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Number Six Started conversation Oct 9, 2003
Someone far cleverer than me pointed out that everyone in the society has specialist knowledge on some part of the world which could be very useful to everyone else - if someone's writing a new entry and would like a bit of help, they'll be able to find the best person to help them.
So, if you tell us where you know about, we'll add it to the list in the Members Bar.
Mine are, erm, well, let's see:
in the UK - North London and Staffordshire and vaguely the Midlands;
in Italy - Venice and the Veneto with a side bet on Tuscany plus the bit of Sardinia around Alghero;
in the rest of Europe - Prague, Bilbao, Madrid a little bit and France in general
outside Europe - Mexico, particularly Oaxaca state.
When it comes to travelling itself, I've probably travelled on trains in the UK and budget airlines far too much, and I also know a bit about inland waterways in England and France.
My favourite way to travel is on a sunny day in a comfortable car with the windows down on one of those lovely long, straight, traffic-free Route Nationales they have in France with trees down either side.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 9, 2003
Gnomon's specialist areas:
Ireland
France - particularly the mountainous regions
Italy - the Veneto and Venice
Norway
Iceland
Egypt
Greece - Athens, Crete, Corfu, Santorini
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Number Six Posted Oct 9, 2003
Excellent - I was worried it was all looking a bit me-centric up there to start off with...
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Hypatia Posted Oct 9, 2003
Hi, please list these as my specialities -
US - Missouri,(especially Southwest and Central Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas (especially San Antonio/Corpus Christi/Laredo area)Arkansas
Mexico - border towns between Piedras Negras and Matamoros; Northern Mexico, Monterrey; archaeological zones - (Yucatan Peninsula, central Mexico)
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J Posted Oct 9, 2003
Looks like you've already got me down on Ohio 
Put me down for Kentucky as well!
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 10, 2003
You've already got mine 
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Oct 10, 2003
Wales, especially the smelly bit in the South with people in it.
East Midlands, especially Nottingham and, to a lesser extent, Derby
Japan (a bit)
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broelan Posted Oct 11, 2003
hello
i guess my area of specialty would be missouri as well, and parts of illinois and arkansas, and the mississippi river.
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frenchbean Posted Oct 11, 2003
Hello there...
Please put me down for:
Far North Queensland. Have a look at A1339292 for evidence of my knowledge of that area. Oh, shameless plug 
)
Orkney
Independent Samoa and Tonga
New Zealand (the un-touristy bits)
F/b
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frenchbean Posted Oct 11, 2003
I just remembered, I've got a geography degree: does that help?
F/b
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 11, 2003
Frenchbean, there's a thread for new geographical entries in peer review, have you added the entry of Cooktown to that?
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Number Six Posted Oct 11, 2003
You're clearly not subscribed to the threads in the Members' Bar, then
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Eusebio - squad number 11 Posted Oct 15, 2003
Wales - most of it except for the horrible bit down the south-east side where the folk aren't to sure if they want to be Welsh or English 
Am still working on my Baku, Azerbaijan entry and am off to Moscow in a few weeks ... so who knows!!
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Number Six Posted Oct 16, 2003
Will add you as soon as I get time. Anywhere particular in Wales you specialise in?
Moscow - how exciting! I've written an EG entry on it (A1018586 - Quick Tips for Western Tourists in Moscow) but know absolutely nothing about the place and have never been there... I found it in the EG and polished it up in PR with the help of some nice people who *had* been there...
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frenchbean Posted Oct 24, 2003
Hey Number Six
Are you still putting specialisms into the Members' Bar?
Please add Perthshire and Stirlingshire, both Scotland, to my specialisms. Are you very busy? 
F/b
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- 1: Number Six (Oct 9, 2003)
- 2: Gnomon - time to move on (Oct 9, 2003)
- 3: Number Six (Oct 9, 2003)
- 4: Hypatia (Oct 9, 2003)
- 5: J (Oct 9, 2003)
- 6: I'm not really here (Oct 9, 2003)
- 7: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Oct 10, 2003)
- 8: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (Oct 10, 2003)
- 9: Number Six (Oct 10, 2003)
- 10: broelan (Oct 11, 2003)
- 11: Number Six (Oct 11, 2003)
- 12: frenchbean (Oct 11, 2003)
- 13: frenchbean (Oct 11, 2003)
- 14: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Oct 11, 2003)
- 15: Number Six (Oct 11, 2003)
- 16: J (Oct 11, 2003)
- 17: frenchbean (Oct 12, 2003)
- 18: Eusebio - squad number 11 (Oct 15, 2003)
- 19: Number Six (Oct 16, 2003)
- 20: frenchbean (Oct 24, 2003)
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