Are we talking AGAIN about Canadian Ballet?

No relationship at all, unless you are talking to Twolow and then that must be a different conversation entirely. :}

Probie: No sir

Odd, I had this happen before and I thought it would be easy pickings and while someone playing had been there, they didn't make the connection.

Another clue. The city where this was taken is also known for it's BBQ.

And I checked, if you did a google image search on this picture, it would not lead you to it.

Lobby in one of the royal caribbean cruise ships?

Hi Jetsy. No, it's on land.

Another clue: Instinctively, a lot of people look at the back first.

Lexington?

Casino? ..............

Not Lexington, not a Casino, rather a company headquarters.

Clue: My Wife's birthday was Sunday. I got something from here for her.

Sans Soucie glass?

I meant 'glass by Sans Soucie' actually. (And ma'am, actually.)

Not known for glass.

Women are more likely customers of this business than men, although men do shop there at least once or twice a year.

It would otherwise be Kentucky Fried Chicken Headquarters, but the Wife's birthday present would not exactly fit in (I hope for your sake).

Long Beach you said you live in?

I am in Long Beach, but this place is not, although I would consider them worldwide.

I'm running out of clues. :confused:

Probie: Noted, thank you ma'am.

The punchline to an old joke would give you a clue.

But the challenge is in California?

It is considered worldwide, but the headquarters is where the picture was taken, and that is not in California.

They give tours of the facility and you can get the product almost anywhere.

DREAM GARDEN AT THE CURTIS CENTER

Didn't know that existed, but sorry, no. South of there.

Will reveal clues and answers in 5 minutes. Need to wrap up the day here.

Anyone?

So, Open House I suppose.

Hallmark Visitors Center and Company Headquarters; Kansas City Missouri

The clues:

Friends have sent me greetings from there: It’s a Greeting Card Company

Crazy short women - should have got one: From the song Kansas City “Got some crazy little women there and I’m gonna get me one”. Hallmark Headquarters is in Kansas City

Something Royal: Home of the Kansas City Royals Baseball Team. Also, a Crown is part of the Hallmark Logo

Wish you were here: Common Greeting Card writing.

BBQ: Kansas City is famous for it.

“Instinctively, a lot of people look at the back first.” The trademark is on the back of the greeting card. A commercial suggested that people will turn the card over to see if it is a Hallmark Card before reading the card itself.

“My Wife's birthday was Sunday. I got something from here for her.” Her Birthday Card.

Women are more likely customers of this business than men, although men do shop there at least once or twice a year. Pretty obvious; birthday or anniversary card.

Old Joke Punchline: Read the card, read the card.

Hallmark Visitors Center, Main Lobby (http://www.hallmarkvisitorscenter.com/virtual_tours/hallmark-lobby-flash.html)

Isn't the 'producer' of the glass panel (?) known (at all), just the place?

OK, the answers are here already. Though - made by whom? A beautiful thing.

Well, Kansas City was the only one I got right along the line.

From Wiki

Kansas City-style barbecue is characterized by its use of different types of meat (including pulled pork, pork ribs, burnt ends, smoked sausage, beef brisket, beef ribs, smoked/grilled chicken, smoked turkey, and sometimes fish), a variety attributable to Kansas City's history as a center for meat packing in the US. Hickory is the primary wood used for smoking in KC, while the sauces are typically tomato based with sweet, spicy and tangy flavor profiles. Burnt ends, the flavorful pieces of meat cut from the ends of a smoked beef or pork brisket, are popular in many Kansas City-area barbecue restaurants.

Night.

Probie, I believe this is what you were after?

The Four Seasons mural in the lobby celebrates Hallmark’s 75th anniversary in 1985. It was created by Hallmark artisans of magnesium, copper and brass.

Hallmark Visitor's Center at Crown Center in Kansas City (http://familyrambling.com/hallmark-visitors-center/usa/)

RegDep. Didn't see where you mentioned Kansas City or I would have given you an acknowledgement.

