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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2761 Post by llondel » Sat Jan 08, 2022 5:36 am

Yes, that's the one. Drove over it back in 2011, Atlantis was on the Kennedy launch pad for the final time. We came close to it last month but didn't actually cross it.

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#2762 Post by FD2 » Sat Jan 08, 2022 8:52 am

Thanks llondel - nothing ready so open house please. That looks like quite a drive!

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#2763 Post by fin » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:52 pm

Easy one.
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#2764 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Fri Jan 14, 2022 3:01 pm

My Google search came up with Capetown. :D
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#2765 Post by fin » Fri Jan 14, 2022 3:52 pm

Congrats to you and google. This is a great hotel and a very memorable visit as well.
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#2766 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sat Jan 15, 2022 4:33 am

OH as I have nothing to post at the mo. :)
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#2767 Post by llondel » Sat Jan 15, 2022 4:50 am

OK, this place is often the butt of jokes about a place in the US. Hopefully that's enough of a clue :D
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#2768 Post by FD2 » Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:04 am

Back side of Mount Rushmore?

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#2769 Post by llondel » Sat Jan 15, 2022 4:46 pm

FD2 wrote:
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Back side of Mount Rushmore?
That's it. Didn't expect it to last long, and I have the feeling I did this one before, too.

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#2770 Post by FD2 » Sat Jan 15, 2022 6:12 pm

Thanks llondel. This may go quickly too:

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#2771 Post by llondel » Sat Jan 15, 2022 6:33 pm

That looks like a place below an erupting volcano with lava in the streets.

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#2772 Post by FD2 » Sat Jan 15, 2022 7:13 pm

Like La Palma?

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#2773 Post by FD2 » Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:13 pm

Faz favor - it's an Atlantic Island.

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#2774 Post by CharlieOneSix » Mon Jan 17, 2022 1:11 am

A pure guess from memories of 30 years ago - San Sebastián, La Gomera?
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#2775 Post by FD2 » Mon Jan 17, 2022 1:20 am

Almost due north from La Gomera, C16. The volcano was a red herring from llondel.

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#2776 Post by om15 » Mon Jan 17, 2022 8:50 am

Funchal I think.

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#2777 Post by FD2 » Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:54 am

om15 has it - Funchal at night.

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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2778 Post by om15 » Mon Jan 17, 2022 11:37 am

Thank you, I spent a couple of months in this hotel with work, in the summer, it was very nice and much better than most places I was dispatched to.

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#2779 Post by Smeagol » Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:40 pm

Looks to be a nice hotel and almost certainly a Grand Hotel. But apart from being in the UK, where oh! where is it?
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#2780 Post by Opsboi » Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:51 pm

Smeagol wrote:
Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:40 pm
Looks to be a nice hotel and almost certainly a Grand Hotel. But apart from being in the UK, where oh! where is it?
Might we be in Devon?

If so, looks a bit Sidmouthy

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