More on Rides round Britain
Listening to:
Oscar Peterson's finest hour. My birthday
present. I’ve listened to this a number of times since then
and I’m coming to like it more and more.
Still reading:
John Byng, Rides round Britain. This is coming
along well. I read a long account of a trip to “the North” over
the weekend. He goes to a variety of places south of
Manchester, in an area that I guess is now known as the Peak
District. He is very scathing about Buxton. Later in the
same trip he goes to East Anglia and Hertfordshire. He goes
to Cambridge and hates it. The inn was expensive, of poor
quality, and he couldn’t find anyone to let him into King's
College Chapel (easily Cambridge’s most famous landmark).
I would have probably read more over the weekend, but we ended
up playing quite a bit of Roller-coaster
Tycoon. This is a very appealing game, and quite addictive.
I’m not much of a park administrator myself. However, as a
“backseat driver”, I really come into my own! :-)
As promised, my argument disputing claims that Britain's high fuel
taxes disadvantage Britain’s hauliers (truckers). The claim is that
French truckers can out-compete their British counterparts because
they can get their fuel more cheaply in France. If however, French
trucks are competing on the same routes as British ones, then the
British drivers only need to follow the French trucks, and refuel at
the same places as the French drivers to incur the same fuel costs as
their competitors. If the French drivers are not competing on the
same routes, then there is no fair comparison possible.
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