Apples, Gravity, Newton

But......I'm just a girl!:E Got to start somewhere.

You're very bossy, Siseman.:O

Capetonian. Nice one. And where?

Isaac Newton went to Cambridge University, but that does not look to me like any of the Cambridge colleges.

Grantham in Lincolnshire.

http://www.lincolncathedral.com/sysimages/html/Pg15_GranthamNewtonStatue_300.jpg

I did all the hard work!;)

Well done Sirikit! the old Town Hall, Grantham. Newton worked out the basic laws of gravity just down the road.

Guildhall Arts Centre, St Peters Hill, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England

Me, too, but slowly :*.

Too late, she cried, Reg!:

Siseman....Hardly miles away from France is it?

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Helios340/P1030222.jpg

Zürich: Bürkliplatz - Entführung in den Olymp

Don't edit your posts elsewhere Sirikit, this is the place for YOU to get life… :E

Reggie babes.....I'm all ears!:p

Looks like that eagle's got his eye on dinner!

:eek:

RegDep : I didn't know it was THAT easy, specially as I'd cropped it to avoid showing some dead giveaways!

Well done!

Slim pickings if that's dinner!:}

Well, I recognized Zuerich harbor and Giggled 'Zürich statue'.

Gotta go for a while, somebody else post, please.

Sirikit, it's not dinner, it's abduction (Entfürung). Not seduction, either, Sirikit.

http://photos.demandstudios.com/49/228/fotolia_4378351_XS.jpg

Siseman....Hardly miles away from France is it?

One hundred and seventy bloody one miles from that statue of Newton to the nearest point on the French coast. That's miles - 171 of 'em :E

Bit like willy lengths, eh?:O

Deep Cove, Vancouver?

No....miles away!:O

Seward, AK?

If somebody has been there and recognises it instantly, as I would, please hold your peace for a while and let others try!

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Helios340/witw-1.jpg

W H O A there big fella! No new places until the last one has been sussed and then it's the privilege of the susser to pose the new spot.

Some tropical ex-British colony.

assumption based on palm trees and characteristic brics :E

Hartington - You are correct. Seward, Alaska it is. Did you peek?;)

Somewhere in Witwatersrand?

Pezula Castle, Knysna, SA. The rondavel was a bit of a clue.:p

http://travelinsider.qantas.com.au/images/gallery/pezula-private-castle-SAfrica_0508_NoCr_Main.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/5142544278_3cc25dda09.jpg

Given the Japan Railway logo, it is in Japan.

Grrr....going off you fast, RegDep! Kobe Harbour.:p

Hah. Scared you off. Had no idea that it was Kobe. Just gone through Yokahama, Tokyo and Osaka, and given up.

Japan was close enough! Saved a few of your brain cells trying.;)

Well, here the street and house number would suffice. A free clue before you peek Sirikit: North facade.

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/IMG_0994-1.jpg

Is it Germany?

Yes, Sirikit, it is in Germany :D, and….

Don't care - it's brilliant trompe l'oeil!

I noticed all the German cars parked up! I don't peek, Reg. Leave that to you.
:p

And, Cap'n Sir, it keeps its 3D illusion (because that what it is) almost to the last 20 cm when you walk by. Used to walk by daily.

I noticed all the German cars parked up!

Ach, you are not to be fooled. I thought you were lured to think it is in the UK, where they have about the same amount of German cars as in Germany, and they often park them on the wrong side of the street, too.

Edit just to finalize that it is Berlin Charlottenburg - this picture was my own, but you can see more on the GiggleEarth PanoramioPhotos.

http://www.planestrainsautomobiles.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/train-station-150x150.jpg
No peeking.:E German architecture is just a tad different to British.:p

Ach, this is another from your Post-a-Railway-Station Period :}.

Tanggula railway station

Obviously the Peeking Disorder reigns supreme here.!:p

What peeking ? Fine, it wasn't from my brain either, but given it was a railway station there were various ways and means to get Google & co. to coax up the right sort of results.

Here's one .... probably too easy (or, knowing my luck already been posted somewhere in the last 28 pages) ....

http://xl.skyscrapercity.com/images/satellite/20090429.jpg

Reminds me of the Fiddler on the Roof lyrics:

"There would be one long staircase just going up,
And one even longer coming down,
And one more leading nowhere, just for show."

