Work chums say it just snapped them!
Google maps1 "street view" is all live for the UK as of today, London has lots of coverage and other major towns do too. Friends were just down Hythe seafront, one said "wouldn't it be cool if we could get into Google street view" and SUDDENLY THE GOOGLE STREET VIEW VAN2 WENT PAST! How spooky is that?
Look out for it, surveying a street near you...
This is part of my site The Folkestone Gerald that I set up in a fury of excitement when I first came here sometime in '04. I had been a frequent visitor for a while previous to that so I am technically one of those DFLs you get now. This site was updated more frequently with a gig calendar + voting for favourite places + things, and I hear it was a useful resource for others who were moving to the area. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though only to Hythe) it doesn't get as much love as it used to. Ironic really as Folkestone itself is now becoming the exciting place we always thought it was just about to. I am not Gerald by the way, this comes from a pretend paper in an episode of The Day Today or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, + how there is a local newspaper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are GRATE aren't they? Do get in touch if you have something to contribute, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on Twitter.