Euro GTravel Quiz #31 - Places?
Jan 12th, 2015, 10:33 AM
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Euro GTravel Quiz #31 - Places?
Name the city or location the place is in and tell a bit about it!
1- The Zeedijk?
2- Tacheles?
3- Trummelbach Falls?
4- Auvers-sur-Oise
5- Vezelay?
6- Stoke Poges?
7- Brick Lane?
8- Lullingstone Roman Villa?
9- Tivoli (the Italian town not the Copenhagen amusement park)?
10 - Kinderdijk?
1- The Zeedijk?
2- Tacheles?
3- Trummelbach Falls?
4- Auvers-sur-Oise
5- Vezelay?
6- Stoke Poges?
7- Brick Lane?
8- Lullingstone Roman Villa?
9- Tivoli (the Italian town not the Copenhagen amusement park)?
10 - Kinderdijk?
Jan 13th, 2015, 07:47 AM
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Zeedijk, Amsterdam, centre of Chinatown.
Stoke Poges, Bucks, Charles 1 was imprisoned here before his execution. John Penn son of the founder of Pennsylvania held the manor here, and Elegy written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray was possibly written here. Gray is buried in the churchyard.
Lullingstone is a Roman-British villa near Eynsford in Kent.
Kinderdijk, a village in Zuid Holland, famous for the UNESCO world heritage site, lots of windmills, worth a visit.
Stoke Poges, Bucks, Charles 1 was imprisoned here before his execution. John Penn son of the founder of Pennsylvania held the manor here, and Elegy written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray was possibly written here. Gray is buried in the churchyard.
Lullingstone is a Roman-British villa near Eynsford in Kent.
Kinderdijk, a village in Zuid Holland, famous for the UNESCO world heritage site, lots of windmills, worth a visit.
Jan 13th, 2015, 08:18 AM
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Jan 13th, 2015, 08:45 AM
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5- Vezelay Abbey has, I'm forever reading in textbooks on Romanesque architecture, close to then most fabulous Romanesque sculptures almost anywhere.
It's also close to the Riviera/Italy/Alps to Cotswolds motorway system. But never quite close enough for us to divert for long enough for me to see it: there's always a tunnel booking at one end, a cutoff time for house keys at the other or a lunch booking at Lyons keeping me away.
One more stimulus to plan the next drive in advance.
It's also close to the Riviera/Italy/Alps to Cotswolds motorway system. But never quite close enough for us to divert for long enough for me to see it: there's always a tunnel booking at one end, a cutoff time for house keys at the other or a lunch booking at Lyons keeping me away.
One more stimulus to plan the next drive in advance.
Jan 13th, 2015, 08:53 AM
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Tivoli was built by the Emperor Hadrian as his country cottage, with gazillions of statues surviving the depredations after the Fall of Rome.
By the 16th century, the ruin was in the possession of the d'Estes, with lots of the statues initially finding their way into family houses. Chief recycler was the family Cardinal, whose personal collection formed the basis for a huge slug of the classical statues that gobsmacked Tuscan artists like Michelangelo, and influenced the High Renaissance.
By the 16th century, the ruin was in the possession of the d'Estes, with lots of the statues initially finding their way into family houses. Chief recycler was the family Cardinal, whose personal collection formed the basis for a huge slug of the classical statues that gobsmacked Tuscan artists like Michelangelo, and influenced the High Renaissance.
Jan 13th, 2015, 09:03 AM
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flanner = 2 plus two bonus points for such great insights! The Villa d'Este is renown for its statue- and fountain-full gardens not so much the so-so villa IMO itself - a GREAT day trip from Rome by bus or train. Combine it with Hadrian's Villas a few miles out of town towards Rome - to me one of the finest Roman archaeological sites in Italy!
https://www.google.com/search?q=tivo...w=1280&bih=860
https://www.google.com/search?q=tivo...w=1280&bih=860
Jan 13th, 2015, 10:51 AM
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I think Auvers-sur-oise is in France, not far from Paris. They have an impressionist exhibit there and a house where Van Gogh lived. Not a bad day trip from Paris altho we got lost as all get out trying to get there by public transportation.
Jan 13th, 2015, 11:34 AM
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I was so looking forward to another quiz from PalenQ.>
satire and sarcasm will get you everywhere with moi!
Bellarosa- thanks for the seemingly sincere kudos - it does help that folks may actually enjoy it as I certainly do in this ice-bound Northern Michigan - low of 13 F tonight - thanks to Bella at least.
satire and sarcasm will get you everywhere with moi!
Bellarosa- thanks for the seemingly sincere kudos - it does help that folks may actually enjoy it as I certainly do in this ice-bound Northern Michigan - low of 13 F tonight - thanks to Bella at least.
Jan 13th, 2015, 12:07 PM
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Stoke Poges, also the location of the famous golf course, now called Stoke Park, used for Bond vs Goldfinger golfing match, though it was supposed to have taken place at Royal St George's Sandwich on the Kent coast.
Jan 13th, 2015, 12:29 PM
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annhig - if still around here is a softball question for yuh:
The WHO, rock band, formed around 1964, in this gritty London suburb? (Just off the Srubs!) and a place I stayed many days at defunct Tent City in the 1970s!
The WHO, rock band, formed around 1964, in this gritty London suburb? (Just off the Srubs!) and a place I stayed many days at defunct Tent City in the 1970s!
Jan 13th, 2015, 01:40 PM
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Yes Acton it twas and it was a dump in general. Local punks made raids trying to steal our bikes - we kept to staying up all night so our bikers would have bikes to ride - a real tough place, for London but not Detroit!
Jan 13th, 2015, 04:31 PM
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I was in Kinderdijk last year.
Well preserved 19 Windmills built in 1740.
Toured inside a Windmill and was shown how it worked.
Did not that the owner or caretaker actually lives there , inside the windmill.
Well preserved 19 Windmills built in 1740.
Toured inside a Windmill and was shown how it worked.
Did not that the owner or caretaker actually lives there , inside the windmill.
Jan 13th, 2015, 06:23 PM
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Should be " Did not know..... that the owner actually lives in the windmill and that there is a waiting time of 2 years to try to get or live in a windmill.
Jan 14th, 2015, 12:51 PM
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# 2 Was not answered - Tacheles is a kind of squat in old East Berlin that is now an arts center for young alternative music and art, etc - kind of hard to described but very famous locally. Open to the public last time I was there and a different quriky surprise in every room- has some nice pubs too!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Tach...w=1455&bih=977
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthaus_Tacheles
https://www.google.com/search?q=Tach...w=1455&bih=977
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthaus_Tacheles
