Unutterably Silly Let's Go Places!

[wodin]

Hammond

Hammond is a village in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,922 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Hammond. Hammond was home to the Running of the Llamas.

[tubemonkey]

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington (/ˈwɛlɪŋtən/; Māori: Te Whanganui-a-Tara [tɛ ˈfaŋanʉi a taɾa]) is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with 412,500 residents. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. Wellington is the major population centre of the southern North Island and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region, which also includes the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate and is the world's windiest city, with an average wind speed of over 26 km/h (16 mph).

Wellington is at the south-western tip of the North Island on Cook Strait, separating the North and South Islands. On a clear day the snowcapped Kaikoura Ranges are visible to the south across the strait. To the north stretch the golden beaches of the Kapiti Coast. On the east the Rimutaka Range divides Wellington from the broad plains of the Wairarapa, a wine region of national notability. With a latitude of 41° 17' South, Wellington is the southernmost capital city in the world. It is also the most remote capital city, the farthest away from any other capital. It is more densely populated than most other cities in New Zealand due to the restricted amount of land that is available between its harbour and the surrounding hills. It has very few open areas in which to expand, and this has brought about the development of the suburban towns. Because of its location in the Roaring Forties and its exposure to the winds blowing through Cook Strait, Wellington is the world's windiest city, with an average wind speed of 27 km/h (17 mph), and so is known by the nickname "Windy Wellington".

[Phyllis41]

Narnia

Narnia is a fantasy world created by C. S. Lewis as the primary location for his series of seven fantasy novels for children, The Chronicles of Narnia. The world is so called after the country of Narnia, in which much of the action of the Chronicles takes place.

[wodin]

Alderaan was a fictional planet featured in the Star Wars space opera franchise [in the Alderaan Sector of the Core Worlds]. It is blue-green in appearance and is depicted as a terrestrial planet with humanoid inhabitants. It is the home planet of Princess Leia Organa, one of the lead characters in the film series. In the original 1977 film, Star Wars, Alderaan is destroyed by the Death Star, a giant space station capable of destroying entire planets.[

[Phyllis41]

Norrköping, Sweden


The first trace of the city's name is from 1283, when Sophia of Denmark donated her rights of salmon fishing to the Skänninge monastery. The town is estimated to have received city status in the early 14th century, although no written documents exist prior to a document from 1384. This document, signed by Albrekt of Sweden is stored in the city archive today. Köping means there was a market there, while Nörr or Norr means "north". There is a smaller town nearby named Söderköping, or "South market".

[tubemonkey]

My bad

I forgot about the rule of using the last letter of the previous place as the first letter of the place I'm about to post.

I'll punish myself by not having any banana desserts for a week

[Phyllis41]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

My bad

I forgot about the rule of using the last letter of the previous place as the first letter of the place I'm about to post.

I'll punish myself by not having any banana desserts for a week

On the contrary, you should punish yourself by posting at least twice a day in this thread, and have double intake of bananas.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Phyllis41

On the contrary, you should punish yourself by posting at least twice a day in this thread, and have double intake of bananas.

...that's harsh

[tubemonkey]

Ghent, Belgium

Ghent (/ɡɛnt/; Dutch: Gent pronounced [ɣɛnt] (About this sound listen); French: Gand pronounced [ɡɑ̃] (About this sound listen); German: Gent pronounced [ˈɡɛnt] (About this sound listen)) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province and after Antwerp the largest municipality of Belgium. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. It is a port and university city.

[Phyllis41]

Tarragona, Spain

(My birth place. )

arragona is home to a large port and the Rovira i Virgili University. Much of its economic activity comes from a large number of chemical industries located south of the city.
The main living heritage is the Popular Retinue, a great parade of dances, bestiary and spoken dances- and the human towers. They specially participate in Santa Tecla Festival. They are so popular in Tarragona and also in all Catalonia that they have got their own home. It is called "Casa de la Festa", Festivities House, where you can visit them all the year.

[tubemonkey]

Adelaide, Australia

Adelaide (/ˈædəleɪd/ (About this sound listen) AD-ə-layd) is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2017, Adelaide had an estimated resident population of 1,333,927. Adelaide is home to more than 75 percent of the South Australian population, making it the most centralised population of any state in Australia.

Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city. Adelaide stretches 20 km (12 mi) from the coast to the foothills, and 94 to 104 km (58 to 65 mi) from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south.

[wodin]

Entwood, also known as Fangorn.

The Forest of Fangorn provided an important role in The Lord of the Rings novel as did Mirkwood and Lothlórien in the Third Age, a time when Sauron challenged Middle-earth to battle and domination. The forest provided the means by where adventure expanded with the breaking up of the Fellowship. Merry Brandybuck and Peregrin Took were the first to discover the Ents were alive but were dwindling in numbers due to the loss of the Entwives. They were lost because of the events of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. The forest was again severely damaged during the War of the Ring by the forces of Saruman who lived close by in the fortress of Isengard.

[drjd]

@ tubemonkey : You have probably taken Phyllis41's advice far too seriously.

Spoiler:

I'm worried about the banana part.

Originally Posted by wodin

Entwood, also known as Fangorn.

Dunkirk, France

It lies 10 kilometres from the Belgian border. Today Dunkirk is the world's northernmost Francophone city (not counting minor Canadian settlements such as Fermont, Quebec, which does have French as a majority language, but is not classified as a city).

[wodin]

Kīlauea

is a currently active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, and the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaiʻi. Located along the southern shore of the island, the volcano is between 300,000 and 600,000 years old and emerged above sea level about 100,000 years ago. It is the second youngest product of the Hawaiian hotspot and the current eruptive center of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain. Because it lacks topographic prominence and its activities historically coincided with those of Mauna Loa, Kīlauea was once thought to be a satellite of its much larger neighbor. Structurally, Kīlauea has a large, fairly recently formed caldera at its summit and two active rift zones, one extending 125*km (78*mi) east and the other 35*km (22*mi) west, as an active fault of unknown depth moving vertically an average of 2 to 20*mm (0.1 to 0.8*in) per year.

[Phyllis41]

Apeldoorn

City in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands.
Apeldoorn railway station is, among regular national and international services, the terminus for the Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij, a preserved steam railway that runs to Dieren via Beekbergen.