Places of Interest

[billyturnip]

Where's that?

 

[MalcC]

Where's that?

Pizaland.

Malc

 

[billyturnip]

Pizaland.

Malc

Not Pisahut then?

 

[jai]

Pizaland.

Malc

no, you have to be more original ...

First I want to tell you that I do not feel offended, and I smile I too
but you have to stop comparing every Italian region with the pizza ...

Pisa should call her "soupland"one of the many local dishes

or since we are in Tuscany "FiorentinaLand" a little slice of meat
minimum 5 cm thick and heavy 1 / 1.5 kg one of the many Italian delicacies

 

[MalcC]

Hi Jai

I tried the meat dish when I was in Florence a few year's back. Delicious.
Would love to go back one day.

Malc

 

[peedee]

Getting away from regional food focus for a moment...
Here's a multinational place of interest.
quite busy on late summer weekends but you will hear the languages of the world when you visit.
Paul.

 

[MalcC]

Getting away from regional food focus for a moment...
Here's a multinational place of interest.
quite busy on late summer weekends but you will hear the languages of the world when you visit.
Paul.

The eighth wonder of the world.

Malc

 

[tonydawe]

Approximately 100 kilometres north of my home in Perth are The Pinnacles. They are a natural coastal desert wonder comprising hundreds of limestone features that from a distance could be, and were, mistaken for a ruined ancient city.

When the early British explorer William Dampier charted the west coast of Australia in 1688 (100 years before Captain Cook claims to have "discovered" Australia), Dampier observed The Pinnacles from his ship and reported in his log that he observed a ruined city comprising tall buildings on the coast that had been abandoned. The report caused alarm in the British Admiralty because of the fear that France may have already discovered and colonised the lost southern continent of Terra Australis. It was more than 200 years before someone went to check on his reports, only to discover an utterly barren, desolate and lifeless desert and these weird shapes carved by wind and sand out in the middle of nowhere.

Not as pretty as those castles you European's love so much, but a pretty cool story.

 

[peedee]

Looks like a heck of a place to wander through Tony.


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[Ferris]

The report caused alarm in the British Admiralty because of the fear that France may have already discovered and colonised the lost southern continent of Terra Australis.
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I think it was this one in particular that caused alarm:

 

[peedee]

There's always one.

Makes a change that it wasn't me

Paul

 

[Ferris]

No kidding, this one is actually at the pinnacles...

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

And the castle in the serie Merlin
Chateau de Pierrefond ( France )
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Simply stunning

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Castles are like tanks : a study all of there own

 

[martin tabony]

Alnwick castle has been closed this week, because of filming for the new Transformers film. Also a car chase through Granger Street, Newcastle on Tyne. And they fined me for going in a bus lane !

Martin

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

I went thru a bus gate today , hope there was no camera

 

[DEL]

I went thru a bus gate today , hope there was no camera

Criminal. You deserve to be sent to Van Diemen's Land.

 

[Viking Bob]

Went to visit this place about 2 years ago on a trip to Snowdonia. Small but worth a visit.
Set in a peaceful Shropshire valley near the Welsh border, Stokesay Castle presents visitors with the placid face of the English Middle Ages. One of the finest fortified manor houses in England, it was built in the 1280s by the fabulously rich wool merchant Laurence of Ludlow. Today it forms an exceptionally picturesque ensemble of 13th-century towers, a magnificent great hall and a 17th-century gatehouse – the only substantial addition made to its fabric since the late 13th century.