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Post by whatagain on Mar 27, 2024 19:49:19 GMT
I work close to Mechelen. Nice city.
Malpensa. Airport in Milano.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 27, 2024 20:56:25 GMT
Penzance - town in Cornwall. There was something about pirates there.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 28, 2024 12:55:39 GMT
Rancho Soledad Nursery - exotic plant nursery in California
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 28, 2024 18:19:39 GMT
Oran - second largest city of Algeria, wasn't even renamed during French colonisation
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 29, 2024 3:57:50 GMT
Rangoon -- the former name of Yangon, which is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 29, 2024 6:17:41 GMT
Bangkok - capital of Thailand
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 29, 2024 9:04:36 GMT
Bangor - oldest city in Wales
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 29, 2024 16:08:40 GMT
Gorée - island across from Dakar from which many slaves were expedited
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 29, 2024 17:16:21 GMT
Creechurch - area in the City of London
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 30, 2024 5:53:10 GMT
Échirolles - city in the suburbs of Grenoble
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 30, 2024 8:23:24 GMT
Chihuahua- Mexican state, home of cacti and small dogs.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 30, 2024 14:16:01 GMT
Huahine - up and coming atoll for tourism in Tahiti
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 30, 2024 16:29:41 GMT
Hinkley Point - rather like Tahiti, a nuclear power point being built in Somerset.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 30, 2024 19:18:31 GMT
(by the French!)
Pleyber-Christ - town in Brittany whose name has apparently nothing to do with Jesus
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 31, 2024 16:10:08 GMT
Christchurch - largest city in South Island, New Zealand
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 31, 2024 21:10:15 GMT
Istanbul - continent straddling city in Türkiye
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 31, 2024 21:47:33 GMT
That needs a hyphen.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 31, 2024 21:51:52 GMT
Tanzania -- country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 1, 2024 10:52:32 GMT
Bosnia-Herzegovina - Balkan country that would like to join the EU
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Post by whatagain on Apr 1, 2024 12:17:12 GMT
Kapelle op den bos. I go there quite often. Means chapel in the woods.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 2, 2024 3:37:11 GMT
Pelasgia - Greek town on the mainland
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Post by whatagain on Apr 2, 2024 5:02:09 GMT
El Alamein. Small tow in Egypt where 2 battles were fight in 1942. One to stop the Germans and one to force them to withdraw.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 2, 2024 5:08:46 GMT
Fort Alamo - military outpost in San Antonio, Texas, conquered by the Mexican army in a bloody battle in 1836
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Post by whatagain on Apr 2, 2024 5:24:50 GMT
Port Arthur. Chinese port that was leased to the Russians at the end of XIX century besieged and conquered in 1904 by the Japanese. Now called again lushunku.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 2, 2024 8:10:40 GMT
Tarporley- large village in Cheshire
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 2, 2024 13:21:20 GMT
Orlando (Florida) - "the happiest place on Earth" according to advertising
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Post by bjd on Apr 2, 2024 15:40:45 GMT
Land's End Town in Cornwall at the extreme southwestern point of the country. It has equivalents in Spain - Finisterra and France, Finisterre
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 2, 2024 16:14:23 GMT
Bendigo - city in Victoria, Australia once a gold rush boom town,
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 3, 2024 4:17:15 GMT
Vigo - city on the Atlantic coast in northwestern Spain
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 3, 2024 5:16:05 GMT
Vigur -- 2nd largest island of the Ísafjarðardjúp fjord in Westfjords, Iceland. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, the island is around 2 kilometres in length and 400 metres in width
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