Euro Travel Quiz # 39 - Potpourri...
 

Back by not so popular demand but here goes today's quiz:

1- In Bruges, Belgium it is popular to ride a bike or take a boat out to this old port of Bruges - now a small town with some imposing old Flemish facades on the main canal - about 5 miles from Bruges itself. What is this small old port?

2- What are the fabled Misral winds and what direct do they blow and where?

3- In Amsterdam the Melkweg is very famous for years now - what is the Milky Way as it is called in English and where is it?

4- What is San sebastian, Spain's name in the local language of Basque?

5- In France what is the basic diference between a Boulangerie and a Patisserie?

6- Hatfield, a small town just north of London, is known for Hatfield House, one of Britain's fine stately houses/estates - but what famous even happened near Hatfield on the railway several years ago?

7- To get to Paris' Euro Disney what RER station would you get off at (same name as the all-new planned town it is in?

8- Marco Polo allegedly was born on this Adriatic island - even though facts may not prove it nevertheless there is a Marco Polo House on this island.

9- What are the infamous words (in German or English translation) emblazzoned on the entrance gate to Auschwitz Concentration Camp/Memorial.

10 - Mosel white wines are highly touted - the Mosel is one of Europe's most northerly wine-producing regions due to the deep gorge and dark slate stones that where the valley faces south allows it to be warm enough to have vineyards. Q - What is the official name of this wine growing region - not just Mosel but Mosel-????-???? wine district (names of two other river valleys nearby).

Good luck and the winner wins (plus S&H)!

I know five right away.
Have to go for the day will check back in later.

Good Luck to all !

Percy has the final say on any problems, complaints, who wins, etc. Thanks Percy!

4 Donostia
9 Arbeit macht Frei

2 down 8 to go!

I guess annhig is boycotting now - or girlcotting actually because of past reprimands, rather unfairly done IMO but he's the final arbitrator from Percy - she is on double secret probation but does not know that (don't tell her either!)

1. Zeebrugge
2. North winds over the Northern Mediterranean, particularly down the Rhone Valley.
3. Former sugar refinery and milk factory, now a concert venue, behind the Stadschouwburg, on the Lijnbaansgracht.
6. Train crash in 2000,2001?. 4 killed.

Have to leave again soon

Time for a few hints

#5 They are bakeries that make different treats.

#7 The initials are M-la-V-C .

#8 They may make his home a museum, it has a lookout tower ( loggia). Island starts with K .

#9 Two lovely valleys near Koblenz. ( S and R )

Bye have to run

5. Bread / pastries
8. Korcula
9. Saar Ruher

7 Marne-la-Vallée

What are the fabled Misral winds and what direct do they blow and where?

It is monthly known as the Misral cycle.

And the winner is: ( drum roll ,tum-tum-tum)

hetismij2: Yeah :)
Ruuner up: SeeDee, good for you ((F))

You all gave good answers and I am more lenient than PalenQ.

Misral aka Mistral

Well I was thinking of Damme instead of Zeebrugge for #1 but can justify Zeebrugge as well - so I'll go with percy's being more forgiving and Zeebrugge does make sense though more than 5 miles from Bruges - I've biked between Zeebrugge and Bruges (Zeebruges?) many times but it ain't that far so here's to the winner, hetismij2!