(International) Guess the Location (see rules post 1)

jmayo

GBX wrote: »

Lets rule them in ..

Badabing...
That is the SouthernmOST point in Continental US of A .... Key West

And I thought it was some weird postbox that wasn't blue...

donegal.

key west

GBX

jmayo wrote: »

Badabing...
That is the SouthernmOST point in Continental US of A .... Key West

And I thought it was some weird postbox that wasn't blue...

Spot on!

jmayo

Ok .....

enda1

Spain?

jmayo

enda1 wrote: »

Spain?

Indeed it is...

enda1

Canaries?

jmayo

enda1 wrote: »

Canaries?

Not Canaries

GBX

Santorini?

jmayo

GBX wrote: »

Santorini?

Is there a Santorini in Spain ?
If there is one in Spain then this isn't it.

GBX

jmayo wrote: »

Is there a Santorini in Spain ?
If there is one in Spain then this isn't it.

I must remember to scroll up and not just random guess :P

GBX

Bilboa

jmayo

Not Bilbao.

RoryMac

Majorca

Arsemageddon

Grenada?

tricky D

Vejer de la Frontera

tricky D

The Plaza de España

From 36°15'13.18"N 5°57'45.61"W

tricky D

Gonna go ahead if that's OK.

jmayo

tricky D wrote: »

The Plaza de España

From 36°15'13.18"N 5°57'45.61"W

Yep that's it.
Lovely place.


As for your pic ...

Normandy, France.

tricky D

For the week that's in it... do go on...

jmayo

tricky D wrote: »

For the week that's in it... do go on...

????

BTW is it France ?

tricky D

It is indeed France and Normandy and...

jmayo

tricky D wrote: »

It is indeed France and Normandy and...

Ok give us a chance ....
I knew I recognised something about it...

Avenue Commandant Kieffer
Bénouville
Normandy.

You are looking from Pegasus bridge.

First place in France liberated I believe.
Hard to believe how long it has been.

Here is piece of trivia
Richard Todd in the The Longest Day movie played Major Howard who led the assualt, actually was in a unit that reinforced Major Howard in real life.
The days when actors were real men.

Oh and Todd was Irish.

BTW that is a Bofors 40 mm.
Lovely bit of kit.

I may not be online this evening, someone else can have my go.
Who was my standin again in the event I am found with drugs or sex tape ?

tricky D

Yep, taken from Pegasus Bridge (another rolling lift bascule bridge).

Trivia:

Richard Todd, who played Maj. John Howard, leader of the British airborne assault on the Pegasus Bridge, took part in the real bridge assault on D-Day. He was offered the chance to play himself but took the part of Maj. Howard instead. In the film, shortly after the British have captured the Orne bridge (later renamed Horsa Bridge), one of the soldiers tells Todd, playing Howard, that all they have to do now is sit tight and await the arrival of the 7th Parachute Battalion, to which Todd's character replies dismissively: "the Paras are always late". This was a private joke, as Todd had been the adjutant of the 7th Parachute Battalion on D-Day.

jmayo

tricky D wrote: »

Yep, taken from Pegasus Bridge (another rolling lift bascule bridge).

Trivia:

I had just edited that in.

Great movie apart from John bloody Wayne who had to have a wheel barrow to carry him around because his customary horse would really have looked stupid.

tricky D

jmayo wrote: »

John bloody Wayne

That's where I reach for the fast forward.

Also:

While everyone else accepted $25,000 as payment, Wayne insisted on $250,000 to punish producer Zanuck for referring to him as "poor John Wayne" regarding Wayne's problems with his lavish movie The Alamo.

Besides:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uv_WGEHr4I

cabla

I guess I'll jump in

http://postimg.org/image/5ogablf95/

M.T. Cranium

Charleston, South Carolina -- turns out that the statue is "Confederate Defenders" -- I was not familiar with the location but guessed it was a city in the southeastern U.S. with water to the south (indicated to be looking west, palm trees, high sun angle etc, American cars etc).

So I will look for one to post.

cabla

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Charleston, South Carolina -- turns out that the statue is "Confederate Defenders" -- I was not familiar with the location but guessed it was a city in the southeastern U.S. with water to the south (indicated to be looking west, palm trees, high sun angle etc, American cars etc).

So I will look for one to post.

Well that didn't last long! Well done - great place I spent 3 months there, I'd recommend it.

M.T. Cranium

Thanks, may get there some day ...

here's somewhere a bit different (I hope)