Tom Blogs » cachaca http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:37:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 It's the piccadilly line. But not as we know it. http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk/2008/06/27/its-the-piccadilly-line-but-not-as-we-know-it/ http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk/2008/06/27/its-the-piccadilly-line-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:55:38 +0000 Tom http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk/?p=18 Last night I was shopping for a present for a good friend of mine at work who’s leaving this week. As they commute long stretches of the tube each day I decided what they would most like to receive as a leaving present would be An Illustrated Guide to the Piccadilly Line (and a wodge of topshop vouchers and some other stuff, we’re not complete bastards).

Piccadily line DVDIt turns out the London Transport Museum has a very impressive library of books on everything tube and train related, and it doesn’t stop there, they have a decent sized display devoted to DVDs. What particularly caught my eye was the series of “Driver eye view” films for each of the tube lines, with a running commentary of dark tunnel followed by dark tunnel of tube track. Now that is a niche market, and they’re got it fully covered. Don’t tell Gorden Brown though or he’ll ban them for being a terrorist threat.

On my way to Covent Garden I also noticed a very nice looking whisky shop which I had a quick look in on. Whisky was stacked floor to ceiling and it reminded me of a cachaca shop in Paraty ‘d been to. In a complete coincidence the London Daily Photo site features the same whisky shop in today’s photo. Which is nice.

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