http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/landscapes/photos/atlantic/newf/gmnp/hanging.jpg

Newfoundland?

damn, your turn

That's a Damn? RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/walnaze/PpruNe/NoGuess.jpg

Hoover Dam?

Nah! There'd be nowhere to plug it in.


You'll have to play around me. I'm orf to me bed.

Along the Rio Grande somewhere?

Mid-east?

;ljgh;eljh

Scenery looks as if it could be somewhere in the Cedarberg mountains but I don't recognise the spot and it's not quite the right sort of vegetation.

Oooo...forgot to check in.


Along the Rio Grande somewhere?


That's right. South end of Big Bend National park. Some 110 mils south of the McDonnald observatory.

Google (http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=mcdonald+observatory+texas&aq=1ls&aqi=g-ls2g-l2g-o1&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=c1f3adc9cfc4964)

Back then - mid 70s - you could go all day and see no one. Made our way back east keeping quite near the river. Sometimes It was little more than a stream, with big cat paw marks in the sand. Winter, of course.

It's in Canada somewhere, but where?

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m8/Siddley-Hawker/ZBQ.jpg

Oh Jeez!!!!!!

NFLD or Cape Breton? Or waaay up north?

On a lake/sea inlet.

Do I win?

Pigboat wins.. has throttle and control.

http://www.aerohub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/beaver-cockpit-1.jpg

Cleaner a/c than last one in service, I bet.

Harrison Ford, close second

pigboat: I think I know where it is, but I cheated. That one got kind of bent a few years ago, didn't it?

Mish Nish I'll give you that, it's actually in Labrador.

Magnus I had to check that, the airplane did indeed crash in 1981. Neil Aird's site says "The aircraft rolled inverted and crashed." Roll a Beaver inverted and it'll do that. :=

RT I wonder what that second light is to the left of the flap indicator? One of them's the low fuel pressure light, the other must be the fire warning. Can't be a stall warning, the Rodent never had one.

Arghhh. opens door and jumps. Swims back for poutine.

Damn, that water is cold!

Navigation skills, top class?

http://www.ngsprints.co.uk/images/M/703179.jpg

Pity they missed it.

Aye, you are sharp.

as we confound the rest of PPRuNe.

Howland Island Pacific.

Except Loose Rivets.

Point of order question, like do we have any rules about who can post a picture?

Like in the History thread, the person that correctly identifies the posted photo is the only one that can post a photo, or is it anyone that wants?

Thanks

Anyone. Just get the answer right.

Okay, where on Earth am I?

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c246/con-pilot/0000720-R1-028-12A.jpg



Oh, a clue, its not in Oklahoma. :p

Some crap hotel in Honkers

Good guess, but it was five start hotel.

But you're close enough, that was my view out of my hotel room in Hong Kong, the Hyatt Regency when I stayed there one trip.

or 100 feet below...

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/8/9/2/1149298.jpg

J's coming along

I KNOW, I KNOW!

You're in the air. :E

Have to get a bit more serious.

BBQing short ribs in the back.

Where on earth is this ? :cool:

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/41402790.jpg

Russian/Finnish/Norwegian border?

Northern hemisphere.

White pine, white birch (or maybe aspen) implies northern US or Canada. (Birch trees like cold weather.) or maybe Russia, but somehow it looks American.

The what the heck (not trash cans) set in concrete (with graffiti?) A roadside rest area with mundane utilities nearby?

No idea.

Civil Defence bunker in East Anglia?

IN USA?

By that, I mean the state, not in. :)

Make me longer

Russian/Finnish/Norwegian border?

No.

Northern hemisphere.

Yes.

US or Canada

No.

not trash cans

Indeed.

A roadside rest area with mundane utilities nearby

No. Nearest road is roughly 200m/630ft away.

Civil Defence bunker in East Anglia

No. (and not in the UK either, so you can tick that off your list too).


