Now it’s the Phoenicians?

[Wansworth]

A friend has rung from somewhere on the medcoast saying boats are cheaper there than in Galicia as if I didn’t know.Anyway he is ready to help deliver to Galicia.I mentioned it was quite away and coming up the Portuguese coast was not that easy……..she answe’re well the Phoencians could do it?

 

[capnsensible]

You never hear the last of them.

 

[Blueboatman]

?Row row row yer boat
gently up the coast,
Wansworths got a few seasons left
Time to make the most …?

 

[PhillM]

Yeah but they didn’t have to contend with large ships nor invest in expensive Nav and position transmitting kit. All they needed to do was use the wind and a couple of oars. Also no restrictions to 90 in 180 to worry about. Thems were the days ?

 

[capnsensible]

Biggest problem they would never of had on that coast are the 7 billion pot buoys.....

 

[capnsensible]

Watched this one arrive in Gib.

Phoenicia, 600BC ship replica - successfully to Gibraltar

 

[Wansworth]

Biggest problem they would never of had on that coast are the 7 billion pot buoys.....

But then no marinas to have showers and a meal ashore?

 

[capnsensible]

But then no marinas to have showers and a meal ashore?

DIY wild boar and sardines.

 

[greeny]

Biggest problem they would never of had on that coast are the 7 billion pot buoys.....

And the orcas of course.

 

[Daedelus]

Don't seem to be any Phoenicians around nowadays.

 

[LittleSister]

But then no marinas to have showers

If only there were other water around one could use to bathe when sailing.

 

[Wansworth]

If only there were other water around one could use to bathe when sailing.

On a wet old day in June Iwent into the heated shower room in Chichester marina and had a nice warm shower since then I cannot imagine life without??

 

[LittleSister]

On a wet old day in June Iwent into the heated shower room in Chichester marina and had a nice warm shower since then I cannot imagine life without??

It was a nice warm, clean, well equipped French motorway services' toilet facilities, during a particularly cold, wet and long motorbike trip that provided my epiphany.

If there are hot air hand dryers (then rather rare) for defrosting motorcyclists' hands, I thought, then there must be a god!

 

[Wansworth]

It was a nice warm, clean, well equipped French motorway services' toilet facilities, during a particularly cold, wet and long motorbike trip that provided my epiphany.

If there are hot air hand dryers (then rather rare) for defrosting motorcyclists' hands, I thought, then there must be a god!

So you see what the old phoneys missed out on?

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

I wonder how many never found their way back; at least we know that the Greeks establish a colony in Alcacer do Sal.

 

[LittleSister]

There were non-trolley electric buses in service at least 50 years ago.

MAN Presented Its First Electric Bus Some 50 Years Ago (w/video)

As many of the first cars, around the turn of the 19th & 20th centuries , were electric (it wasn't at all obvious at the time that the internal combustion engine would come to dominate), I'd be surprised if there weren't much earlier examples.

 

[DownWest]

Friend bought some land just down from Alcoutim, it had a Pheonician well on it, confirmed by old maps. Had several tunnels radiation out from the main shaft.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

There were non-trolley electric buses in service at least 50 years ago.

MAN Presented Its First Electric Bus Some 50 Years Ago (w/video)

As many of the first cars, around the turn of the 19th & 20th centuries , were electric (it wasn't at all obvious at the time that the internal combustion engine would come to dominate), I'd be surprised if there weren't much earlier examples.

In Dublin in the 1950's and 60s we had electric bread vans and milk floats (alongside horse-drawn ones). They were ideal for ideal for stop-start door-to-door deliveries. Didn't seem to suffer from range problems, as they would spend a few hours every day ranging around suburbs within a three-four mile radius from base. The horse-drawn ones were particularly valued by those who made their own garden compost!

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

Don't seem to be any Phoenicians around nowadays.

There are. They live in Lebanon. See the paragraph entitled "Genetic Studies", in the link below:
Phoenicia - Wikipedia