Oh, I thought lamp knew. I did a 'save as' and saw the Bundaberg. ;)

Well, I suppose Spex gets it, but really IM deserves huge props for the Wyland thing. And Lamplighter would have gotten it if he had said it.

Anyone who googled whale wall would have come up with Wyland. (A lot of alliteration for anxious anchors placed in powerful posts.) I just did it faster.

Wyland and Whales, hand in fin.

Still don't know where it is ! :neutral:

We need a war with Australia so I can learn the geography of Oz.

No, dude. They have boomerangs!

Bundaberg is a neat little town known primarily to me as the home of the Bundaberg rum distillery, which you can tour. It's also the home to the catamarans that will take you out to one of the southern most islands in the Great Barrier Reef. Fun for snorkeling. The town itself doesn't offer much of anything though. The place is surrounded by sugar cane fields as far as the eye can see. They make rum with it, you see.

I would love to visit there. Someday. (Sigh)

Sorry, I posted the wrong map above...


I suppose it was settled by Germans, or German want-to-be's

I did manage a trip to Melbourne and Sydney years ago, and really enjoyed my hosts.
A couple of them still called England "home", even though they had never been there.
I did learn a lot while there, but still don't have the names pinned into their (special) maps.

ou est?

Our Australian rellies sent us some Bundaberg rum. It was the roughest thing any of us had ever tasted (well, at the time)
As Dad said, the clue should be in the suggestions on the back of the bottle - drink with MILK?!

It's possible it was over-proof rum or somesuch.

Anyway, after their grumbles, I pitched up about a week later, offering to give it another try.
No, sorry. All drunk up.
So it might have been rough - but not so rough they couldn't choke it down!

(FTR, Mum and Dad were used to white rum, which might have been the difference)

It was very rough, as I recall. We got a sample at the end of our tour and had the option of buying some in the gift store, but I declined. It was yucky. But the process was neat. They get the molasses from the sugar cane and then ferment it, of course. The only thing you could actually see was the molasses making process. But the molasses were different from cooking molasses. Thinner, runnier, with weird bubbles and scum. Smelled good though.

Mmmmmm, rum scum.:D

Yo ho ho, and a bottle o'...

...mole asses?

@Spex:: It's a beautiful building, but so far "nada".

Can I get 1 point for finding the rear entrance ? ;)

Yeah, I gave up after about 20 minutes. Nothing here either.

I tried too. Nothing.

Well, I saw the picture lamp posted above. That was about it.

IM gets a point too.

how many points do I get for these?
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For the copper wall sculture: 10 points; plus 10 more if you designed or made it !

For the neon sign: minus 5 :rolleyes:
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I love the copper!

I love the neon, but not as much as the copper.

They did a piece on neon on CBS Sunday Morning. Neato.

I believe that the sculpture above the entrace is Euterpe, the greek muse. The building is probably a opera house or a concert hall, maybe a music school.

FIFY.
Sorry - that's pedantic and really petty, especially as your English is flawless.
You can beat me over the head with your string of onions and beret if you like.

I have no idea where it is BTW.
Just dropped in to be insufferable.

You both forgot an 'n'. ;)

Wats a "n' betwen frends ?

Yebbut, they're only dangerous to the thrower. Here, let me show you. Take it in your hand like this, get your arm well back, give it a flick... :bolt:


Bundy rum is indeed pretty rough. A bouncer I knew in Queensland told me quite a few pubs simply stopped selling it when they noticed most of the pisshead troublemakers were drinking it. When they stopped selling Bundy, the amount of violence fell noticably. Whether the bundy causes violence, or simply appeals as a drink to those who would cause violence anyway, was not established.

Why would I beat you with a string of onions and a beret?

1) Sorry to disappoint you but I don't own a beret (too much of a cliché)
2) I believe I already said that I prefer to use a :whip:.

