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― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:51 (two years ago) link
Haha this is a good one.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link
Looks like a place that's obsessed with the American flag, but the roads don't look like they're in a civilized country...
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:00 (two years ago) link
ha!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:00 (two years ago) link
definitely Nicosia this time
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
the roads don't look like they're in a civilized country...
Dying laughing at this
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:07 (two years ago) link
Nottingham finally
― nashwan, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:25 (two years ago) link
Hangzhou
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
the one time I went to Hangzhou it was so foggy I couldn't see more than 50m in front of me
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:30 (two years ago) link
Yeah, thats what threw me at first too, this is as close as I could get.
https://i.postimg.cc/wMF4sVx7/han.png
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link
Lol I walked past this the other day, should've posted a pic here myself, v good
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:49 (two years ago) link
thr building on the right has a word beginning with pha, isn't that Korean?
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
Not I'm this case, I'm pretty sure it's part of the facade
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
Guys! Those buildings are so northern England I'm practically vomiting at how easy this one is.
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 12:34 (two years ago) link
Is it a movie set? What’s with the fake NY subway entrance?
― KEEP HONKING -- I'M BOBOING (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
Yes.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
glasgow?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
Yes! Glasgow as NYC for the new Indiana Jones film.
https://anglotopia.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/featureimage-12-scaled.jpg
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
I think it played NYC for The Batman as well.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
It's new York in house of mirth
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
Yes, it is. Also another recent film with Meryl streep in it. Can't be bothered looking it up though.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
oh! good one - never would have guessed :-)
― StanM, Thursday, 22 July 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
Hope this works...
https://i.postimg.cc/T3XnsWMz/clue1.jpg
― o. nate, Friday, 23 July 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
off to the big book of bridges again
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
I've been there - do I still get to guess?
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
Let's not - hint: I'm from Belgium so it's either in or near there :-)
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
I mean it screams Netherlands but
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
but?
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
looking at a lot of Dutch cities, Arnhem is the closest so far but it's not right
― Neil S, Friday, 23 July 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
close
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
I’m also recusing myself
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
but it’s very close
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
Looks like this one is going to go before I get a chance to have a proper look. Off top of my head without looking I'm making an opening move with Krefeld.
Going to have a look around now tho
― cherry blossom, Friday, 23 July 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.841902,5.699407,3a,75y,111.12h,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOj2OKOiVJNxYEsUJFpvqz4s8bqFCuzTvtfaga_!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOj2OKOiVJNxYEsUJFpvqz4s8bqFCuzTvtfaga_%3Dw241-h100-k-no!7i2048!8i849
Nijmegen
― cherry blossom, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
yay!
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
wait, what? something wrong with your link but it was Nijmegen
https://www.google.nl/maps/@51.8536428,5.8701745,3a,75y,245.02h,85.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKSBb9QwINrmLxc8bM9GW8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
― cherry blossom, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
yeah it picked up the previous url for some reason
eh, it keeps linking back to the wrong url whatever I do
lets try again
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.8536428,5.8701745,3a,75y,264.15h,82.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKSBb9QwINrmLxc8bM9GW8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― cherry blossom, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
The road we're on is named after the general who... kinda majorly messed up securing the bridge during WWII ? Nice tribute!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Gavin#Operation_Market_Garden
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
I'm reading "Time of Gifts" by Patrick Leigh Fermor, and I just got to the part where he passes through Nijmegen.
― o. nate, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
oooh, always heard great things about that (2/3 books?)
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
I just started it. It's 2 books, I think. This one and the sequel "Between the Woods and the Water", tells the story of a walk across Europe he did in the '30s.
― o. nate, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
broken road, the third part was edited and published posthumously a couple of years ago. they're conversational but also quite dense/long. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766419.A_Time_to_Keep_Silence is a smaller investment and broadly similar in style/content/tone if you're interested in checking him out.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 23 July 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
my, what a great book review site, thank you - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253984.A_Time_of_Gifts
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
all three of those are well worth reading, Fermor was a great writer.
Nijmegen! I looked at pictures of it but nothing quite matched up.
― Neil S, Friday, 23 July 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
Will also stan for those Fermor books - what a life. I put this on another thread at some point, but it bears repeating:
At the age of 18 Leigh Fermor decided to walk the length of Europe, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople (Istanbul). He set off on 8 December 1933 with a few clothes, several letters of introduction, the Oxford Book of English Verse and a Loeb volume of Horace's Odes. He slept in barns and shepherds' huts, but also was invited by landed gentry and aristocracy into the country houses of Central Europe. He experienced hospitality in many monasteries along the way.Leigh Fermor arrived in Istanbul on 1 January 1935, then continued to travel around Greece. In March he was involved in the campaign of royalist forces in Macedonia against an attempted Republican revolt. In Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzène (Bălaşa Cantacuzino), a Romanian Phanariote noblewoman, with whom he fell in love. They shared an old watermill outside the city looking out towards Poros, where she painted and he wrote. They moved on to Băleni, Galați, the Cantacuzène house in Moldavia, Romania, where he remained until the autumn of 1939. On learning that Britain had declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 Leigh Fermor immediately left Romania to return home and enlist in the army.As an officer cadet, Leigh Fermor trained alongside Derek Bond[11] and Iain Moncreiffe, and later joined the Irish Guards. Due to his knowledge of modern Greek, he was commissioned in the General List in August 1940 and became a liaison officer in Albania. He fought in Crete and mainland Greece. During the German occupation, he returned to Crete three times, once by parachute, and was one of a small number of Special Operations Executive (SOE) officers posted to organise the island's resistance to the occupation. Disguised as a shepherd and nicknamed Michalis or Filedem, he lived for over two years in the mountains. With Captain Bill Stanley Moss as his second in command, Leigh Fermor led the party that in 1944 captured and evacuated the German commander, Major General Heinrich Kreipe.Leigh Fermor was noted for his strong physical constitution, even though he smoked 80 to 100 cigarettes a day. Although in his last years he suffered from tunnel vision and wore hearing aids, he remained physically fit up to his death and dined at table on the last evening of his life.
As an officer cadet, Leigh Fermor trained alongside Derek Bond[11] and Iain Moncreiffe, and later joined the Irish Guards. Due to his knowledge of modern Greek, he was commissioned in the General List in August 1940 and became a liaison officer in Albania. He fought in Crete and mainland Greece. During the German occupation, he returned to Crete three times, once by parachute, and was one of a small number of Special Operations Executive (SOE) officers posted to organise the island's resistance to the occupation. Disguised as a shepherd and nicknamed Michalis or Filedem, he lived for over two years in the mountains. With Captain Bill Stanley Moss as his second in command, Leigh Fermor led the party that in 1944 captured and evacuated the German commander, Major General Heinrich Kreipe.
Leigh Fermor was noted for his strong physical constitution, even though he smoked 80 to 100 cigarettes a day. Although in his last years he suffered from tunnel vision and wore hearing aids, he remained physically fit up to his death and dined at table on the last evening of his life.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 23 July 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
dined at table on the last evening of his life.what now?
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 July 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
xp that was what was known as "a good war"
― Neil S, Friday, 23 July 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link