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Old Jan 26 2009, 03:21 PM   #1
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Back from the Arctic - brrrrr Many thanks to AnnMarie for swapping turns with me, much appreciated

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Old Jan 26 2009, 04:20 PM   #2
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Old Jan 26 2009, 04:42 PM   #3
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Old Jan 26 2009, 04:43 PM   #4
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Old Jan 26 2009, 04:54 PM   #5
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Old Jan 26 2009, 05:21 PM   #6
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Old Jan 27 2009, 03:08 PM   #11
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Old Jan 27 2009, 03:12 PM   #12
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No, no, no, no and no

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Old Jan 27 2009, 04:11 PM   #14
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Old Jan 28 2009, 02:30 PM   #19
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Ok, Jube was right - it's in Germany

*makes mental note to avoid posting anything from Hungary, Scandinavia or the Baltic states for a while - too obvious*
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Old Jan 28 2009, 03:40 PM   #20
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with - poor Anneli, have we given you a complex?

Okay back to the topic at hand.......


An "exhibition" park?
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Old Jan 28 2009, 03:56 PM   #21
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Sorry, jube, not an "exhibition" park

*wonders where to put the pretty complex she's been given*
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Old Jan 28 2009, 04:07 PM   #22
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*wonders if I should explain what a "complex" is, in Aussie lingo, then, in a pm* hmm..... (naughty Jube....)








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Sorry, jube, not Berlin
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Old Jan 29 2009, 05:54 AM   #25
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Old Jan 29 2009, 12:27 PM   #26
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Münich? (Englischer Garten)
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Well I think you've got it.
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Old Jan 29 2009, 02:22 PM   #28
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I think so too P'ter - I found a picture!
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Looks like I've been "had", oh well congrats if correct.........wikipedia, eat your heart out.
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Sorry, folk, I was working last night and couldn't get online

Lara is entirely correct, it's the Chinese Tower in the English Garden in Munich

*chuckles to see that P'ter has already put this outcome into the pretty pictures thread *
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*Thumbs nose at Anneli, blows raspberry and runs off*
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*shrugs* There's really no need to be rude and childish, P'ter, MoM is supposed to be a board for intelligent grown-ups after all

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Old Jan 31 2009, 01:00 AM   #33
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Haven't you worked out Anneli that P'ter is a bigger kid then his grandkids will ever be? *ducks and runs away from P'ter *

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... but unlike them I know when to grow up
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