I'll let it run a bit longer and think about giving a clue or two... :ok:

Since you're struggling a little bit... let's start with a close-up of the "what the heck" items..... :cool:


http://img.geocaching.com/cache/7ce65221-1061-4871-8c70-aab38e546a13.jpg

And a little something for those who want something easier to think about....where on earth is this.....(totally unrelated to my original challenge)

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/19870252.jpg

It's Bhutan.

Mixture - your last but one looks like a cold war relic, possibly some artefact from an old fixed SAM missile site? I'd hazard a guess that it was in eastern Europe somewhere, maybe Poland or Lithuania?

I like this game!

It's Bhutan.

Indeed it is in Bhutan, Yamagata ken.

Well, I did say that was an easier question.... :ok:

dead_pan,

looks like a cold war relic

It predates the cold war actually, it's of 1913 vintage, so it predates WW1 too.

artefact from an old fixed SAM missile site

No SAMs in 1913. But I can see how you might be led to think it might be something military, which it's not, it's purely civvy street.

Eastern Europe somewhere, maybe Poland or Lithuania?

Nope. But as an extra clue, yes to the "Europe" part, just not the East.

Next clue to follow in a couple of hours.....

Ok, I think I'll put you all out of your misery.

It is a location that was used for geodetic purposes.

It is standard base "Loenermark" in the Netherlands.

52° 6' 2" N, 5° 59' 43" E

Yahoo! Maps, Driving Directions, and Traffic (http://maps.yahoo.com/broadband/#mvt=m&lat=52.100556&lon=5.995278&mag=4&zoom=17&q1=52.1005555555556%2C5.99527777777778)


Background info :
GS 13, G.J. Bruins (Editor), Standard base "Loenermark" (http://www.ncg.knaw.nl/Publicaties/Groen/13Bruins.html)

May I, mixture?

http://i55.tinypic.com/2lw7pr9.jpg

Is that Hitler's Prora holiday camp on Rügen island?

If that's a holiday camp, the entertainment had better be exceptional. :p

RJM,

May I, mixture?

Of course you may. I'm going to sit back before posing my next challenge

But it looks like marsie is right about your location...

http://travelblog.viator.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/germany-weekend-getaways-prora-rugen-island.jpg

I like this game. What island is this and where's the picture taken from?

http://www.hots-simulation.com/temp/0081.JPG

Ja, Prora.

This one - Mediterranean?

Yes, the Med. Getting warmer!

Adriatic, or Ionian Sea?

Nope! Getting colder again now. OK, a clue; If you lived in the UK in the 70s you might have had a flashy car with this name.

Capri?????

Yes, it's the Isle of Capri from the summit of Vesuvius.

Was writing my guess while you were posting your clue, honest.

In fact your clue would have distracted me a wee bit. If by "flashy" you mean with endemic rust pockets so that the whole lot fell apart, I would have been sure of my guess.

Wotcha mean!! Greatest bird pulling machine ever invented that was. Get 'er in the back seat and there was no way out (well, it was so cramped there was no way in either, if you get my drift).

Experienced crumpet merely stamped their feet on the floor panel and exited via the subsequent hole if they were not fully enjoying the entertainment being provided in the cabin, so to speak.

I didn't think there was an island in the Med called Marina...

There was a mis-print on my Capri.
They spelt it "Crappy"

Nor one called Allegro

I didn't think there was an island in the Med called Marina..

Must have been. They showed it at the start of each episode of Stingray. Its full name is Acqua Marina.

This sort of chit-chat would never be tolerated on the Which Aerodrome thread.

This sort of chit-chat would never be tolerated on the Which Aerodrome thread.

That there's fightin' talk. OK, which aerodrome

http://www.hots-simulation.com/temp/0036.JPG

A stab in the dark. Charles de Gaulle?

WRONG!! It's T5 at LHR.

CDG ???????

Not even close!!

Schipol ?????

Go East young man!

Can't be NBO, there are actually lights working.

I like this game too, but my ? key is starting to protest.