Open House.

It has been a while...lets try this:

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j35/helokat/caption%20pics/IMG_4036.jpg

Mt. Wilson, above Los Angeles?

Nope--not there.

Gnome on the Ice?

Mt Washington, NH, USA

Galaxy flyer has it, but why is the travelocity gnome there in winter?

http://www.mountwashington.org/images/home-intro.gif
Mount Washington Observatory (MWOBS) – White Mountains, New Hampshire (NH) (http://www.mountwashington.org/)

The gnome is 3 inches tall on the glareshield.

Actually Galaxy flyer does not have it----It is NOT Mt. Washington----different state.

11fan had the right state to start with.

I gotta go bed, so I will say it is just West of Redding, CA....name the mountain... Open house when someone gets it.

BTW the gnome goes everywhere with me---tis "Timothy" who is on the trip of a lifetime......

Somebody else's pic of Mt Washington before I follow your clues:

http://www.mountwashington.org/photos/galleries/lynne_host/early_morning.jpg

Seen one extremely snow covered summit, seen them all?

Antenna city, snow, cold, wind, with a road...

11Fan;

RegDep. Didn't see where you mentioned Kansas City or I would have given you an acknowledgement.

No, I didn't. I dropped it after Lexington and you saying that the challenge is south of Philadelphia (well KC IS a few miles more south).

But I am not complaining. A beautifully conducted challenge with clues. I just missed the clues (as non-American), but can identify all of them now after the fact.

This calls for a story: When I was the first (and only) time in KC in the mid 80s, I went in the evening into the hotel bar on top of the hotel and asked a vodka-martini (I was on an unhealthy mode at the time). The short and nice barmaid (are they called barmaids in KC?) brought it, looked in my eyes, smiled and said "Youwannarunatab?". I said, "Sorry, I do not understand." She looked in my eyes, smiled and said (slowly this time), "You must be from out of town".

Good morning.

I am more and more fond of this game here. I find it interesting, educating and challenging. Thanks to the intelligence and courtesy of you all.

I would be grateful if anybody could help me with a few daft questions.

1. I seem to be able to insert a picture with an internet address. Will this address be visible to other users?

2. If I save a picture from the internet, it comes with a default name. Saved in my computer I can rename it. Can I rename a picture within a post?

3. Can I resize a picture within a post? If so, what is the preferred size in kilobytes, as not to disrupt the pagewidth of small screen users?

4. Can I insert a picture from my own computer?

Thank you all for a nice game.

svhar

Hi svhar:

You can start here:

http://www.pprune.org/spectators-balcony-spotters-corner/203481-image-posting-pprune-guide.html#post2284110

And then you can read these at your leisure: http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/203154-image-posting-pprune-some-tips-you.html#post2279455

The first and main thing is to get an image-hosting site (I have a Photobucket, just the free account, but others swear other names). In Photobucket you can resize and crop your pictures, and do some elementary "photoshopping" (pardon me the misuse of trademark).

And then: when in doubt, just ask someone.

Have fun.

reg

Thank you very much, Reg.

This is useful indeed. It looks like it will be awhile until I am able to post though. Keep the game going.

Thanks again,
svhar

It looks like it will be awhile until I am able to post though.

Half-an-hour, maybe an hour…..

Wild (Google Earth inspired ) guess...KRCR-TV, Shasta Bally??? Have a pic ready of correct ...

Wiggy, why don't you go ahead. I'll cover you.

Shasta Bally (http://www.ruralitsassociates.com/shastabally.html)

Winter access is by snowcat or helicopter only.

RegDep

Thanks kindly.

I suspect someone may get this very quickly, but a first hint: We've changed continents ( that helps??).

http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/zz328/stephen09_photos/045.jpg?t=1318424524

Cyclist very visible on a stone, but why on a mountain?

