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Post by whatagain on Apr 29, 2024 11:55:31 GMT
Loos town in France close to Lille.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 29, 2024 12:22:53 GMT
Happy Valley-Goose Bay - town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador created by merging two towns in 1973, home of the largest military air base in northeastern North America
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 29, 2024 12:27:06 GMT
Goose Green - Falklands site of a 1982 battle between British and Argentina forces.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 29, 2024 17:33:03 GMT
Segovia - historic Spanish city and a Unesco World Heritage site since 1985
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 29, 2024 20:05:02 GMT
Govan - district of Glasgow and once the centre of Clydeside shipbuilding.
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Post by fumobici on Apr 29, 2024 20:55:51 GMT
Vancouver Island, little British Columbian bit almost as large as Switzerland.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2024 6:20:56 GMT
Couvin -- city & municipality in the province of Namur, Wallonia region of Belgium. The municipality has a heritage steam railway, a brewery, and caves, along with other sites of interest
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Post by whatagain on Apr 30, 2024 8:51:32 GMT
I go past Couvin several times a year but only stopped there once.
Le Louvre. Famous Paris museum.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 30, 2024 10:18:34 GMT
Louveciennes - outer suburb of Paris, used as a base by Prussian soldiers in 1870
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 30, 2024 11:38:05 GMT
Loudwater - Bucks village named after the River Wye which flows nearby.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 30, 2024 16:09:29 GMT
Wattwiller - town in Alsace near Mulhouse, famous for its mineral water sold throughout France
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Post by bjd on Apr 30, 2024 17:19:33 GMT
Watford City in England
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Post by whatagain on Apr 30, 2024 17:23:39 GMT
Waterloo. Wat else ?
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 30, 2024 18:26:56 GMT
Erlangen - city in Bavaria, former refuge of French huguenots
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 30, 2024 19:15:45 GMT
Languedoc - former province of France
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2024 23:35:45 GMT
Gueydan -- a tiny town in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, it is known as the Duck Capital of America
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Post by kerouac2 on May 1, 2024 4:12:07 GMT
Guédelon - medieval castle under construction in Burgundy
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Post by whatagain on May 1, 2024 8:00:47 GMT
Longues-sur-mer. Small balnear town un Calvados known for its old abbey and german bunker.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 1, 2024 8:07:46 GMT
Longleat - safari park in Wiltshire. Opened in 1966, the first outside Africa.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 1, 2024 15:12:55 GMT
Anglet - city in the French Basque country stuck to Biarritz and Bayonne
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Post by whatagain on May 1, 2024 15:34:50 GMT
Cao Bang. Small outpostvon the RC4 - colonial road 4 in Indochina. Theater of a major french disaster, probably worse than Dien Bien Phu.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 1, 2024 16:14:21 GMT
Shanghai - Chinese city, third most populated in the world.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 1, 2024 21:01:04 GMT
Angora -- former name of Ankara, the capital of Turkey/Türkiye
After 1930, the city officially became known in Western languages as Ankara. By the late 1930s, the English name "Angora" was no longer in popular use. Wikipedia
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Post by kerouac2 on May 2, 2024 2:37:29 GMT
Bora Bora - beautiful island in French Polynesia and the only place where I spent a few days at Club Med
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Post by mickthecactus on May 2, 2024 7:07:18 GMT
Scottish Borders - council area of Scotland where the English and Scottish borders meet (as you might imagine).
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Post by kerouac2 on May 2, 2024 15:34:26 GMT
Ishtar Gate - 8th gate to the city of Babylon, pieces of which are now in big museums
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Post by mickthecactus on May 2, 2024 17:25:53 GMT
Argentina- South American country noted for crying.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 3, 2024 6:08:19 GMT
Fargo (North Dakota) - largest city in the state
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 6:21:10 GMT
the Faroes -- archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean which is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark
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Post by mickthecactus on May 3, 2024 6:42:50 GMT
Farringdon - important interlink London rail station. Also the oldest underground station in the world.
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