please empty your brain below

You know, I was excited about moving to Hertfordshire last year. Your little round up there just about sums the place up, it really is an extension of North London. I work in Hatfield, and it is as grim as it seems to those just passing through. Awesome train service into the city though!

sounds like the perfect DG spotting chance tomorrow...

I'm guessing from the above that when you were but a little gem, you went to <*cough cough*> primary school and lived on New Road or Winton Crescent. Bloody 724 only ever stopped outside Croxley Met.

Ah, the 724. When I was a be-marooned blazer at SJA, I used to watch a 724 sail past every morning when waiting opposite the Two Bridges for whatever stop-at-every-lamppost bus would eventually roll up. (As an aside, once or twice a week I'd have to dice with death as the approaching bus was going up Baldwins Lane rather than Watford Road and I had twenty seconds or so to sprint to the other bus stop and hail it.)

I always wanted the 724 to stop, even hopelessly hailing it on many occasions, but the driver never would.

Roll on 20 years plus to, oooh, a fortnight ago and unexpectedly I'm once again waiting on Watford Road for a bus to Rickmansworth. Such memories. And what finally, after all this time, stops to pick me up? A 724...

You think you'll be able to spot DG in amongst a heaving throng of middle aged gentlemen with cameras? I fear you may be disappointed.

So did you join her for the return trip?! I often wonder when you take journeys from one end of the line to the other, how you get back again!

No, I didn't go back to Harlow from Heathrow. If you look at Thursday's post, you can probably guess where I went next.

An unnecessarily gratuitous attack on glorious Welwyn Garden City. Having been a Watfordian, you must be familiar with the charms of Stanborough Lakes, the Campus and our woods. A part of the county, that's not just an extension of North London. And also a utopian dream that became a reality. Well worth an investigation in weeks to come - I can lend you some interesting books!

On the point of the 724. I used to catch it from WGC to my grandparents in Hounslow as a youngster. Happy journeys.

Stanborough Lakes - heavens yes. But the 724 definitely doesn't take the scenic route.











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