A stab in the dark. Charles de Gaulle?


Whaaaa.... I'm going for a lie down. You're right, it is CDG and that's the 07.00 Air France to Geneva at the gate. The photo crept in to a series from Dubai, so I thought that's where it was at first.

OK, I pass...:sad:

I bl**dy well said that earlier FFS!!! OFFICIAL PROTEST lodged!!!!

I said it first, then changed my mind.
But Wings Folded said it after me.
There will HAVE to be a Stewards' inquiry I'm afraid.

marsie,

That was a rotten trick.

I thought that I had contemplated the elliptical roof at CDG often enough, while stranded by French ATC whims, to know it off by heart.

You made me feel stupid. Inadequate. Ignorant. Worthless.

As punishment, you have to post the next one too. (I would, but do not have the first clue how to post a piccie)

Someone's going to get sued I think.

I'm with WF, also can't post a piccy.

And I've got some Beauties in my little folder!!!

OK guv, it's a fair cop. An easy peasy one 'cos I'm feeling all contrite (and I like islands).

http://www.hots-simulation.com/temp/0028.JPG

Santorini perchance?
From the North side?

No, no, no, no.

You cannot squirm out of your embrassment by going back to islands.

Airports, we demand, airports, do you hear? (there goes another "?": how long will the key survive? (oops, another)

Not Santorini. And not an airport but on the descent into one. Which one?

Probably a trick.

So I will go for Dublin.

Without question marks.

Gozo by any chance? I'm just guessing.

No, it's not Ireland's Eye. You're a loooooong way off (and I made certain I'm right this time). OK, clue time. Think Burt Lancaster.

I'd rather think Ava Gardner.

I suppose then that we are talking of Alcatraz.

Approach to San Francisco (question)

Me thinks "Alcatraz" Burt Lancaster "Bird man of"
If correct, open house.
OPF
Beaten to it while answering!!!!

I'd rather think Ava Gardner.

Think away

http://www.hots-simulation.com/temp/0030.jpg

I suppose then that we are talking of Alcatraz.

Approach to San Francisco (question)

On the button. And I'll leave you with this one

http://www.hots-simulation.com/temp/0032.jpg

Now, marsie, you cannot get us to forget your horrendous blunder by having us focus on Ava Gardner.

It nearly worked, but not quite. Stormin is quite correct. An enquiry shall be held.

In your place, I would prepare a revolver with a single round in the chamber, a glass of finest single malt, and an ante chamber in which to carry out the only honorable exit possible.

You know your duty.

Marsie,


Is it Jersey ?

Well I thought Ava Gardner would do it (she does it for me) but if you chaps are so hard-hearted that you won't forgive another chap's fair and honest mistake, I know my duty. Unfortunately I've already consumed the single malt so, manly like, I shall go and consume another one.

Have a few glasses of single malt, and you will forget where you put the revolver.

Honour is thus retained.

Is it Jersey ?

No. But boy are you close!!

Guernsey then ?

Guernsey??

Yes, it's Guernsey. First scheduled flight I ever took as a lad of 10 was on a BIA DC3 from Bournemouth Hurn airport to Guernsey. Luggage on racks behind the pilot and me in the co-pilot's cracked leather seat like the King of the World.

RJM,

Egjb - 49° 26' 10n 02° 36' 02w

Ah ! Guernsey! Last there in a GB Airways 737.

Many years ago.

T'was full of Portugese potato pickers from Madiera.
Or were they Madierans? They spoke Portugese anyhow.

marsie,

it would take a hell of a side slip to plop it down on the tarmac the way you are facing, or a hell of a tight base leg for the other end.

which was it?

it would take a hell of a side slip to plop it down on the tarmac the way you are facing, or a hell of a tight base leg for the other end.

I was 10 years old in a DC3. He didn't let me land it!

glad to hear that, but if he had let you land it, it would have been worth a beer or two when you told the tale !! (exclamation key is not knackered)

I won! Me me me, my turn.

