Unutterably Silly Let's Go Places!

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by drjd

Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Back there already? (see post #399 above).

Montignac, France

[drjd]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Back there already? (see post #399 above).

Aw... so sorry.. out of mind sometime..

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Montignac, France

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge is the home of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1209 and one of the top five universities in the world. The university includes the Cavendish Laboratory, King's College Chapel, and the Cambridge University Library. The Cambridge skyline is dominated by the last two buildings, along with the spire of the Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church, the chimney of Addenbrooke's Hospital and St John's College Chapel tower.

[wodin]

Ellsworth, Wisconsin, USA

Ellsworth is a village in and the county seat of Pierce County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,284 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Ellsworth.

[cromag]

Haddonfield, NJ

Home of Hadrosaurus foulkii, the first nearly-complete dinosaur skeleton to be discovered in the US. It has also been named the official state dinosaur of New Jersey.

[drjd]

Darlington, United Kingdom

Darlington is located in south Durham close to the River Tees which acts as the border between Durham and Yorkshire. Both the River Tees and River Skerne pass through the town, the River Skerne later joining the River Tees which then flows through Teesside and into the North Sea.


Darlington in 2004.

[wodin]

Netherlands

[drjd]

San Diego, California, United States

[wodin]

O`ahu, Hawaii, USA

[drjd]

Utrecht, Netherlands

Utrecht's ancient city centre features many buildings and structures several dating as far back as the High Middle Ages. It has been the religious centre of the Netherlands since the 8th century. It lost the status of prince-bishopric but remains the main religious center in the country. Utrecht was the most important city in the Netherlands until the Dutch Golden Age, when it was succeeded by Amsterdam as the country's cultural centre and most populous city.

[Phyllis41]

Tarragona, Spain

[drjd]

Ahome, Mexico

Ahome is a municipality on the coast of the Gulf of California in the northwestern part of the Mexican state of Sinaloa; it is adjacent to the southern border of Sonora state.

[cromag]

Englewood, NJ

From Wikipedia:

On November 11, 1951, the first direct dial long-distance telephone call in North America was placed from Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey to Mayor Frank Osborne of Alameda, California via AT&T's Bell System. The ten digit call (seven digits plus a three-digit area code) was connected automatically within 18 seconds.

[drjd]

Ding Dong, Texas

Ding Dong is an unincorporated community in Central Texas. It is situated on the Lampasas River, eight miles south of Killeen in southwestern Bell County.

Ding Dong was named when two early settlers in the town, Zulis Bell and Bert Bell, opened a store and hired the artist Cohn Cohen Hoover to make a sign for it. Hoover painted a sign with two bells on it. Inside the bells, Hoover painted the initials of the Bell brothers. Underneath one bell he painted the word "Ding" and the word "Dong" under the other bell. Over the years, because of this sign, this community became known as Ding Dong. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.

[wodin]

Gondwana

[drjd]

Originally Posted by wodin

Gondwana

I was a little curious about whether you are refererring to Gondwanaland, the supercontinent, including most of the landmasses in today's Southern Hemisphere, which have now moved entirely into the Northern Hemisphere or the Gondwana region of India, named after the Gondian people who live there, particularly in central parts of India.
Nothing important, just a curiosity.


Astrakhan, Russia

Astrakhan is situated in the Volga Delta, which is rich in sturgeon and exotic plants. The fertile area formerly contained the capitals of Khazaria and the Golden Horde. Astrakhan itself was first mentioned by travelers in the early 13th century as Xacitarxan. Tamerlane burnt it to the ground in 1395. From 1459 to 1556, Xacitarxan was the capital of Astrakhan Khanate. The ruins of this medieval settlement were found by archaeologists 12 km upstream from the modern-day city.


Astrakhan in the 17th century