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Old 16th October 2018, 13:16
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There is indeed a restaurant and various other shops...it is famous as a pancake house.

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Old 16th October 2018, 16:16
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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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Old 16th October 2018, 16:27
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Where and what is this place?
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Old 16th October 2018, 16:55
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Russian Nuclear test site, in Kazakhstan...don't know the proper name.
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Old 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/


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Old 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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Old 16th October 2018, 20:17
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Where are these ruined cottages?
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Old 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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Old 20th October 2018, 19:43
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I know they are in Wales as they were on a calendar....but don't know where.

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Old 20th October 2018, 22:30
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Is that the Brecon Beacons in the background.??
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Old 20th October 2018, 23:20
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Where are these ruined cottages?
Rhos Quarry Cottages (Barrack ruins) Snowdonia. >
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Old 21st October 2018, 09:21
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Thats correct JustWin.they are close to Capel Curig in Snowdonia.
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Old 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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Old 21st October 2018, 15:19
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This port lies approx East by South of Liverpool.
Where is it?
Kobe with Port Island ans an appendage
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Old 21st October 2018, 16:00
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Kobe with Port Island ans an appendage
Spot on Sid.
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Old 21st October 2018, 16:02
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Given Pat's pix this one might be interesting. A stomping ground of mine since I was a kid …
You must have had big hobnail boots on Bob, youve wrecked the place!
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Old 21st October 2018, 16:24
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In the 80's the mono rail ran from Sanomya to port island on a loop. No Driver and enclosed stations. The train always stopped at the doors and they would not open unles they were in line. Wonder how it went on after the 95 Earth Quake
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Old 21st October 2018, 22:09
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You must have had big hobnail boots on Bob, youve wrecked the place!

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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Old 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.��

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Old 24th October 2018, 20:14
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What bridge is this, and what waterway does it span?
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Old 24th October 2018, 20:19
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What bridge is this, and what waterway does it span?
Crosses the Oued Maas River, it is the new Botlek Bridge so that the Maasvlakte extension can happen..............loads of money"!

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Old 24th October 2018, 20:20
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Can you locate this ferry? Where is it's only destination?
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Old 24th October 2018, 20:23
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Crosses the Oued Maas River, it is the new Botlek Bridge so that the Maasvlakte extension can happen..............loads of money"!

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By Gum! That were quick Geoff.
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Old 24th October 2018, 20:51
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By Gum! That were quick Geoff.
They were building it last time I was there in 2014
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Old 27th October 2018, 20:16
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Can you locate this station?
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