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[FlyerTalker]

1 hour ago, KenzSailing said:

My first skim is in tune with your thoughts.  I figured it would be an aspirational cookbook, as it also has to showcase Crystal's chefs and cooks (couldn't very well start with "Step one, open a can of tuna.")

 

No....it should be "open 100 cans of tuna".

 

🙂

 

 

[claudiaYVR]

midnight sun, North Cap.

[Roland4]

59 minutes ago, claudiaYVR said:

midnight sun, North Cap.

 

WOW!!!!😊

[rafinmd]

I like all sunrises, even when the sun has a challenge coming out as happened on QM2 August 17, 2011.

 

 

Roy

[wearesiamese]

Lots of pictures here, but I have not "played" this game for a while.Where were these photos taken? 🙂

[SusieQft]

2 hours ago, wearesiamese said:

Lots of pictures here, but I have not "played" this game for a while.Where were these photos taken? 🙂

The first one is at the marina in Cabo San Lucas.

The third one is the Byodo-In Temple on Oahu.

The others, ???  🙂

[wearesiamese]

2 hours ago, SusieQft said:

The first one is at the marina in Cabo San Lucas.

The third one is the Byodo-In Temple on Oahu.

The others, ???  🙂

 

1.Correct!---1 I loved that  shark ,so  I had to get a picture of it LOL

2. Temple name right, wrong state and or country <--I don't want to give the location away it 🙂🙂

Edited August 17, 2020 by wearesiamese

[BWIVince]

2 hours ago, SusieQft said:

The third one is the Byodo-In Temple on Oahu.

 

It's the one in Kyoto, isn't it?  The one on Oahu has a bit different setting and landscaping:

 

 

Vince

[wearesiamese]

Just now, BWIVince said:

 

It's the one in Kyoto, isn't it?  The one on Oahu has a bit different setting and landscaping:

 

 

Vince

Well done, more specifically though, Uji, south of Kyoto city, but in Kyoto prefecture.  It is also on the Japanese 100 yen coin 🙂

[SusieQft]

Ah, the real deal!  I have only seen the replica on Oahu, though.  I was supposed to be going to Kyoto in March, but no longer.  😥

Edited August 17, 2020 by SusieQft

[BWIVince]

2 minutes ago, wearesiamese said:

Well done, more specifically though, Uji, south of Kyoto city, but in Kyoto prefecture.  It is also on the Japanese 100 yen coin 🙂

 

Apologies for the prefecture rounding.  🙂  The only random reason I knew that one was because I've been to both, though I haven't visited Uji since I was 7 years old.  I still remember though!

 

Vince

[wearesiamese]

10 minutes ago, BWIVince said:

 

Apologies for the prefecture rounding.  🙂  The only random reason I knew that one was because I've been to both, though I haven't visited Uji since I was 7 years old.  I still remember though!

 

Vince

I love Uji ,and as a Matcha lover, have been there a number of times and stayed there,   It is my Mecca so to speak now everytime I go to Japan now, since my first trip to Japan in the Fall of 2016.My new  Matcha  business is called aptly enough, Uji Kyoto Matcha..though I have some from Shizuoka as well.. My point just being I am a stickler just because I know it is a trains ride from Kyoto station and far enough  away  that I  no longer consider it part of Kyoto proper  . And if we want to get even more picky ,much of the famous "Uji " Matcha, is actually grown in Wazuka, south of Uji and north of Nara  🙂 It's all good   though you still got it  LOL

[Jayayeff]

12 hours ago, wearesiamese said:

Lots of pictures here, but I have not "played" this game for a while.Where were these photos taken? 🙂

 

 

The Kapaleeshwara Temple in Chennai in the top picture and the futuristic looking water transport in the lower one is Tokyo??

 

12 hours ago, wearesiamese said:

 

[Stickman1990]

49 minutes ago, Jayayeff said:

and the futuristic looking water transport in the lower one is Tokyo??

Definitely on the Sumida River at Asakusa  - the Golden Flame Hop statue on the Asahi Beer Hall is a giveaway on that one 

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise photo comes from the MS Statendam at sea from Seward to Glacier Bay in 2014

 

 

Roy

[wearesiamese]

Well done Jayayeff! 

And yes, Stickman, that is the famous Tokyo Spaceboat, as it is affectionately called  by many of us  who follow John Daub on his you tube channel .I rode on it with a fellow follower of the Only in Japan  channel on You Tube, and it was cool. Quite a rainy day though as you can see in the picture. But I was in Japan so who cares ? LOL We boarded in Asakusa ended  in Odaiba, where the famous fish market is held now.

https://www.gotokyo.org/shuun/en/course/051.html

The remaining picture of the river , is in my favorite place to stay now whe nin th eKyoto area, an that is in Arashiyama, a bit west of Kyoto proper..

Edited August 18, 2020 by wearesiamese

[wearesiamese]

Todays pictures 🙂 Where is this?  

 

Edited August 18, 2020 by wearesiamese

[rafinmd]

I'm thinking maybe Alice Springs for the last one.

 

Roy

[Jim9310]

Where is this river cruise?

 

 

 

 

Edited August 18, 2020 by Jim9310

[OzKiwiJJ]

Wearesiamese is the last one in  your sequence Cooktown on the Indian Pacific train route in Australia? 

[OzKiwiJJ]

Jim9310, the Murray River, Australia?

 

If so, was it a good cruise? We're thinking of doing it once Australian state borders reopen.

[Stickman1990]

44 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Wearesiamese is the last one in  your sequence Cooktown on the Indian Pacific train route in Australia? 

 

You had me confused - it's not Cooktown (thats in North Queensland) - you mean Cook on the Nullarbor

 

My recollection of Cook is that it's a lot more deserted than the photos shows - I think Roy's probably got it with Alice Springs (but I'm not 100% on that)

 

[wearesiamese]

Itis  simply just Cook,WA  🙂..Known for the Australian wave lol

Edited August 19, 2020 by wearesiamese

[wearesiamese]

47 minutes ago, Stickman1990 said:

 

You had me confused - it's not Cooktown (thats in North Queensland) - you mean Cook on the Nullarbor

 

My recollection of Cook is that it's a lot more deserted than the photos shows - I think Roy's probably got it with Alice Springs (but I'm not 100% on that)

 

You are right-it is Cook, Australia , o

Nullarbor Plain

. I took the train straight across Australia to Perth, where I met up with some old friends    of my parents  🙂

[OzKiwiJJ]

1 hour ago, Stickman1990 said:

 

You had me confused - it's not Cooktown (thats in North Queensland) - you mean Cook on the Nullarbor

 

My recollection of Cook is that it's a lot more deserted than the photos shows - I think Roy's probably got it with Alice Springs (but I'm not 100% on that)

 

Yes,  I meant Cook. It's a long time since I did that train trip. 

 

It's the signpost that made me think it was Cook.

Edited August 19, 2020 by OzKiwiJJ