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    Quote Originally Posted by Reg Dingle View Post
    Bored shitless more like.

    Where's the fukkin Disneyland pics?

    Why Mrs King Willy and not Dr?

    Big feet...Big socks eh?
    Fuck Disneyland and their queues and plastic fun, I could have saved 20k and just taken them to HK dinesyland or Sunway theme park or legoland instead. We didn’t fly 10;000 miles or whatever it was to waste time in Disney. Besides walking around the view Capitol Hill, the Whitehouse and all the museums was free! Had the space and flight museum been open we would have seen the first lunar lander that Armstrong (the real one) & Buz Aldrin landed with, touched an asteroid and moon rock, seen the stages of Rocket development and one of Amelia Erbart’s planes….

    as for Mrs instead of Dr… I suppose I could promote her…

    and MrKW Jnr is a chip off the old block, that’s all I am saying

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    Lunchtime!

    We decided to try some hotdogs and other assorted delights on menu form the food trucks surrounding the Smithsonian Musuems.

    Expensive af!

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    Pretty shitty. This was apparently a lamb gyros.

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    We decided to try out the next museum

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    Some big dude.

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    Fuck, we're bored! Let's go!

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    After a rest in the hotel (kids on Roblox, adults on social media) we wandered up the block for an Italian dinner. Ristorante TOSCA (Northern Italian food) sounded good. Here's their Facebook page for better food pics than mine. Ristorante TOSCA - Home

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    The food was very good, but the prices matched.

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    They made this one up for the little fella who wasn't much interested in anything on the menu. By the time it had arrived he'd completely fallen asleep at the table (roughly 7:30pm) and we could not wake him up. We took it to go and he ate it in the middle of the night when he woke up hungry. Mendy's airline spoon came in real handy then!

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    Ravioli. Simply divine!

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    Octopus leg. Very good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    Octopus leg


    Perhaps tentacle?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    he food was very good, but the prices matched.

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    They made this one up for the little fella who wasn't much interested in anything on the menu. By the time it had arrived he'd completely fallen asleep at the table (roughly 7:30pm) and we could not wake him up. We took it to go and he ate it in the middle of the night when he woke up hungry. Mendy's airline spoon came in real handy then!

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    Ravioli. Simply divine!

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    Octopus leg. Very good.

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    Not sure what you are doing but this keeps happening.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post


    Perhaps tentacle?

    Suppose so

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Not sure what you are doing but this keeps happening.

    Neither am I. Which pisses me off, no end. Have to edit the post, delete all the pics which show on my laptop and then uploaded them all again!

    :angry:

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    Washington DC had been good, but it was time to move on. We'd pre-booked some seats on an Amtrak train to Philadelphia. I was not prepared for how large, ornate, and clean the train station was (barring the homeless tent city camped outside of it).



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    Great stuff mate. Green owed.

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    Think you might be suffering the curse of the apple, willy.

    Maybe you need to convert the pics to twentieth century jpegs?

    Good thread anyway.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Great stuff mate. Green owed.
    Agreed!

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Agreed!
    You two not meeting for a beer?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    You two not meeting for a beer?

    I think this has been mentioned before, but perhaps a visual will aid.


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    I could not be further from where he vacationed that said I would meet Willy for a beer or two or ten any day.

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    So a relatively short (about 2 hours) but comfortable train trip saw us arrive in another grandiose train station in Philadelphia.

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    A taxicab is exactly what we needed. Checked into a Hilton, to be honest they don't look much like the Hilton's we see in SE.Asia but they are priced at the same point. But again we were paying for location, in this case close to Reading Terminal Market "One of America’s largest and oldest public markets, housed since 1893 in a National Historic Landmark building, the Market offers an incredible selection of locally grown & exotic produce, locally sourced meats and poultry, plus the finest seafood, cheeses, baked goods, and confections. You’ll find everything you need to create a memorable meal, from cookbooks, to table linens, to kitchenware, to fresh cut flowers, and more. Plus the widest variety of restaurants under one roof."

    A wander through, enjoyed a few items here and there. Kids loved the sweeties shop. They had some lovely tomahawk steaks at very reasonable prices, but I can't cook a Q in the hotel room!

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    We didn't take many pics, but here are a couple from the net.

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    Of course when one is in Philly one has to have a Cheesesteak sandwich, or two.

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    These were massive. The thing in the middle back picture was a Mac & Cheese Burger, the unfortunate thing was they forgot to mention it included Bacon, which my daughter discovered half way through and she cannot eat. So I swapped with her. She got my steak sandwich and I got a half eaten Mac & Cheese with bacon monstrosity.

    And then we managed to visit the home of Philly Cheese steak sandwiches, Geno's.

    Slightly more understated, but the taste was good. Paired nicely with an IPA (not pictured)

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    Making me hungry now

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    Yum! Green owed!

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    After venturing down a subway we changed our minds and decided walking and Uber's will do the job sans piss smell.

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    The centre of Philly has plenty of ornate historical buildings.
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    And the missus managed to fit in a bit of shopping at Macy's.

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    Brilliant travel thread, green owed!

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    We wandered down a tree lined boulevard (not too hot to walk around here, unlike most of South East Asia, and the streets are clear of vendors, rubbish, potholes and rogue motorcyclists) to Rocky's statue and steps (not really his steps, but featured in the first or second film for his training regime).

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    After all that hard work an ice cream for the kids was needed.

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    And a pint for the old man.

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    Not you! You're only 20! (which hurt, because in Australia he has been able to legally drink since he was 18). Besides, I don't think the moustache fooled anyone.

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    Philly also has it's seedy nature.

    Homeless, shootings (someone was shot and killed on this corner later this same evening...), drugs and so on. Which was a bit of a surprise to my family that thought "But isn't America a rich country?"

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    Stopped in for a quick drink.

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    Loads of excellent IPAs in this country.
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    And kids and mom went to the ice cream shop. Which had a queue! On a Tuesday night. At 9:00pm!



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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    Loads of excellent IPAs in this country.
    Excellent pics Willy. We do have plenty of awesome beer, that is for sure, and I am not talking about shit Budweiser.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Excellent pics Willy. We do have plenty of awesome beer, that is for sure, and I am not talking about shit Budweiser.
    A mate and I (he's from Ohio) were discussing this and I love the choice (I've been in places with 50 plus on tap- all well kept from what I was able to surmise), but as someone who doesn't like IPA, it can sometimes be a bit dispiriting too given they seem to be about 95% of the selection.

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