The country is too easy, so it will have to be the location.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/504/dsc08635copy.jpg (http://img28.imageshack.us/i/dsc08635copy.jpg/)

Not much use. No runway.


...and those two had better keep moving. Look what happened to all the poor folks who stopped to admire the view. :uhoh:

There's a runway (domestic airport) about 30km north of this location, photo taken looking south(ish).

Hmm, Japan, Skiing...
Sapporo?

Yamagata Zao Onsen.

Ava Gardner.

I was looking at one of her dresses...in a showcase by the Spruce Goose, I hasten to add. It was like the one above, but yellow. What seemed so odd is that it was so small. Must have been very difficult putting all that loveliness is such a small package.

http://www.tlg.de/typo3temp/pics/fe8700a3a6.jpg

Burger King headquarters. :p

Nah, Piggy..that one is in Oak Brook, Ill. Just few miles away from my residence.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3507/3918364048_f8114d457c.jpg

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/05/0518_green_hqs/image/15_mcdonald_s.jpg

The above posted picture got to be somewhere in Ex-Eastern Europe. My take is in Ex-East Germany.

I expect that many of you will know what and where this is. If you don't you may be surprised when you find out!

http://voiceofthecopts.org/en/thumbnail.php?file=Star_of_David_on_roof_of_national_carrier_building_582613231.jpg&size=article_medium

Capetonian, That would be Tehran Airport.
:ok:

Yamagata Zao Onsen. Correct, and excellent skiing it is too.

Ex-East Germany

So far so good.

Yamagata ken,

Forget the skiing, I just want to go there to see the ice monsters.... amazing. :ok:

Snow monsters, we have snow monsters.

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/1328/strdsc0860.jpg

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9786/strdsc0855.jpg

Yamagata means "mountain shaped". I live about 50km north, along the valley shown top right. In the winter we have snow. In the summer it is sub-tropical, growing rice, stone fruit and water melons.

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6527/strdsc0853.jpg

Just an easy one while you're contemplating.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/walnaze/Nopeeking.jpg


And to make it even easier, an object not a million miles away.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/walnaze/Boing.jpg

Top one is the CN Tower...

Correct, so the bottom one must be . . .


Oh, and by the way, here's another picture of the CN Tower. :E

CN Tower illusion - Planet Perplex (http://www.planetperplex.com/en/item/cn-tower-illusion/)

Not for the faint of heart.

http://www.gearfuse.com/wp-content/uploads/andrew/4_mar07/skywalk08.jpg

Ewwww...It looks like an Escher painting. What angle is it at?


I don't think it's the Skywalk, just a copy in some far flung land. But where else might that gorge be?

Got it! I think:confused:

如果说大峡谷是上帝鬼斧神工之作，空中玻璃走廊 (Skywalk) 则是人类聪明智慧的结晶。

No...I think it's yet another one. Rocks don't look right.


I have no personal experience, but the Grand Canyon Skywalk sound like one of the worst rip-offs I've ever heard of. 2009 article, so I hope things have changed for the better.

Grand Canyon Skywalk is a sham! | Travel On The Dollar (http://travelonthedollar.com/2009/08/25/grand-canyon-skywalk-is-a-sham/)

I have no personal experience, but the Grand Canyon Skywalk sound like one of the worst rip-offs I've ever heard of. 2009 article, so I hope things have changed for the better.



The article is accurate!

Wife and I did it by a tour plane which drops you off for half a day with meal tickets (fast and convenient and you see Hoover Dam from the air). Half the people who buy tickets for the sky walk chicken out when they first set foot on the glass. Looking over the glass railing is scary enough.

The best value in the whole trip (excepting the plane ride) is the free wild west village and barbeue that goes with the tour fare.

If you really want scary, just walk to the steeply sloped edges for your pictures. A few have slipped in the high winds or rain showers and not lived to regret it

If you do go on the Grand Canyon Skywalk don't plan on taking your camera, (or iPod etc.), forbidden.

