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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 21, 2020 7:44:34 GMT
Shuva - Israeli village near the Gaza Strip
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 22, 2020 4:43:51 GMT
Shuqualak -- small lumber town on the central eastern border of Mississippi
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 22, 2020 7:16:05 GMT
Lake Tahoe - mountain resort straddling the California/Nevada state line
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 22, 2020 9:13:05 GMT
Kettleburgh - Suffolk village
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 22, 2020 9:46:59 GMT
Phuket - one of the major island resorts of Thailand
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 22, 2020 10:15:57 GMT
Dukestown- part of Tredegar, Wales
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Post by bjd on Sept 22, 2020 13:35:11 GMT
Keswick Resort town on Lake Simcoe in Ontario, probably named for somewhere in England
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 22, 2020 14:27:57 GMT
Wichita (Kansas) - largest city in the state, named after a native American tribe
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Post by mossie on Sept 22, 2020 15:11:17 GMT
you give me an earworm
Chichester - cathedral city in Sussex
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 22, 2020 17:27:37 GMT
Steenkerque - Belgian site of a bloody battle in 1692 where Louis XIV lost 15,000 troops. I don't even know whom he was fighting against.
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Post by casimira on Sept 23, 2020 14:56:51 GMT
Albuquerque- city in New Mexico, US
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 23, 2020 18:11:19 GMT
Quercy - former province of France now occupied mostly by the department of Lot
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2020 3:45:08 GMT
Bercy -- village in the heart of Paris consisting of recently renovated (in the 1990s) wine warehouses turned into upscale shopping
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Post by whatagain on Sept 24, 2020 8:52:07 GMT
Albertville. City in the Alps, but i imagine there was one in belgian Congonat kne time too...
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Post by bjd on Sept 24, 2020 11:24:59 GMT
Bergen City in Norway
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Post by casimira on Sept 24, 2020 13:16:19 GMT
Gentilly- section of New Orleans, LA
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 24, 2020 15:40:06 GMT
(named after a suburb of Paris, but we always drove there to Schwegmann's when my parents needed to stock up on wine and alcohol since Mississippi was still a dry state)
Batilly - my ancestral village in Lorraine
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Post by whatagain on Sept 24, 2020 18:03:34 GMT
Chantilly. Creamy castle.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 24, 2020 18:21:29 GMT
Antibes - resort city on the Côte d'Azur
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Post by lugg on Sept 24, 2020 18:30:46 GMT
Antigua - Beautiful Caribbean island
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Post by mossie on Sept 24, 2020 19:33:07 GMT
Canterbury - beautiful medieval city which had the heart burnt out of it by the evil Luftwaffe in 1942, a year before I attended secondary school there in the remains of a school which had suffered in the raid.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 25, 2020 4:35:11 GMT
Serbia - Balkan country
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Post by lugg on Sept 25, 2020 10:06:24 GMT
Azerbaijan- former Soviet state
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Post by whatagain on Sept 25, 2020 11:00:11 GMT
Ljubljana. Never know how to write it. No need to go to the castle, the view is nice but hhe cadtle doesnt deserve a visit.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 25, 2020 11:32:13 GMT
Janakpur - city in the humid subtropical region of Nepal
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Post by bjd on Sept 25, 2020 15:10:41 GMT
Spurn Head tip of a tidal island in Yorkshire
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 25, 2020 15:35:07 GMT
Portishead - English coastal town near Bristol
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Post by mossie on Sept 25, 2020 18:35:44 GMT
Shepshed - Leicestershire town, in the past renowned for sheep, hence the name
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 25, 2020 20:49:36 GMT
Epsom -- town in Surrey, England know for a famous yearly Derby and also for giving its name to Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2020 4:11:08 GMT
Somone - river in Senegal, south of Dakar
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