Contest/Game - Identify this picture - Page 27

Zanshin · #**261** 11-16-2012

Maybe it isn't French after all.... I just realized that there's not a single moped in sight!

Faster · #**262** 11-16-2012

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Originally Posted by Zanshin

Maybe it isn't French after all.... I just realized that there's not a single moped in sight!

.. or it means it's not Les Saintes.....

Zanshin · #**263** 11-16-2012

I was sure it was somewhere on Guadeloupe, but Google Earth wasn't my friend and I found nothing similar. I'd check further south if the darned internet connection weren't so slow here.

Geoff54 · #**264** 11-16-2012

Other than France, the only other place that I know that has those little trains, is Martinique. I think this might be Saint Pierre.

Faster · #**265** 11-16-2012

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Originally Posted by Geoff54

Other than France, the only other place that I know that has those little trains, is Martinique. I think this might be Saint Pierre.

Yes, Geoff.. well done. The event alluded to is, of course, the 1901 eruption of Mt Pele.. an amazingly destructive blast that left, IIRC only two survivors.. one out to sea, another in a 'solitary cell' in a nearby prison.
Many gutted ruins remain; the prison, a theatre among them

the 'survivor's' cell in the prison basement:

Typical EU funded improvements:

The 'Villian" today

You're up, Geoff... nicely done.

Geoff54 · #**266** 11-16-2012

Lets try a change of pace. This was a major center for wooden boat building.

Faster · #**267** 11-17-2012

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Originally Posted by Geoff54

Lets try a change of pace.

Are we in Europe?

Geoff54 · #**268** 11-17-2012

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Are we in Europe?

Zanshin · #**269** 11-17-2012

Very nice pictures and challenging identification. I get a feel of old Holland, but that red ensign leads one in a different direction. Would this location be somewhere in Sussex, U.K.?

Geoff54 · #**270** 11-17-2012

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Originally Posted by Zanshin

Very nice pictures and challenging identification. I get a feel of old Holland, but that red ensign leads one in a different direction. Would this location be somewhere in Sussex, U.K.?

Obviously the red ensign was in response to faster, so right country but wrong county. (The second picture is from the web because none of mine showed an ensign clearly)

There is a statue near the water that commemorates an ancient but little known battle.

Despite being an ancient settlement, there is an American connection which is celebrated by a display in one the buildings.