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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2020 16:23:53 GMT
That's nifty. By accident or design and did you spend time there as a child?
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 6, 2020 18:50:03 GMT
That's nifty. By accident or design and did you spend time there as a child? No, by design and went there quite often by steam train from Victoria to Clock House Station which was pretty much at the bottom of the road, Blandford Road. I can even remember the house number for one aunt, 213. Stayed overnight occasionally with cousins. My mother and sisters all had typical old London names. My mother was Violet and sisters were Edie, Doris and Queenie.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2020 20:09:29 GMT
I love their old fashioned names. The trip there & then spending time with cousins sounds like so much of a treat for a boy.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 6, 2020 20:32:39 GMT
Back on topic...
Fallujah - Iraqi city.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2020 21:43:58 GMT
Chagrin Falls is a village in Ohio, part of the Cleveland-Akron-Canton metropolitan area. It was established and has grown around Chagrin Falls waterfall on the Chagrin River.
This is one of my favorite names in the whole US. If you look online, there are some romantic conjectures about the name origin, but you just know it was some poor bastard on the trek west who named it for how he really felt.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 7, 2020 4:36:14 GMT
Grindelwald - Swiss village in the Bernese Alps
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 7, 2020 5:42:52 GMT
Walden Pond --lake in Concord, Massachusetts always associated with the writer Henry David Thoreau, whose two years living in a cabin on its shore provided the foundation for his famous 1854 work about natural living. The lake is a kettle hole, formed by retreating glaciers 10,000–-12,000 years ago.
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Post by mossie on Jul 7, 2020 6:58:04 GMT
Aldeburgh - small town on the Suffolk coast, once a poor fishing village, now half the properties are second homes for rich outsiders and locals cannot afford them. One of the worst examples in the area but it is happening in many places.
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Post by lugg on Jul 7, 2020 19:01:32 GMT
Edinburgh a place I have yet to visit.... but some APs have been and posted about
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Post by whatagain on Jul 7, 2020 20:18:57 GMT
Pronounce Edinborrrrow or even edinbrow.
Medina. A holy place. I have visited some sacred places, inc Golgotha and i d love to go to Medina... and Mecca.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 8, 2020 2:44:34 GMT
Dinajpur -- city and the district headquarters of Dinajpur district, the largest district in northern Bangladesh
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 9, 2020 5:01:21 GMT
i d love to go to Medina... and Mecca. You can only go if you convert to Islam. Those cities are forbidden to infidels. I have been as close as the Mecca checkpoint (looks like toll booths on a motorway) because the road to Abha turns off right in front of it. Annapurna - 10th highest peak in the world but already high enough
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 9, 2020 18:21:12 GMT
Annapolis -- capital city of Maryland
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 9, 2020 20:12:23 GMT
Poland - one of the eastern borders of the EU
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 9, 2020 23:52:27 GMT
Olander -- 60-acre park on a lakefront in Sylvania, Ohio
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 10, 2020 4:52:45 GMT
Peñiscola - Spanish resort on the Costa del Azahar
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 10, 2020 4:55:02 GMT
I get double points for this:
Pensacola -- westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 10, 2020 5:04:39 GMT
Pennsylvania - the "keystone state" according to its nickname. I don't even know what this means.
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Post by bjd on Jul 10, 2020 5:51:15 GMT
Syldavie Country where Tintin goes in Le Sceptre d'Ottokar
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Post by casimira on Jul 10, 2020 10:59:15 GMT
Vienna- Mich's 2020 cancelled holiday
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 10, 2020 12:57:59 GMT
Gien - city in central France famous for its porcelain
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 11, 2020 0:23:08 GMT
Siena -- city in Tuscany, Italy first settled in the time of the Etruscans (c. 900–400 BC)
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 11, 2020 5:15:05 GMT
Benares - former name of the Indian city of Varanasi
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Post by mossie on Jul 11, 2020 7:03:45 GMT
Knaresborough - posh spa town in Yorkshire, one of the attractions is Old Mother Shiptons Cave containing a well where things are turned to stone. In other words , petrified
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Post by casimira on Jul 11, 2020 15:50:36 GMT
Bora Bora- one of the islands that's part of the group of Islands known as the Society Islands in French Polynesia
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Post by bjd on Jul 11, 2020 16:02:51 GMT
Knaresborough - posh spa town in Yorkshire, one of the attractions is Old Mother Shiptons Cave containing a well where things are turned to stone. In other words , petrified I spent a week in Knaresborough in 2006, visiting a friend of my sisters. We didn't go to that petrified stone. I thought the posh spa town was Harrogate? Orangeville town in Ontario
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 11, 2020 17:43:54 GMT
Gévaudan - former French province still famous for its mythical "beast of Gévaudan" which attacked people from 1764 to 1767. There were 210 attacks with 113 deaths and 49 injuries. People were scared shitless and rightly so. You would think that a movie would be made about this, and yes there was one.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 12, 2020 6:00:27 GMT
Vaux le vicomte. Splendid castle that looked too good to the King who didnt like the shadow it cast to Versailles. His owner, Fouchet, then went into disgrace. Kings then could be as petty as Trump.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 12, 2020 11:38:55 GMT
Les Baux-de-Provence - now a tourist trap but formerly the original source of bauxite.
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Post by casimira on Jul 12, 2020 11:57:31 GMT
Providence- capitol of Rhode Island, US
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