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Sept 25, 2009 6:15:48 GMT 2
Post by WildlyTravelled on Sept 25, 2009 6:15:48 GMT 2
Can we only post about places starting with S?
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Sept 25, 2009 6:30:53 GMT 2
Post by Ethel Mertz on Sept 25, 2009 6:30:53 GMT 2
Sausalito
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Sept 25, 2009 7:27:40 GMT 2
Post by shrjeff on Sept 25, 2009 7:27:40 GMT 2
sebastopol... close to santa rosa...
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Sept 25, 2009 7:50:34 GMT 2
Post by happytraveller on Sept 25, 2009 7:50:34 GMT 2
Sant Antonino, a tiny little village sitting on top of a hill in Corsica
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Sept 25, 2009 8:22:36 GMT 2
Post by WildlyTravelled on Sept 25, 2009 8:22:36 GMT 2
Sydney!!
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Sept 25, 2009 15:15:38 GMT 2
Post by Tilly Star on Sept 25, 2009 15:15:38 GMT 2
San Sebastian
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Sept 25, 2009 16:36:45 GMT 2
Post by missalaska on Sept 25, 2009 16:36:45 GMT 2
South Africa - to be more specific South Peninsula
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Sept 25, 2009 18:10:16 GMT 2
Post by auntieannie on Sept 25, 2009 18:10:16 GMT 2
San Marino!
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Sept 25, 2009 18:11:43 GMT 2
Post by auntieannie on Sept 25, 2009 18:11:43 GMT 2
Sion! That one won't show as a pic...grrr Edited to fix the photo link.
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Sept 25, 2009 21:21:46 GMT 2
Post by Ethel Mertz on Sept 25, 2009 21:21:46 GMT 2
I didn't post a photo of Sausalito. It's just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, Ca.
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Sept 26, 2009 0:02:02 GMT 2
Post by Big Iain on Sept 26, 2009 0:02:02 GMT 2
Sligachan, Isle of Skye. View from the hotel car park Well known hotel right next to the cuillen hills on Skye. Is haven for walkers and climbers as most of the mountain climbs start from their car park as it has the only bridge for many miles around.
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Sept 27, 2009 22:25:53 GMT 2
Post by Hedonista on Sept 27, 2009 22:25:53 GMT 2
Sausages!
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Sept 28, 2009 3:36:33 GMT 2
Post by WildlyTravelled on Sept 28, 2009 3:36:33 GMT 2
Have you climbed that mountain at the front bigiain?
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Sept 28, 2009 10:22:06 GMT 2
Post by Big Iain on Sept 28, 2009 10:22:06 GMT 2
Wildly: No, it is the small one that we always walk past. I am saving it for my old age when the other Cuillens are all to difficult. It is called Marsco and is around 730M or so. Around 3miles as the crow flies is Sgurr Alasdair: It is the higher of the two peaks and is the highest mountain on Skye. I have had to abandon 2 attempts on this one because the weather has turned nasty just short of the summit. It is a scary place when the cloud suddenly comes down.
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Sept 28, 2009 10:27:22 GMT 2
Post by Big Iain on Sept 28, 2009 10:27:22 GMT 2
If anyone knows how to resize that pic, please do so.
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Sept 28, 2009 16:42:54 GMT 2
Post by Voy on Sept 28, 2009 16:42:54 GMT 2
Ethel.. put in about that canyon !
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Sept 28, 2009 20:27:51 GMT 2
Post by Ethel Mertz on Sept 28, 2009 20:27:51 GMT 2
SUMIDERO CANYON, CHIAPIS MEXICO Voy just might take a little boat ride down the canyon before she arrives in Oaxaca this December. Woo hoo!
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Sept 29, 2009 12:06:52 GMT 2
Post by auntieannie on Sept 29, 2009 12:06:52 GMT 2
oooh! superbe!
