ATS Members - Where We Live (photo's of our home areas);

This next set of pictures shows where I was born and bred until I moved to North Yorkshire ... it will help you to understand why I appreciate my present surroundings so much


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sorry double post

Originally posted by Chadwickus
I hope so too, it's a great fishing spot, particularly for squid.

Why? Why? Why?

Seriously now you are telling me that you fish for squid? Squid?

What in the HELL would you do with a squid if you caught it? Scare little girls while running after them on the pier?

Sometimes I just don't get you people...

This is what I see when I look out my bedroom window, as I did just some minutes ago to take this photo.

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Not the best view, but one that shows most closely where I live without really showing it.

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Salt and pepper squid my friend!



De-freakin-licious

Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by tribewilder

 

Salt and pepper squid my friend!

De-freakin-licious

OMG I just drooled on my keyboard a little bit ... I can take or leave meat but I love seafood especially squid ... that plate looks divine

Woody

Originally posted by ArMaP
This is what I see when I look out my bedroom window, as I did just some minutes ago to take this photo.

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Not the best view, but one that shows most closely where I live without really showing it.

Thanks for adding I noticed there are not many pics like this added yet ... and I can relate to the built-up places ... it all helps to create a more complete picture of where ATS lives

Woody

I live in the lovely City of Derry in Northern Ireland.










The historic city walls, with some cool cannons



And not too far away we have Grainan Fort and Burt castle and the Mussenden Temple, below is the view from Grainan Fort,





Inside Grainan Fort,

More photos from where I live.

The next four photos are from one of the six parishes from which Almada was formed, Cacilhas. It's the one closest to the Tagus river but it was not affected by the tsunami that followed the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

A typical street, not much wider than a car. We can see the limestone paved side-walks and the granite paved street, common in Portugal. Going up that street will take us to the "Quinta do Almaraz", where in 1987 some technicians from the municipal museum found some Phoenician and Egyptian objects, showing that Cacilhas was already a know commercial centre linking the Middle East and Western Europe.

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This photo shows the are to the right of the previous one. In the background you can see the river and parts of Lisbon.

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The "new" church, built to replace (and in the same place as) the old one, destroyed in the 1755 earthquake.

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Some 50 metres from where this photo was taken and almost in front of the church, in 1981, some workers found a Roman salting factory, that was dated as being from the first century AD. The salting tanks were reburied, it was considered the best way of protecting them.

New(ish) and old buildings, in the same street as the church.
The newer building is probably from the 1970s (and, by the way it looks, I think it was built by the same company that built the building where I live), while the older buildings look like buildings from the end of the 19th century, with the traditional azulejo covered front.

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This is the front door of the school where I spent most of my youth (six years), built in the 1950s.

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A small fountain in a small square in the old part of Almada.

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Now some photos shouwing the industrial part of Cacilhas (today all the factories and warehouses are abandoned), the Tagus river, Lisbon and the Cristo-rei.

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All the above photos were taken, at most, at a distance of 1 km from where I live.

Edit: all photos taken by my sister.

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WOW ! Not only a great collection of photographs (almost like a virtual tour) but some fantastic information included.

Thank-you so much ... I love learning about these different places ... I hope other people continue the theme and add info with their pictures too

Woody

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Ireland is somewhere I've always wanted to visit and even though it's so close the opportunity has never presented itself yet ... but one day maybe.

Thanks for the pictures

Woody

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Ask and ye shall receive

This is where I fish when Im home
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This is where I fish when Im on vacation
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Taken by me in the winter of 93 trying to get home
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The drive down from my home
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The edge of my land is divided by a creek
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Blue Ridge ga
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Have no idea was just driving and stopped
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Same as above
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One of my favorite places in GA Cloud land canyon
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Amicalola Falls State Park 15min from my home
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45 mins from this thing Atlanta
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Stone mountain park
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YEEee HAwwww!!!!!!! Oktoberfest in Helan GA (the only time of year when its legal to drink beer on the street)
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And for the conspiracy The Georgia Guide Stones
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enjoy

reply to post by Lady_Tuatha

Derry is beautiful, my mother's mother was born in Ireland, sad to say I never met her as she passed when my mother was 14 years old.

I have been all over Europe but not Ireland, hopefully one day. My daughter and her husband spent their honeymoon in Ireland in September 1998 and loved it.

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I love it ... thank-you so much for showing me around ... I knew it would be a great place but it beat my expectations by a country mile


Woody (so glad I asked)

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your welcome woody, I love seeing places that Iv never been but one day hope to visit.
Iv wanted to see to moors for a long time. There are so many beautiful places on this earth and sadly I wont see them all in this life but, hey here's to my next

Originally posted by hillbilly4rent
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your welcome woody, I love seeing places that Iv never been but one day hope to visit.
Iv wanted to see to moors for a long time. There are so many beautiful places on this earth and sadly I wont see them all in this life but, hey here's to my next

I like the way you think my friend

Woody

Originally posted by hillbilly4rent
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your welcome woody, I love seeing places that Iv never been but one day hope to visit.
Iv wanted to see to moors for a long time. There are so many beautiful places on this earth and sadly I wont see them all in this life but, hey here's to my next

Here y'go just to return the favour a few more moorland snaps (not my pics but all are taken in a 5-30 min walk from my house.


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absolutely stunning picture
can.t decide where i want to live

i am from berlin / germany
huge city, some scenic places, a whole thread

view from my living room window
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a near by lake "waldsee"
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lake tegel
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metro
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on top of the roofs
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parts of the brandenburg gate
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I particularly like the two different shots from your window ... the first one looks like a Christmas card ... thanks so much for contributing

Woody

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the first one was, when it started to snow
and i love that view from that window so much that i must have photographed it a hundred times by now
although i live in a big city i usually feel like being on holiday

thanks woody