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Title: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: grahame on January 21, 2024, 19:38:59 It's a stormy night out there - best batten the hatches down for Storm Isha. Looking forward to summer, all of these my pictures in recent years at the beginning, end, or during journeys made just by bus, train and ship. Can you recognise any of the places?
0. - Cadiz - Bob Blakey (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer00.jpg) 1. - Scottish Western Isles - eXPassenger (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer01.jpg) 2. - Weymouth - Bradshaw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer02.jpg) 3. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer03.jpg) 4. - Barry Island - Merthyr Imp (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer04.jpg) 5. - New Orleans - stuving (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer05.jpg) 6. - Sicily - Bob_Blakey (Actually Syracuse - grahame) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer06.jpg) 7. - Limni Beach Corfu, Greece - Bradshaw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer07.jpg) 8. - New York, Statten Island Ferry with Verrazzano Narrows Bridge in the background - Bradshaw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer08.jpg) 9. - St John's Newfoundland - eightonedee (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer09.jpg) 10. - Hamburg - johnneyw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer10.jpg) 11. - Falmouth - TonyN (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer11.jpg) Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: johnneyw on January 21, 2024, 20:01:14 10 is Hamburg, just round the corner from Jungfernstieg by the Alister Lake. One of my favourite places.
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: ChrisB on January 21, 2024, 20:13:45 8 is San Francisco Bay & Golden Gate Bridge?
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: grahame on January 21, 2024, 20:24:08 8 is San Francisco Bay & Golden Gate Bridge? Nope! 10 is Hamburg, just round the corner from Jungfernstieg by the Alister Lake. One of my favourite places. It is indeed! Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: TonyN on January 21, 2024, 20:59:28 11 is Falmouth
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: stuving on January 21, 2024, 21:04:51 5: New Orleans
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: bradshaw on January 21, 2024, 21:05:35 2 Nothe Fort, Weymouth
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: Merthyr Imp on January 21, 2024, 22:03:37 4 is Barry Island.
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: eightonedee on January 21, 2024, 22:18:54 9 - St John's Newfoundland
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: grahame on January 23, 2024, 00:18:59 Some good identifications - and for those left,
one was taken from a train one I had arrived by train and one could have been by train. One is in the British Isles one is in the USA (someone got the country) and the final one of the six not yet identified does not match any of those clues!) Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: bradshaw on January 23, 2024, 08:30:06 8 New York, Statten Island Ferry with Verrazzano Narrows Bridge in the background.
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: Clan Line on January 23, 2024, 11:13:50 10 is Hamburg, just round the corner from Jungfernstieg by the Alister Lake. One of my favourite places. To digress slightly: I used to go to Hamburg regularly, the German for "shandy" is "alster" - alledgedly because the purists say that it tastes like water from the lake ! Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: johnneyw on January 23, 2024, 13:33:19 10 is Hamburg, just round the corner from Jungfernstieg by the Alister Lake. One of my favourite places. To digress slightly: I used to go to Hamburg regularly, the German for "shandy" is "alster" - alledgedly because the purists say that it tastes like water from the lake ! Yep, I've heard some of my cousins and others in Hamburg refer to shandy as Alsterwasser. I even ordered one at a little outdoor summer bar on the Jungfernstieg and the chap knew exactly what I meant. I've not had a taste of the actual Alster lake or river so I can't make comparisons but the "Alsterwasser" was delicious! Edit to correct the "autowrong" function that keeps insisting that the Alster river is called Alister! Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: Clan Line on January 23, 2024, 16:45:00 ................... the "Alsterwasser" was delicious! not as good as this stuff though.................https://www.winebuyers.com/en/products/spirits-24-Friesengeist-Original-Spezial-Getrank-56-Vol-1l-1-x-100cl (cheaper in Germany !) Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: Bob_Blakey on January 24, 2024, 09:23:19 0. Cadiz
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: froome on January 24, 2024, 14:32:30 No idea where number 1 is, but I suspect it may fit Graham's last category and have been taken from a cruise ship.
