The Capetonian WOE Thread

[Ex-Ascot]

Not an airport, so a harbour control tower, background could be Med or Africa.

Correct. And, Med correct but not Monaco/Monte Carlo Ian.

[Ex-Ascot]

Come on guys this is easy now. Big tower = big harbour.

[Ex-Ascot]

Come on guys this is easy now. Big tower = big harbour.

Gone to a new page so here it is again.

[Karearea]

Greece?

[FD2]

I tried Toulon and Marseille - no luck, but didn't try Piraeus until just now...

[Ex-Ascot]

I tried Toulon and Marseille - no luck, but didn't try Piraeus until just now...

Generally I do not post places I haven't been to. No idea how many times we have passed this tower on the way to or on the way back from Amorgos. Piraeus is an incredibly busy port and the port control is worthy of LHR. Port entry slots are as punctiliously applied as a landing slot at any international airport. Must try to get a tower visit one day. Maybe RiS has some contacts.

FD2 to launch next.

[FD2]

How about this one then?

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[om15]

I recognise that one, went in there in a 748 on the way back from Zambia. Let some else snap it up.

[Ex-Ascot]

I have flown the 748 many times from Southern Africa to the UK. Every time we took a different route for interest. Do not recognise this. However I bet I have been there.

So, are we in Africa?

[om15]

On our ferry flight we found both engines clapped and ITT limiting, so we travelled slowly and stopped for fuel more than anticipated, our route was Lusaka - Nairobi - Khartoum - Alexandrea - XXXXXXXX - Brindisi - Clement Ferrand - Exeter. We night stopped at XXXX and got pretty plastered.

[talmacapt]

Heraklion or Chania? Took a DC10 into the former one night, quite interesting VOR approach. The F/E had been there before and pointed out the runway, A dark hole in the middle of a sea of lights.

[om15]

It would be one of those two, to get the coconut you will have to submit a final answer.

[FD2]

Talma - choose a or b - one will get the prize!

[FD2]

Ex-A You might be nearer the place some of the time...

[Smeagol]

After being led to the choice of two locations, a quick look at the maps of a well known website shows Heraklion to look pretty much identical to FD2's pic.

Cannot claim victory on this as Talma did all the work, credit must be his.

[FD2]

Thanks Smeagol - Heraklion it is - so you have control Talma.

When the ship visited Heraklion we flew ashore to a Greek Air Force airfield along the coast. We hoped to do some mountain flying and other exercises but the station commander and his men wouldn't let us out of their sight - it was the time of The Generals running the country so we did a some circuits and various practice failures and flew back on board.

The reception onboard first night was terrific as the British military attache was on leave when the guest list was put together, so it was done by the British consul and we had a great time meeting loads of old guys with walking sticks and big moustaches telling us, through interpreters, how they had waged a guerilla war against the Germans during WW2. Back then they looked on Brits as their saviours.

[talmacapt]

OH declared as I will be somewhat busy today.

The sauna bathroom towel rail has developed a leak and it will take a while to fix it.

[Woody]

Thanks Talmacapt

[Wodrick]

A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk.

The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa, the spa's director said Thursday.

"There is no kitsch or obscenity, it is a successful work of art," Alexander Kharchenko told The Associated Press. "An enema is almost a symbol of our region."

The Caucasus Mountains region is known for dozens of spas where enemas with water from mineral springs are routinely administered to treat digestive and other complaints.

[Opsboi]

A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk.

The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa, the spa's director said Thursday.

"There is no kitsch or obscenity, it is a successful work of art," Alexander Kharchenko told The Associated Press. "An enema is almost a symbol of our region."

The Caucasus Mountains region is known for dozens of spas where enemas with water from mineral springs are routinely administered to treat digestive and other complaints.

He's talking out of his arse