Awards and citations:


1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

2011: Robert M. Parker, Jnr: ‘This blogger...’:

2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Tuesday 3 August 2010

Kent & Sussex Railway: further pics from 1st August

Passing the popular Wealden Pullman – serving Sunday lunch

Stuck@the gates at Wittersham Halt

"Just like London's Jubilee Line!"

Bodiam Castle (above and below)



A couple of kid's with mementos from a visit to the castle



Train ready to leave Bodiam Station for the return to Tenterden Town




4 comments:

Jean said...

Are you a steam railway enthusiast?
I love steam trains and spent a large part of my childhood at Cromford station (lately more notorious for a gruesome murder), watching the trains go by, along with my male cousins who were busy collecting the numbers.
(I have also driven a steam engine, albeit a small one, and was most impressed by how much soot it could produce and deposit on the passengers, if you pressed the right levers at the right moment.)

Jim's Loire said...

Thanks Jean. Yes I like trains and greatly enjoy travelling by train. Although steam has a special magic, the TGV can be fantastic – Avignon to Paris in 2 hours 40 mins.

I think train is the most civilised way of travelling, especially compared to air travel.

Jim's Loire said...

Following your comment I googled the murder at Cromford Station and it was indeed a gruesome and bizarre crime.

Amazing that the murderer who had so carefully have set up the crime should then slip up by paying for a top-up on his mobile with his credit card.

Jean said...

Yes, he was definitely not the brightest button in the button box. A bit thick, in fact.