Why on Earth (sic!) would anybody build that kind of roundabout where the only function seems to take you back where you came from? And maybe to protect an archaeological spot….

Look closer - you can see slip roads up and down.

What's that dome?

Is it somewhere hot and dry? USA?

What's that dome?

Must be a very tall dome going by the length of its shadow. A silo???

Yes, I did notice the length too.:O Looks a very drab and soulless place.

Good to see we're still running one hour hence....

I'll answer Sirkit's query ... "USA?" ..... No.

I'll come back in an hour and give you hints at the other questions that have been posted, don't want to spoil your fun !

Good luck ! :cool:

The dome shadow is a red herring (methinks). The picture has been take early in the morning (traffic only to one direction) and the shadows of the smaller buildings are pretty long. I thought some of the trees are palms…. Where would you have long streetcars (trams) nowadays?

Ok, let's see..


Amsterdam..... No.

Dome shadow is a red herring (methinks) ... No photoshopping here. :cool:

Soulless .... The residents of that part of the world would probably disagree.

Somewhere hot and dry.... well it's not Arizona, but it does get sweaty in the summer yes.

Must be a very tall dome ..... it is quite a tall structure, 145m / 474ft.

A silo??? ..... No

No photoshopping here.

None suspected, except maybe some cropping to make it more difficult to estimate the height :O

And other than that, lost :(.

And other than that, lost

Well, you know what they say about sniffer dogs. Sometimes their noses get tired and you have to give them a break. :)

So for those of you wanting a bit of a temporary distraction from the main event...


http://www.pashnit.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=21182&d=1144043074



Edit:

I should stress that this image and the previous one have no common thread.

Amsterdam ?
Italian?


You're in the right continent Sirikit, it is in one of the EU countries, and one of the original 12.... so you've guessed two wrong... only 10 to go... :E

Probably a great big clue for anyone who's been there, but here's what the base of your grain silo looks like...

http://i7.tinypic.com/21eumvs.jpg


Presently working on finding a picture of the building that doesn't reveal the background location too easily.... :cool:

Ah... here we go....

http://m1.ikiwq.com/img/xl/juAL3l9jCz2DfMNvPzEp1b.JPG

Is it Barcelona, Spain?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2487/3956253777_4351b0934c.jpg

Looks rude.:O:ok:

Sirikit,

Barcelona, Spain

We got there in the end. Well done. :D

Looks rude

Stick "torre agbar" into Google Image search and you get some interesting results including one of a blonde female model posing in a clever fashion a few miles down the road.... :eek:

http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/hawaii/oahu/images/s/honolulu.jpg

A silly part of me wants to say South Africa and Table Mountain. But I know it can't be that easy.

Honolulu

Plus a few words

Honolulu



Yup, Diamond Head in the background. My guess as well.

I've never been to Honolulu, but if that's what it looks like I don't think I'll be going any time soon..... probably was a lovely place a few years back before the concrete jungle arrived.

That didn't take long!;)

At a quick glance one could easily think it was CPT and Table Mountain!

Sorry I inadvertently broke the rules earlier!

I heard Waikiki is best avoided. Beaches don't appeal to me. Like the sound of the sea though.

Suppose I can always carry a conch.:E

I had to feature Hawaii!:p

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t295/larssnowpharter/david-330x190.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t295/larssnowpharter/david-2-330x190-1.jpg

Baywalk in Davao.
Tacklebury.

Sirikit, I was in Seward last summer. I have some very similar shots taken from a cruise liner.

I would post a new one but I can't work it out. My posting rules say I may not post attachments!

Little Hampton? :} And the pic was presumably taken by Dick Small?

