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Post by bjd on Aug 9, 2021 17:57:48 GMT
I find it amusing that places called Sullivan, Orange and Ulster would know anything about borscht!
Bordeaux Port city in southwestern France
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 9, 2021 18:11:45 GMT
Auxerre - city on the edge of the Burgundy wine country but still quite interesting
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Post by tod2 on Aug 10, 2021 8:23:42 GMT
Tugela Ferry Is a town on the northern bank of the Tugela River, in central KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The town's name commemorates the ferry which once operated here before a steel bridge was constructed.
The town's hospital (Church of Scotland Hospital) is renowned for having discovered the first XDR-TB outbreak in 2005.
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Post by mossie on Aug 10, 2021 14:25:12 GMT
Clermont Ferrand - French city, halfway between Paris and Marseilles
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 10, 2021 14:28:22 GMT
Harpers Ferry (West Virginia) - one of my very first travel memories as a child. My family took a road trip just before I started school, apparently to Washington D.C. according to the ancient colour slides but also to many other places, and I remember 3 or 4 of them (but not DC). I would have been unable to say where Harpers Ferry is before looking it up, but I did know that it was a Civil War battle site.
What I remember is that we stopped by a shallow stream (NOT the rivers that the ancient ferry crossed) and splashed around throwing gravel into the water, a true highlight of historical culture.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2021 16:36:32 GMT
Harquahala -- highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, United States
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 10, 2021 17:01:20 GMT
Quartier Latin - medieval university district in Paris
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Post by tod2 on Aug 11, 2021 13:02:21 GMT
Charl Cilliers Is a settlement in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.
Originally known as Van Tondershoek, it was renamed in 1917 after the Voortrekker Sarel Cilliers.
PS: Sarel is the Afrikaans name for Charles. Hence the slight difference in names.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 11, 2021 14:43:08 GMT
Villiers-le-Bel - town only 14 km from Paris but still a wheat producing area
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Post by whatagain on Aug 12, 2021 10:56:59 GMT
Villers la ville. Did i make a trip report about this old abbey ?
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Post by tod2 on Aug 12, 2021 13:18:45 GMT
Viljoenskroon : is a maize and cattle farming town located in the Free State province of South Africa. It was named after the original farm owner J. J. Viljoen and his horse Kroon (Crown). (Therefore one can assume it's a ' Óne horse Town')
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 12, 2021 15:25:09 GMT
Minsk - capital of controversial Belarus, the only European country not a member of the Council of Europe, which is why the subtitle of the Europe section of Anyport is "the 47 countries of the Council of Europe and then some." "Then some" = Belarus.
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Post by mossie on Aug 12, 2021 16:44:19 GMT
Bodmin Moor - wild part of Cornwall
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 12, 2021 17:13:09 GMT
Spoor Noord - hugely popular big park in Antwerp built on old rail yards
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Post by whatagain on Aug 13, 2021 6:31:04 GMT
Never heard of spoir noord, thanks.
Brno. Slovakian city, home to automotive industry. Been there. No time to visit.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 13, 2021 7:41:57 GMT
Tarnobrzeg is a city in south-eastern Poland.
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Post by casimira on Aug 13, 2021 14:08:40 GMT
Nob Hill- affluent neighborhood in San Francisco, CA
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 13, 2021 16:04:25 GMT
Annobón - volcanic island in Equatorial Guinea
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Post by lugg on Aug 13, 2021 21:05:09 GMT
Bonaire a Caribbean island that I would like to visit as I have read that it has some of the best snorkelling/ diving in the Caribbean.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 14, 2021 1:00:03 GMT
Bel Air -- upscale neighborhood in Los Angeles, California founded in 1923
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Post by tod2 on Aug 14, 2021 8:03:27 GMT
Bela-Bela (Tswana for "The pot that boils") Is a town in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Deriving its name from the geothermic hot springs around which the town was built, it was called Warmbaths, until 2002.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 14, 2021 12:30:52 GMT
Belarus. Capital : Minsk.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 14, 2021 14:08:37 GMT
Rushmore - small mountain reconfigured into a questionable tourist attraction in the US state of South Dakota
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Post by mossie on Aug 14, 2021 14:35:14 GMT
Rushmere St Andrew - Suffolk village, now a suburb of Ipswich
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Post by tod2 on Aug 15, 2021 10:33:36 GMT
MEERENSEE, ZULULAND Is a pretty, upmarket suburban area that lies on the edge of Richards Bay Harbour between Alkantstrand, the local beach, and an inland lake. Hence its name - Meer en See - Lake and Sea.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 15, 2021 16:02:58 GMT
Zuiderzee -- historically, a shallow bay of the North Sea with a 300 km/200 mile coastline in the northwest of the Netherlands. There were islands within the Zuiderzee, one of which Bixa visited.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 15, 2021 17:17:37 GMT
Hence its name - Meer en See - Lake and Sea. In German, Meer is sea and See is lake.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 15, 2021 23:51:27 GMT
Telluride (Colorado) - former mining town that has become a ski resort
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Post by tod2 on Aug 16, 2021 9:43:16 GMT
ELLIOT: Originally the village was established in 1885 and known as Slang River. In April 1894 was renamed Elliot, Named after Sir Henry George Elliot (1826-1912), Chief Magistrate of the Transkeian territories.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 16, 2021 11:36:26 GMT
Ellezelles. Small village in Belgium that claims Hercule Poirot was born there.
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