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Yes, Cabo da Roca.  A quick bus ride from Lisbon.

Over to you gnome12...

Helpful hint - it's of geographic significance.

Well, it is closer to the ocean in question, than say the Pacific. 😉

notamermaid, you are in the correct country, but it's not too north.

Correct ocean, wrong country.

Good guess!

This seems a random stretch of coast, but it holds a certain significance. Guess the location. 

The Russian two-headed eagles on the fence and the blue paint made it easy.  Give me a minute to find a pic.

Catherine's Palace, St. Petersburg?

I've heard mentioned on other boards that the 3rd in the AMA rooms is best suited for a small adult/child.  Can't give you personal experience, but you might want to confirm it's a full size twin at least.

No idea.  All I can think of is that it is not the same style as the "Get those pants behind me!" tile work I posted much earlier.

I could randomly start listing significant Portuguese landmarks.

So wrong hemisphere by 2 for me! lol

That looks Aboriginal to me.  Somewhere in Australia?

rcaruso, you got it! My 10th grade history teacher got me interested in this. We went to the Louvre for the standard highlights, but I broke off from the group so I could seek it out and fangirl over it. It’s the very first set of publicly posted standardized laws. There’s a set of cards there that translates it for you, telling you how much remuneration you get if a slave or wife is maimed or killed and other various laws.  😬

An upside was this part of the Louvre was empty. I had the whole room to myself. 
 

This one’s for you, Mrs. Rathburn!

No. Good guess. The photo is a section of a much larger piece. It was a first of its kind and is famous as such. 

No person.  The language is the centerpiece.

If no one is going, then I’ll post this. Let’s see what y’all can do with this close up. I’ll just say this had captured my imagination since 10th grade and I made a special pilgrimage in this city to see it. 

Agree with above.  You could even skip both and instead drive south and visit one of the many "secret" hotsprings that dot the country.  I have no affiliation with this blog, it's just the first one that came up under my google search but it will give you an idea of what's out there.  Most people would also say that south coast scenery is better than the Golden Circle.  It may also be less crowded as most of your cruise ship will be thinking the same as you and head towards the GC and BL.

https://asideofsweet.com/hidden-hot-springs-iceland-travel/

Wild guess.. Geithoorn?

Or one of those picturesque small hamlets near Amsterdam?

Daisi got it!  That is supposedly the actual plane that made that first flight.

The Portuguese history of exploration really fascinated me.  With their country looking out into the Atlantic, they really seemed to just head out into the world so much earlier than the rest of Europe.  It was the Portuguese who were responsible for fine-tuning  the system and equipment that was used on seagoing ships to determine latitude and longitude and the Portuguese again who adjusted it to take into account altitude so they could navigate in the air.  According to our guide, that system is essentially still in use in aircraft today, assuming as a backup to GPS, etc.

As a former US Navy officer, I have a particular interest in these sorts of things.

Interesting aside - the Portuguese got out into the world so much earlier than most.  They made it to England in the 1300's and by 1373 had established a "perpetual friendship" treaty with them. It is the longest standing treaty in Europe.  Portugal also made it further up the coast to Norway where they developed a taste for salt cod.  Portugal is now the main market for Norway's cod.  

Can you tell Portugal just continued to surprise me?  LOL

Wild card...

Name the significance of the item in the picture, along with the river and location.

No idea, still.

Notamermaid, if you know, go ahead and say.  

Funny aside - I was in training, stationed in Japan on a ship that spent most of it's time out to sea, went back to training, and then had a set of twins for the entire '90's, and didn't reenter regular life until 2000.  I pretty much missed most major news and pop culture events of that decade, including the break up of both Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.  While intellectually I know they happened, it did not occur to me that that sign was obsolete.  

Yes, the memorial for unknown soldier of the 1973 October war, commissioned by Anwar Sadat, who was then buried there later.  Cairo, Nile river.

That might be Thai or some other south Asian writing on the monument.  One of the Irrawaddy ports?

Soo....NOT a meat grinder. LOL

Very good.  Quite the stumper.

I agree, looks like a traffic circle.  The "machine" reminds me of my grandmother's old meat grinder, which doesn't bear pondering in this circumstance, but maybe symbolizes something about what tech does to humanity??  (I'm stretching here.)