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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#3841 Post by emjay » Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:11 am

Raffles Hotel it is. The surrounds still have class: Beach Road (it really was edging the sea before reclamation) leads to the Padang, a tree-lined open area still used for cricket. Alas, with the astronomical land values, construction continues on high rise "carbuncles" that now dwarf the hotel and shop houses nearby.

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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#3842 Post by talmacapt » Fri Dec 09, 2022 1:08 pm

I thought I was answering Ex- A's challenge but it seems to have disappeared.

Stayed there once, for one night, on a Kuwait Airways detachment after one of the Gulf Wars.

BA had a DC10, and some Tristars, on lease as the Iraquis had nicked their aircraft.

Let someone else get it as I will make it OH.

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#3843 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Dec 09, 2022 1:24 pm

talmacapt wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 1:08 pm
I thought I was answering Ex- A's challenge but it seems to have disappeared.

Stayed there once, for one night, on a Kuwait Airways detachment after one of the Gulf Wars.

BA had a DC10, and some Tristars, on lease as the Iraquis had nicked their aircraft.

Let someone else get it as I will make it OH.
Some kind person, by PM, pointed out that I had left the name of the hotel on it so this plonker took it down.

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#3844 Post by G~Man » Fri Dec 09, 2022 6:49 pm

I will take the open house:
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#3845 Post by Rossian » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:07 pm

Is it the bridge across the Guadalqivir (sp?) in Seville? Stayed in a modern hotel near there where the outer walls were falling away from the inner structure leaving gaps you couldput a fist into. OH if correct.

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#3846 Post by G~Man » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:18 pm

Not that bridge no.
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#3847 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:42 pm

Sorry to go back a bit, but nice to see Raffles again. The crew hotel on my early trips to Sing. Given a ground floor room with an inside "Balcony" overlooking an internal Passageway to reception, so got comments from passers-by seeing me eat breakfast that had been served to the room mid-afternoon ( yes, they did that) after waking up following an early arrival. Personal room air-conditoner was louder then a Pratt and Whitney, but once used to it at least it kept all the other noises at bay ! Took Mrs. ExS on our first date - 34 years ago ! ( to the day ! )

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#3848 Post by Smeagol » Sat Dec 10, 2022 8:56 pm

How about the Sundial Bridge, Redding, California?
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#3849 Post by G~Man » Sat Dec 10, 2022 9:02 pm

Smeagol wrote:
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How about the Sundial Bridge, Redding, California?
You are correct..... It is about 4 miles from my house---I live on the outskirts of town:
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.Read about it here: https://www.turtlebay.org/sundial-bridge


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#3850 Post by Smeagol » Sat Dec 10, 2022 9:27 pm

Thank you G~Man.

I have a feeling that we have had that particular bridge submitted in the past which gave me an edge.

How about a fort this time?
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#3851 Post by 1DC » Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:28 pm

THe Oman?

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#3852 Post by Smeagol » Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:38 pm

Correct 1DC, it is in the Oman, but can you be a bit more specific?
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#3853 Post by jimtherev » Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:46 pm

Surely you don't need any further details?
Isn't is always the fort that counts?

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#3854 Post by Karearea » Sat Dec 10, 2022 11:00 pm

^ *applause, chortles*
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#3855 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sat Dec 10, 2022 11:30 pm

Khasab?

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#3856 Post by Smeagol » Sun Dec 11, 2022 12:13 am

Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote:
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Khasab?
Further west.
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#3857 Post by Smeagol » Sun Dec 11, 2022 4:52 pm

Clues:

It is on the Musandam Peninsula.
There is a great deal more development there now than when my photo was taken some 20 years ago. There is a very large mosque next door to the fort which did not exist then.
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#3858 Post by Smeagol » Sun Dec 11, 2022 5:00 pm

Clues:

It is on the Musandam Peninsula.
There is a great deal more development there now than when my photo was taken some 20 years ago. There is a very large mosque next door to the fort which did not exist then.
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#3859 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Dec 11, 2022 6:39 pm

I've been around the houses on this one a fair bit.
I really do think this image is of Khasab, not Bukha.
That angle on the round tower at Buhka would have the Gulf in the background, not mountains, and I can't find any other fort further west than Khasab, other than Buhka (which has a big mosque next door).

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#3860 Post by Smeagol » Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:21 pm

Fox3, you have it! It is Bukha.
I think the 20 years between my photo being taken and current Google pictures available have resulted in major developments and changes to the infrastructure and roads. I know my picture is Bukha as I remember travelling up the coast from Ras al Khaimah and taking numerous pics of the spectacular coastline. Also, I have never been to Khasab, did not get that far.

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