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Stolen to start:

Is that part of the old hippy trail from Istanbul to Goa?

Edit: it is far more puerile than tat

Most likely.

A friend of mine cycled all the way to Singapore from Amsterdam over 2 years.

Reckoned Iran was the best place with the friendliest people. I'd love to go one day

Certainly dig the food, however, the lack of alcohol would ensure it was a short trip!

There is plenty of Alcohol 8-)

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:54 am Most likely.

A friend of mine cycled all the way to Singapore from Amsterdam over 2 years.

Reckoned Iran was the best place with the friendliest people. I'd love to go one day

While they didn’t go to Iran, 15 years back two of my brothers went to Syria. Said they were the most friendly people they’d ever been amongst. There’s something to be said about those with very little.

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:54 am Most likely.

A friend of mine cycled all the way to Singapore from Amsterdam over 2 years.

Reckoned Iran was the best place with the friendliest people. I'd love to go one day

Easily the friendliest country I have visited, can't recommend it enough. Surprisingly, and disappointingly, the food was shite. It's one of my top 2 cuisines but the restaurants just served pretty much the same thing everywhere, home cooked was brilliant as you would hope.

It's fairly difficult to get booze unless you hang out with students, but even then drugs are used more than booze, particularly MDMA. You soon get in to the tea drinking vibe though.

Best bit is going to the incredible mosques and historic sites with no one else there.

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:50 am Stolen to start:

I was going to post it here but was too lazy to start a thread...

Sinkers wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:37 am

Creole? Jive? Street?

Maybe not recognised as official?

Results of the Russian constitutional referendum. Long live the Nenets Autonomous Okrug! Just kidding, it's scheduled to be merged with its neighbor...

How the French see France:

Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:08 am

Sinkers wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:37 am

Creole? Jive? Street?

Maybe not recognised as official?

This Map Of All Sunken Japanese Ships During WWII

Any Irish bordies confirm this?

Haast Eagle wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:47 pm Any Irish bordies confirm this?

Saw that on Reddit the other day, it's pretty close to accurate.

You won't get the Gaeltacht v Ghaltacht thing unless you're a Gaelic speaker. Basically Ghaltacht are foreign language speakers.

Haast Eagle wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:47 pm Any Irish bordies confirm this?

Someone should put in where all the Irish boredies are from.

Map of NZ Iwi (maori tribes)

What's with having significantly more diversity in the North Island? Greater population/more accomodating geography for more people to live in?

Nols wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2020 1:14 pm What's with having significantly more diversity in the North Island? Greater population/more accomodating geography for more people to live in?

Maori didn't settle the South Island until much later.

Dr. Fauci's Little Map of Horrors...

If it wasn't for Tasmania. You could sail from Hudson Bay to Alaska in one straight line

This thread needs more maps

Wroclaw/Breslau, 1562

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:09 am

This Map Of All Sunken Japanese Ships During WWII

Best game of Silent Service II ever!

Niegs wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 3:15 am

Some huge assumptions in there (100% registration and turnout in big counties), but interesting nonetheless. The 27.8% of votes can be beaten though.

Winning the presidency with just 22% of the popular vote:

Some interesting maps about America... haven't checked sources, so keep that in mind.

In the hundred years between 1820 and 1930 more than 6 million germans and 4.5 million Irish made the long journey by boat from Europe to the New World. That makes up almost 10% of the entire population of America in 1930.

Listening to a podcast about how the ice age shaped Britain and wanted to see some maps...

That's why Dogging is so popular in Essex....

Watching yet another Bond ski session and it's struck me that he's never been to Canada (though I think the cold opening to The Spy Who Loved Me was filmed in our Arctic?) ... and not Australia nor New Zealand according to this map.



If 2012 includes Skyfall, Spectre takes Cmdr. Bond to Mexico, Italy, Austria, Morocco, and back to London.

Niegs wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 3:11 am Watching yet another Bond ski session and it's struck me that he's never been to Canada (though I think the cold opening to The Spy Who Loved Me was filmed in our Arctic?) ... and not Australia nor New Zealand according to this map.



If 2012 includes Skyfall, Spectre takes Cmdr. Bond to Mexico, Italy, Austria, Morocco, and back to London.

Surprised he hasn't been to South Africa. Haven't watched the Bond movies in forever, but I have this vague memory of something related to diamonds and either South Africa, or Namibia or Botswana. Maybe Diamonds are Forever or Moonraker. Might be a bit of Mandela effect on my part.

Blake wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 7:51 am

Niegs wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 3:11 am Watching yet another Bond ski session and it's struck me that he's never been to Canada (though I think the cold opening to The Spy Who Loved Me was filmed in our Arctic?) ... and not Australia nor New Zealand according to this map.



If 2012 includes Skyfall, Spectre takes Cmdr. Bond to Mexico, Italy, Austria, Morocco, and back to London.

Surprised he hasn't been to South Africa. Haven't watched the Bond movies in forever, but I have this vague memory of something related to diamonds and either South Africa, or Namibia or Botswana. Maybe Diamonds are Forever or Moonraker. Might be a bit of Mandela effect on my part.

Ahh, that'd make a good trivia question (Bond movie locations where Bond doesn't appear)! I forgot about that and had to check. South Africa is definitely in Diamonds Are Forever, but Bond isn't there. It's Mssrs Wynt and Kidd, and then Bond starts his investigation in Amsterdam.

Ah okay then. That makes sense.

As a kid I always used to get quite a kick out of South Africa featuring in Hollywood movies, even if was a corny mercenary henchman or diplomat like in Lethal Weapon 2, but especially if there was a scene or whole movie that featured SA which is why I remembered something.

In darker blue, the states that are further north or have bits further north than Canada's southernmost point, Pelee Island.

Elsewhere, saw a basic map of the 101st's trip across Europe and wondered if there was one for The Big Red One ... turns out there are a lot of these for Yank divisions in WW2!







Zoomable of the very nice 4th Armored: https://curtiswrightmaps.com/product/ro ... h-armored/

Nice!