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1909/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1909-4052.jpg

Bluebells (illegal to pick), in anticipation of spring, country (well sort of) will do.

I'm not so sure now. I'm hunting the island i think it is for that rock formation with G-EArth. So far no exact match.

You'll be wrong.

Skomar Island...but I can't match the rocks.

and one coast would be 8 miles away - the other 60. that one looks in between the two. Nothing's working.


I flew a BBC cameraman around that part of the world. If it is that part of the world.

Been there and is close enough. Wales in spring.

Island. Fictional or real name is okay. UK. Oooop North.

Also give the name of the relevant author for extra points.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/walnaze/OoopNorth17.jpg


Oooo...tis 3 Am One is orf to bed. (kah! looking for rocks in Wales. Kah!)

?
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

Or indeed Kirrin Island, Enid Blyton ?
:)

Close!:}
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/walnaze/OoopNorth279.jpg

I was thinking of that also I knew the title was something and amazons but never having read the book being more into Mickey Spillane in me sproghood could not think of the first word, so one's googling of seagulls/angels/pirates and amazons proved unproductive.
:rolleyes
Anyway I believe the Lake Isle is in Ireland,so one was wrong on a few fronts.
:(

Sparky was pointing his tail for you.


Here's another clue. We're on the mainland with this island. In England in fact.

I say clue, it is, but really rather obscure.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/walnaze/OoopNorth49.jpg

Ransome and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, Cumbria, in the southern Lake District.

...................

Edit 1: Cannot find the name of the island but believe it is just north of Belle Isle in Lake Windermere. Edit 3: Well, that would be Ladyholme.

Edit 2: Silver Holme. Was the inspiration for Cormorant Island in Arthur Ransome’s "Swallows and Amazons" books.

Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome ?? Can't remember the island name

:uhoh:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a194/Deaddogbay/Apicalipsys14-1.jpg

OK, let me take the edits back from my earlier post and give you Piel Island - Peel Island (formerly known as Montague Island or the Gridiron), a.k.a. Cat Island, in the Coniston Water. Same author, same book.

Peel out the motorcycle rear wheel - some clue :rolleyes:.

I seem to recall Wild Cat Island. Peel, I think.

Shame, I was too used to 30c water to swim in that lake. SIL braved it, but then they're frozen solid for 3 months of the year.


The wheel was for the Bluebird. ( you can just see it on the blue ticket.) I said it was obscure. Land speed, then water speed, then Coniston water. Though it is said, Ransome constructed an amalgam of Windermere and Coniston in his descriptions, though the island was well described in general.



Mr D! That's one of me in the year 2190. The Rivetess said 'Wait by the memorial, I'll be back soon.'

LR where's that other pic below the CN Tower, Eaton Center? :confused:

In case jet-lag and sleep deprivation wasn't enough:

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfe514jpd01qf96tto1_500.jpg

Ahhh, visibility, that one is at ORD. United terminal.

You see I live in Chicago and frequent the airport.:p

;)

Swallows: Rusland, Cumbria
Arthur Ransome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ransome)

noseover - Bingo! I went through O'hare a few times before I saw it...

LR where's that other pic below the CN Tower, Eaton Center?


It was a smaller place filled with things like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/walnaze/Dec1506Canada77.jpg


I have an idea this was the one used by a 62 year old school mistress who was concerned about living in poverty. She survived, unlike most of the adventurers, but made almost no money from her bravery.



But the ball went over here:




http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/walnaze/Dec1506Canada47.jpg

Thank you Mr 3 miles, I had no idea. What a life! I shall view him anew.


Right at the end:


Ransome and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, Cumbria, in the southern Lake District.


