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Storm Filomena: Madrid Winter Wonderland

Return from Alveston: Two day ferry Portsmouth to Santander, a night in Tordesillas and breakfast in Valladolid the navigating the autopistas back to Congosto on the outskirts of Madrid.

I thought getting through customs was going to be the worst of my problems on my journey back home, finding myself a few miles south of Valladolid trying to keep the car on the road in a full blizzard made an interesting end Christmas holiday. Reparing to the Parador in Tordesillas for the night, I managed to meet a friend in Valladolid for breakfast who couldn’t return to Mallorca with his family until they cleared the snow from the local aerodrome.

Winter wonderland in Ensanche de Valle de Kas
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T20 needs Ashley Down Station

Local rivals Gloucester and Somerset help increase Thatcher’s share price at a Bristol county ground for another evening of T20.

Whats this to do with the website? The county ground used to be served by Ashley Down railway station making life easier for residents and cricket fans.  The country ground is less than a half a mile from the site of the old Ashley Down Station.

With the four tracking of Filton Bank in progress as this article is being written, capacity will be more than adequate for local trains to call a the station. Without causing disruption to the new electric London trains.

Rain doesn't stop play
Rain doesn’t stop play

The T20 matches consist of 20 overs ensuring that the duration of the matches are under some sort of control rain and quality of play withstanding.  It is a fusion of some of the entertainment of baseball (but in a rowdy British way) combined with the tension of getting the batsman out similar to goal being scored in football.

Oooh Arrh
Oooh Arrh

Being a local Derby with plenty of cider there was a tendency of some good natured rowdiness including a few streakers, well only one went the full monty.