Mont Ventoux, France. Tom Simpson (1937–1967) was an English road racing cyclist who died of exhaustion on the slopes of Mont Ventoux during the 13th stage of the Tour de France in 1967. There is a granite memorial to Simpson near the spot where he died, paid for by British cyclists.

Spot on RegDep and quick as well.

Tom Simpson haunts Tour 40 years on - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/brendangallagher/2316933/Tom-Simpson-haunts-Tour-40-years-on.html)

The Tom Simpson memorial on Mt Ventoux ( a very thought provoking and lonely spot)...... It's all yours.

Thank you wiggy!

A bit similar signpost of an untimely death….

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-10-12um155919.png

Jarno Saarinen memorial at Monza.

I expect that is not the current track

Untimely death 1973 (thought 72 first)

Wodrick,

Name is correct, place is off. You want to try to retry that part?

Thought the road was suspect, Turku Finland Where he was born.

Tommy Simpson memorial threw me as that is close to where he died.

Correct. The grave of the Finnish Grand Prix motor cyclist Jarno Saarinen in Turku, Southern Finland, where he was born in 1945. He died in an accident, racing in Monza, Italy, in 1973.

An interesting side story is that the father of Italian F1 driver Jarno Trulli, born 1974, was a big fan Jarno Saarinen, and named his son after him.

Over to you Wodrick :ok:.

I didn't know the Trulli thing, always thought an odd name for an Italian, anyway :
http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m599/wodrick/IMG_0026-1.jpg

I don't want the ladies name or the dog's look to the background ! It has changed a good deal in the passing years.

Blackpool (only 'cos it's the seaside, there's what looks like a roller coaster in the background, and it's not a million miles from EGCC)?

All true but there is a vital part of Blackpool missing ! and the buildings are wrong for the seafront then and now.
This is one of my Grandmothers and I estimate it dates from circa 1940.
I am 61 and met the dog, always remember bad breath and no teeth.

Margate? Scenic Railway I think it was called.

Two guesses. Obviously the correct country. Margate is not the right coast.

let's try double act as a clue as it's nearly time to retire

Double act? Brighton and Hove (actually) ?

Morcombe? ( Thinks "Morcombe and Wise", and if I'm right I'm going to be kicking myself for not getting it sooner..).

Hamburg "Speicherstadt" ?

I reckon Wiggy is correct.

The two buildings behind the lady can be clearly recognised in Google Street View. They are on the sea front junction of West End Road and Marine Road West in Morecombe.

TCF

TCF, very good that is spot on. She is stood on the West End Pier which is, I think, long gone.
Morecambe.

Wiggy has control

Thanks...Morcombe was the Mancunian side of my family's favourite resort....reckon I've got pictures much like your's in a box in the attic, hence the reason I'm kicking myself...

OK, here's another with a seaside theme. Again not in the U.S., but there is a link with the States.


http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/zz328/stephen09_photos/2002_0902_174403AA.jpg?t=1318449973

Chesil beach

Not Chesil Beach but not a bad guess: correct country, correct coastline............

Slapton Sands.

Correct.

It's Slapton Sands, Devon, UK.

The US connection? Much of Southern Devon was used a training area for US forces prior to D-Day. Unfortunately during one exercise (Operation Tiger) German torpedo boats attacked a convoy, resulting in over 700 American dead. There's a memorial to the dead on the seafront at Slapton along with a recovered Sherman Tank.

OPERATION TIGER - 27/28th of APR 1944 (http://www.combinedops.com/Op_Tiger.htm)

Hartington has control.

Thanks Wiggy. Next challenge:

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff378/qqharg1/P9090171.jpg

Prince of Wales Hotel, Waterton Lakes,Alberta,Canada.

Prince of Wales hotel correct.

The next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/quiz43-1.jpg

Mineta San Jose International Airport

Open house, as I'm too busy....

Correct answer.

