Noelene, I so agree with your description of Canberra, with all the
communities hidden in valleys, it is almost impossible to get your bearings,
it amazes me that we can head your way "thru the city" and never actually
see Canberra.
Lynn Scott in Wollongong, saying hooray for sunshine I have heaps
> Now Adelaide...that's another matter A planned city, with nice
straight
> roads planned on a grid - impossible to get lost there!!
>
The town where I went to university is also on a grid system and I thought
it was the easiest place in the world to navigate, until I dated a young
man who
I seem to remember reading, when we came to Australia, that Canberra had been
designed, not only to "look" nice, but to be easy to navigate around!!
However, for over 20 years my Father and I would, on our trips to Canberra, go
in search of the railway station. There it was, on the map. There
Noelene,
Thanks for bringing back the "fond" memories of driving around Canberra.
I reckon it's the only place you haven't been to, if you haven't been
lost there! I even got lost in a parking lot there! :-)
But by getting lost there, one can discover some wonderful little 'gems'
- I remember on
Joy Beeson writes
> Having grown up on graph paper, I'm rather surprised that I didn't have any
> trouble navigating
You should try Canberra, which is built on circular roads.I was visiting a
doctor there recently, and wanted to visit a friend about a mile away to the
north of the surgery.
Sorry Clay, I iintended to send this to the whole list. (never get that
reply/reply all button stuff figured out)
Cearbhael
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> Dear Jean, and Lacemakers,
>
>
> > There was a programme on TV the other night about the
effect the moon has
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> There was a programme on TV the other night about the
effect the moon has on
> the earth. It had never occured to me until it was
mentioned in that
> programme that in the southern hemisphere the
Ruth's posting made me think of the first time I came to Colorado, in
January 1991. A gentleman next to me on the plane, gave me the best
advice, as we were flying over the Rockies, and I was admiring the snow
capped ranges - "Just remember, the mountains will always be to your
West". This helped
I just replied privately to Jean saying that it is exactly this phenomena which
makes it hard for my DH to navigate in Britain. I knew he complains that the
sun isn't in the right place as far as he's concerned, but had forgotten
exactly what the details of the "displacement" are! Now I know tha
Dear Jean, and Lacemakers,
> There was a programme on TV the other night about the effect the moon has
on
> the earth. It had never occured to me until it was mentioned in that
> programme that in the southern hemisphere the sun and moon travel across
the
> sky from right to left instead of from
There was a programme on TV the other night about the effect the moon has on
the earth. It had never occured to me until it was mentioned in that
programme that in the southern hemisphere the sun and moon travel across the
sky from right to left instead of from left to right as it does in the
north
Thank you Linda, I *do* find it useful! For years, ever since I first started
using a lace-design computer programme, I've had trouble with the box at the
bottom of the screen which shoes the position of the cursor as an "x" or "y"
figurenever knew whether I was going this way or that way!
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> (snip)
> Does anyone have problems with north/south?
I haven't had any trouble with north
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I learned that too, but I still have to stop and think about it. If I run
down to the Tube in a hurry, and am faced with a westbound and an eastbound
platform and a train on one of them, and have to make a quick decision about
which direction I'm going in, I always have to think - it's never
i
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Yes. We drive on the left, but stand on the right on escalators on the
tube. Curiously, in the busier corridors in the tube, the signs usually
say "Keep Left".
Regarding what someone said earlier about riding on the left so your sword
hand was free if a stranger approached, I once told this
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