Sirikit,



We got there in the end. Well done. :D



Stick "torre agbar" into Google Image search and you get some interesting results including one of a blonde female model posing in a clever fashion a few miles down the road.... :eek:

NSFW

Google Image Result for http://www.pixlzon.net/images_pixlzon/2005/septiembre/torre_agbar_03.jpg (http://www.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pixlzon.net/images_pixlzon/2005/septiembre/torre_agbar_03.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.redcafe.net/f8/barcelona-110266/index2.html&usg=__Z8xWgtmlsjHVMOqKzyJhxpYLhHQ=&h=944&w=677&sz=101&hl=en&start=112&zoom=1&tbnid=gB4We1I8kzJWaM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=89&ei=QCedTf-pLJGH0QHT67DjAg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtorre%2Bagbar%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26biw%3D1152%26bih%3D553%26tbm%3Disch0%2C2059&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=366&oei=KyedTfqyCpK3twe_m7GzBw&page=6&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:112&tx=8&ty=36&biw=1152&bih=553)

Righto....till Tacklebury gets back....here's a pleasant interlude.....

http://scenery.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/upload/upfiles/2010-10/25/famous_parks_in_beijing791c6cb02fa441596aa3.jpg

Woe be it if someone says to me that they were there last summer....!;)

Looks like the Fragrant Hills outside Beijing, but probably is a cheap imitation somewhere in the States.

See. You understand. Thank you Luv! Everybody else says stubborn.

No, you definitely have positive characteristics!:p

Say something about my identification (of the challenge) and spread the niceties over a longer time span. They feel so good.

I am still awaiting confirmation from Larssnowpharter that my guess was correct!
But, please carry on, as I have nothing to offer.

Let's just say that it would be simpler if you posted a random pic from around the globe, eh!:}

Sirikit, either I lost you or you lost me.

Reg, I could easily lose you, darling!

I think you are missing the point Luv. Firstly, I doubt it, and secondly, how do you call my ID of you challenge.

Reg, please reveal all here and now. I know my limitations!;)

Is this to be understood that it was, indeed, The Fragrant Hills? I was'n there last summer. Late 80s I was, when you were not there, I presume. Was your Dad?

So be it

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-04-07um160251.png

RegDep,

What a pretty little bungalow you live in RegDep..:E

I wish, mixture, but two things jump into my mind:

1. It's the Mother's house, and
2. Not my Mom's.

Baywalk in Davao.
Tacklebury.

Korrect!

The statue of David caused much consternation amongst the 'matronas' of Davao.

One questions the source of Tacklebury's local knowledge. The statue was put up as a publicity campaign by a hotel; a 'short time' hotel if you know what I mean.:eek::E

Its probably somewhere in the EU.

Sorry,Larss. No local knowledge of area, just good old "Google" I am afraid.
Tacklebury

No mixture, not in the EU :).

Sorry,Larss. No local knowledge of area, just good old "Google" I am afraid.
Tacklebury

One recommends 3 hrs there!

hmm... Japan/China/Singapore ?

I think we can fairly safely rule out Africa, and probably the Americas too.

Just rule out all you have listed so far, and you will be on the money.

Come on folks. This is an important national monument. Please form a line to file your bets.

No Sirikit, but I can see where you are coming from.

Neither of these two countries have had such a son that the grandson has seen it fit to preserve his granny's birthplace as a national monument, I think :hmm:.

This is the birthplace of a daughter of a Presbyterian missionary and priest, the son (whose birthplace has also been "restored") became posthumously The Eternal President by constitution.

The grandson seems a bit lesser a prophet, though…..

Edit to say that I didn't visit the place last summer. The son's birthplace, yes, in the late 80s.

I thought it was Korea.

You still think so?

Isn't Kim known as the Eternal President of the Republic ?

(Yeah, I know, I'm probably wrong, just buying time..... :( )

just buying time

Just bought yourself 10 seconds to spit out the town name. Ten - nine -

Hi Larssnowpharter,

Was going to say Smallville - USA????

Yes, Sirikit, Pyongyang, North Korea.

Put up something softer then, Sirikit :cool:.

A ruined piece of otherwise pretty coast.

Pebble Beach, California - 4 par.

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/18/bc/07/little-venice.jpg

The name of the picture doesn't give you much of a clue.

Little Venice.

It is 8th hole.

Colour scheme looks a bit Tunisian, Cap'n Sir.

Although the picture name (now that you mentioned it) points to Venezuela.

Not Tunisian. Correct(-ish) bit of sea, though.

Sirkit, there's a "Little Venice" in London, close to Paddington Station - but it's not that one either! ;)

LITTLE VENICE, Mykonos, and that's GREECE.:8

Very good! :D

All this is getting too easy....time for another one of my aerial views me thinks.....this is PPRuNe after all !

http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2009/12/135153,xcitefun-earth-8.jpg

It appears to be a hole made to get to the bottom which suggest a kimberlite pipe but it's not South Africa.