Open house? If so:

http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/zz328/stephen09_photos/IMGA0001edit.jpg

Avignon Bridge,Provence.

Yep, Sur le pont d'Avignon indeed.

A good game's a fast game....you have control.

Thank you.
Open House

These have a particular relationship with a railway and park. Name the railway!

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff378/qqharg1/P9100360.jpg

Canadian Pacific

Not CP. Not far away. And think history.

Great Northern Railway. Thinking of logo.

Rocky (http://www.gngoat.org/rocky.htm)

That's the one.

What and where on Earth

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Mountain.jpg

East of St. George, Utah...?

Red Mountain , Phoenix, near Mesa, Arizona.

Sabre beat me to it before I could change my answer....

Red Mountain , Phoenix, near Mesa, Arizona.

Sabredog got it. Cropped too little :uhoh:

Over to you :ok:

Thank you,Regdep.
Gordy,please take the next challenge.

Would love to but I am sitting on a plane waiting to taxii. Do not have access to pictures right now.

While we are waiting, I have some...:E
Question might be:
city,
Bridge ,
or River name,
Whatever, I will accept it.

Hint: City is famous for aviation background. :ok: In the past, not now :{
http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab53/SINGAPURCANAC/IMGP1297.jpg

Mostar,Bosnia-Herzegovina.River Neretva.

....:ok:......

Open House

OK - as requested - 850 pixels wide

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk231/45596/19910819002WhereWaltgottheideaeh.jpg

Between Durango and Silverton, CO

Georgetown ...

Nope - and not quite the right state either :p

(Not bad - a limey misleading our continental cousins)

Cumbres and Toltec but no idea where on the line.

Having looked at their website and taking your state hint I'm guessing it's on the Osier Antonito section and maybe Garfield Monument?

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad - Windy Point

Windy Point, nearing Cumbres Pass.

Since I'm going out I defer (assuming the Cumbres is correct).

It looks a bit like Typhoon Lagoon in Orlando! LOL

Well done Jetsy - the controls are yours!

Isn't it a fabulous location, and when you have stood there and listened to the whistle bouncing around the San Juans - just magic!

I called the picture - Where Walt got the idea! - it must be!

Cumbres & Toltec Double Header @<hidden> Windy Point - YouTube

Beautiful TBF!

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/jetmarg/123.jpg

Nelson City Council Building, New Zealand.

That's the one. :ok:

Your turn.

The locals do not seem to appreciate what they have:

Celebrating Ugliness

Working in tourism you are often surrounded with images of beauty. I find the website I like the website “Ugly New Zealand” refreshing, which celebrates the “not exactly postcard spots of New Zealand”. Today’s post was particularly dear to my heart – the Nelson City Council building and clock-tower. Truly one of the ugliest examples of concrete-on-the-outside architecture from the 1960′s – 1970s.

(From a website for "TOURISM GOODIES FROM NEW ZEALAND")

Open House.
I am still having some problems with Photobucket, but thank you.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/jetmarg/ru.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/jetmarg/eur.jpg

edit: added new pic for clue.

Yours has certain qualities of Lisbon, Portugal, Jetsy.

Correct continent RegDep. Not Portugal, I am afraid.

All roads head to Rome ? ;)

Yes, it is in Rome but where?

Here is another clue. View going up the road.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/jetmarg/rue.jpg

Mussolini’s EUR complex, Jetsy. The Saint Peter's and Paul’s Church (Basilica).

18 Piazzale dei Santi Pietro e Paolo, 00144 Rome RM

So who is winner ?
Me or Regdep?

while we are waiting for final judgement :} let's find answer to this question:
The name of river?

http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab53/SINGAPURCANAC/IMGP1261.jpg

hint: some claim that this river is solid state border,unchangeable ,
some others say : "If this river separates us,we will drink it!" :E

Not the Miljacka river, Vrbana bridge, I hope……

No: "If the Drina is the border, we'll drink it". Srebrenica. The Drina River separates Serbia and Bosnia.

