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« 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


1. - Scottish Western Isles - eXPassenger


2. - Weymouth - Bradshaw


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4. - Barry Island - Merthyr Imp


5. - New Orleans - stuving


6. - Sicily - Bob_Blakey (Actually Syracuse - grahame)


7. - Limni Beach Corfu, Greece - Bradshaw


8. - New York, Statten Island Ferry with Verrazzano Narrows Bridge in the background - Bradshaw


9. - St John's Newfoundland - eightonedee


10. - Hamburg - johnneyw


11. - Falmouth - TonyN
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« Reply #1 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.
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« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2024, 20:13:45 »
8 is San Francisco Bay & Golden Gate Bridge?
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« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2024, 20:24:08 »
Quote from: ChrisB on January 21, 2024, 20:13:45
8 is San Francisco Bay & Golden Gate Bridge?

Nope!

Quote from: 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.

It is indeed!
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« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2024, 20:59:28 »
11 is Falmouth
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« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2024, 21:04:51 »
5: New Orleans
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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2024, 21:05:35 »
2 Nothe Fort, Weymouth
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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2024, 22:03:37 »
4 is Barry Island.
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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2024, 22:18:54 »
9 - St John's Newfoundland
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« Reply #9 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!)
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« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2024, 08:30:06 »
8 New York, Statten Island Ferry with Verrazzano Narrows Bridge in the background.
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« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2024, 11:13:50 »
Quote from: 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.

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 !
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« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2024, 13:33:19 »
Quote from: Clan Line on January 23, 2024, 11:13:50
Quote from: 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.

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!
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« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2024, 16:45:00 »
Quote from: johnneyw on January 23, 2024, 13:33:19
................... 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 !)
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0. Cadiz
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