2002-05-12 Did you try and spend any Euros in the shops? What was your experience with using Euros in the UK?
John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2002-05-12 05:40 Subject: [USMA:20008] Made a mini-cruise to Britain > I have been away for the last two days as I made a mini cruise to Newcastle > on a large cruise ferry from DFDS, a Danish shipping company that operates a > service between IJmuiden (at the harbour's mouth of Amsterdam) and > Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Amsterdam is about 25 km inland and ships have to go > through a system of locks. DFDS's IJmuiden terminal is west of the locks and > close to the sea. Obviously that is to their advantage. The crossing takes > 15 hours. The buses that brought people from the terminal in > Tynemouth to Newcastle and back were new, but a sign above to driver told us > the height of the bus: 14' 6''. In ifp's clutches once again! I saw several > metric or metric/imperial signs (land for sale (16 ha/40 acres), private > max.height indications, etc: all to be sorted out by ARM, of course! > Britain today cannot yet be regarded as a metric country, but she is a > metrological battlefield anyway. > Too bad I did not have enough time to go to Sunderland and buy a bunch of > bananas from a certain greengrocer. Sunderland is not too far from > Newcastle. Imagine, crossing the North Sea from The Netherlands just to buy > a bunch of bananas in Britain! > > There was music on the ship and one of the songs I heard was from the film > "The Titanic"! > > Han > Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands > >
