h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That depends on whether there are Viking ships in the harbour.

Reminds me of the time the notorious Viking captain Oluf the Cross-eyed got it all wrong in his excitement of taking Whitby and shouted: "Kill all the women and rape all the men!"

He instantly realized his mistake and was just about to rectify it when he was stopped by Hjalmar the Flamboyant who said: "Don't! We can't have the English witnessing a Viking going back on his words!"

There's a viking ship, The Hugin, in Ramsgate, Kent, UK.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Hugin+Ramsgate&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=KSEMUuq8AeWI0AX3n4CQBg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1109&bih=794#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=I873TmVuXLPsXM%3A%3BOYt48SfaVFEz8M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252Fb%252Fb0%252FViking_Longboat_'Hugin'%252C_Ramsgate_-_geograph.org.uk_-_653079.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fcommons.wikimedia.org%252Fwiki%252FFile%253AViking_Longboat_'Hugin'%252C_Ramsgate_-_geograph.org.uk_-_653079.jpg%3B640%3B479

Only because Hengist and Horsa (translated as Stallion and Mare) landed here and settled. Best thing that happened in Kent, until Wat Tyler rose up.

MMF

Rant alert:

The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde has reconstructed several ships. The largest being The Sea Stallion from Glendalough which was named by Queen Daisy in 2004 and sailed to Dublin with 60 warriors aboard in 2007. The original - of which only a few splinters remain - was built in the Dublin area.

Ships like this were not built for long trips to Greenland and beyond because there was precious little space left for anything else than the warriors and their weaponry. But they may have been used to besiege cities like Paris and London and holding them for ransom. In London they would land at The Strand (strand is the Danish word for beach)

http://www.vikingtoday.com/articles/2007/20070412.htm

all this talk of Viking ships is making me think I have to read that book again, was it Who's Afraid of Beowulf?

So I was back on my bike yesterday, we cycled to Düsseldorf. Good fun until my chain came off going over the Oberkasseler Brücke, but it wasn't far to the next bike shop who waved his hands about and pulled on a pedal and it was fixed! )

Unfortunately there's going to be a whole lot more cycling in my (at least near) future as my car has given up the ghost and I don't have the EUR 4,500 required to fix it

Oh dear, sorry for your loss. It's one thing to cycle for fun (even if you make it sound like some S&M thing), but being forced to do it is quite another thing. And in the winter many times more so

I was a bit afraid I was hijacking your thread (hence the alert) but at least I stuck to the subject of transportation

Hijack away - you are a after all