Author Topic: The "guess the place" thread (Read 912903 times)

Deano · « **Reply #675 on:** 24 September, 2008, 04:45:42 pm »

Where's this, then?

[img height=480 width=640]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3083/2822498506_8d4587c218_b.jpg[/img]

hellymedic · « **Reply #676 on:** 24 September, 2008, 05:06:40 pm »

Dunno but it's not mostly downhill from here...

chris · « **Reply #677 on:** 24 September, 2008, 05:13:38 pm »

Quote from: Deano on 24 September, 2008, 04:45:42 pm

Where's this, then?

[img height=480 width=640]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3083/2822498506_8d4587c218_b.jpg[/img]

Its Largs, taken from the north, and that's the Great Cumbrae ferry disappearing to the right. Many years ago (about 40) Mrs Chris' grandfather used to be the captain on that route. It was a different boat in those days - the Keppel which was a passenger only ferry. The Keppel is now the Hornblower a 'floating winebar' in Malta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RIy8FQB8fM.

It's not always that sunny there -

Jaded · « **Reply #678 on:** 24 September, 2008, 05:55:34 pm »

Deano · « **Reply #679 on:** 24 September, 2008, 06:52:00 pm »

Quote from: chris on 24 September, 2008, 05:13:38 pm

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Its Largs, taken from the north, and that's the Great Cumbrae ferry disappearing to the right. Many years ago (about 40) Mrs Chris' grandfather used to be the captain on that route. It was a different boat in those days - the Keppel which was a passenger only ferry. The Keppel is now the Hornblower a 'floating winebar' in Malta
...

Close enough

David Martin · « **Reply #680 on:** 24 September, 2008, 07:33:29 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on 24 September, 2008, 05:55:34 pm

Looks not dissimilar to an arty shot of St Peters square..

Bluebottle · « **Reply #681 on:** 24 September, 2008, 10:11:00 pm »

I have memories of something like that in Barcelona.

tonyh · « **Reply #682 on:** 25 September, 2008, 07:48:07 am »

Thought for a moment it might be the Trafford (shopping) Centre in Manchester!

Jaded · « **Reply #683 on:** 25 September, 2008, 10:17:18 am »

Excellent suggestions, but all wrong!

Deano · « **Reply #684 on:** 25 September, 2008, 02:15:40 pm »

Looks like St Mark's Square...?

RJ · « **Reply #685 on:** 25 September, 2008, 06:06:21 pm »

Kiev.

Jaded · « **Reply #686 on:** 25 September, 2008, 06:15:08 pm »

All wrong. Very wrong.

αdαmsκι · « **Reply #687 on:** 25 September, 2008, 06:22:37 pm »

No idea of the location, but given the large church I wonder if it's in Latin America?

Jaded · « **Reply #688 on:** 25 September, 2008, 06:38:09 pm »

Nope.

It's a pretty important place for the people that go there....

chris · « **Reply #689 on:** 25 September, 2008, 07:11:01 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on 25 September, 2008, 06:38:09 pm

It's a pretty important place for the people that go there....

Swindon?

Salvatore · « **Reply #690 on:** 25 September, 2008, 07:17:15 pm »

That campanile looks Italian, and the dome looks a bit like St Peter's, but I can't work out the structure on the right.

Oh what the hell.

The Vatican?

Salvatore · « **Reply #691 on:** 25 September, 2008, 07:45:48 pm »

Quote from: John Spooner on 25 September, 2008, 07:17:15 pm

That campanile looks Italian, and the dome looks a bit like St Peter's, but I can't work out the structure on the right.

Oh what the hell.

The Vatican?

But St Mark's has been rejected so I hereby withdraw my guess.

innesh · « **Reply #692 on:** 25 September, 2008, 08:14:16 pm »

Quote from: Deano on 24 September, 2008, 04:45:42 pm

Where's this, then?

[img height=480 width=640]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3083/2822498506_8d4587c218_b.jpg[/img]

You can almost see where I was born, on the hill, to the left of the church spire on the left. Nice photo.

And I remember The Keppel - the only way to Millport before the Cumbrae slip was built. Ah, happy days. Thanks for posting that.

Jaded · « **Reply #693 on:** 25 September, 2008, 08:20:43 pm »

It's not in Asia or Europe.

Deano · « **Reply #694 on:** 25 September, 2008, 08:47:23 pm »

Quote from: applebag on 25 September, 2008, 08:14:16 pm

You can almost see where I was born, on the hill, to the left of the church spire on the left. Nice photo.

And I remember The Keppel - the only way to Millport before the Cumbrae slip was built. Ah, happy days. Thanks for posting that.

Welcome - I enjoyed that day. Had some lovely fish n chips while the ferry came in and listened to some teenage lads telling hilarious tales of their sexual exploits...

chris · « **Reply #695 on:** 25 September, 2008, 09:11:09 pm »

Quote from: applebag on 25 September, 2008, 08:14:16 pm

And I remember The Keppel - the only way to Millport before the Cumbrae slip was built. Ah, happy days.

The Keppel didn't come up to British safety standards, so was sold as scrap about ten years ago. £4000 for 120 tonnes of steel I seem to remember. It had a strange control system where the propeller could be angled sideways to steer the boat, and this meant that it was difficult to handle at slow speed in confined waters. The guy that bought it to take to Malta tracked down Mrs Chris' grandfather who lived on Bute and was 90 at the time, and paid him £600 (I think) for a couple of days worth of lessons on how the boat worked. I was on Bute at the time and went out on the Keppel on the second day. Speaking to the new owner he reckoned on being able to have 250 people on board each evening at around £20 per time 7 days per week for a three month season. We worked out that if his calculations were correct, by the time he got to Malta and painted the boat he would probably have paid for it by the end of the first week!

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #696 on:** 26 September, 2008, 07:33:16 am »

Quote from: Jaded on 25 September, 2008, 06:38:09 pm

Nope.

It's a pretty important place for the people that go there....

Capitol Hill from the rear?

Jaded · « **Reply #697 on:** 26 September, 2008, 08:12:51 am »

That's the right continent now!

It's not government...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #698 on:** 27 September, 2008, 04:52:42 pm »

Quote from: Steve GT on 24 September, 2008, 03:59:09 pm

Rarotonga?

Yes. Just outside Avarua on the "inner road" IIRC.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #699 on:** 27 September, 2008, 04:53:52 pm »

Jaded, is yours in Montreal?