And here's the little church. Bruv and SIL walk up the road to it, and even give it a bit of TLC on a Saturday.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/walnaze/OoopNorth278.jpg

Ahhh..Nagger Falls. Remember that kid that went over the Horseshoe Falls armed with nothing more than a life jacket? Back in the 1980's I think. There were three people in an outboard motor boat and the shear pin on the prop broke and the boat capsized just above the island. If memory serves, a fireman from New Jersey caught one kid just before she went over, the moron in charge of the motor was never found and the second kid was rescued by the Maid Of The Mist at the bottom. :eek:

:)
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a194/Deaddogbay/P14774.jpg

Is an alignment with the tall thing in the distance relevant?

No but the tall thing in the distance is.:)
Drain the bottle in the Sunshine.:E

OK, I'm guessing it's Pontop Pike in the distance, but I cannae get the trig...:confused:

Wrong! go and sit on the norty step.:E
Bloody hell the clue is a easy enough.
:rolleyes:
Tis the heights of the place and the heath
The trig is of no importance it were just in the picture.

Bloody hell! Emily Moor Transmitter!!,Yorkshire Moors, buildings to the right,Holmfirth, Last of the Summer Wine, Emily Bronte, Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights!!
Me granny would have got that from them clues:suspect::rolleyes:

I Knew that!!!!!! You were just too speedy with the answer, Mr TD.
:\

And the Wuthering Heights is still one of my favorite "Chick Flicks".:{:{

One is old and do not have much time left Mr Jet therefore impatient,could be a good thread this,obscure clues to locations that only the most erudite pruners could grasp.
:rolleyes:
A good Geordie Lad far from home?
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a194/Deaddogbay/aha.jpg
:E

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/jetmarg/P1010244.jpg

What mountain range and bonus points for the ex-Mid Canada Line radar site and airport farther up the fjord.

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m8/Siddley-Hawker/Torngat-1.jpg

Oii Piggy, I have seen that one before. Therefore, I am removing myself from guessing on your piccy. :p

You are indeed a lady! :p

Oops sorry about that Tony. There was no pic in your post when I opened my reply. Jetsy you and I crossed in the ether. Is that Warsaw?

Arf, Arf, Piggy. That's what HE told me too..;)

Anyway, you can try and guess where my piccies are from. Same city..

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/jetmarg/P1010252.jpg


I kindly give up on Drapes dead bodies. (No offence meant!)

Negative, Piggy.:sad:

No dead bodies underneath or anywhere near those markers as far as I know Mr Jet.
:)

I have no idea where your pic was taken pigboat, but I am trying to imagine the forces that lifted the layers of rock in those cliffs.

Looks like somewhere in the Great Glen where the Northern part of Scotyland broke off Canada and dunched into the rest of Britain.:)

is Newfie.....

Mr Draper that be a Mason-Dixie Line crownstone boundary monument.
But where......... Delaware ??

Yup Mr H Mason Dixon Line Markers,:ok: Jeremiah Dixon was a lad from the North East,not exactly a Geordie, born in Bishop Aukland Co Durham but near enough.
:)

pigboat, not well up in Canadian geography but how about the Otish Mountains and Kuujjuarapik for the airfield/radar station.

Excuse my ignorance if they're thousands of miles apart.

jetsy I think yours is Wroclaw, Poland.

Indeed, it is Wroclaw, handy. Looking at the "Old Town" from across Oder River. The second pix is of the Needle Tower and Exhibition Center.

Oi, my bad, Mr Td..:ugh:

RT not the island, handsfree not the Otish mountains or Kuujuuarapik either, it's east of there. Mr. D is awarded the points, it's the Torngat, where North America broke away from Scandinavia and northern Scotland. The airport and abandoned radar site is name for the fjord, anyone? Hint, an American B-26 crashed near there during WW2 and the crew survived but starved to death because they were unaware of the native settlement a few hours walk away.

Saglek Fjord? (with thanks to Google)
Looks really impressive, will definitely be added to the (already too long) 'to see' list!

Saglek it is. :ok:

The air strip is further up the fjord, at the end. It's been 40 years since I was there. That pic was taken by one of my cousin's kids, he was in there with a Dash 8 last fall. Awesome shot.
Here's the story on the B-26. (http://www.lswilson.ca/page8.htm) So sad.

