Author Topic: The "guess the place" thread (Read 907829 times)

fuaran · « **Reply #4700 on:** 08 January, 2012, 11:26:09 pm »

It looks like Arthur's Seat / Salisbury Crags in the distance? For them to be that way around, it would have to be from somewhere to the north/west of there?
I was going to suggest the Lomonds, maybe not. Maybe in the Ochils?

sg37409 · « **Reply #4701 on:** 08 January, 2012, 11:29:43 pm »

The "radar ride" hill near wanlockhead.

Cyclops · « **Reply #4702 on:** 09 January, 2012, 12:08:26 am »

We're getting close. The hills are about 25 miles from where I'm taking the photo and I'm facing almost due East.

mcshroom · « **Reply #4703 on:** 09 January, 2012, 12:21:18 am »

Well I'm wrong then. If you were 35 miles West of where I was thinking you'd be swimming.

Deano · « **Reply #4704 on:** 09 January, 2012, 03:41:39 am »

Looks like the Eildons. Dunno where you'd be standing - somewhere near the Minch moor road?

Cyclops · « **Reply #4705 on:** 09 January, 2012, 08:28:44 am »

Quote from: Deano on 09 January, 2012, 03:41:39 am

Looks like the Eildons. Dunno where you'd be standing - somewhere near the Minch moor road?

I thought you might get it as you posted the view from the other side. I was standing on White Coomb.

Steph · « **Reply #4706 on:** 09 January, 2012, 10:02:44 am »

Quote from: Cyclops on 09 January, 2012, 08:28:44 am

Quote from: Deano on 09 January, 2012, 03:41:39 am
Looks like the Eildons. Dunno where you'd be standing - somewhere near the Minch moor road?

I thought you might get it as you posted the view from the other side. I was standing on White Coomb.

Knew it! Was trying to think of the name of those hills, passed them many a time. What exactly is the 'bunker'?

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #4707 on:** 09 January, 2012, 07:37:19 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 09 January, 2012, 10:02:44 am

What exactly is the 'bunker'?

Its a 2000 year old stone built chamber set into the even older hill fort.

Quote from: undiscoveredscotland

the earth house or souterrain found dug into the ditch between the outer ramparts during excavations in 1933 and 1952. This has since been given a concrete roof, complete with windows, and it takes a little effort to realise that initially it was a fully underground passageway, like the Culsh Earth House. 20m long, its function seems to have been to provide a cool and dry storage area for agricultural produce. The theory that these structures, which were quite common across the more cultivated parts of Scotland, were actually intended to store grain being traded to the Roman army is supported by the finding of a Roman Brooch and pottery during the excavation of the earth house here

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #4708 on:** 10 January, 2012, 07:17:08 pm »

Anyone know this one ?

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #4709 on:** 11 January, 2012, 07:09:12 am »

Quote from: Rig of Jarkness on 10 January, 2012, 07:17:08 pm

Anyone know this one ?

It's in the same place as this very agreeable eatery

Cyclops · « **Reply #4710 on:** 11 January, 2012, 08:36:08 am »

Palnackie Port?

David Martin · « **Reply #4711 on:** 11 January, 2012, 02:34:21 pm »

In Scotland... Lairg?

David Martin · « **Reply #4712 on:** 11 January, 2012, 02:35:40 pm »

Googles. Nowhere near Lairg but close to my first suspicions.

eck · « **Reply #4713 on:** 11 January, 2012, 02:40:26 pm »

Quote from: Cyclops on 11 January, 2012, 08:36:08 am

Palnackie Port?

Home of The World Flounder-Tramping Championship IIRC.

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #4714 on:** 11 January, 2012, 07:00:39 pm »

Quote from: Cyclops on 11 January, 2012, 08:36:08 am

Palnackie Port?

Well done Cyclops, another winner

Cyclops · « **Reply #4715 on:** 11 January, 2012, 07:31:29 pm »

Quote from: Rig of Jarkness on 11 January, 2012, 07:00:39 pm

Quote from: Cyclops on 11 January, 2012, 08:36:08 am
Palnackie Port?

Well done Cyclops, another winner

It was actually the Galloway News hoarding that gave it away - a friend of mine was a manager in the creamery

Cyclops · « **Reply #4716 on:** 11 January, 2012, 08:02:08 pm »

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #4717 on:** 11 January, 2012, 08:05:55 pm »

I like it ! But I've no idea where it is.

David Martin · « **Reply #4718 on:** 11 January, 2012, 09:58:16 pm »

I'd guess it is in france..

plum · « **Reply #4719 on:** 11 January, 2012, 10:28:28 pm »

The colours remind me of this, which stands outside a museum in Bordeaux.

Cyclops · « **Reply #4720 on:** 13 January, 2012, 02:50:26 pm »

Apart from working out it's France you seem a bit stuck. A clue: it's in Paris and it's functional (in fact it's probably used daily by several thousand people)

Basil · « **Reply #4721 on:** 13 January, 2012, 03:07:28 pm »

Metro station entrance? I can't imagine which one though.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4722 on:** 13 January, 2012, 04:52:55 pm »

Pissoir?

JenM · « **Reply #4723 on:** 13 January, 2012, 05:01:00 pm »

The Louvre?

Cyclops · « **Reply #4724 on:** 13 January, 2012, 05:15:43 pm »

It is a metro station entrance, very close to here:

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