The Off Topic Topic

[HVC]

[Legbiter]

It's much bigger than the previous ones and very close to Grindavík.

[Legbiter]

Ok fissure is about 3 km in length.

Live webcam.

[Syt]

Preston, UK, through the ages:

[Threviel]

So. It used to look nice, but they fixed that?

[celedhring]

I wondered what happened to that clock tower in the 1901 pic... Looking it up, apparently it was the second largest in the UK after the Big Ben, and burned down in 1947.

https://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2012/03/preston-past-sir-george-gilbert-scotts-preston-town-hall/

[Josquius]

Preston, UK, through the ages:

Wow. An actual success story in the UK.
I have heard much of Preston's economic model but didn't know it extended to urban design too.

[Richard Hakluyt]

That old town hall stood on one side of a square called the Flag Market. Unfortunately it got replaced with a 1960s office block. The other buildings facing the square are quite interesting pieces of Victorian architecture (especially the Harris museum) and the Cenotaph, so a bit of a shame really.

The street shown is Fishergate which is shops, restaurants, banks and building socities. Its pretty 3rd rate so if  you want to have fun shopping you go to Liverpool or Manchester.

[Legbiter]

The fissure reached about 4 km in length last night and is now rapidly consolidating into 5 active vents. The town and the powerplant are safe. That's a proper volcanic eruption, I could walk up a hill a short distance from my house and watch the intense red glow from it last night.

[grumbler]

The fissure reached about 4 km in length last night and is now rapidly consolidating into 5 active vents. The town and the powerplant are safe. That's a proper volcanic eruption, I could walk up a hill a short distance from my house and watch the intense red glow from it last night.

Tame volcanoes are much less frightening, I suppose. 

[Syt]

That old town hall stood on one side of a square called the Flag Market. Unfortunately it got replaced with a 1960s office block. The other buildings facing the square are quite interesting pieces of Victorian architecture (especially the Harris museum) and the Cenotaph, so a bit of a shame really.

The street shown is Fishergate which is shops, restaurants, banks and building socities. Its pretty 3rd rate so if  you want to have fun shopping you go to Liverpool or Manchester.

Thanks for the info. This being Preston I was hoping you'd comment.

[Josquius]

In Switzerland and randomly discovered one of only two Popeyes chicken in the country in a insignificant service station off the motorway out of Geneva. Strange place for it.

[Tamas]

I only recently had my first Popeye's meal. I liked it.

[Barrister]

I only recently had my first Popeye's meal. I liked it.

Bizarrely, Popeye's is owned by Tim Horton's (named after a Canadian hockey player).

As far as fried chicken goes I definitely prefer it over KFC.

[HVC]

they have chick fil a in europe?