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 Well is is in fact a bungee jump centre. They have erected a tower crane right at the very top, and lunatics from all over Europe pay good money to be hoisted up to the end of the jib and are then released in an uncontrolled fall until brought up short by the rubber rope. Not my cup of tea.
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16th October 2018, 19:31
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Dave, It is indeed a Soviet era nuclear test site, named The Polygon, in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. https://caravanistan.com/kazakhstan/...hatov-polygon/ Regards, Pat
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16th October 2018, 19:57
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This port lies approx East by South of Liverpool.
Where is it?
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16th October 2018, 20:17
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Where are these ruined cottages?
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20th October 2018, 18:50
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I dont know where Pat but they look pretty lonesome. They would make a good painting.
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20th October 2018, 22:30
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Is that the Brecon Beacons in the background.??
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21st October 2018, 09:21
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21st October 2018, 10:57
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Given Pat's pix this one might be interesting. A stomping ground of mine since I was a kid …
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Yes I've clumped on the hills about there many times. The two best known hills are Moelwyn Mawr and Cnicht, sometimes called the Matterhorn of Wales. These are literally an abandoned village in the vast slate mine workings above the village of Tanygrisiau on the outskirts of Blaenau Ffestiniog. Once a mighty slate mining area. All the hills you see are riddled with tunnels and vast caverns from centuries of slate mining. I've been down in quite a few of them in the past, but most are gated off now. It was quite a spooky place at night (and I'm not superstitious in any way) because once all of this was a thriving industry. Those pillars you can see were an elevated railway from one of the mines, and the building upper right with trees was the local chapel. It's really quite strange wandering through the ruins of a once thriving community. In some ways something us ex-seafarers can relate to.
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21st October 2018, 23:40
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Yes, Ive been there Bob, been down the mine they have opened as an attraction, and sat on a rock in that huge quarry and watched a peregrine falcon hurtle down at mach 1 and pluck a pigeon out of mid air.
I used to tell my kids that the steps on all the Blaenau chimney stacks were for Santas convenience because by the time he got to this God forsaken spot he was knackered.�� Last edited by Pat Kennedy; 24th October 2018 at 20:06.
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24th October 2018, 20:20
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Can you locate this ferry? Where is it's only destination?
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By Gum! That were quick Geoff.
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Can you locate this station?
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