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Simon Varwell

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Loves trains, the outdoors, travel, Esperanto, ambient and post-rock music, dystofic, good food and scrontous beer. Hates car-centric societies, late stage capitalism and courgette. He/him. Inverness | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🇪🇺 Work: @hisasimon.bsky.social

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 8h

A vast improvement! No, wait…

The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 9h

Until now, I’ve never worked out where the long-gone Glasgow St Enoch station used to be…. It’s changed a bit!
(Photo on left from www.glasgowhistory.com/st-enoch-squ...)

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 10h

A rare American Civil War memorial in Dunblane Cathedral burial ground to 'William McCowan of 6 Bat. Massachusetts Infantry who died in Camp Readville U.S. America in defence of the Union against the rebellion', 1864.

#31DaysofGraves 11: military

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 20h

Well the delivery charges are lower I suppose.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 22h

T-PIETERS GENT-SIN

A modern railways station building with lots of glass, and lettering with the text of this skeet.

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The Highland Council @highland.gov.uk · 1d

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ These are fake 'RingGo' QR codes that have been found by enforcement officers in #Inverness. Do NOT scan them. They will take you to a fake website. All our parking machines accept card & cash payments directly on the ticket machine.
@HighlandCouncil

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 22h

On this day, 415 years ago: Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth soldiers captured the Kremlin.

Russian national holiday Unity Day on the 4th of November celebrates the day when Poles left a couple of years later

Which means Russia is the only country that celebrates its independence from Poland. :-)

Unity Day (Russia) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 1d

Yes the mountain pass between the two can be very difficult to travel.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 1d

Have you tried it?

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like a new dating app.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 1d

Well there is that, yes. 1-0 to Belarus next match.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. Hmm. Weird. Ah well I’ll have to take another in the morning.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 1d

Yep that’s me on the left there.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm. And again. Anyone else? It definitely has a bottom half. I promise.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 1d

Apologies if that second photo isn’t loading in full when you click on it. It isn’t for me in the app or browser. Here it is again in all its glory.

A 20th century red brick train station building at night with a glass canopy at the front.

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 1d

My goodness, Faroes 4-0 up on Montenegro. That must be approaching a record. Annoyingly I’m reduced to the BBC Sport text commentary as I can’t watch or listen abroad. And for some reason the Scotland-Greece game is not on live Flemish telly.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from Ghent. Or should that be ghreetings from Gent. A dramatic day of upside down travel plans, but at least I’m here among the vast mountains and fjords of Flanders.

A night time scene of a town square, a water fountain, and a weird modern sculpture of a rectangular frame and what seems to be a man holding a bird or something. I’ll take a better look in the daylight.

A perhaps early or mid 20th century red brick train station with tower, and glass canopy in front. The sky is dark.

The word “TRAM” painted on a road (well it may have been stencilled. I’m unsure of the technical difference) in between yellow stripes.

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 1d

Scotland being Scotland, it seems. ⚽️

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 2d

That was Hitler, no?

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 2d

Yes but then the fam coming on Saturday. October holidays! So we will then spend a week. Looking forward to exploring and maybe some day trips - handy for various places. But seems nice enough to hang around in too.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 2d

Lille rather than Brussels - saves me 30 minutes!

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 2d

Ghent - see top of the thread!

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 2d

My wife had an old Vango that lasted for years. She will has it I think. Dependable stuff. And as she always says, Vango is so called because it comes from Govan!

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 2d

How exciting! On both counts! Hope you’re doing well.

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 3d

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 2d

Crikey.