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the_eggwhiteSo - my nostalgia wave continues. It's been a long time since I last visited Newbury, having gone off to uni in '93 and had my parents move away whilst I was there, just as I was finally starting to catch up on the whole "social skills" thing.
I went back a few times whilst I was at uni, up to around 1995. Holidays and the like, visiting Suzanne (my girlfriend from 1992-1995), etc... Since then I've been there exactly twice. Once to get off a train and into a car (I was in newbury for mere minutes) and once as a lunchtime stopover on a random road trip to glastonbury.
A few photos from that roadtrip can be found on facebook, btw. We had a very brief wander, visited donnington castle, popped into the Captains Cabin (my old regular pub) only to discover it'd been completely changed and was now called "Uncle Henry's". Now it's apparently a big pile of ash, having had a slight run-in with some fire.
We didn't spend very long there on that road trip, and I'd quite like to have a proper wander around to see what's changed and what's the same. Visit a pub or two, wander along the canal for a bit, that kind of thing... Obviously I won't be drinking in the pubs unless I either head there by train or arrange a stopover somewhere...
Anyone out there in LJ-land (or facebook-land, since this gets copied there too) fancy joining me in a visit to the place that inflicted itself on my formative years?
I went back a few times whilst I was at uni, up to around 1995. Holidays and the like, visiting Suzanne (my girlfriend from 1992-1995), etc... Since then I've been there exactly twice. Once to get off a train and into a car (I was in newbury for mere minutes) and once as a lunchtime stopover on a random road trip to glastonbury.
A few photos from that roadtrip can be found on facebook, btw. We had a very brief wander, visited donnington castle, popped into the Captains Cabin (my old regular pub) only to discover it'd been completely changed and was now called "Uncle Henry's". Now it's apparently a big pile of ash, having had a slight run-in with some fire.
We didn't spend very long there on that road trip, and I'd quite like to have a proper wander around to see what's changed and what's the same. Visit a pub or two, wander along the canal for a bit, that kind of thing... Obviously I won't be drinking in the pubs unless I either head there by train or arrange a stopover somewhere...
Anyone out there in LJ-land (or facebook-land, since this gets copied there too) fancy joining me in a visit to the place that inflicted itself on my formative years?
