Author Topic: The "guess the place" thread (Read 903404 times)

PaulR · « **Reply #2075 on:** 27 August, 2009, 01:22:45 pm »

Quote from: mike on 26 August, 2009, 08:52:40 am

a hint - it's on this planet:

wild stab in the sunshine - how about the Isola Gorgona?

andyoxon · « **Reply #2076 on:** 27 August, 2009, 01:36:29 pm »

Quote from: mike on 26 August, 2009, 08:52:40 am

a hint - it's on this planet:

Spinalonga, Crete. Former Venetian fortress and leper colony. Went there in 1995.

Andy

Jaded · « **Reply #2077 on:** 27 August, 2009, 02:21:28 pm »

Quote from: chris on 27 August, 2009, 12:17:28 pm

Whilst we wait for someone to get Mikes picture here's an easy one of Mrs Chris, Zoe and Lewis from last weekend -

Nah, you're kidding us! Lewis is flat and boggy

mike · « **Reply #2078 on:** 27 August, 2009, 02:28:46 pm »

Quote from: andyoxon on 27 August, 2009, 01:36:29 pm

Spinalonga, Crete. Former Venetian fortress and leper colony. Went there in 1995.

Andy

was there last week. Lovely.

andyoxon · « **Reply #2079 on:** 27 August, 2009, 03:03:40 pm »

On our first jaunt in dodgy hired Fiat Panda, late afternoon, we drove into the hills NW of Spinalonga – relying on a map that turned out to be rubbish. So we got lost, and found ourselves on a small mountain dirt roads as it was getting dark...fortunately it eventually turned to tar and we made it back to the main highway just as it had gone dark.

RJ · « **Reply #2080 on:** 27 August, 2009, 09:28:58 pm »

Quote from: RJ on 27 August, 2009, 01:09:05 pm

Mull?

Got it now. Mull - specifically the east end of Glen More above Ardura, looking towards Ben Talaidh ...

chris · « **Reply #2081 on:** 28 August, 2009, 08:24:52 am »

Quote from: RJ on 27 August, 2009, 09:28:58 pm

Quote from: RJ on 27 August, 2009, 01:09:05 pm
Mull?

Got it now. Mull - specifically the east end of Glen More above Ardura, looking towards Ben Talaidh ...

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #2082 on:** 04 September, 2009, 07:17:07 pm »

Salvatore · « **Reply #2083 on:** 04 September, 2009, 07:43:16 pm »

Quote from: Monsieur Pumpé on 04 September, 2009, 07:17:07 pm

Eskdalemuir.

chris · « **Reply #2084 on:** 04 September, 2009, 08:11:17 pm »

Quote from: Salvatore on 04 September, 2009, 07:43:16 pm

Quote from: Monsieur Pumpé on 04 September, 2009, 07:17:07 pm

Eskdalemuir.

Can't be. Too dry, too warm , not enough wind and no-one laying on the floor

Salvatore · « **Reply #2085 on:** 04 September, 2009, 08:16:43 pm »

Quote from: chris on 04 September, 2009, 08:11:17 pm

Quote from: Salvatore on 04 September, 2009, 07:43:16 pm
Quote from: Monsieur Pumpé on 04 September, 2009, 07:17:07 pm

Eskdalemuir.

Can't be. Too dry, too warm , not enough wind and no-one laying on the floor

But I'm sure I recognise the one on the right. He served me soup in 2001.

andrew_s · « **Reply #2086 on:** 05 September, 2009, 12:42:11 am »

Shwedagon pagoda?

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #2087 on:** 05 September, 2009, 10:01:33 am »

Very well done!

Jaded · « **Reply #2088 on:** 05 September, 2009, 11:35:05 pm »

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #2089 on:** 07 September, 2009, 12:19:10 pm »

Not by Windermere, is it?

Jaded · « **Reply #2090 on:** 07 September, 2009, 12:20:50 pm »

No, a way further south.

David Martin · « **Reply #2091 on:** 07 September, 2009, 01:13:21 pm »

East side of the country, about lincolnshire?

Jaded · « **Reply #2092 on:** 07 September, 2009, 01:26:15 pm »

Nope - westwards of there!

David Martin · « **Reply #2093 on:** 07 September, 2009, 01:33:03 pm »

Looks like a very old tower that used to have a smaller sanctuary, now replaced with a victorian one in stone.
The tower being built substantially of brick would suggest that it is somewhere with no good supplies of local stone.

Jaded · « **Reply #2094 on:** 07 September, 2009, 01:38:49 pm »

Dates back to Offa.

andrew_s · « **Reply #2095 on:** 07 September, 2009, 05:37:34 pm »

St Mary's, Kempley?
(roof timbers dendro-dated back to well pre-conquest, and the stone in that area is fairly soft red sandsone)

Jaded · « **Reply #2096 on:** 07 September, 2009, 05:40:19 pm »

Nope. Not that near me!

andrew_s · « **Reply #2097 on:** 08 September, 2009, 12:30:39 am »

Got it - Loxley

, and I have ridden past, on the way to Wellesbourne airfield cafe, which accounts for the nagging sense of recognition.
would the next clue have been the Robin Hood connection?

Jaded · « **Reply #2098 on:** 08 September, 2009, 09:00:20 am »

Yes, Robin Hood or something to do with a Vulcan!

It is easy to miss though, on that narrow climb out of Loxley.

clarion · « **Reply #2099 on:** 08 September, 2009, 09:07:07 am »

Wrong Loxley for Robin Hood, mind.