Struggling with the good old Photobucket access :\, if anyone else wants to post a new one: feel free to do so!

Ok Moira

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s287/hellsbrink/FIL25.jpg

That tall thingy looks like the VAB at the Cape.:)

'Fraid not, Mr. D.

Mother Russia?

Sorry reg, it ain't

Viru Hotel in Tallin? (The tall building in the background.)

You're about as cold as it was there, Reg

What can I say? Who else use electric trolleys than Russians and ex-soviet? Chinese?

Tee Hee Hee!

I was last week in -29°C. Don't laugh :*. AND in Tallin it was about the same at the same time.... :cool:.

Was a balmy -15C when I took that pic, would hit -27 at night

Com'on, give me something. A continent or anything :bored:. That could be Tampere in Finland, for all I know.

Be a sport!

Stop right there! That colour buses one may even have in Kent..... But not right-hand traffic (is that true, what is the latest count?)

Yer gizza clue,and remember some of us saw the world from sea level not from 30,000 feet.:rolleyes:

Don't get me wrong, hellsbrink, I am not begging and I am not to be intimidated. I can log off for a week if it suits me. Whom will you then leave without clues, eh? Just asking - I don't mean anything.

Well, you were right about it being a "ex-soviet" country but it ain't Estonia or Latvia

I suppose I'll have to come back and get it for you all. :rolleyes:



Gooodness! hellsbrink. Check your PMs.

I got your PM, LR, definitely something that will have to be looked into.


Edit:- Changed a setting or two, can you try that trick again LR?

European parliament building? (on right, behind the brick ones.)


I'm mystified. Of course, there's big green spaces by Kapellen.

Certainly not Brussels, bud, is quite a bit east of there

Temiritau, Kazakhstan ??

Not that far east, Handsfree.


Have to admit it ain't somewhere that is usually classed as a tourist hotspot........

Ukraine, Kiev?;)

Donetsk, Ukraine?

My guess (and it is a guess) is Hungary.

Getting closer, Landy and Handsfree, but it ain't anywhere in Ukraine.

And nowhere near Hungary, G-CPTN.

Ok, another clue. This city was given "Hero" status by the Russians

I'm going to have a stab in the dark here - is it Minsk?

So, Hero City - город-герой, then?

Murmansk, Russia?

Congratulations, Norman, you you win the cookie!

http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/super_mario_cookie.jpg




(Can't remember the name of the park that I was looking across, but that was Jan 2005 and the river Svislach, which runs through the pic, was frozen.)

Taken from my paragliding days, which I suppose is a clue in itself.
http://i56.tinypic.com/23utphg.jpg

Looks Swiss - Interlaken environs?

Right idea, but not right dp.

Is it where the Spuds are going to build their new stadium?

Ah, which reminds me. A Frenchman walks into a pole. Birmingham score a goal.

Near to Talloires, Lac Annecy.

Spot on Handsfree. It's the famous roc de boeuf infront of me in that image.:D

If you launched yourself from that platform by the side of the cafe up the hill then I fear for your sanity Para. ;)

Nothing to hand, so please feel free to post everyone.

The Col de Forclaz? Exactly where I started that day.

Here's another guy with a better camera in the same spot.

(c) TristanShu.com (http://www.tristanshu.com/gallerie/blog/2009/vrcrossannecylake/index.html)

That's the place, Col de Forclaz. Spent many happy days around Annecy, Thones and La Clusaz. Even had a go at paragliding myself (tandem) at La Clusaz.

Fabulous link you've put up there.

Nothing to hand, so please feel free to post everyone.

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m8/Siddley-Hawker/Forgettheproperties.jpg

Robert W. Service would be right at home. :p

Emerald Lake?

Would it be "... the marge of Lake Laberge"?

