Lockdown non-touring quiz

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jgurney wrote:
Bonefishblues wrote:Try this, taken by daughter (who is not much fussed about lens cleaning...) on a boat trip, but the geologically-aware should be able to narrow it down to a relatively small area:

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Perhaps somewhere between Teignmouth and Beer, in Devon. If it was a commericial boat trip in something bigger than a dingy, perhaps from either Dawlish, Exmouth or Sidmouth (due to the restricted number of jetties and piers in the area).

That'll do, I think. It's between Torquay and Teignmouth. Devonian sandstone. Which occurs in a small area of Pembrokeshire, too.

Do read the book. Interesting stuff, not least about how we stuffed the French. No more details :wink:
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Jon Lucas wrote:[It seems ironic that the cannon is now sitting on what looks like quite a steeply graded bank, which I assume is artificial?


It is only a slight bank. The cannon stands in a slight dip. I don't know whether Roy's men excavated the dip to aid surveying or the builders of the later houses raised the nearby ground above it's 1784 level. This Streetview image https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4263469,-0.3655901,3a,75y,306.54h,76.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s9K37KX2Vf80DmIjDvoX1YQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D9K37KX2Vf80DmIjDvoX1YQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D89.053276%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0 shows the scene more clearly, and shows the dip is only slight. The baseline headed away beyond the fence behind the cannon.
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Not a bicycle in sight, but two distinctive and unusual vehicles. Where is this?

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You are at Ryde iow on the London tube train which looks very out of place!
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With a Griffon 12000TD in the background.

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Bonefishblues wrote:You are at Ryde IoW on the London tube train which looks very out of place!
Jdsk wrote:With a Griffon 12000TD in the background.

Spot on! Surely the only place in the world where it is possible to see a hovercraft from inside an ex-Tube train.

Another train in about the same location the first picture was taken from:
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Carry on someone please
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Bonefishblues wrote:Carry on someone please


Where is this place, which has a particular appeal to cyclists:

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The image below is located approx. in the centre of the one above.

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Clue: this is how cider is served there!

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I knew it was Brittany before I saw the cider. Somewhere near Roscoff, and I'm sure I've been there, but can't place it.
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ChrisF wrote:I knew it was Brittany before I saw the cider. Somewhere near Roscoff, and I'm sure I've been there, but can't place it.

Ile de Batz looking across to Roscoff?
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Barfleur?

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Mark S wrote:Ile de Batz looking across to Roscoff?

Well done! It is indeed on the Ile de Batz. The island is small but it's attractions making it worth the touring cyclist's while to make the ferry crossing are a very nice youth hostel and that the island is car-free. The first image was taken from the top of the island's old lighthouse and is indeed looking over to Roscoff.
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Does anyone recognise this?
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Þingvellir?

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Jdsk wrote:Þingvellir?

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That’s correct, Þingvellir National Park, about 45km east of Reykjavík. Well worth a visit if you are in the locality. Very quick answer, well done.
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