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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 26, 2023 16:16:28 GMT
Tortuga -- island off the northern coast of Haiti
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Post by bjd on Dec 26, 2023 16:30:28 GMT
Torremolinos Tourist resort in southern Spain that started attracting many people in the 1970s.
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Post by casimira on Dec 26, 2023 18:29:53 GMT
Lindenhurst- village in Suffolk County, NY
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2023 6:29:26 GMT
Chur - capital of the Swiss canton of Grisons
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Post by mossie on Dec 27, 2023 8:34:29 GMT
Church Fenton Village in Yorkshire where the former RAF airfield is now called Leeds East Airport
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 27, 2023 9:54:41 GMT
Fenchurch Street - one of the main streets in the City of London.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2023 10:55:50 GMT
Hurghada - Egyptian resort city on the Red Sea, founded only in 1905
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 27, 2023 12:05:18 GMT
Hursley - Hampshire town where I shall be staying for a few days at the end of February.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2023 16:02:51 GMT
Coursac - town in Dordogne, near Périgueux
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Post by casimira on Dec 27, 2023 17:34:47 GMT
Ursuline Convent- located in New Orleans, the oldest building in the Mississippi River Valley. Built in 1752
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 27, 2023 21:56:27 GMT
Connemara - region of Galway in Ireland. Very rural. Been there.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2023 7:11:00 GMT
Paraguay - landlocked South American country
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Post by mossie on Dec 28, 2023 8:22:58 GMT
Paris - my favourite city
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 28, 2023 8:25:44 GMT
Bristol - West Country port city
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2023 11:19:49 GMT
Istanbul - biggest city in Türkiye
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 28, 2023 11:47:04 GMT
Stansted - one of the London airports.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2023 15:41:44 GMT
Afghanistan - Asian country which has restored strict morals for daily life
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Post by mossie on Dec 28, 2023 15:42:44 GMT
Stelling Minnis - hamlet in Kent between Folkestone and Canterbury
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 28, 2023 17:09:32 GMT
Mindanao - island in the Philippines
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 29, 2023 0:43:05 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 29, 2023 5:38:49 GMT
Luberon - picturesque region in southern France
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 29, 2023 6:29:35 GMT
Oberlin -- small city in Ohio about 50 km sw of Cleveland. It is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory founded almost concurrently with the city in 1834. (cribbed from a remarkably interesting wikipedia entry)
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 29, 2023 7:02:28 GMT
Gravelines - town on the northern coast of France next to Belgium with a huge nuclear power plant
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 29, 2023 10:12:45 GMT
Gravesend- town in north west Kent on the banks of the Thames. Pocahontas died here in the 17th century.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 29, 2023 11:32:03 GMT
Gravelotte - site in Moselle of a major battle of the Franco-Prussian War
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Post by whatagain on Dec 29, 2023 11:34:52 GMT
Lot. Town close to Beersel, Be, where we spent some years in an apartment.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 29, 2023 17:33:48 GMT
Villeneuve-sur-Lot founded in 1254 by Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, brother of Louis IX, on the site of the town of Gajac, which had been deserted during the Albigensian Crusade, is a town and commune in the southwestern French department of Lot-et-Garonne. The Pont De La Liberation, which spans the Lot river, is a 96.2 metres (316 ft) arch bridge built between 1910 and 1919. When it was completed it was the largest single span concrete arch in the world. It was designed by Eugène Freyssinet, one of the pioneers in using reinforced concrete.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 30, 2023 6:01:00 GMT
Neustadt an der Weinstrasse - German touristy city on the wine road of Rhineland-Palatinate
fun fact: Neustadt means Villeneuve
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Post by whatagain on Dec 30, 2023 12:06:45 GMT
Chattanooga. City in Tennessee that was strategic to the confederates as a logistic hub and taken by Sherman making it with Gettysburg and ? a decisive battle during the conflict.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 30, 2023 15:51:53 GMT
Châlons-en-Champagne - major town in a wine producing region of France. The name was Châlons-sur-Marne until 1997 when they decided they needed a boost in notoriety. I taught English to the vintners for two weeks in the Chamber of Commerce building long ago.
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