Where in the world is HAL?

[erewhon]

7 hours ago, RetiredMustang said:

Speaking of beautiful sunny days, where is Maasdam this morning (besides "behind a Princess ship")?

 

 

 

 

Definetly Fremantle, with  the train line to Perth below the pedestrian bridge

[Copper10-8]

3 hours ago, VMax1700 said:

Parked beside the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool, with a scouser looking at the dam ship!

 

 

What's a scouser? 😉 

[ScottishMaid]

 
 
What's a scouser? [emoji6] 

Someone from Liverpool or Merseyside. Scouse is the dialect spoken with a distinctive accent. It is named after a stew eaten by sailors and dock hands.


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[rotjeknor]

7 hours ago, VMax1700 said:

Parked beside the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool, with a scouser looking at the dam ship!

Liverpool is right , scouser is wrong ! She's from from Rotterdam 😍

[rotjeknor]

7 hours ago, StLouisCruisers said:

 

Reminds me of Liverpool.  Am I right?

Right ! Due to skipping a port we had an unexpected overnight in Liverpool , august 2019. Gave us a chance to go to the CavernClub at night . 

[Copper10-8]

1 hour ago, ScottishMaid said:

Someone from Liverpool or Merseyside. Scouse is the dialect spoken with a distinctive accent. It is named after a stew eaten by sailors and dock hands.


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Got it! Much obliged! 🙂 

[VMax1700]

3 hours ago, rotjeknor said:

Liverpool is right , scouser is wrong ! She's from from Rotterdam 😍

With apologies to Vrouw Rotterdammer 🥂

[VMax1700]

7 hours ago, Copper10-8 said:

 

 

What's a scouser? 😉 

ScottishMaid kinda nailed it for you.  Scouse is the local accent/dialect in Liverpool and the inhabitants are called 'scousers'.  The names is derived from Lobscouse, a cheap stew eaten by sailors and dockhands, possibly of Norwegian origin.  The name scouser is not an insult, and they do use it themselves.

I am not 100% on whether ALL Liverpudlians are 'scousers' or if it is only specific areas of the 'Pool' (as in Cockneys should be born within the sound of Bow Bells in London).

[ski ww]

Where is Amsterdam?

 

[Copper10-8]

4 hours ago, ski ww said:

Where is Amsterdam?

 

 

 

How 'bout Cadiz, Spain

[bennybear]

22 hours ago, bennybear said:

Try this place, we visited from a port mentioned earlier.

 

 

Looks like you need a hint, 

 

Edited September 30, 2020 by bennybear

[rotjeknor]

23 hours ago, rotjeknor said:

Where is the Prinsendam ?

a hint..

[Copper10-8]

6 minutes ago, rotjeknor said:

a hint..

 

Spitzbergen, Norge

[rotjeknor]

Just now, Copper10-8 said:

 

Spitzbergen, Norge

Yep. Longyearbyen to be precise ! The next day we saw a few polar bears when we were cruising near Smeerenburg. The captain got a message from a small French cruise ship, I think it was L'Boreal, that polar bears were seen there. Instead of cruising around Moffen Island ( what's in a name...) we saw the polar bears.

[RetiredMustang]

Where was Zuiderdam when Seabourn Quest passed?  (Sounds like the title of a Victorian thriller.)

 

[rotjeknor]

2 minutes ago, RetiredMustang said:

Where was Zuiderdam when Seabourn Quest passed?  (Sounds like the title of a Victorian thriller.)

 

Greenland ?

[rotjeknor]

Where was the Rotterdam , you can just see here between the pillars of the bridge.

[rotjeknor]

One to make Copper10-8 happy. The Statendam and Rotterdam proudly showing off their port of registry ....

[RetiredMustang]

15 minutes ago, rotjeknor said:

Greenland ?

 

Yes, but can you tell where in Greenland?

 

Dave

[RetiredMustang]

14 minutes ago, rotjeknor said:

Where was the Rotterdam , you can just see here between the pillars of the bridge.

 

Looks kind of like the rail bridge over the Firth of Forth.

 

Dave

[tamsno]

Koningsdam in same location

[rotjeknor]

15 minutes ago, RetiredMustang said:

 

Yes, but can you tell where in Greenland?

 

Dave

Nope, have never been there. But the mountains are a bit like Svalbard and to the best of my knowledge the Zuiderdam hasn't been there. So I guessed Greenland 😉

[rotjeknor]

15 minutes ago, RetiredMustang said:

 

Looks kind of like the rail bridge over the Firth of Forth.

 

Dave

Right , South Queensferry , Scotland.

[RetiredMustang]

10 minutes ago, rotjeknor said:

Nope, have never been there. But the mountains are a bit like Svalbard and to the best of my knowledge the Zuiderdam hasn't been there. So I guessed Greenland 😉

 

Yes, It was a day scenic cruising in Prins Christian Sund, one of the most beautiful places on the planet, I think, and the weather was glorious when we went through (it isn't always).  Some more photos of that day:

 

 

 

 

Dave

Edited September 30, 2020 by RetiredMustang

[RetiredMustang]

10 minutes ago, rotjeknor said:

Right , South Queensferry , Scotland.

 

We were there with Eurodam in 2009.  The tender pier looked long, but it was slanted so that as the tide rose and fell, no matter when, they could only get one tender alongside at one time.  It made for a crush when six busloads of us came back from the Edinburgh Tattoo at the same time.  Have they changed the pier at all?

 

Dave