November 2024. Camden.
On Tuesday my attempt to visit Mum in Addenbrookes was thwarted at the front door.
3 days of ward quarantine meant I could only speak to Mum via the phone.
Time for a break. At 13:44 I was standing at Cambridge station. At 14:44 I was on board a bus headed for an actual new GBG entry in Gospel Oak.
You’ll know my views on the comfort of buses, but the Number 46 from outside King’s Cross is a gem, £1.80 for 20 minutes of prime Camden views, from St Pancras Old Church,
to the lesser know pubs of NW1.
“Mummy, why is that strange man taking pictures of pubs ?”.
Because they’re gorgeous, small child. Particularly the Prince Albert.
Actually, I don’t think this one on Prince of Wales Road is a pub.
Now we enter Belsize Oak, immortalised by a bloke called Fish and a woman who looks like Bonnie Tyler.
How exciting to enter a suburb of London you’re not familiar with, and find a bloke on the corner of the Sir Robert Peel (top) drawing you in.
But that’s not where I’m headed, as the skies turn eerie overhead…
retiredmartin 
Didn’t 🐟 end up marrying that woman? And was her name actually Kayleigh?
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Correct Paul ! Filmed in Germany, not Scotland (or North London).
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“the Number 46 from outside King’s Cross is a gem, £1.80 for 20 minutes of prime Camden views”.
I’ve only used the Number 205 from outside Euston railway station to the Monkey Puzzle, free with an oldies pass and nineteen minutes which was probably quicker than the Underground from Euston Square to Paddington preceded and followed by a bit of a walk.
You’ll take to buses like a duck to water once you’ve earned your oldies pass.
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I’ve well broken the seal on my eighth decade, Paul but still haven’t bothered to get one.
Aren’t they for old people?
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Yes, they’re for old people, and you’re barely in middle age based on my meeting with you.
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Now you mention it, Paul, I took that 205 to the Monkey Puzzle last year,
though I walked back from Paddington as Marylebone had looked so gorgeous from the top deck of the bus.
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