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by Theodores 3206 days ago
My keychain fob is a tourist special - the Magic Roundabout, Swindon.

A few things about the Magic Roundabout:

If you are a rail user then you will inevitably have rail replacement bus services that will inevitably give you a free tour of the Magic Roundabout. You can get on the top deck at the front and witness the awesomeness of the roundabout precariously but with a good view.

By bicycle the Magic Roundabout is a bit daunting but okay due to the low traffic speed and the expectation of other road users for you to be having no idea what you are doing.

What is not quite ever easy to come to terms with is that you are effectively driving on the right, not the left, as far as on-coming traffic is concerned. This is not normal for UK traffic situations, you always drive on the left in the UK and expect on-coming traffic to be to the right, not left.

Swindon is great, for a while I used to tell people I went there for my shopping because it was the largest town without a bookshop.

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There's been a Waterstones in the Brunel Centre for at least a couple of decades. Proper bookshop though, sadly not.