h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If we’re onto castles how about :-

Raglan
Caerphilly
Warwick
Windsor
Pickering
Penhow
Caldicot
Grosmont
White
Skenfrith
Coch

and countless others. Guess how I spent numerous weekends as a child.

Guess how I spent my youth... Nope, not been to any of them....

The White Hourse, Corton... The love's and fish's Beccles The Dutchman's Oulton broad Bar XS Manchester The bar on Kings X station the bar on Norwich station the bar on Leeds station The bar on liverpool Street station The man on the moon, front bar, The Bakers yard/Bakers arms, the Wrestlers, ; CAmbridge Danny's fish and chip shop, Oulton... The reminants of the hovel in Warblswic where Black shuck was ment to have attacked someone Southworld, in mid channel going out to sea

What's that ruined castle on the shores of Loch Ness? I've been there.

The jubilee crown cut into the chalk on a hillside overlooking Ashford in Kent, or the chalk quarry just below it, sliding down the chalk cliff-face, quickly, on your ar$e?

The engine room of the submarine outside the Cite des Science et Industrie, Paris.

Yes to the engine room

A tad cramped, wasn't it?

Bodelwydden- is that the place with the MArble Church? cos I've been to the marble church.

Yup - the castle is on the other side of the road from the church and up the hill a bit...deadly dull tour of the actual castle but the grounds contain *the* best adventure playground in the world

Yes to the pub at Liverpool Street Station and Kings Cross.
I've been under the pool table of the APU campus at Chelmsford - does that count?

Liam.

I#'ve never been to the Chemlsford campuss... So how did you end up under the pool table? Same way I did?

Some friends of mine thought about going to APU. They were drawn by the twin appeals of staying at home and being the only people in their lecture classes who could count to 10.

The only place I can spot that I've been to is the World's End in Camden.

Yes to the World's End pub in Edinburgh. Does anyone else remember the barman with the leather apron - he was bald but very sexy - this is about 1975.

I think the castle on shores of Loch Ness is called Castle Urquhart

It is indeed Castle Urquhart - been there, failed to spot the monster. How about Eilean Donan Castle on the shore of Loch Duich, by the side of the A87 on the road to Skye? Has to be the castle with the most beautiful setting I've seen - it's gorgeous.

Or staying with castles - Chateau Chillon on the shore of Lake Geneva.

ticks to:

Millenium Bridge
Checkpoint Charlie
Mona Lisa
Electric Brae
under Eiffel Tower (and top too)
Edimburg Castle
Body thing in the Dome
Giants Causeway


How about...

The orchestra pit of the Grand Opera House, Belfast
the Blarney Stone
top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
top of the former World Trade Centre
Vianden, Luxembourg

Er, no. Sorry.

No to everything. Must remember my pc has an 'off' switch and go out. Which brings me to:

http://www.1112.net/lastpage.html

Yes to World Trade Centre. A month before the attack in fact.

I think yes to Check Point Charlie - we certainly crossed through to East Berlin from West Berlin, but I can't remember whether there were other crossing points? It would have been about 1987, I think.

No to all those castles - seen one castle, seen em all...

Sprout