Actually, I think GM's English is perfect.

distinguishes Euterpe the Greek Muse from all the other Euterpes such as Euterpe the fishmonger of Venice and Euterpe the pokemon.

But hey, if you guys just want to :whip: , that's cool too...

It's the East Pyongyang Grand Theater in North Korea

Like the others I was drawing a complete blank so I used a different approach. As the building was not coming up in any of the searches, I reasoned that it was probably in a place that is off the usual tourist trails. I was thinking maybe somewhere in the former communist dictatorships of eastern Europe. I did Google image searches for "national theater" and "concert hall" in combination with communist or dictatorship. Using "concert hall communist" led to this article with a similar looking building but without the dome - http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/20...n-north-korea/

I then searched for "Pyongyang concert hall" and found it - http://www.fotopedia.com/wiki/East_Pyongyang_Grand_Theatre#!/items/f92u9unugujk0-RxcW5mnKswM

It was not in the part of the world I thought it may be, but sometimes you get lucky :)

Good job, Tony! That was difficult!

Good image, Spexx. :)

Wow TonyE, I'm impressed.

Great get. Sorry, sick as a dog yesterday (not much better today), didn't even touch the computer.
Thanks.:blush:

In a way, this was a really great search for me.

Even though I could not find it, I did lots of Google Image searches
on words like "modern architecture music", etc and saw some really
beautiful buildings... particularly the interior stairways, and stages.

I cry foul... I'm searching and looking, and then where's it at ? went ! :confused:

I was pouting. I'll get it back. Sorry. I'm a moody bitch.

You need to give it some time. That was a really hard one. Look how long spex's opera house took.

so where was it, anyway? I was doing all sorts of Gothic revival mansion searches and coming up empty.

Hey! Moody bitch!
Bring it back (please)

:blush:

Moody impulsive bitch got it back! Thanks guys. Sorry.

If it wasn't a mental institution then it should have been!

I was thinking it was the Danbury nuthouse in Connecticut. Danvers, in Mass., rather.

I have an eye for nuthouses. (but not for their names, apparently)

C'est un hôpital.

In France? Is that a clue? You don't normally type in French.

It's a clue, but the place isn't in France. ;)

Sorry you didn't get a quick response, IM. I, personally was going through like ninety-fricking-nine pages of "historic hotel postcard" images. This here's a toughy, so far.

No biggie. Just that the other day there was some lightning fast guessing, answering, and posting and then I got on it and...(chirp chirp chirp)

Pay me no mind, my Aunt makes me paranoid.

Okay, so French, but not France. Quebec, maybe? Asylum Projects only has pages for two of the nuthouses in Quebec and none of those pictures match up. It looks like a Kirkbride plan building though ...

Not Canada, or anywhere in North America.

This may be more difficult than some. Since these pictures were taken during this exploration, the place has been completely demolished. Some people on the site where I found this structure were a bit upset. More views:

Gheel, Belgium? That's where the shrine of Saint Dymphna, my favorite saint is ...

L'hôpital du Valdor située à Liège en Belgique

I found it by using the clues already given and searching in French, I could not find it when searching in English.

Tony ftw!

Pretty cool looking. Any more info on it? Was it some kind of insane asylum?

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Niagra

Slowly I turn....


Too easy, eh?

There is very little I could find on the operations of the hospital itself. As I never saw that it was a mental hospital, I have to assume it was just a regular hospital.

It's well gone now. But it is cool, huh?

How does one get to be a person who travels around checking out abandoned places? Is there any money in it, or do you have to be independently wealthy to do such things? I would love it!

http://www.forbidden-places.net/urba...r-hospital#gal

http://www.abandoned-places.com/valdor.htm

Check out these. I posted them a long time ago on TC.

http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/

this was another one:

http://www.abandonedasylum.com/

I favorited that link to peruse later. Thanks!

I am so darn fascinated with that kind of stuff.

Where is this train?
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It's not in Llandudno, I did not make it that easy :)

I hate you and I want my 45 minutes back