Now it’s the Phoenicians?

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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?
 
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 ?
 
Wansworth said:
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??
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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!
 
LittleSister said:
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!
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So you see what the old phoneys missed out on?
 
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.
 
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.
 
LittleSister said:
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.
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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!
 
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