Ekati Mine,Canada. in freezing winter temperatures.
Open House, if correct.
Tacklebury

hehe!

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/th.fae01a2d38.jpg (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?fae01a2d38.jpg)

Somewhere in France.

The legend on one barrel suggests it is the residence of Pépé le Peu... ;)

That's probably a feint. Knowing the jocks reluctance to spend money on new things I suspect that it's the interior of a whisky warehouse where they use second hand barrels.

Tacklebury,

Ekati Mine,Canada. in freezing winter temperatures.


Well done, even though I've got my suspicions as to your accuracy in working that one out.... :cool:

Never heard of whisky maturing in wine barrels - sherry barrels, yes, port barrels, yes, not wine...

But I may be wrong. I've been wrong before. It was 1969, remember the occasion quite clearly... :E

http://guestofaguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/harvard_lampoon.jpg

The Lampoon Castle | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffch/4396398210/lightbox/)

Harvard Lampoon Castle


Why so,Mixture?
It's not rocket science to "Google" Open cast mining!!!
Tacklebury

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/sabre86d/Quiz1.jpg
As requested, a new challenge.

Not South America, wrong Hemisphere.
Tacklebury

Based on the cop writing a parking ticket on the left. I'd say USA.

Cannot you?

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Quiz1-1.jpg

A man in a helmet, right hand elevated on a writing block level? Not a community worker writing a poem, methinks :rolleyes:.

Sure. It looks like a sail. And the insignia-roundel-logo looks somehow global. And the semi-fnished building and tee vegetation could be in Japan, or in France.

No real idea so far. Would find the Knossos red water closets easier to identify. Almost…..

Where is Tackleberry when we need him? Do all Hampshire folks go to bed at 2000 hrs, or is it just him?

Some of us have lives outside the environs of PPrune!!
Not a policeman, and not the U.S.A.
This monument commemorates a unique event in history.
Tacklebury

Some of us have lives outside the environs of PPRuNe!!

Do we know any, Sirikit?

Somebody sailing around the world? Sir Francis Chichester - I doubt it, not that unique. Dull, but not unique. Nor Abby Sunderland, I'd say. Anybody else, Sirikit?

Okay, I know where it is.



No, no I don't. Took a longer look, not it.

Captain Cook and circumnavigation spring to mind, as the sculpture looks like a sail. Wild guess though...

There's bloody anarchy going on 'ere. We still haven't had an answer/solution to Cragganmore's entry and we've already had 2 more! :=

Rules is rules :eek:

Sirikit,you have the correct country (Japan),but made the wrong assumption.
The monument is maintained in a very good condition, and my photography does not do it justice.
Tacklebury

The "Logo" could represent an epicenter, but it is not for either of the bombs, so I think of an earthquake. Let's say the epicenter of 1923 Tokyo earthquake in Izu Ōshima.

PS: I read your latest post Tack before you edited it. I am sorry for the clutter!
Best
Reg

Regdep,
The memorial does not commemorate the 1923 earthquake, but as you have alluded to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is only fair to give you the challenge.
It is one of many Cenotaphs in Hiroshima commemorating the events of August,7-9th,1945,and situated quite close to ground zero. I believe it is dedicated to the children or workers who lost their lives on that day,but I stand to be corrected on that,as it is some little time since I last visited Hiroshima
I edited my earlier post as I deemed it not to be in the "spirit of the thread" and lacking in diplomacy.
Tacklebury

Thanks Tacklebury. I appreciate your call. And I agree with you on the substance of your deleted mail.

I haven't visited Hiroshima, but this is not because of lack of effort (sort of). I took a train twice through it, but my travel companions' plans did not yield to the stop. This even more frustrating because I had flown to Japan through USA and seen Enola Gay (among other things) at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, near Dulles Airport.

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-04-09um120932.png

Tacklebury: Just to thank you for the Tower of Peace post, here is one link to it 3. Peace Tower | Part 1 | Body | Ashita Kira Kira, Shining Hope for Tomorrow (http://h-s-o.net/ashita/en/story/01/story_03.html)

Thank you,Regdep.
Would your challenge be ;
East Potomac Park / Hains Point?
Tacklebury

Yes it would! The Awakening Awakening Memorial Photo (http://www.lovelypicture.com/awakening.htm).