(not that I've ever been on a cruise ship, so I could be very wrong). Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: grahame on January 24, 2024, 15:06:23 Some good identifications - and for those left, one was taken from a train one I had arrived by train and one could have been by train - IDENIFIED - Cadiz One is in the British Isles one is in the USA (someone got the country) - IDENIFIED - New York and the final one of the six not yet identified does not match any of those clues!) No idea where number 1 is, but I suspect it may fit Graham's last category and have been taken from a cruise ship. (not that I've ever been on a cruise ship, so I could be very wrong). Picture no. 1 does match one of the other clues, though. Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: eXPassenger on January 24, 2024, 17:20:44 Have you been on a British Isles cruise? If so picture 1 could be Scottish Western Isles.
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: grahame on January 24, 2024, 18:30:06 Have you been on a British Isles cruise? If so picture 1 could be Scottish Western Isles. Yep ... Claggain Bay, Islay - Sound of Jura - on P&O Iona on 23rd August 2021 Simples. A fantastic week from Southampton Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: bradshaw on January 24, 2024, 19:12:41 7 Limni Beach Corfu, Greece
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: grahame on January 24, 2024, 19:19:51 7 Limni Beach Corfu, Greece Yep - that's the one without any rail connection and I am amazed it has been identified. Just two left - one from a train, and one at the destination I reached by train Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: grahame on January 24, 2024, 21:30:34 Just two left - one from a train, and one at the destination I reached by train 3. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer03.jpg) 6. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer06.jpg) Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: Bob_Blakey on January 26, 2024, 09:49:50 6. Sicily. Probably somewhere near Taormina (which does have a rail service).
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: grahame on January 26, 2024, 12:02:50 6. Sicily. Probably somewhere near Taormina (which does have a rail service). Sicily, correct. Actually Syracuse, which like Penzance is at the end of the line and has sleeper services. Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: grahame on January 26, 2024, 13:45:04 Just this one left
3. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/seasummer03.jpg) Taken from the train, travelling on my late 2022 Interrail pass on a wonderful journey that lasted from the afternoon deep, deep into the evening on a line with marvellous views and a very infrequent service indeed and just about the longest single line section I have ever encountered. It's not always been like that - a number of rusted loops suggest to me that it was capable of carrying a far greater service in the quite recent past. Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: stuving on January 26, 2024, 18:16:15 3. Vilavadelle, Asturias
Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: grahame on January 27, 2024, 07:14:04 3. Vilavadelle, Asturias Correct - actually looked back ay it and more accurate that my "Ribadeo" automated label. On the north coast of Spain on the narrow gauge line on one of the twice-daily trains from Oviedo to Ferrol, with a three hour each way single line section from Pravia to Ribadeo. Lots of little halts along the way, some at which only one of the two trains calls. Even on one train calling, the timing is "right" for some traffic like school, and the first few miles are electrified with a more frequent service that turns back there while the diesel is out behind. A lovely trip perhaps to do again though it can never have the magic of that first run again. Title: Re: Summer Sea and Sun - for a stormy January night Post by: stuving on January 27, 2024, 12:27:02 3. Vilavadelle, Asturias Correct - actually looked back ay it and more accurate that my "Ribadeo" automated label. On the north coast of Spain on the narrow gauge line on one of the twice-daily trains from Oviedo to Ferrol, with a three hour each way single line section from Pravia to Ribadeo. Lots of little halts along the way, some at which only one of the two trains calls. Even on one train calling, the timing is "right" for some traffic like school, and the first few miles are electrified with a more frequent service that turns back there while the diesel is out behind. A lovely trip perhaps to do again though it can never have the magic of that first run again. The description of that line given as a clue did take me to it, but it's very long. Fortunately there are only a few places it overlooks a river, inlet, or estuary that could be the one pictured. And once found, the odd building in the middle is convincing proof, isn't it? Might even be unique ... until you find a slightly classier one less than 50 m along the road. ( 43.491214° -7.036657°) This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |