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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:45 pm

Back from my hols. I took the good camera this year, I'll be boring you with the pix when I get time.

Here's a starter for 10. Taken the first night, at about 2am, who can guess what this Dalek really is?

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:47 pm

My guess is it looks like a rocket motor from a Space Shuttle orbiter. Either that or from a Saturn Rocket or something.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

You went to prison on your holiday?

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

My first thought was this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cup Laughing

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:24 pm

Hahaha! not even close yet. It's outside, and very big....

I'll post a daylight view of it later, which will give the game away.

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:25 pm

Leaning Tower of Piza being straightened?

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:29 pm

Umm...The Pride of Bilbao by any chance?

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:37 pm

Nice one Don, take 10 Mugupoints! I'd have settled for 'ship's funnel', but it is indeed the Pride of Bilbao.

Waiting to go on board:

I was very reassured to find this was the name of the corridor our cabin was on, down in the bow. there was a big watertight door, so if we sprang a leak due to a collision, they could shut the water, and us behind it.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Damn, I need to take a trip across the pond, to your side.

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:11 pm

Here's another one. Unless you know what it is, it is much, much bigger than you would think. It has also resisted some very determined attempts to knock it down, though you wouldn't know it.

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:59 pm

It looks like a part of a hydroelectric dam

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:41 pm

Nope, nothing like it, though water is involved...

Master Baiter Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 147

Is it the castle at San Sebasti�n?

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:29 pm

Nope. A clue is that its not that far from La Rochelle. There was another similar structure near Bordeaux, but a fear of Hayley's patience snapping made me leave it for another trip.

There are several of these up the west coast of France, we visited another a few years back when we went to Brittany on the motor bike.

One of my favourite films was partly filmed here.

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:30 pm

Is it a missile silo?

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:44 pm

Defence towers on ex- German submarine pens.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 44

German bunkers in Brest?

Not quite a Newb Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 68

Mugatu wrote:

Defence towers on ex- German submarine pens.

I think so too. The U-Boat pens at La Rochelle. I was there last week. Very Happy

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:27 pm

I think it's where Reprob8 hides his daughter when young men are around. Wink

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:30 pm

Or his Vicodine when anyone is around! Very Happy

Not quite a Newb Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 68

Or where the young men hide when Rep is around. Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:42 am

@Themob, which day were you there? We were there Thursday, there were two other couple wandering about, or guys with long suffering wives in tow.

Yes, its the U-Bunker at La Pallice, near La Rochelle, where the opening and closing scenes of 'Das Boot' were filmed. with a 7 metre thick bombproof roof, in common with the other Uboat pens, heavy air raids achieved nothing other than obliterating the surrounding area. They dropped 12000lb tallboy bombs (designed by Barnes Wallace) on La Pallice, which didn't penetrate.

Here's another view of the tower at the rear, where the generators and offices were positioned:

And a view of the pens from the front:

A scene from Das Boot, das mockup U96 leaves the pens:

Finally, this is the bombproof lock, in the film the U96 sank in a bombing raid in the open lock in the foreground.

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:47 am

OK, I'll tell you what this is, in a French farmhouse we stayed at (heavy rain had put us off another night in a tent), we had a 4 hour meal with the owner and a French couple. It was odd, because not a word of English was spoken, stretching my O-Level French somewhat, but we all coped.

At the end of the meal, the umpteenth drink turned out to be some kind of pear liqueur, served in this bottle, with a pear in it. Well I know how they put ships in bottles, but how do they do this? any explanation I got was lost in translation and an alcoholic fuddle.

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:02 pm

The bottle is tied over the pear when it has just started to form. It grows in the bottle.

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:21 pm

My late naval father in law was in Kiel (U boat HQ) at the liberation of Europe and brought back some souvenirs including a U Boat clock (still works like, erm, clockwork, swastika and all) and a pair of officer's binoculars (ditto). Quite spooky to think these items were actually used while stalking and sinking north Atlantic convoys.... Crying or Very sad

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