Back to you Tacklebury :ok:

"Open House", I am afraid, as I have nothing to offer.
Tacklebury.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/31830112.jpg

Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Baghdad, Iraq.

Correct! Too damn fast, as well! :}

Thanks. There were some giveaways….

Here's a new one. A road-side campaign. The text in local language says "Buckle up". At least in two countries. One is enough:

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-04-09um191342.png

Norway.
Tacklebury

Exactly Tacklebury! Norway. And the Murmansk region of Russia adopted it.

Here is another example of them

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-04-09um202220.png

Impressive.

Over to you.

"Open House" once again, with apologies.
Tacklebury

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7593647/DSC02536.jpg

Capetonian,

Picking straws here but is it in the UK ?

Oil pipeline, not Alaska.

Oops. Wrong

Falkirk Wheel, Scotland

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/falkirk_wheel_scotland-1.jpg

That place in Scotland that picks up the canal boats and puts em in another canal. Best clue i can give you don't know the name or location!!

Ah, I do now!!

Well done, you guys are too good! I cropped it down a fair amount to make it harder.

A brilliant piece of engineering by the way and well worth a visit.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7593647/DSC02536.1.jpg

Capetonian, the site I found it contrasts it with Anderton Boat Lift, Cheshire, built in 1875. A quantum leap in technology.

In our feature series on Amenities Across Times and Locations, I give you this

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-04-09um190847.png

The style of those towers is Greek or Turkish.

Don't get fixated on that thought….

I didn't necessarily mean they are in Greece or Turkey, could be anywhere where they had influence, I'm thinking possibly Malta .... I could be utterly wrong!

Edit : I am wrong ...... I've been to a music festival there.... Newcastle (but not on Tyne ....!)

Not in the Mediterranean area Capetonian.

Not Upon Tyne, but….

You are correct. I've bee there, too. Several times.

For non-insiders, this is Olavinlinna in Savonlinna town (in Swedish Nyslott, translated into English Newcastle). A fortress built in the 15th century by Swedes (the authorities) and Finns (the workers) to become a border fortress between Sweden and Russia (Moscow Grand Duchy) on a disputed land (aren't they all).

Now in Finland, and there is an annual opera festival in the courtyard of the castle.

All yours Capetonian :ok:

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Helios340/WITW20001.jpg

Here I must throw the towel in. The closest thing I've been in was a paper-bag pageant last year on Wiesbaden English Church, and there I was a donkey.

I'll give you a clue, I don't want to make it too easy. It's underground.

Nativity cave/grotto in Bethlehem or Lourdes?

Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira,Cundinamarca,Colombia.
Tacklebury

Tacklebury is not to be beaten :ooh:.

Tacklebury, I am seriously impressed, more so because it is one of my own photos so you could not have found it on the web.

I was going to add clues but clearly not necessary! Well done.

Well...

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/salt-cathedral-zipaquira-12.jpg

Edit: Sorry, didn't want to belittle Tacklebury's victory. He is amazing. I just found this after him telling what it was :O

Many thanks,Gentleman,but it is all down to "Google",plus a little intuition and luck.
The next challenge is not of the greatest quality, but has a maritime connection.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/sabre86d/quiz2-1.jpg
Tacklebury.

I'd say dry dock in Gibraltar, but the weather is not right.

It reminds me of an old whaling station on Horta (Azores) which has been turned into a museum.

The Pumphouse or Thompson Dock House, Harland and Wolff Shipyards, Belfast Harbour, Northern Ireland - The Titanic Dock.

Beat me to it - The pumphouse alongside Titanic dry dock, Belfast

Regdep has the correct answer. It is the Pump House, Thompson Graving Dock,Belfast. Well done.
You have control.
Tacklebury.

Until RegDep gets back on-line you might care to amuse yourselves with this one....

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/allan907/WhereonEarth2.jpg

Hi sisemen, I am back, but let's play yours first.

Scotland?

Looks cold enough for it but, no, not Scotland.

It brought Brahehus in Sweden in mind first, but I checked and there is no such tower.

British Isles, though?

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5247/5266468401_ee52cd9780.jpg

Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire?

