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Re: Travel Pics

Postby Q. » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:37 pm

It was a Monday night in La Spezia, but my partner and I had caught up with a couple of her friends for a few days who were also travelling through Italy and we were determined to down a few drinks. We found an upstairs bar and when we were the only people left there, Guiseppe the barman kept making us free drinks, albeit to impress the ladies with his barman tricks. It ended up being a late and boozy night and the next day we had an early start to walk Cinque Terre. Thank god it was cool and windy that day!

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Re: Travel Pics

Postby devilsadvocate » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:44 pm

That's so cool!
I recall a few Italian bars I went to, they loved the tricks. They were always generous with their pours too - none of this measured bullcrap!

Question is, did Guiseppe's games get him laid? :lol:
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby Q. » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:46 pm

devilsadvocate wrote:That's so cool!
I recall a few Italian bars I went to, they loved the tricks. They were always generous with their pours too - none of this measured bullcrap!

Question is, did Guiseppe's games get him laid? :lol:


Guiseppe got nothing, while I reaped the benefits of hanging out in an Italian bar with three birds :lol:
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby devilsadvocate » Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:03 pm

Quichey wrote:
devilsadvocate wrote:That's so cool!
I recall a few Italian bars I went to, they loved the tricks. They were always generous with their pours too - none of this measured bullcrap!

Question is, did Guiseppe's games get him laid? :lol:


Guiseppe got nothing, while I reaped the benefits of hanging out in an Italian bar with three birds :lol:


Well played!
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby AFLflyer » Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:08 pm

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Re: Travel Pics

Postby devilsadvocate » Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:27 pm

That last pic of the sunset is amazing mate.
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby AFLflyer » Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:55 pm

devilsadvocate wrote:That last pic of the sunset is amazing mate.


cheers mate - what about the funny looking indian family :lol:
they always take photos of OS tourists, it was funny taking photos of them :D
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby devilsadvocate » Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:45 am

AFLflyer wrote:
devilsadvocate wrote:That last pic of the sunset is amazing mate.


cheers mate - what about the funny looking indian family :lol:
they always take photos of OS tourists, it was funny taking photos of them :D


I thought that was in London with Harrods in the background :lol:
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby Q. » Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:44 am

Wli Falls in Ghana's Volta Region. Standing under them was akin to getting a brutal massage.

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Did I mention that it's home to thousands of bats :shock:

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Re: Travel Pics

Postby devilsadvocate » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:12 am

How clean was the water Quichey?
Were you worried about swallowing any or getting it in your eyes?
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Postby Q. » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:32 am

Pretty clean and bilharzia-free (or so I was told :lol: ). The water flows fairly rapidly out of the pool and downstream.
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby devilsadvocate » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:06 am

Quichey wrote:Pretty clean and bilharzia-free (or so I was told :lol: ). The water flows fairly rapidly out of the pool and downstream.


:shock: :shock: Hope so!

Flowing water can still cary lots of parasitic bugs, but is obviously less risky.
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby Q. » Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:10 pm

Yeah, there was probably a herd of goats gathered up-stream :lol:
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby Q. » Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:40 am

Just looking through the pics, came across this one taken somewhere in Toulouse.

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Re: Travel Pics

Postby Q. » Tue Aug 03, 2010 2:10 pm

Back in Ghana now, at Cape Coast Castle - the famous slave trading fort that sent so many Africans to their death.

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Re: Travel Pics

Postby Q. » Tue Aug 03, 2010 2:14 pm

Here's a close up of that last pic. Hundreds of kids gather outside 'the door of no return' every Sunday after church and play on the beach for the day - couldn't be any more antithetic to scenes of the past.

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Re: Travel Pics

Postby AFLflyer » Tue Aug 03, 2010 2:51 pm

great pics -looks alot like essouira coast line.
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby godoubleblues » Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:49 pm

AFLflyer wrote:great pics -looks alot like essouira coast line.


you know what, I actually thought the same thing, I have some of Essouira that I must scan
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby mrjbeam1981 » Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:46 pm

fantastic thread.

my fiance is Kenyan - so i went over there to meet the family in November last year.

here are some of my favourites

kenyan sunrise from the plane:
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view atop on a hill on the way to Lake Naivasha
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view from our room in the resort at Lake Naivsha
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Re: Travel Pics

Postby mrjbeam1981 » Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:52 pm

feeding the giraffes
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zebras on the side of the road
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playing football! and yes that is a Glenelg football. bought one each for my nephews!
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