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/P1020115.jpg

excellent! :ok:
I gave too much clues, obviously. :}
The picture taken at bridge close to Loznica ,western Serbia town. Some 80 km north of Srebrenica.
your turn,
you gave even better picture, I haven't seen it so far. :ok:

Thank you Singa,

Your quote was Googleable.

How about this

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-10-15um105725-1.png

Schloss Charlottenburg

Schloss Charlottenburg

Genau, sabredog!

Over to you.

Thank you,Regdep.
Open House.

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/ppr%202/001.jpg

Thank you for your help, Reg.
I know this is an easy one but now I know how this works.

Congratulations svhar. You've done it.

Madrid-Barajas International Airport

Fresh out of scanned photos. Go again if you like. I'm supposed to be doing chores anyway.

Thank you, 11Fan. Indeed it is Barajas, Terminal 4, arrivals hall. Here is another one:

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/ppr%202/003.jpg

Denver Airport

Don't think it's Denver although I see why you'd pick it. I'm wondering about the Pilgrims Terminal at Jeddah?

Sorry, Capetonian, more east and more south.

You are correct, Hartington, King Abdulaziz International Airport, Haj Terminal. Over to you.

Funny, I also thought of Jeddah. I think Hartington is correct!

It's illuminated carnival tonight in the village. Back about 2130 at a guess.

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff378/qqharg1/P8078775.jpg

Catalina G-PBYA at Duxford

Sorry, not Duxford.

White Waltham?

May I remind y'all of the Which Aerodrome? thread over on Aviation History & Nostalgia?

White Waltham is right.

Thanks SEASCUE.:D

Ahem. Catalina G-PBYA at White Waltham Airfield, Berkshire having flown in from its base at Duxford on August 2011.

Great shot Rule3 :ok:

Interesting history.

Our Catalina G-PBYA - The Catalina Society - PBY Consolidated Catalina Aircraft - Home of Plane Sailing (http://www.catalina.org.uk/our-catalina-g-pbya)

Where are we (beside page 2)?

To pass time till order[or life] returns:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/mysterylake.jpg

Willoughby Bay, Antigua?? (English Harbour)

No sir. (Msg too short)

Wonder what software has against brevity.

Wonder what software has against brevity.

LOL
yes
no
ditto

don't
add
much
info

FYI
:)

True
dat
but
sometimes
one
word
is
enough.

Long Island but I'm too lazy to google-earth the route

Normally a safe guess, because that's where I did most of my
small plane flying.

But not this photo.

I note the Daily Telegraph is having a running "Where on Earth" competition. Coincidense?

Lake Arthur, Pennsylvania?

Not in Penna. Or any of the 57.

Looks like weymouth Inlet, Canadian arctic

Does look like many places in North America.

But isn't.

How about a reservoir in the UK?

I think I've eliminated Chew Valley and Cheddar. Bewl Water?

Not in UK, but much closer.

There is, at least in my own mind, a somewhat tenuous aviation connection to a spot very near to this place, just off camera to the bottom right, if memory serves.

Is it New Jersey?? Pass over lots of places like that on the southern approach to Newark..

Not in US. Not in North America. Agree it does look like a LOT of places in the eastern US.

Oi! Have we done New Zealand Kerikeri yet?

Or...........

Croatia?:p

No. Have said UK was closest so far.

Hint - a pilot whom everybody knows was involved nearby.

Ok....Ok! Just warming up.

Hint - a pilot whom everybody knows was involved nearby.

How about this?

Approximately 26 hours into his flight, Corrigan claimed to have finally dropped down out of the clouds and noticed that he was over a large body of water. Knowing that it was too early to have reached the Pacific Ocean, Corrigan looked down at his compass--and because there was now supposedly more light to see by--suddenly noticed he "had been following the wrong end of the magnetic needle." Within a short time, Corrigan was over Ireland. He landed at Baldonnel Airport, in Dublin, after a 28-hour, 13-minute flight.