Conisborough :ok:

North Wales Reg? (Llanberis Pass)

Insider job :suspect:. Giggle 'castle ruins england' and you get 14,700 pictures :rolleyes:.

Can I post my "original" challenge now?

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/IMG_3467.jpg

Good rules are resilient: you bend them and they don't break but bounce back :8

Edit: Reposted to start a page. Reg

I was about to say - how prescient of me to make a guess before the pic was posted :}

Continent, sisemen.

Llanberis - the post I made before you changed the position of the pic :E

...and BTW, thanks for asking. Yes I am. Haven't degenerated to that stage yet!

Glad to hear that sisemen :).

Yes, I saw your post on Llanberis. My response, rephrased and expanded, is: Not Llanberis Pass, North Wales, but on the Continent.

Any particular continent Reg? Or are we talking about that artificial construct - Europe?

If we are then I'd plump for somewhere in France - Pyrenees mayhap? or maybe foothills of the Alps?

Sisemen I am talking about the Continent that is isolated when there is fog in the English Channel (La Manche, Ärmelkanal).

Not in France but not too far, either.

Edit to add a clue: The Alpine Hero in the picture is looking in the general direction of Venice.

Dolomite Mountains?
Tacklebury.

Not the Dolomites Tacklebury.

Need to sign of for a few hours. Sorry.

Reg

PS: If Sirikit wants to post in the meantime a piccie pursuant to her hit on the York castle, I wouldn't mind.

Mount Titlis?

Wossat Sirikit?

Edit: Ach THAT. No, but we start having the boulder quite well triangulated now :p.

Matterhorn?

What should I say? Listing them all we eventually get there :uhoh:

No.

Sirikit, at the risk of becoming banned for posting aviation content in JB, I'll say you this: Every checklist should have a last item reading "If everything else fails, read the instructions".

You poor thing, Reg, having to go through a list of possibilities considering that the picture is a boulder.:suspect:

I can see how frustrated you must be that I don't get it in one go.:ouch:

Jungfrau?

Jungfrau?

My zodiac sign but absolutely nothing else.

Edit: Sirikit, the Adonis camouflaged as The Alpine Hero is there to divert your attention, and has so far worked very well.

Appenines or the Dinaric Alps perhaps?
Tacklebury

No Sir, neither.

But we have it now under siege :E.

My last throw of the dice on this one.
Monte Cavalto or Monte Grappa.
Tacklebury.

Tacklebury, you may have been carried away with the idea that the boulder I referred to earlier is a mountain. No, it is the boulder in the picture and what comes from under it. And that is what the label says it is.

Sirikit, this guy is not Moses, nor did he need to hit the rock to get the water running (although he had mountain wandering sticks, I believe). The water was running already when he arrived.

And the truth is carved in stone, I am not making it up.

Pssst Sirikit. Read the last word that is carved on the stone and look at te Italian language Wikipedia, first picture upper right……

La sorgente del Po a Pian del Re


I am speechless.

I would suggest this is the source (spring) of the River Po, and Our Hero is standing on a rock to avoid getting his feet wet.

"Here is born the Po"

Crissolo, Italy

OPEN HOUSE

As Sirikit says without words and Sultan Ismail confirms, it is the spring which is the source of the Po river in the Cottian Alps, close to Italian - French border in Piemonte, coordinates 44° 41' 56.49 N 7° 05' 16.09" E (or thereabouts) Elevation 2327 m according to GiggleEarth. Here the Po starts her journey of over 600 km to the Adriatic Sea, near Venice.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZu-DMmWFoiHDDFASkHbRT8EwgkANIScGyogM30ZyLCABvi6ab

As a long shot;
Pahute Mesa Airstrip,Nevada.
Tacklebury.

Sorry, Tacklebury, incorrect. Not USA.

Iran, Sirikit?

No, not Iran.

Be kind to me, give a clue too, not just a blunt rebuttal :sad:-

Aw, Reg, apologies. I've got be a bit cute with you wily old foxes around. I can't give too much away but you're not too far off.

Clue: Runway 14/32.

Groom Lake airforce base? I'll put my tin foil hat back on now.

Sorry, Tacklebury, incorrect. Not USA.


