comic timing replied 'Yes madam. This is a tea room.' after a pause to glance at the tea-making equipment, large sign saying 'Tea Room'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274596 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:55:21 +0000 rider73 274596@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS - no argument from me here about your route, the south side is amazing, but it would be nice to loop around it on the road rather than GGW on the north (which can be not too pleasant after rain IIRC)</p> <p>theres a great cafe outskirts of Foyres - Camerons Tea Room<br /> yummy scones! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274594 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:29:05 +0000 I were right about that saddle 274594@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax</p> <p>When in Crowley territory do as Crowley? Should have just pulled a revolver on him like the Master did when his climbing companions faltered on the Eiger. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274592 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:27:41 +0000 I were right about that saddle 274592@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Would there be a café?</em></p> <p>Yes. The main client base is Goths so it would serve gloomy grub and distraught drinks like black acid snakebite. Have I got this right? Do Goths go on holiday? Do they eat? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274591 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:22:57 +0000 I were right about that saddle 274591@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>what Loch Ness needs is a wide multipurpose pathway </em></p> <p>Rider73</p> <p>Loch Ness was so intractable that prior to Wade's coming you couldn't even get a horse from one end to the other. He had such trouble with his road he kept a rowing galley on the loch for twenty years. As a bicyclist I'd either take his road on the south side which is most beautiful and hilly or hack up the Great Glen Way on an MTB. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274588 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:08:34 +0000 rider73 274588@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>what loch ness needs is a wide multipurpose pathway around its entire edge! riding around it is nightmare apart from very early summer mornings (even then you get the tour bus drivers getting to the hotel pickups).</p> <p>there was a city in OZ that also had the same problem with a river through it - brisbane or melbourne - cannot remember which, and they simply built a walkway around the bank of it on stilts, - rejuvinated the entire river side. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274583 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:06:44 +0000 gembo 274583@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax San was that a local shop?</p> <p>I see ye league of gents no platformed for Barbara from Babs Cabs and her dislike of the acronym LGBT and her preference for the acronym ACRONYM.</p> <p>Apart from papa lazarou obviously, Barabara was my favourite character. Papa Lazarou would have done well on here the high number of daves we have or had. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274582 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:37:28 +0000 minus six 274582@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>the reality of Loch Ness</em></p> <p>to the oddball geezer running the shop near boleskine -</p> <p>i understand you'll be pestered unduly by the occasional wild-eyed crowleyite</p> <p>but parking my bike outside yr shop does not in itself constitute an unpardonable satanic ritual </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274581 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:18:25 +0000 unhurt 274581@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ooh. Would there be a café?</p> <p>(serving things that aren't glasses of black acidic water at 4°?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274580 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:55:12 +0000 I were right about that saddle 274580@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I quite fancy designing a theme park based on the reality of Loch Ness. 200m deep black acidic water at 4° with nothing living in it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18569#post-274574 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:37:42 +0000 unhurt 274574@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-69993668.html">Nessieland is for sale</a>. I'm a bit upset as I've never even been. What if the new owners change it before I have this experience??? @sheeptoucher has visited. I believe he found it... memorable. Maybe I need to factor in more bike trips to this sort of place?</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/245E3tS"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4652/40090451432_9025fa901d_n.jpg"></a></p> <p>From the listing: "Nessieland is not a museum" </p>