Yes. It was a bit of a ripoff. BUT we *did* get a pretty great view of the City. Plus they had an iPad in there that would tell you what each major building was, which was pretty cool.

That second picture is great.

 

Please provide a picture of yourself in said monocle, cape and top hat, Mr Yates. That should be your new sig

For National Security reasons I am not allowed to post "selfies" or the internet will shut down.  Think of the children...

I so wish I could make it to Europe. I would spend all my time visiting every castle I can find.

I'm a sucker for history.

I recently read about my English cousins over there taking the time to dig up the remains of Richard III.

Time to give him him his rightful place, even if he might have had his nephews killed.

That was "The Real Game of Thrones".

I so wish I could make it to Europe. I would spend all my time visiting every castle I can find.

We were literally tripping over ruins.  It got to the point where it wasn't worth stopping to look unless it was REALLY huge, REALLY unusual, or they had a trebuchet.  Like at this castle where some jamoke photobombed my pretty castle ruins pic...  

 

I'm thinking about photoshopping so the dude is saying, "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!'

 

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/2203/ft0h.jpg

That's Magnificent!

I could probably hear the ghosts yelling... "More archers on the towers!"

You can always just shop the dude out but that would be too easy for you.

BTW - I wasn't kidding about the trebuchet.  Here's a panoramic I stitched together...

 

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/4976/i3xr.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/crazylass12/8cc9ec24-425d-42e1-8383-1cb68a2063e0_zps0736e00a.jpg

I have a castle in the city centre I see everyday on the way to work.

I have a castle in the city centre I see everyday on the way to work.

The only problem is though we've lost almost all fo the old walls, we just have the keep left (which granted was all that was there in the original Norman castle).

Well the keep is largely a Victorian restoration (although by some miracle it was done accurately). During a city walkabout to raise funds for a charity a lecturer gave me quite a run down of a lot of its history. 

That explains why it's in such good nick... huh... who'd have through the victorians could renovate without turning it into pseudo Gothic trash...

 

 

 

 

 

Soon I'll be in Ft. Sill, Oklahoma for some more lovely training.

 

 

 

Eww.

 

Huehuehue. FAO

 

I have NEVER heard anything good about that place...

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3100/2898174181_6d677ef21b.jpg

 

http://www.tankerhoosen.info/images/gorge_falls_1.jpg

 

http://www.tankerhoosen.info/recreation/images/walker_east.jpg

 

http://historicbuildingsct.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Vernon-Congregational-Church.jpg

Ok those are pictures making the town I grew up in good.

 

Note these pictures are all taken off the interwebs 

 

But lets be honest, this is what most people see

 

http://www.aaroads.com/northeast/connecticut050/i-084_eb_exit_064_02.jpg

But lets be honest, this is what most people see

Ahh 84. Looks like home!

 

Seriously, I was going to ask you if you were from VT until that pic. Your first pic made me think of the Bennington Battle Monument [though the BBM looks more like the Washington Monument than that].

Nope its the mean streets of Vernon CT, 15 mins north of Hartford, "New England's Rising Star!"

http://www.landsat.com/town-aerial-map/michigan/springport-mi-2675860.jpg

 

This is my town. Population of 800!

Why do I instantly think aerial bombing photo?

But theres only 800 people!! The worse youd do is kill a bunch of cattle... 

Yeah but the real target would be those hidden nuke silos right between the baseball diamond and that combination football-track field.

http://carmelourso.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/vista-del-cerro-c3a1vila-que-bordea-a-la-ciudad-de-caracas-y-el-estado-vargas.jpg

 

Probably the nicest picture of my city

^But they are making sam turrets and nuclear guidance systems in those mountains!^

Here are a few photos taken in and around Missoula, MT

 

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/823/bpb0.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

Most of these I took in the last year or two.

Nice photos!