Game: Where-is-it? (international)

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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby GregG » Fri 10 Nov, 2023 4:20 pm

Thanks John. Keeping with the transport theme, where in the UK did I spot this aircraft? (Yes, there is a hint in the picture of the same kind that helped me locate John's mountain loco).
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby GregR » Fri 10 Nov, 2023 9:47 pm

Elvington: Yorkshire air Museum
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby GregG » Sat 11 Nov, 2023 12:24 pm

Coŕrect Greg - Handley Page Victor XL 231 is configured as a tanker and is a veteran of the Gulf War and the Falklands and currently resides at Elvington. Well worth a visit if you are in the vicinity, not far from York. Over to you.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby GregR » Sat 11 Nov, 2023 9:00 pm

Lets stay in the UK eh wot!

Where am I wandering past this thing??
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sun 12 Nov, 2023 7:02 am

It's more years than I care to remember since we visited that spot. Judging by the crowd, was her/his majesty in residence?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby GregR » Sun 12 Nov, 2023 5:16 pm

Well John, Interesting answer...quite cryptic. I suspect your expecting leniency if not sympathy due to your plight. Aw shucks, I'm a softy at heart, you can go next.

As for your question Vicky was there in the background, but Liz stayed inside, whilst the rest of us watched the changing of the guard.

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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sun 12 Nov, 2023 8:08 pm

GregR wrote:Well John, Interesting answer...quite cryptic. I suspect your expecting leniency if not sympathy due to your plight. Aw shucks, I'm a softy at heart, you can go next.

As for your question Vicky was there in the background, but Liz stayed inside, whilst the rest of us watched the changing of the guard.

all yours.

Thank you Greg, camaraderie of the walking wounded :). Being ever present during my entire life part of me thinks Liz is still with us. For your generosity I'll make it easy. NZ:
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On the beach at Hokitika, Westland New Zealand
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby icefest » Sun 12 Nov, 2023 8:18 pm

Are you in Greymouth?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby ribuck » Mon 13 Nov, 2023 12:50 am

Hokitika, surely.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Mon 13 Nov, 2023 8:17 am

icefest wrote:Are you in Greymouth?

Umm, close but no.
ribuck wrote:Hokitika, surely.

Surely is ribuck, all yours.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby ribuck » Tue 14 Nov, 2023 6:33 am

Thanks johnw.

This one is in Europe. The photo might not be enough to produce a winner; if so I can post another photo tomorrow. In any case, I just need the general location.

The tent is pitched "fly only", which might give you some clue as to the climate.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Tue 14 Nov, 2023 9:07 am

I don't know where it is but I'm assuming you're probably there in the warmer months. Let's kick off with the foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees and go from there.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Tue 14 Nov, 2023 9:02 pm

I wonder if you might be on Corsica
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby ribuck » Tue 14 Nov, 2023 11:10 pm

Yes wobbly, it's Corsica, that's good enough for me. I was on the GR-20 with others from Sydney and Canberra. It's a pity that many of us got very sick during the trip, as did lots of other walkers on the GR-20.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Thu 16 Nov, 2023 1:17 pm

The spot i am standing could be in India but I'm actually in France looking across a deep valley to a very impressively sited Abbey and behind it the highest mountain (the one at the back with snow) in the region. Name any or all three for the win.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Thu 16 Nov, 2023 3:51 pm

Abbaye Saint Martin du Canigou?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Thu 16 Nov, 2023 5:32 pm

Is that Mont Blanc in the background?

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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Thu 16 Nov, 2023 8:56 pm

JohnW has it.
I'm on Tour De Goa looking towards Abbye Saint Martin du Canigou with Mt Canigou itself being the Mtn behind it.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Thu 16 Nov, 2023 9:31 pm

Thanks wobbly. Name this lookout, or the waterway below. Canada:
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Wed 22 Nov, 2023 4:19 pm

I feel very maligned that no one has had a guess.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Last » Thu 23 Nov, 2023 11:23 pm

johnw wrote:I feel very maligned that no one has had a guess.

crooked river?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Fri 24 Nov, 2023 11:27 am

Last wrote:
johnw wrote:I feel very maligned that no one has had a guess.

crooked river?

Not Crooked River. The verbatim answer is contained in one of the words of my quoted post.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Last » Fri 24 Nov, 2023 11:33 am

Maligne River? What did the river do to deserve a name like that?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Fri 24 Nov, 2023 12:37 pm

Last wrote:Maligne River? What did the river do to deserve a name like that?

French word for malignant or wicked, due to the turbulent waters apparently.
Anyway I'm at Maligne Overlook with views of Maligne Lake, River etc. Very picturesque despite the name.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Last » Fri 24 Nov, 2023 12:49 pm

So the river has been maligned?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sat 25 Nov, 2023 9:44 am

Last wrote:So the river has been maligned?

Maybe. Over to you.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Last » Sat 25 Nov, 2023 10:53 am

Thanks john, next, Europe
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby vagrom » Sat 25 Nov, 2023 11:56 am

A bascule type bridge and a deeply cut canal ? Are you in Canada still, perhaps Quebec, by the way that man's holding his hands. Niagra bypass ?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Last » Sat 25 Nov, 2023 12:06 pm

Not a bridge nor a canal. Not at Niagara, nor in Quebec or Canada. Is that a Quebecan way of holding ones hands? It's actually me. I should have said Europe when I posted and will edit.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby vagrom » Sat 25 Nov, 2023 12:19 pm

Tant pis .
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