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3rd January 2014, 07:52 PM
#11
Re: A Steep Street
Try it on a bicycle. lol.
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3rd January 2014, 07:59 PM
#12
Re: A Steep Street
Cappy
Do you recall Sloppy Joe.s Bar in Havana Cuba!
All the Seaman and Sailors used it a lot in our days!
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4th January 2014, 12:44 AM
#13
Re: A Steep Street
Yes Vernon a few students have tried the skate board but the came a cropper the girl who was kill a few years ago was a student stunt that went wrong the put her in a wheely bin there do a lot of other things like rolling lollies down the hill thousands and thousands with prizes among them some old guy use to run up and down (not me )about 3 times a week
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4th January 2014, 09:05 PM
#14
Re: A Steep Street
Hi Shipmates, if you like this sort of thing or are bit of a mountain goat, try Barry in south wales the one time King coal / banana port.
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4th January 2014, 10:14 PM
#15
Re: A Steep Street
Depending on tides lower Barry just above sea level is fairly flatish, no real hills until you want to go up town. Fortunately. the docks and beach's are down town, saves a lot of hassle. Locally they say there are no hills, just the land won against a then foe was stored here.
K.
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