Unchained-northern recommendations needed

Lamble

Registered user
Joined
Jul 28, 2004
Messages
2,650
Reaction score
0
Location
on the move
As a Brit ex-pat in the US, I took a 10k mile ride last summer to discover my new home's offerings. The ride had 22 miles of interstate only (unavoidable) and I only stayed and ate at unique one-offs, no chain restaurants or motel.

I was asked if I could put something together for others and I'm nearly there.

What I'm looking at is a reference site for unique eateries and services, where you can post comments, location (gps ref) and where others can then input a route and see where the nearest unchained services are. It needn't be a full package, a great bacon buttie or cup of tea, is enough. A clean toilet at a campsite, or a happy waiter will do.

Below is the text from the under construction page. I'd love to have your input now, so that when we launch, there will be useful info from the get go.

There are many exciting plans for Unchained and I'd be delighted if you'd come along for the ride.

I'll see if we can link to this site too, but would guess we need some traffic first.


Welcome to Unchained

The simple goal of this site is to banish bland.

Here you can share the splendidly diverse experiences of fellow travelers who have commended services that have excelled.
You can add your own recommendations, be it a particularly pleasant pie, a 'fluffsom' bath-towel, a vista that cries 'gaze in awe', or a simple, but heartfelt, smile.

To achieve this, Unchained is designed to promote the individualistic, to champion the creative, to share the obscure and highlight those establishments that offer exceptional value.
The only criteria?
They must be one-offs and not part of corporate chains and they must be your personal recommendations, not hear-say.

To establish the credibility of Unchained, only referrals made by you, the travellers, seekers and discoverers of outstanding service will be included. All that's required is, you share your discoveries with others.

Record details of the provider, their location (GPS ref if available) and share your comments in Unchained and you will be able to see where others recommend too. Input your trip and see a locator of Unchained services that are near your planned route, plus what fellow travelers have discovered there.

Try an unchained venue or service for yourself, then, add your comments.

If you value diversity, then you too, will want to banish bland and become Unchained.


While this site is under construction, you can post your Unchained recommendations to:

recommendations@unchainedworld.com
www.unchainedworld.com

Thank you.
 
Ethiopia kicks northern butt.

Not so much as a single greasy spoon?

What about a Cumberland sausage shop, a chippy or bike gathering venue that serves hot butties?

I've three recommendations for Ethiopian Restaurants, so hold your heads in shame.
 
What can I say, how about Hartside cafe just west of Alston. Full of bikes, great roads, nice people and average food;)
 
A rd, B rd or what?

What can I say, how about Hartside cafe just west tof Alston. Full of bikes, great roads, nice people and average food;)

Well that gets a 3 1/2 out of 4 I suppose. It's in, if you have a road alpha numeric you can provide.

Cheers.
 
Warm and fuzzy feeling

Now there's quote I've not heard for years, certainly not since Pike came out in East Enders and that's a few years back, when Pauline Fowler was still a touch Miss Brahms.

Comedy nostalgia.
Are you being served?, is shown over here in Seattle. How sad is that?
I watched it, and that's even sadder. I'm free!
 
Cunning, like a fox.

Oh alright: It's on Hartside Heights, the A686, between Alston and Melmerby.

Also...south near Sherburn in Elmet is "Squire's": http://www.squires-cafe.co.uk/

:thumb2

Ahaa, my cunning interregation worked...now they'll both be visited by swarms of chap wearin' harley riders..yeee haaa!

Reminds me, when I applied for my visa, I was asked by the US customs, "Sir, are you a member of a terrorist organisation?"
I wonder how many they've caught using such sophisticated methods?
When I showed the cops my international driving license issued in Basingstoke I was asked, "Basingstoke hey, is that a country in Europe?"

Naturally I said.."Yes. Yes it is and I'm an ambassador and claim diplomatic immunity". No ticket!
 
Ahaa, my cunning interregation worked...now they'll both be visited by swarms of chap wearin' harley riders..yeee haaa!

Reminds me, when I applied for my visa, I was asked by the US customs, "Sir, are you a member of a terrorist organisation?"
I wonder how many they've caught using such sophisticated methods?
When I showed the cops my international driving license issued in Basingstoke I was asked, "Basingstoke hey, is that a country in Europe?"

Naturally I said.."Yes. Yes it is and I'm an ambassador and claim diplomatic immunity". No ticket!

Being a Geordie, I can claim diplomatic immunity when the rugby is on the go in Scotland.

:beerjug:
 
Firing squad

Pike, Mainwaring and the captured Germans (lead by the last of the moheakans if I recall) in Dad's Army, reminded me of my facing the guns.

I was stopped in California too by two CHP cars, not speeding (I hadn't registered the bike in Georgia where I bought it, as I'd been told to wait and get a WA plate-so I had no plates on-which is okay, but means you get stopped). 4 cops. Sir is this your bike? (Bike does have Union flags and St George cross flag), so in best British, "Indeed it is my good Sirs," I don't speak like that normally though, but you can't help yourself, you become a cross between Edward Fox, James Mason and someone from Upstairs, in Upstairs Downstairs.

"D'yav paperz?".

Go to open top box, "Stand away Sir."
4 cops pointing bloody revolvers at me.
"Do you have any weapons in there?"
"We'll I've a swiss army knife, so I could whittle, or remove a stone from your boot, but I'm British, we don't have guns, you've got them all!"

"Sheeeiit guys, he is a Brit. Where y'bin, where y'goin,' how d'y end up here?"
Lots of bike banter, then on my way escorted by 2 Interstate Patrol cars...good times.
 
Any more secrets you want to share?

The Irish tourist board are sending me all their unchaineds, and I'm flying to Spain to get some more from europe. The site is nearer completion, so all recommends are welcomed. The North is still one behind Ethiopia.
 


Back
Top Bottom