Author Topic: The "guess the place" thread (Read 912846 times)

Jaded · « **Reply #800 on:** 14 October, 2008, 12:16:27 am »

I was going to say Porto, but I didn't think that there were enough vertical struts in the modern bridge and it wasn't high enough above the water.

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #801 on:** 14 October, 2008, 12:31:59 am »

Quote from: Deano on 13 October, 2008, 01:27:28 pm

Quote from: chris on 13 October, 2008, 09:23:56 am
Quote from: mike on 13 October, 2008, 09:21:37 am
the land at Sutton Hoo was owned by the family of the matron at my school.

York viking centre?

No, but

Quote from: Deano on 13 October, 2008, 09:19:29 am
Sutton Hoo?

yes it's Sutton Hoo and that is probably a record 8 minutes and 1 second!

Lucky guess

Try this one:

Will you lot stop putting easy (for me) ones up when I am on night shifts!

chris · « **Reply #802 on:** 14 October, 2008, 12:50:32 am »

Here's one that might be a bit more difficult -

unless you know where it is.

nuttycyclist · « **Reply #803 on:** 14 October, 2008, 12:09:46 pm »

Peel Island, Coniston Water.

chris · « **Reply #804 on:** 14 October, 2008, 12:36:46 pm »

Quote from: nuttycyclist on 14 October, 2008, 12:09:46 pm

Peel Island, Coniston Water.

Yep, aka Wild Cat Island in Swallows and Amazons.

nuttycyclist · « **Reply #805 on:** 14 October, 2008, 12:43:42 pm »

I know

I've never been there but I recognised it from the books

αdαmsκι · « **Reply #806 on:** 14 October, 2008, 01:17:27 pm »

Quote from: andrew_s on 13 October, 2008, 10:40:08 pm

ponte do Infante, Porto
The blue ironwork in the foreground is presumably the Dom Luis I bridge

Yip, looking inland up the Douro River from the lower level of the Dom Luis I bridge.

Quote from: andrew_s on 13 October, 2008, 09:55:19 pm

High Force?

I decided the river wasn't big enough to make this High Force. Oh well.

RW · « **Reply #807 on:** 14 October, 2008, 08:44:38 pm »

St George and the Dragon, but not in England.

Jaded · « **Reply #808 on:** 14 October, 2008, 10:44:35 pm »

Albania?

David Martin · « **Reply #809 on:** 14 October, 2008, 10:59:17 pm »

Wales?

Jaded · « **Reply #810 on:** 14 October, 2008, 11:08:09 pm »

Is it rogerzilla's house?

RW · « **Reply #811 on:** 15 October, 2008, 07:51:37 am »

Not Wales, Albania or Rogerzillas house.

FatBloke · « **Reply #812 on:** 15 October, 2008, 08:05:28 am »

St. George is the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, Gozo, Pomorie, Qormi, Lod and Moscow.

So one of them then?

clarion · « **Reply #813 on:** 15 October, 2008, 10:56:10 am »

Vannes? ISTR there are very many decorations on the front of houses there...

RW · « **Reply #814 on:** 15 October, 2008, 12:04:34 pm »

Quote from: FatBloke on 15 October, 2008, 08:05:28 am

St. George is the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, Gozo, Pomorie, Qormi, Lod and Moscow.

So one of them then?

Afraid not

RW · « **Reply #815 on:** 15 October, 2008, 12:05:54 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 15 October, 2008, 10:56:10 am

Vannes? ISTR there are very many decorations on the front of houses there...

Getting warm - it's in Brittany.

αdαmsκι · « **Reply #816 on:** 15 October, 2008, 12:22:35 pm »

Concarneau?

Ian H · « **Reply #817 on:** 15 October, 2008, 12:24:40 pm »

clarion · « **Reply #818 on:** 15 October, 2008, 12:54:21 pm »

Auray?

RW · « **Reply #819 on:** 15 October, 2008, 05:56:00 pm »

Dol's the nearest. I took the photo at lunch on the first day of our tandem trip from St Malo to Tarn & Garonne. I was sitting outside a restaurant waiting for my pizza and looked up. We made slow progress - AKA faffing about, enjoying ourselves as if we were on a Sunday afternoon pootle rather than on a 900k ride.

Ian H · « **Reply #820 on:** 15 October, 2008, 06:52:58 pm »

Where's this:-

Ian H · « **Reply #821 on:** 15 October, 2008, 06:54:04 pm »

And where's this:-

peterh · « **Reply #822 on:** 15 October, 2008, 06:59:05 pm »

Quote from: Ian H on 15 October, 2008, 06:52:58 pm

Where's this:-

Chicago?

Jaded · « **Reply #823 on:** 15 October, 2008, 06:59:41 pm »

Quote from: Ian H on 15 October, 2008, 06:54:04 pm

And where's this:-

Eden Project during construction.

Ian H · « **Reply #824 on:** 15 October, 2008, 07:05:18 pm »

Jaded and Peterh, two out of two. I shall go away and sulk.