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Those boffins at Toyota amaze me. Does it have to be full fat milk, or will any milk do?
Den Fosck | 29.01.21 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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My favourite fact from this post is the altitude of Lusaka.
Mark | 29.01.21 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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Well,that was a fascinating read. I could not add any comments as in my visits up or down in the world,I never bothered to take a tape measure with me.
Top of a mountain was very high and down a coal or slate mine was very low.
P.s. 'im indoors was most interested to discover that his beloved West Brom ground was the highest,so he googled The Den for me and found it wasn't quite the lowest. They say that opposites attract,don't they?
Jo W | 29.01.21 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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I went through the Channel Tunnel on the 31st of December 2020, so very nearly took the prize for deepest this year.
My deepest was probably the Karawanks tunnel between Austria and Slovenia. I have no idea how far that is underground at its deepest.
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 29.01.21 - 9:03 a.m. | #
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For Open House in 2019 the tour around Angel Court went to high floors I can't remember. So the highest I'm sure of would be that Fenchurch Street roof garden, while the lowest would be the Channel Tunnel. Further below than up perhaps.
toby | 29.01.21 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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Thanks for the last three posts.
Mike | 29.01.21 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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There are two rooftop gardens on Fenchurch Street. The larger one at No 120 (Fen Court) is 80m above the ground, but the smaller one at No 20 (the Walkie Talkie) is twice as high
timbo | 29.01.21 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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For a self-selecting and, dare I say, somewhat niche readership the variety of responses is quite amazing!
What an interesting bunch we are!
Cornish Cockney | 29.01.21 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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I've been through the Seikan tunnel on not-a-Shinkansen. I didn't realise it was so rare.
Although I've also been to the Dead Sea, so it wouldn't have been my answer.
Graham | 29.01.21 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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I was thinking my lowest must be the London underground, but then I remembered I've been on the Paris metro, and in particular the RER, I think from the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower, and I remember being highly impressed at the depth/length of the first escalator, and then there was a second one. That must be pretty deep.
Joho | Homepage | 29.01.21 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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The Dead Sea is steadily receding because of excessive water extraction upstream on the River Jordan. The water level in the Dead Sea drops about one metre per year, so it does matter which year you visited.
anothertim | 29.01.21 - 10:39 a.m. | #
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Living in Lusaka, it is interesting how being on a plateau means it is a lot cooler than other nearby places.
I suspect I probably the reader currently furthest from the sea, but I guess that is an entirely separate blog post.
Friar Sven | 29.01.21 - 11:35 a.m. | #
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And I thought crossing the harbour (which I also did at least a few times in 2020, sometimes as a driver, which was particularly close to the tunnel ground) was small feat.
Patrickov | 29.01.21 - 11:53 a.m. | #
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The Seikan Tunnel is quite a long way from Tokyo, there are plenty of boarding points in between (e.g. Sendai).
Lmm | 29.01.21 - 2:17 p.m. | #
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It's surprising how difficult it is to get information about how deep tunnels are, as all the articles seem to mention is how LONG they are!
Mikey C | 29.01.21 - 3:04 p.m. | #
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Tangentially relevant canal lore ... Boatmen would talk of going 'down the north' because it (at least until you get to the Pennines) is downhill from Birmingham. Uphill and downhill mattered more than north and south because they are tangible in the form of locks.
Sarah | Homepage | 29.01.21 - 4:25 p.m. | #
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The highest I've ever been above sea level is El Alto in Bolivia. No mountain climbing involved
lumma | Homepage | 29.01.21 - 4:28 p.m. | #
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The highest I've ever been is also in Bolivia.
Chacaltaya at 5421m. A ride out from La Paz. This was in 1989, when it was a ski resort. Since then the glacier has completely disappeared.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chacaltaya
Gripper | 30.01.21 - 12:39 a.m. | #
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I was just reminded of the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá outside Bogota, which I visited ten years ago. It is simultaneously 2652m above sea level and 200m underground.
tops | 16.02.21 - 2:44 p.m. | #
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