Title: Where have I been today? Post by: grahame on June 15, 2024, 20:40:08 This one may not be very easy as there's no train in the picture
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/aci_1.jpg) Title: Re: Where have I been today? Post by: PrestburyRoad on June 15, 2024, 20:53:48 Bristol Channel on the Waverley?
Title: Re: Where have I been today? Post by: JayMac on June 15, 2024, 21:21:15 I'd say you're all at sea grahame.
Title: Re: Where have I been today? Post by: johnneyw on June 15, 2024, 21:44:27 Bristol Channel on the Waverley? My initial thought too but I was on Waverley yesterday and it's paddles do kick up enough water to make that calm water somewhat livelier. Title: Re: Where have I been today? Post by: grahame on June 16, 2024, 06:52:07 I'd say you're all at sea grahame. Correct .... Bristol Channel on the Waverley? ... but not there, lovely though it would be. We are in a place describes as being "a mythical rural realm ruled by the god Pan." My source tells me "It was first written about by the Greek poet Theocritus in his 'Idylls' of the 3rd century BC. He described it as inhabited by shepherds, nymphs and satyrs." From this morning ... a further picture (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aci_0.jpg) Title: Re: Where have I been today? Post by: GBM on June 16, 2024, 07:07:55 From this morning ... a further picture (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aci_0.jpg) My turn to be all at sea. Title: Re: Where have I been today? Post by: chuffed on June 16, 2024, 08:18:32 I know it's been cold this June, but it certainly ain't Taunton.... ::)
Title: Re: Where have I been today? Post by: froome on June 16, 2024, 08:51:30 You are on the cruise ship Arcadia, which is presumably touring up the Norwegian coast. Pan's rural realm was Arcadia, which was in the Peloponnese in Greece.
Title: Re: Where have I been today? Post by: bradshaw on June 16, 2024, 09:20:50 Arcadia is currently at or near Iceland as part of a cruise which also takes in Norway.
https://www.cruisemapper.com/ships/Arcadia-626 Title: Re: Where have I been today? Post by: grahame on June 16, 2024, 10:43:49 Arcadia is currently at or near Iceland as part of a cruise which also takes in Norway. https://www.cruisemapper.com/ships/Arcadia-626 Correct ... the first picture was taken here: (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aci_2.jpg) and we are now docked in Akureyri in Iceland, with a picture taken on the approach. Arcadia is a land of plenty ... (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aci_4.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aci_5.jpg) and in a land where the sun never sets (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aci_3.jpg) Title: Re: Where have I been today? Post by: stuving on June 16, 2024, 10:48:04 You may have avoided diversions due to leaves, trees, or other malign objects on the line. But beware of "lava on the sea route" (we know there is already a lot of "lava on the road").
Title: Re: Where have I been today? Post by: CyclingSid on June 17, 2024, 07:37:26 Intersting orienting maps when you are close to the pole and everywhere is south from here. American owned company, or my greenwich centred mentality?
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