Bus Routes In Derbyshire
65: Buxton to Sheffield
The building is so oppressive that I’m developing the early stages of architectural Stockholm Syndrome towards it. Sheffield Syndrome, I suppose.
Bus Routes In Cheshire
Skyline 199: Stockport to Buxton
From a polar bear bench pressing a giant key in Norilsk, the magnificent minimalism of Magnitogorsk’s black triangle, and the bag of wriggling puppies being drowned in a sack on Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky’s standard, Russia has an instinctive understanding of how to best represent yourself on a flag.
Bus Routes In The Netherlands
711: Hook Of Holland to Schiedam
As previously mentioned, I’m really not one for flying. The first time I got on a plane, I spent the first half an hour whimpering and shaking into my mum’s bosom while she had me in a protective headlock.
I was 31 at the time.
Bus Routes In London
205: Paddington to Bow Church
We’re here because we’re heading to Amsterdam to smoke loads of drugs and have it off with all the prostitutes (Eleanor), as well as maybe having an aimless wander around the canals and checking out the city’s Botanical Gardens (me).
Bus Routes In Manchester
168: Ashton-under-Lyne to Chorlton
This is home turf for me; I grew up on Abbey Hey Lane, went to Abbey Hey School, and to complete the set, I even contrived to make sure that my first girlfriend was called Abigail Haye.
Bus Routes In Cheshire
330: Stockport to Ashton-under-Lyne
Understandably, he said that he “felt physically sick” when he saw the crossbow bolt sticking out of the astroturf, although he’d have doubtless felt worse if fate had sent it a few inches the other way.
Bus Routes In Manchester
CityZap: Manchester to Leeds
A saintly Marcel Marceau, the conductor holds a bus pass to the side of his face and mouths to the more senior contingent that they’ll need one of them to get on for free. The eldest lady pulls out a casino membership card, which doesn’t quite work.
Bus Routes In West Yorkshire
901: Huddersfield to Hebden Bridge
The scenery lightens with a lily pond just as we reach Cragg Vale. It’s so perfect that it was surely the inspiration for Paul McCartney’s seminal Frog Chorus, a song I got in trouble for humming while being read a story in the first year of primary school…
Bus Routes In Lancashire
184: Oldham to Huddersfield
There don’t appear to be any more interchanges in the UK which are named after infectious viral diseases, so we’re cruelly denied a Runcorn Rubella or Malmesbury Manflu. More’s the pity…
Bus Routes In Cheshire
391/392: Stockport to Higher Poynton
As giving Fido a shampoo and trim isn’t too different from Sharon’s monthly cut and blow, I suspect that most dog groomers are former hairdresser who prefer asking dogs about their holidays instead…