{"id":3141,"date":"2015-09-14T07:18:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T07:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2015-09-15T07:15:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T07:15:50","slug":"the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-chuffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/09\/14\/the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-chuffing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Hills Are Alive &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. with the sound of chuffing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sound.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sound.jpg\" alt=\"Sound\" width=\"185\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>Just back from a very enjoyable ten days on the continent\u00a0travelling around using &#8216;The Little Trains of Austria&#8217; hence this rather brief blog.\u00a0Looks like we had a narrow escape as I&#8217;ve just heard on the news that\u00a0Germany reinstated border checks with it and Austria yesterday because of the refugee crisis. They must have had a lie in as luckily there was no sign at of anything at around 9:30 when we crossed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve returned to find I have successful located another one of the many Daphne du Maurier covers which I&#8217;ve tacked onto the bottom of her page. It is <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Cartland\/DuMaurier\/duMaurier.html\">&#8216;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Progress of Julius&#8217; <\/span><\/a>and after my moan about not knowing what edition one would get from unhelpful sellers it turned out to actually be the one in the photo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the not quite PAN section I have a few more\u00a0additions sent me\u00a0from Tomislav in Croatia. He works as a beer salesman and as one of the most popular brands over there is PAN he gets<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Advertising\/PANBeer.htm\"> bits and pieces<\/a><\/span>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PANBits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PANBits-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"PANBits\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PANBits-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PANBits.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m really disappointed in that I didn&#8217;t get a shot of the Sun Chemicals Inks Division at Ternat in Belgium. They bought out Coates Brothers who produced the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2014%20Large\/Invisible\/HenryLing.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;invisible ink&#8217; <\/span><\/a>for the puzzle series from Piccolo to which I&#8217;ve added a couple of new covers. We drove passed it and I didn&#8217;t manage to get a photo but though &#8220;Never mind, that&#8217;s what Google\u00a0Streetview is for&#8221; BUT on Google all I get are views of lovely green fields. No wonder I hadn&#8217;t noticed it before when we&#8217;ve gone that way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finally I always like to leave my mark so I helpfully left all the computers in the hotel lobby in Liege\u00a0logged into an excellent website.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Site.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Site-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Site\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Site-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Site-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Site.jpg 1081w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from a very enjoyable ten days on the continent\u00a0travelling around using &#8216;The Little Trains of Austria&#8217; hence this rather brief blog.\u00a0Looks like we had a narrow escape as I&#8217;ve just heard on the news that\u00a0Germany reinstated border checks with it and Austria yesterday because of the refugee crisis. 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