I wonder when Tacklebury will swoop in for the kill?:p

Damn those pesky aliens they hid that not USA text from me! ;)

Somewhere in Afghanistan then.

Sorry, not Afghanistan either. I've given a very big clue.

You certainly have, I am pretty sure I got it but I kind of cheated so I'm not going to give it away!

You cannot mean airport code VIAG of Agra, in India, can you Sirikit?

No, Reg, but you're closing in on the GAP!;)

You know what happens if….

Don't be a spoilsport, Reg!;) You'll get there in the end.:D:

Qamdo Bangda Airport,Tibet.

You have nailed it, Tacklebury. Good one.

Qamdo Bangda Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qamdo_Bangda_Airport)

http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/media/galleries/images/37686/500x400/guess-the-airport-week-13.jpg

A spoilsport? Me? :*.

:hmm: Reg

Suppose we got to sits and inconsequentially wonder if Tacklebury will post up a picture.:confused: He's swooped off again out of the environs of PPruNe.:O

What's your time zone Sirikit (rhetoric question)? I will sign off soon, so not able to follow up a post for long.

BTW your challenge was good, and I just stumbled onto my own flawed interpretation of the clue(s). Signing off.

Next challenge.
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/sabre86d/new_141.jpg
Tacklebury

Ramsgate.

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/photos/British_Isles/RamsgateENGE.jpg

That would not be this Ramsgate which is somewhat more tropical :

http://annemariehegeler.com/images/ramsgate%20sunrise%201.JPG

Kwa-Zulu Natal, methinks!

On the South Coast between Margate and Southbroom.

Corrrect.
Ramsgate,Kent,U.K.
Tacklebury.

http://www.boatingspectator.com/files/images/USS-Nimitz-CVN-68-0067.jpg

U.S.S. Nimitz (cv68),Guam.
Tacklebury.

http://images.txtagif.com/gifs/8GcY2SfbnbI.gif

You're amazing!

Just very lucky,Sirikit. All the clues were in the photograph.
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/sabre86d/Quiz2-2.jpg
Tacklebury

Gotthard Tunnel, Switzerland?

USS Nimitz (CVN 68): GUAM (April 20, 2008) The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) arrives in Guam for a four-day port visit. Nimitz was operating as part of the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility in the western Pacific and Indian oceans. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Steven Maksinchuk (Released)

Go on Tacklebury, tell him how you did it!

Tiger_Too, Tacklebury:

As Dame Sirikit has repeatedly pointed out, peeking is not a gentlemanly thing to do.

Sorry,not the Gotthard Tunnel.
Tiger-Too and Regdep, what on earth are you talking about?
Tacklebury.

As Dame Sirikit has repeatedly pointed out, peeking is not a gentlemanly thing to do.If Sirikit is a dame, then opening the Kimono is indeed verboten!

I mean I would never right click and look at the photo's properties!

Thank you, Cacophinix.
I can now see what the other two were alluding to!
By merely looking at the photograph, one can see the CV68 number clearly marked on the carrier's island. CV68 is the Nimitz, end of story.
All very sad really.
Tacklebury.

Not sad, Tacklebury. I have gone through all this (suspected of peeking, when not) and done some peeking. This all is meant to be just fun, and some banter is in place.

This a true smiley for all of us :).

Reg

Tackebury,

Your picture looks quite old…

Would it be the NORAD foxhole in making into the Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado?

Right clicking is my first port of call - just in case the poster has forgotten!

Regdep.
Not too sure of it's age, but not Norad.
Cryptic Clue:Thinking of mountains would not be a waste of time.
Sirikit. "Stand by your beds", I have not heard that expression for many a year.
Not South America.
Tacklebury

Taclebury, To take all cryptic that I can throw in in one shot.

The "Onkalo" - nuclear waste storage tunnel in Olkiluoto, Finland (not in a mountain, but in the bedrock under a relatively smooth landscape)

Nearly there,Regdep. But the wrong continent.
Tacklebury.

Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository

Correct,Regdep.
Yucca Mountain.
Tacklebury.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQwhWLkB6ikkByA4nQ7G9vThgL8A_a3VVZgA-kivCG4PPHltpdN

Thought I'd play as well.

Bwah! :{

Mommy they won't play.

Ok, ok I'll button it. I am a mere blow in here and will attempt to win my turn gracefully.

;)