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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#3521 Post by talmacapt » Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:10 am

I thought you may have been.

One of the more, possibly the most, interesting cruises I have been on.

Went along the west coast of Greenland, north to Ilulliset and then south, stopping at several small places on the way.

Iceland, along the north coast, stopping at various places to Seydisfjödur.

Then Faroes, Lerwick, Copenhagen, Gotland, and eventually Helsinki.

Two things surprised me, the size of icebergs (they look small from 35000 feet) and the waves that they produce when chunks fall off.

The boat, it is now a tourist hostel in Turku, was originally a car ferry in the Baltic sea and had about 50? cabins.

As an aside, thinking you were with Monarch, Monarch used to do charters, for Kristina Cruises, to the Caribbean, with the A300, after they acquired a bigger boat.

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#3522 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:28 am

Thank you. Only been to Kulusuk myself, in a Cessna 152.

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#3523 Post by Woody » Wed Aug 10, 2022 8:00 am

Should we be thinking Canadian?
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#3524 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Aug 10, 2022 12:48 pm

Nope.
Further south than here. Although it does look a bit like the end of the world, doesn't it?

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#3525 Post by talmacapt » Wed Aug 10, 2022 1:42 pm

Caribbean?

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#3526 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Aug 10, 2022 3:12 pm

No.
It does have a certain colonial style though.
Other side of the Pond, one of the colonisers.

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#3527 Post by Opsboi » Wed Aug 10, 2022 3:24 pm

Portugal?

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#3528 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Aug 10, 2022 3:48 pm

Close, no cigar.
If you headed due west from here, you'd end up in New Hampshire.

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#3529 Post by Smeagol » Wed Aug 10, 2022 7:07 pm

How about Cape Finisterre lighthouse in NW Spain?
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#3530 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Aug 10, 2022 7:38 pm

Spot on!
It was indeed the End of the World to the Romans.

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#3531 Post by Smeagol » Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:04 pm

Thank you Fox3.
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#3532 Post by talmacapt » Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:37 pm

Scottish, Grampian?

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#3533 Post by CharlieOneSix » Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:50 pm

One in my neck of the woods, was there about 5 years ago - Drummond Castle and Gardens just outside Crieff - Perthshire, not Grampian.

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#3534 Post by talmacapt » Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:58 pm

You beat me to it, I lived in Auchedly Schoolhouse (edge of the Haddo Estate), bought it off Ron Kann (Chinooks, BAH), for several years in the 80s.

Close to Gerry Beecher, long gone, et al..

Assuming you were a Bristow man.

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#3535 Post by Smeagol » Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:31 pm

C16 has it. It is Drummond Castle between Crief and Muthill, Pershire. Gardens are beautiful but the most impressive part for me was the drive from the road, must be an avenue of trees over a mile long.

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#3536 Post by CharlieOneSix » Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:11 pm

talmacapt wrote:
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....Close to Gerry Beecher, long gone, et al..

Assuming you were a Bristow man.
Yes, Bristow for my final 12 years after they took us (BCAL Helicopters) over. Didn't know Jerry Beecher but knew of him. I think he was on the Met Police contract at one point. Skin cancer I seem to recall.
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#3537 Post by CharlieOneSix » Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:27 pm

Inspired by Smeagol's avenue of trees......
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#3538 Post by Karearea » Fri Aug 12, 2022 4:27 pm

Is that the Meikleour Beech Hedge?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meikleour_Beech_Hedges

Very beautiful.

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#3539 Post by CharlieOneSix » Fri Aug 12, 2022 4:47 pm

It is indeed. Well done.

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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#3540 Post by Smeagol » Fri Aug 19, 2022 9:06 pm

Just to get this back on page1

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