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Oct 1, 2009 9:35:11 GMT 2
Post by Kimby on Oct 1, 2009 9:35:11 GMT 2
SUMIDERO CANYON, CHIAPIS MEXICO Voy just might take a little boat ride down the canyon before she arrives in Oaxaca this December. Woo hoo! A perfect place for the Christmas season! When we were there in 1991, there was water running down the face of the cliff that supported a hanging garden of mosses and ferns, the shape of a Christmas tree, but 100+ feet high.
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Oct 1, 2009 11:17:45 GMT 2
Post by tarra on Oct 1, 2009 11:17:45 GMT 2
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Oct 2, 2009 1:19:44 GMT 2
Post by WildlyTravelled on Oct 2, 2009 1:19:44 GMT 2
There's one mountain in Tassie which I had to attempt three times before the weather was decent Another I've tried twice and both times no go I've luckier on some harder days long climbs/walks
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Oct 2, 2009 23:35:45 GMT 2
Post by goldie on Oct 2, 2009 23:35:45 GMT 2
Selcuk - in Turkey. Just south of Izmir and the comparatively modern town near Efes (Ephesus). It's about 7k from the tourist hell of Kusadasi and the people there are so beautiful...
On the third Sunday of every January they have a camel wrestling festival, which has now been going for about 100 years. Almost no tourists at this, as it's their (very mild) winter.
Sorry for the lack of photos but as you can see from today's posting on the main board I'm a wuss when it comes to knowing how to put one up. If you google for 'camel wrestling' though, you'll see some beauties.
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Oct 3, 2009 9:57:42 GMT 2
Post by goldie on Oct 3, 2009 9:57:42 GMT 2
Oh - and the Silk Road - and Samarkand: my next year's trip, from China thru to Istanbul. Tips from anyone who's done this route would be most welcome.
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Oct 3, 2009 11:01:28 GMT 2
Post by OnlyMark on Oct 3, 2009 11:01:28 GMT 2
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Oct 3, 2009 15:42:01 GMT 2
Post by Big Iain on Oct 3, 2009 15:42:01 GMT 2
Is Siwa far from Cairo, Mark? It looks like paradise to me. Very, very beautiful.
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Oct 3, 2009 16:46:30 GMT 2
Post by Voy on Oct 3, 2009 16:46:30 GMT 2
one of these days I will get there - it was one of the bases for the LRDG in WWII... from which Stirling and MacLean and the nutters of the SAS took off.. Goldie - my knowledge of the Silk Road is now 25 years old.. probably not much use anymore.. but Kashgar is wonderful, and if the bloody Hans have left anything of it by the time you get there - enjoy! Samarkand is great too - and Khiva and Bukhara -but,Tashkent=blah.
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Oct 3, 2009 17:49:03 GMT 2
Post by OnlyMark on Oct 3, 2009 17:49:03 GMT 2
Iain - There is no airport there and that is why it still has an air of being secluded. It's 750km from Cairo, it can be driven in a day, as I have done in the past, but mostly it takes two days especially if you have to use public transport. Also it is difficult to do a 'loop' through it and back round to the next oasis at Bahariya. There is a road but it is very bad and needs permits and permissions from Military Intelligence (oxymoron there).
Voy - funnily enough I have an interest in the LRDG as well. I'm not 100% sure but I have found reference to one of my relatives being in it and I've several books about them. I also have a great interest in the western desert and it's history with the 40 days road, Count László Almásy and Cambyses. You cannot forget Ralph Bagnold, a hero of mine.
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Oct 3, 2009 18:05:40 GMT 2
Post by Voy on Oct 3, 2009 18:05:40 GMT 2
Have you read Eastern Approaches, by Fitzroy MacLean? that section will have you howling out loud with laughter - as well as almost in tears. The whole book is just amazing, and Goldie? - his going to Samarkand in the middle of the Stalinist Purges is an amazing story.
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Oct 3, 2009 19:59:53 GMT 2
Post by Tilly Star on Oct 3, 2009 19:59:53 GMT 2
San Juan de Gaztelugatxe
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Oct 3, 2009 21:19:41 GMT 2
Post by Big Iain on Oct 3, 2009 21:19:41 GMT 2
San Giminiano
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