The marge of Lake Labarge it is. Taken from the right seat of a friend's 180. 'Course being from Yellowknife...:p

One from my latest trips :}
http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll375/sprocky_ger/Ups-1.jpg
Hint: the car I sit in is made nearby and we went on a test drive.

One from mine.:rolleyes:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a194/Deaddogbay/Mysteryxx.jpg

Not Mars I assume?

Somewhere near Aurangabad?

Sprocky: Mlada Boleslav, in Bohemia. Czech republik.

Yer chaps tiz Mars,there are some amazing shots of the surface taken by that wee robot whilst tootling about the place.
:)
Could be any Desert on Earth.

La Clusaz is luverly, isn't it. Spent three winters working there - glorious.

A nice easy one. :rolleyes:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/grantdi/Greenland%202008/GLKerHarb215Feb08lo.jpg

At a rough guess, I would say you're north of the Arctic Circle so that brings in Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Russia..........


I reckon it's Ellesmere Island in Canada

Yes, inside the Arctic Circle but not Ellesmere Island.:)

The North Pole by any chance ?

No, not quite that far North, another clue is that you are looking down from a head of a fjord, one of the longest in the world.;)

Well, in that case it's definitely Greenland

Have a stab at Kangerlussuaq aka Sondestrom.

@<hidden>: correct country, correct state - but wrong city. Look for a place about 4h drive from the city you mentioned to southwest. Actually this Skoda is made in a VW plant - not in the Skoda plant in Aurangabad. Go ahead. I am sure your next guess will be correct :ok:

@<hidden>: Czech Republic is a left hand drive country ;)

piccies work not, Sirikit. Well, not here anyway.

Hells....

Give me a clue where you are please.:O

Belgium, but the piccies are giving a return more akin to one of them "stop stealing our bandwidth/no notlinking" messages. When I click on the piccies I get http://www.pagog.com/thief.gif

:ooh:



http://www.northumbria-byways.com/images/northumberland_national_park.jpg

And....

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/tm/2008/09/westonbirt2_428x269_to_468x312.jpg

handsfree Well done, spot on.:D

More luck than judgement I can assure you beaufort1.

Sirikit you've left the image info on. Couquetdale top photo, Arboretum at Westonbirt bottom one.

Some of you must have passed this way.

http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/zz216/poodlejumpy/64.jpg

Shush! handsfree - don't tell anyone.
We don't want them coming up here and invading our peaceful tranquility.

Have you been peeking, handsfree?:}

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/09/lancaster_grab_one.jpg

My lips are sealed G-CPTN :oh:

Oops we seem to have two on the go. Mine should be quick and easy though.

I realise it maybe just an observation but your Pic. for what its worth.....
Google earth view. (An early view I think)
Stukeley Meadows Huntingdon.

OPF

I shall repeat this here then.

http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/zz216/poodlejumpy/64.jpg

Wall style looks typical Northumbrian.

I suppose it does G-CPTN but it isn't there. Right country though.

A clue: It's near the beginning of a famous long distance walk.

@<hidden>: Czech Republic is a left hand drive country

Procky - I knew that (they were right hand until the WWII, though). I even checked from the logo that you had not flipped the picture to paint your herring red :E.

I just thought they have both for occasional test drivers....

A clue: It's near the beginning of a famous long distance walk.
Pennine Way?

Indeed! :-
Although signed as a medieval cross, it's actually a boundary marker for the Royal Forest

At some point it fell down, and was re-erected in 1810, when the date and initials JG, WD, GH, JH and JS were carved into it. These stand for John Gee, William Drinkwater, George and Joseph Hadfield and John Shirt, local farmers of the day who raised the cross.

That would be the Edale cross near Hayfield.

Quite right all, it is the Edale Cross. First came across it as a stripling walking from Hayfield to Edale when about 15. Someone's parents dropped us at Hayfield after school on a Friday afternoon to walk to Edale and camp there for the night. Got thrown off the campsite in the morning for making excessive noise. Spent the next night in a bivvy bag. Can't remember where. Happy days