At the beginning of this year I made a series of journeys from London to Lancashire - a short journey on the West Coast lines but a million miles from my day job.

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The final leg of the journey sees the bus turning right on to George Street, performing a short loop, before heading west along the street.

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One of them, the Hsuan Tsang Temple, houses the remains of the great itinerant monk Hsuan Tsang, immortalized in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, who went on a 16-year pilgrimage to India.

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Bev Halstead, also from west Belfast has made a special journey to Notting Hill for the past three years "because of the atmosphere".

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The new link, which is supposed to be finished by 2003, will eventually offer a 45-minute ride from Penn Station to Kennedy (about the same as the journey from London's West End to Heathrow).

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Spotted by a Gunners scout while playing for Luton in 2001, the boyhood West Ham fan was initially reluctant to switch clubs because it would mean a longer journey for his parents.

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