I don't live in Birmingham. I do however climb there as it's only 20-odd miles away. To find Evesham, follow the Severn Estuary and continue on the same line north-east until you're level with the snout of Wales (Wales looks like a pig's head). Birmingham is then twenty miles due north. and yes, it is slightly left of central.

Rob - my sense of direction is more reliable than most of my attributes. Only yesterday I walked home through two building sites, over five cars and through an old folks home - just to prove you could get back home in a more-or-less straight line... I chickened out at wading the river, however.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Rob; did the oiks think Leeds was near where Edinburgh actually is, or that Edinburgh was near where Leeds is? Or that they were both Mediterranean islands? Just curious.

And welcome to Clairet, even though you've taken my position as most northerly Fforumite...



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Sorry about that dante! And thanks for the welcomes everyone... the weather we're having up here at the moment you could be forgiven for thinking Edinburgh was a Mediterranean island!

Challenge for you... locate Wagga Wagga (home of the Management) (hint - it's not in the UK!)

I know where Wagga Wagga is ... and the local sports stadium is called the Eric Weissel Oval! Do I win a prize?

(OK, I had to google for the Weissel but I remembered the Eric)



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Well, the correct answer would have been 'the middle of nowhere' but for such a random piece of (correct) information, you get full marks!!

Dante: Dunno. There were a few people who, when I said I came from Leeds, said "That's near Edinburgh, isn't it ?" I asked what they meant by 'near' and they reckoned about 20 miles !

I've heard of tourists who expected to find Leeds Castle in Leeds (in Yorkshire): Oops! It's actually in Kent... I've also heard of at least one souvenir of Leeds (Yorkshire), made (where, I wonder...) for tourists, that included the castle amongst the other "local" views depicted.

Hello to Clairet.

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I once told my American pen-friend that when he came to the UK, he'd have to have a special visa extension for Wales and Scotland as they were separate countries.

He duly went done to the British Embassy and asked..............

heeeheee you are eeeeevil!

To be fair, thinking that Leeds castle was in or near Leeds is a pretty forgiveable mistake, although, can anyone tell me where Old Zealand is/was?



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We once had the same on a coach. All the Americans were frantically searching for their passports as we went through Berwick.

Been on the foot-ferry to the Isle of Wight (I hate admiting that) and seen a Brit go up to the purser with his passport and ask when they would be required to be inspected!

"Old Zealand"? Wouldn't that have been the Dutch province of Zeeland, which consists of various islands in the shared estaury of the Rhine & the Scheldt (& the Maas/Meuse)? After all, "New Zealand" was named by the explorer Tasman, and he was Dutch... Or is there one somewhere around Lincolnshire or the Fens, because of Dutch (land drainage experts') inluence, that you were actually thinking of instead?

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AFAIR, New Zealand is actually named after the Danish province of Sjaelland ... dunno why, although I must admit the spelling and the Abel Tasman thing do suggest Dutchness.



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I don't know anything about it my self, I just always wondered about it as a kid, what with there being an England, a York, and indeed a South Whales. Although there are points avaliable for the first person to remember where the South Orkney islands are. (Hint: nowhere near the North Orkneys)



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The South Orkneys are (relatively) near the South Shetlands, of course...

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Not sure where they are, but I've got South Georgia on my mind ....



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the south orkneys should be re-named the almost-as-far-south-as-you-can-go-orkneys

Ah, yes, the South Orkneys. A place where you can find a lot of penguins. And do you know, that is the _only_ reason I know where it is...



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Off topic, or maybe on topic? mindboggling...

Anyhoo, I think it is rather funny that the "newcomer" who founded the thread is no longer a newcomer and the thread has become about geography..the skills of the fforum are amazing.

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