Plymouth, England

[thewizeard]

I hope to visit Plymouth later this year..Anyone here know some kewl places to visit? I heard that the Barbican is worth a visit..also a village close to Saltash, Forder... see the photos below...

http://www.mensap2p.com//Rafi/Mums%20012.jpg

http://www.mensap2p.com//Rafi/Forder%20009.jpg

[Jagarga]

visit cheese

[manker]

They've got taxi firms that text you the reg. no. of the taxi that's about to pick you up - and the make, model and colour of the car too, incase you're too pished to focus, like. Quality. I'd recommend getting a taxi in Plymouth.

Also meet up with CrabGirl and her flowe, Cheese. They know seedy nightspots that stay open 24 hours. If Cheese challenges you to an arm-wrestle, take him up on it - he's fucking rubbish. Wrists like a girl.

True story.

[thewizeard]

haha..thats's settled then..I will defintely be coming.. I also heard that one can get a ferry across the river Plym..or something and visit some stately gardens... let me see if I can find a postcard, ... :)

[manker]

I think the only thing over the other side if you get that ferry is Devonport.

A place best avoided at all costs, if memory serves. Full of navy types, gaylords, tattooed nutters and quaint combinations of all three.

[thewizeard]

ROFL...

http://images.google.nl/images?hl=nl&q=mount%20edgecombe&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

sorry bout that..it's Edgecombe

[manker]

Ahhh, right. I think I've been there - it's alright but no pubs :dabs:

Also, I was thinking of the Tamar ferry wrt Devonport, I think.

[Chip Monk]

The River Plym :blink:

[thewizeard]

Well, more in the mouth of the Plym... :)

[Cheese]

My knowledge of Plymouth stretches from the Nowhere to the top of Mutley Plain and all the pubs in between. Beyond that I'm fecked.

[Cheese]

-If Cheese challenges you to an arm-wrestle, take him up on it - he's fucking rubbish. Wrists like a girl.

True story.

Hah, that's where you're wrong actually. Just last week I beat a marine in an arm wrestling competition. Granted he was 18, pissed to feckery and probably not actually a marine but a win is a win.

[Cheese]

Here's a map:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Withcheese/map.gif

[manker]

-If Cheese challenges you to an arm-wrestle, take him up on it - he's fucking rubbish. Wrists like a girl.

True story.

Hah, that's where you're wrong actually. Just last week I beat a marine in an arm wrestling competition. Granted he was 18, pissed to feckery and probably not actually a marine but a win is a win.
Do I take it from that you actually entered an arm-wrestling competition? :lol: :blink:

[Cheese]

The bouncer told us off for arm wrestling that night, fussy bastard the week before he was telling us off for pouring Guinness into the pool table. :dry:

[thewizeard]

My knowledge of Plymouth stretches from the Nowhere to the top of Mutley Plain and all the pubs in between. Beyond that I'm fecked.

That's now exactly the sort of sightseeing I'm looking for,..any koffie shops? :)

[Alien5]

only ones with old ladies drinking tea, nothing like the ones ive seen in backstreets of the red light district.

oh yeah, and you'll have to bring your own hardcore animal pr0n cos we dont sell that over here either.

[thewizeard]

.hé I get mine in Wales..., only the best you know..erm..what's pr0n by the way?

[Busyman™]

I think the only thing over the other side if you get that ferry is Devonport.

A place best avoided at all costs, if memory serves. Full of navy types, gaylords, tattooed nutters and quaint combinations of all three.

So Crab and Cheese live there then.....

[Cheese]

I don't have any tattoos. :angry:

[Busyman™]

A place best avoided at all costs, if memory serves. Full of navy types, gaylords, tattooed nutters and quaint combinations of all three.

So Crab and Cheese live there then.....

fixed

[Cheese]

My knowledge of Plymouth stretches from the Nowhere to the top of Mutley Plain and all the pubs in between. Beyond that I'm fecked.

That's now exactly the sort of sightseeing I'm looking for,..any koffie shops? :)

The Barbican is worth checking out, expecially if the weather is good. From there you can visit Cap'n Jaspers to buy a Jasperizer or catch the water taxi across to Mount Batten. There is also loads of touristy places like the The Nation Marine Aquarium and the Plymouth Dome.

Though quite why you'd want to do that when you could just get pissed up until 6am in the diviest dive in Divingdom I don't know.

[thewizeard]

..only a complete idiot would dream of that... what time did you say they open?

[CrabGirl]

The ferry manker is on about is the Cremyll ferry, a little boat that takes you over to mount edgecombe, well worth a visit. If the countyside or sea is your cup of tea, then there's plenty of lovely spots to go to.

In the city, Captain Jaspers down on the Barbican for a foot-long dog, the Hoe, and the many many pubs are well worth a visit. Goodbodies definately for debauchery. It never closes and you can get breakfast 24hours. There are a few Cafes around too.

Oh, and you have to eat as many pasties as possible while you here.

[CrabGirl]

The bouncer told us off for arm wrestling that night, fussy bastard the week before he was telling us off for pouring Guinness into the pool table. :dry:

Same bouncer that sent our 24 year old gay mate home to get some ID but let a 17 year-old who was also with us in.

He's a twat. A fat one

[Jagarga]

cos he was gay?

[thewizeard]

The ferry manker is on about is the Cremyll ferry, a little boat that takes you over to mount edgecombe, well worth a visit. If the countyside or sea is your cup of tea, then there's plenty of lovely spots to go to.

In the city, Captain Jaspers down on the Barbican for a foot-long dog, the Hoe, and the many many pubs are well worth a visit. Goodbodies definately for debauchery. It never closes and you can get breakfast 24hours. There are a few Cafes around too.

Oh, and you have to eat as many pasties as possible while you here.

OK thanks for that CrabGirl, I have been to Plymouth before, about the time of the Falkland Island's war to visit my brother who used to live there. I remember it was near an old station with a very dodgy looking bridge. It was not all that far from the Saltash Bridge. He took me to see a place where the Pilgrim Fathers sailed for America..steeped in history.. I enjoyed Woolworths, .... Chicken and Chips with baked beens mmm .. lekker :)

[Jagarga]

watcxh yourself wizzman it;s jungle out there.

[thewizeard]

double post..

[thewizeard]

Some Photos I took during that visit, if you look carefully, you will see my brother in that dingy ( don't tell him I called it a dingy, that's his pride and joy......)

http://www.mensap2p.com//Rafi/Forder%20008.jpg


and the last one for now, taken late in the day..and a little worse for wear

shots of that "Harry Potter" bridge viaduct

http://www.mensap2p.com//Rafi/Forder%20004.jpg

http://www.mensap2p.com//Rafi/Forder%20003.jpg

The is also an impressive round castle on the hills above Forder, a place that reputedly was the "Love Nest"of Prince Charles and Lady Chameleon Camilla .. ;)

It was a well known and guarded secret amongst the locals at the time. The naughty Prince and Camila were often seen there in each others company, while Diana had her own thing going.. ( remember this was in the time of the Falkland island wars)

hehe That's what I like about Charles..

[thewizeard]

..a couple more on mysterious Dartmoor

http://www.mensap2p.com//Rafi/PostBridgeDartmoor1.jpg

That's my daughter, Maaike and (ex) wife in the Photograph

Maaike is 18 years now


http://www.mensap2p.com//Rafi/Forder%20002.jpg

[Cheese]

http://www.pub-explorer.com/devon/photo/fortescueplymouth.jpg

'nuff said.