ebay Mike’s expedition THE PICTURES. - Just the pictures please.

So, Mike has been with me for a while and we had a few adventures - in fact, he accompanied me on some travels...
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First Dublin, Nikki and I did a short weekend in Dublin and we took Mike along with us (who said he's a third wheel). We visited Dublin's model railway store - no G Scale but discussed with Nikki and Mike and purchased some N Scale to add to the steadily growing collection. I had a picture of us outside the shop but don't seem to be able to find it.

Singapore
Then it was on to Singapore. I was there for 10 days with work and my plan was to visit the island's Model Railway Store (which does seem to have G). Unfortunately, given I had neither of their accepted payment methods (cash and PayLah) we ended up not taking the trip 40minute taxi ride. I did, however, get some shots of us hanging out in the airport waiting for our return flight...
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South Carolina
Then it was the trip to South Carolina (USA) over 'the holidays' as my wonderful wife would say. We visited another local model railroad store and found a couple of G items but we were hand luggage only so weren't able to bring anything home.. It was mostly HO and O (Lionel). Usual delights of the hectic but dreamworld of a specialist model store.

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Finally, back to Jersey were Mike has spent much of his time with his feet-up, agreeing with Nikki that I need to tidy the garage and finally get around to digitising those locos I've been meaning to do. The last few days I got more time to the hobby in than in the past few months. Mike oversaw the conversion of a recently purchased Bobo (from Windym87 Windym87 ) and was present for the initial trials...


This was a part of his visit. Given he didn't spent as much time as he would have liked at the railway, a special was put on just for Mike to give him a tour of the railway. He spent a lot of time checking in on drivers and ensuring all was well. A few comments from him about the length of the non-accessible tunnels, the excessive use of push-through points and the evidently non-working signalling - the latter two items being on the CMO's task list for a while now...

A video tour of his trip around the line ( dunnyrail dunnyrail , no background music - just for you :D )
 
Mr Mike gets the ride of his life on the GE 25T switching locomotive. The journey starts a Priory Exchange Station and will terminate at Priory Halt:-
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Mrs Gotobed and daughter Clair await the arrival of her new guest Mr Mike:-
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Mr Mike and Casey arrive at the Gotobed cottage where Mr Mike will be a guest during his visit.
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After some well-earned rest, Mini Mike is happy to be travelling again. He's on his way to the Flamingo Tramway, but it'll still be a while before he gets there.

His habit of travelling outside instead of in dusty compartments hasn't changed. Like a sailor, he prefers to have his nose in the wind.

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Mike notices how busy the train is, even empty wagons being used. There is also quite a stir going on. He asks what the occasion is, but in their excitement everyone talks over one another, so in the end Mike understands hardly anything. He'll just have to find out when he arrives.

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Today is the day.

Today he will visit me. Er... visit us, I mean. He's visiting the community, of course, not just me, but I'm the one officially receiving him, because I'm the Mayor and I am the importantest person in town. So in a way, it feels like he's visiting me.
The other day an old friend told me I'm letting it all go to my head too much. I will give him some extra permits for his business, that'll stop him nagging.

Yesterday I had my hair dressed, and now I'm all dressed up to meet my, I mean our, visitor. Look, here I am passing the tram halt. Don't I look handsome in my Mayoral Collar? See how everyone's greeting me. As they should, because I'm the importantest person in town.


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Today is the day.

Today he will visit me. Er... visit us, I mean. He's visiting the community, of course, not just me, but I'm the one officially receiving him, because I'm the Mayor and I am the importantest person in town. So in a way, it feels like he's visiting me.
The other day an old friend told me I'm letting it all go to my head too much. I will give him some extra permits for his business, that'll stop him nagging.

Yesterday I had my hair dressed, and now I'm all dressed up to meet my, I mean our, visitor. Look, here I am passing the tram halt. Don't I look handsome in my Mayoral Collar? See how everyone's greeting me. As they should, because I'm the importantest person in town.


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Oh dear, why does this pic remind me of a scene from an episode of Dr Who.

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It is time. He'll be here any moment now. I feel so proud that I get to be his host for today. But then again, that's how it should be, because I'm the importantest person around.

People are waiting, you can feel the excitement, so let's hope nobody misbehaves. I've promised the Patrolmen some extra payments if they handle it well.

Ah, there he is!


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The King has left again, and I am quite proud of myself for how well everything went. The only issue was something with crowd control: in the excitement a few people were trampled. No one important though, just some peasants and tourists. I know because I inquired.

The King doesn't seem to have noticed, at least he didn't say anything about it during lunch. So I think I'm good. It's a minor incident.

Besides, they're not dead, just injured. They've been taken to hospital, I'm sure they'll be all right.


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Mike notices how busy the train is, even empty wagons being used. There is also quite a stir going on. He asks what the occasion is, but in their excitement everyone talks over one another, so in the end Mike understands hardly anything. He'll just have to find out when he arrives.

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You've some very well preserved early Playmobil there, and a great start to little Mike's visit.
 
The King has left again, and I am quite proud of myself for how well everything went. The only issue was something with crowd control: in the excitement a few people were trampled. No one important though, just some peasants and tourists. I know because I inquired.

The King doesn't seem to have noticed, at least he didn't say anything about it during lunch. So I think I'm good. It's a minor incident.

Besides, they're not dead, just injured. They've been taken to hospital, I'm sure they'll be all right.


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Oh no! Little Mike is injured?
 
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