Marduk Wrote:
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> Newbury grew bigger than portsmouth three years
> ago when they finished the bypass. The part of it
> that circles the town has been designated a ring
> road (so that the council rather than the
> government has to maintain it. That means that
> newbury falls within the confines of the road.

multimap.com does not show any ring road. Last time when I visited I did not drive. I came there by train. btw, it was Oct. 2001. The station was fine. there was no flood. may be it rained after that.



>Its
> a lot bigger. Yeah you're right laura. Portsmouth
> may have got bigger since my last visit.
> way back in january.


which january? last month?



>
> Prema. i know laura quite well. i realise she's
> been to newbury and was just teasing her. She a
> hampshirite you see. Us berkshirites are currently
> at war with them. allegedly
> as for the train station. You should have seen it
> in oct 2001 when the platform was three feet under
> water after the torrential rain and flooding.I
> missed it cos i was on holiday in the U.S. at the
> time having to suffer 90 heat and a private
> swimming pool.
> You know there was a combined taco bell/kfc
> restaurant over the road from the villa we rented.
> Newbury still has no Kfc. Portsmouth's got two.
> That's what started the war between hampshire and
> berkshire. WE're all fighting for the colonel
> finger licking good


OK, I back off.

I don't eat meat and I do not visit KFC at all, and don't bother about its existence...