Steve (as 41oo) wrote:anyone around here apart from me not kissed the Blarney stone?
Me. And you know I'm verbose anyway.
It takes a Yank to go and do a silly thing like that!
And apparently a great many of the roadsigns in Dublin mean 'city centre' in Irish and no tourists can understand them.
well we will have to go.
I'll hold your ankles whilst you kiss the stone. You can hold on to thenext person, I'll be in Donovan's bar and funeral parlour.
meanwhile as margo seems to have forgone er go
this is a fishing port which does not freeze
population about 400 000
military connections
nearly 2000 monuments
connections with britain Russia germany France er and many other places
Lite brigands need not apply
no miles out
or kilometers
the sea cuts ten bays into the hilly coastline
not iceland (because I cant spell reyakaaviik) nor Gdansk.
Right continent
although by an amazing conicidence Danzig is almost exactly half way on the great circle route from Reykaaviikykyty and this ten bay place.
Sevastopol port, Crimean peninsula, Ukraine...
RIGHT
BRILLIANT FRANCIS
did you consult map or globe?
And does anyone know the exact distances on the great circle route from Reykavijk to Sevastopol via Danzig, if that can be done?
Reykjavik, IC -21.9500 64.1500
Gdansk, PL 18.6667 54.3500
=
Miles: 1550.36
Kilometers: 2494.99
Bearing: SE
Gdansk, PL 18.6667 54.3500
Sewastopol, UP 33.5333 44.6000
=
Miles: 943.99
Kilometers: 1519.17
Bearing: SE
you know I just thought Walter might have something to say
sorry guys it wasnt half way. only about.....too tired night all
On this place, someone was condemned to be eviscerated slowly...
so its a mega tourist attraction?
Not tourist attraction...
ok well I didn't think it would necessarily pull in the crowds.
So presumably this person had done something particularly bad, like giving offense to religion or royalty?
Rouen?