Next hint -- the 'pilot everyone knows' is typically known by three names.

The middle is Gary.



And that....should give it away, almost.

Russian things here to get in first: Degtyarsk, Russia? Still looking at maps.

Francis Gary Powers by the way.

Differing reports of crash location. Checking to see how far that is from my other guess.

Powers’ aircraft was badly damaged, and crashed near Sverdlovsk, deep inside Soviet territory.

You definitely have the right pilot.

Hint intolves a bridge......

Well, it wasn't his death. He was in a chopper crash here in California. Gotta keep looking. :ugh:

It's the prisoner swap,wasn't it? Glienicke bridge

Found it. Hang on


Krampnitz is on the top of the picture and the lake is called the Krimpnitzsee near Neu Fahrland.

Here's a satellite image.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/FinflysChallange.png

and your picture.....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/mysterylake.jpg

The pilot and bridge hint did it. :ok: Just needed to look at a map after that.

You win. You win. Deedly Dee.

Cool. Here's an easy one.

Pull my finger.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/PullmyFinger.jpg

Here's a slightly different shot, same day.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/fgpowersswapbridgeGlienickebridge.jpg

Pull my finger is the current challenge. Stepping away for an hour.

Agree absolutely.

The picture was simply to show you 'the bridge'...not a challenge.

Hands Across the Divide Monument, londonderry, derry UK

Understood sir. As you and I were the only ones here at that moment, it was more for the benefit of others that may join in after.

Cheers,
11Fan

Meanwhile, Fesch chimed in with the correct answer.

She's yours to fly Fesch.

Here we go, my first contribution to where on earth:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Fesch/woe.jpg

Don't be discouraged if nobody tries right away. This is kind of the dead hour waiting for the next shift to come on. There are peaks and valleys of participation. For most of the US, Football is on, the Far East is just waking up, and Europe is asleep.

:) Well guess what, I am sitting in europe (that's a hint) I am watching the jets vs miami right now and I am accomodating to the next nightshift

Got the whole world, in your hands. :ok:

11Fan, you made me laugh :)
Ok, I have to go to sleep now... I'll check if somebody's got it, first thing in the morning!

I give you a hint:

It's commonly known as the ... ...... , not the green train but the ... ...... (WYSIWYG)

The common name of the bridge is enough, the full name would be better although not necessary , but I want the city ant the country

The Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge (Luxembourgish: Groussherzogin-Charlotte-Bréck, French: Pont Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, German: Großherzogin-Charlotte-Brücke) is a road bridge in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg.

Now I too, to sleep, perchance to dream.

OH

Sticking to bridges then an easy one over the morning coffee for those in Europe.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32684975/Bridge.jpg

OH, and v3m sleeping with her green dot on……

Re: Krimpnitzsee, I was for a long time sure that it was Wannsee, but couldn't find the exact spot on the map. Planned to look around Potsdam, but thought naw, been there so often, cannot be…..

Next: The Big Brethren watching you:

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-10-18um091948.png

Edit: Sorry Exascot. Yours is in force. I'll leave this on if you don't mind.

And of course: Good morning :).

PS: Yours in Norway? Somewhere out of Hammerfest?

#6430 : The bungee jumping bridge on Lake St. Croix, Var, France.

Am about to board a flight. If I'm correct (presumptuous so and so aren't I!) then OH as I'll be off the air up in the air for the next few hours.

Bungee sounds more Indian than French to me, though. And it is not Hammerfest. The one I was thinking of is a suspension bridge…..

No probs RegDep. We will deal with yours at the same time. I was sure that you would get my bridge very quickly no one correct yet.

6431: Austria? Not the same house though.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32684975/roof

Mine is not in Austria. But looks very similar. Maybe yours is the kid sister of the Big Brethren?

(BTW, you bridge is Chenab River Railway Bridge in Jammu-Kashmir, India, but I won't tell anybody.)

Cecilienhof Palace, Potsdam, Germany.
And good morning to you all.

Good morning svhar, and so correct you are.

Cecilienhof, the Tudor style house of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, not far away from Glienickebrügge (see a few challenges back). The place of the Potsdam Conference of the Biggies in 1945. The future job of the Glienickebrügge was, in a bit convoluted way though, decided there.

Cecilienhof was the last palace built by the Hohenzollern family. Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany had it erected for his son Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and the crown prince's wife Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The house was designed by Paul Schultze-Naumburg to look like an English Tudor country house and built between 1914 and 1917. Its design was based on a house called 'Bidston Court' (later 'Hillbark') on the Wirral Peninsula.

Over to you. You can have my bridge too (if it was correct…)

Thank you Reg. It seems to me that you are correct about the bridge. I don't know if we should wait for Exascot to confirm it. What do you think?

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/ppr%202/034.jpg

Sorry, just had to move to my office down by the beach where the beer is cold. Absolutely correct on the bridge.

The Perlan, Reykjavik,Iceland.

I am sure Exascot won't mind. He's probably sunbathing on his terrace…..

And I think he has walked by your challenge once or twice.

Edit: See!

This was obviously too easy. Indeed it is Perlan. Over to you, Sabredog.

And I think he has walked by your challenge once or twice.

Sabredog seems to be correct but I do not recall seeing it. Probably in the pub drinking extremely expensive beer :(

I thought you are a frequent walker in Iceland, Exascot.

No not in Iceland only Greece and Botswana. Used to do a bit of trading there. The handling agent would find a bottle of duty free scotch in the boot of his car when we arrived. We would then find a fresh salmon in the hold on departure. All most odd. :hmm:

Open House

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/ppr%202/032.jpg

The Roman amphitheatre in Merida, Spain?

Plovdiv. Open house if so.

Bushfiva is correct. Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Just popped in to say welcome svhar. You're breathed some new life into this thread. Must dash off to work as it's morning here in the not so sunny West coast of California. Cheers all.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/mystery.jpg

Rila Monastery, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria. Been there. Nice place.

Absolutely correct. You have control.

Thanks, finfly1.

And thank you 11Fan.

Open House.

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Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.

Re Hartingtons post #6380

"It's illuminated carnival tonight in the village. Back about 2130 at a guess."

A slight divergence from the thread I know, but this has been puzzling me. Not THE Village, I assume, and illuminated carnivals are mainly a West Country event ( WL will tell me Kendal has one, but that is in September) . I am only aware of three carnivals on the 15th, and Taunton and Okehampton are too big to be villages, so perhaps Hartingtons location is Castle Cary & Ansford. Then again, it could be a smaller Devon village ......

svhar, you got it! :ok:

Took a while to find it or knew the place?

This picture was taken a month ago while following the American Rugby Team and strayed..:)

Took a while with the help of Google. Looks like an interesting place. Thanks.

Open House then.

I use easy ones to encourage the lurkers to join in

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You would be surprised how many television commercials run here in the States on this place.

Forgot, you're in Florida. You already know. ;)

Heh lomapaseo,

Lets get a lurker in on it then...:ok:;)

I know...I know.....but will wait for the lurkers....

Three Nights for $299.00 at the Lost City.

Don't see a whole lot of lurkers around here tonight/today.

I somehow don't think you will get the "Azure suite" for that price...would be nice though...

Not really a lurker, cause I really don't know a lot of these places, but this one I do know.

Atlantis hotel in the Bahamas on Paradise Island. Flew through that opening in the middle I did in a 727.


Okay, no I didn't. Never been there actually. Open house, I'll have something next time.

...And Connie just spoilt it for a lurker. Naughty step for you for the next 2 hours and broccoli for dinner for the next two days! Bad boy!





:)

Not broccoli, Brussels Sprouts.

Double the dose then!! ;)

Not broccoli, Brussels Sprouts.

Shhhhh, let him think he has it right, I love broccoli, but don't let him know. Mums the word now. :suspect:





:p



Oh, and sorry. :(

OK Con-Pilot now it's your turn :ok:

Nah, connie..I've known they were brussel sprouts. just a mis-print. :)

OK Con-Pilot now it's your turn

Thank you, but I already declared open house, as it is late and I'm lazy right now, still enjoying the cocktail hour after a light dinner. :ok:

enjoying the cocktail hour after a light dinner

Make the best of it then. There will be brussel sprouts for the nex 2 days for you,,,and 5 days if you do not post the next challenge.

OK, a quickie. Real Person, Real Picture, Real Place.

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Okay. oops, see 11Fan got it, I'll post something later.

Somewhere, a few layers down, I have some photos taken of Paradise Island around 1967. In fact, I flew there on a Pan Am plane the day the war broke out and there was a massive slowdown at JFK airport.

When I dig them out, I'll post one or two, not as a challenge but just a contrast. There was not even a bridge to the island at that time. Cafe Martinique, recently popularised in a James Bond film, was accessable only by boat.

11Fan..looks like Chicago when filming one of them bat thingies.

Not Chicago, but a connection. Chicago and this place have something in common.

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Hm, looks like chicago marina cities and the trump tower in the back ground though. I live here, so similarity is astounding. ,,,And they were filming the "bat man" here as well in the lower Wacker Drive while I was watching it from the Holiday Inn across the street. You know, the Merchendise Mart..;)

Giving it away. On the road at 0600 so here it is and Open House after. The connection of this place and Chicago: Boeing.

Seattle, and this is Phoenix Jones.

Phoenix Jones back on patrol after his dramatic unveiling | People | Downtown Seattle News (http://downtownseattle.komonews.com/news/people/679734-phoenix-jones-back-patrol-after-his-dramatic-unveiling)

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Havana,Cuba.

You are right, of course, Sabredog. Over to you.

Thank you,Svhar.
Off air for most of a.m.,so;
Open House.

This could be any of thousands of villages in the world.

Would anyone care to guess in what country this is, based on architecture, vegetation and etc?

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Interesting link with Cuba, recently…….

The country, I mean…..

South/Central Europe, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, possibly Italy or Austria but my guess would be for part of the ex-Yugoslavia.

Architecture sort of germanic, so surely not in Germany nor any neighbouring country, right svhar?

None of those, so far. Keep guessing a bit more.

Architecture is more like from Southern Germany, maybe on the mountains of the East side of Rhine opposite to Alsace.

Roofs indicate lots of sun and rain, more than in Germany.

German colony in South America?

You are getting warmer, RegDep.

German colony Colonia Tovar - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia_Tovar)

It might be one of those villages in Southern Chile or Argentina which were founded by Germanic people, Frutillar, San Carlos de Bariloche .... for example.

Reg you @<hidden>&*&% - well done! Beat me to it! And you were spot on.

Reg, you are right.

It is an interesting place with an interesting history. One could easily think one was in Germany or Austria. Signs in German. German food and beer. People with blond hair and blue eyes.

In the middle of Venezuela. Incredible place.

Your turn then, Reg.

Thank you svhar!

Next:

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Well, maybe by way of a clue or an apology: Aviation content. Probably should go to another thread…… Someone want to stab, or should I declare OH? (Stab at the challenge, not me, please :ooh:).

The beach where the Wright brothers first flight took place. Kill Devil Hills NC.

Right you are. In Kitty Hawk, NC.

Over to you :D

You said make a stab so I did.

My next:

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"Spectacles bridge", Nakashima River, Nagasaki.

Correct. Over to RegDep.

Thanks!

What about this?

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