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« Reply #3765 on: February 08, 2014, 07:20:17 am »
Of course it is, well done!   $walesflag$
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« Reply #3766 on: February 09, 2014, 08:34:50 am »
Where will you find this beautiful patterned marble?


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« Reply #3767 on: February 09, 2014, 11:03:04 am »
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (Arabic: جامع الشيخ زايد الكبير‎) is located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates and is considered to be the key for worship in the country.
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« Reply #3768 on: February 09, 2014, 11:24:34 am »
Yes, well done. Here are some of my photos taken this morning in the rain.

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« Reply #3769 on: February 09, 2014, 12:38:30 pm »
Lucky you!
Where is this lovely chateau, and what is its name?
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« Reply #3770 on: February 09, 2014, 12:41:11 pm »
Wow Hollins, what a beautiful Mosque. Obviously no expense spared.
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« Reply #3771 on: February 09, 2014, 12:49:47 pm »
Lucky you!
Where is this lovely chateau, and what is its name?

I'll have a quick guess at Castell Coch near Cardiff although it doesn't look very red in the photo.

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« Reply #3772 on: February 09, 2014, 01:22:43 pm »
Wow Hollins, what a beautiful Mosque. Obviously no expense spared.


Yes, it was absolutely stunning. I was particularly impressed with the floral marble patterns and how feminine it is. I found this article which I thought summed it up quite well and has some more info but no costs of course.

http://arabiczeal.com/sheikh-zayed-mosque-floral-exquisite/

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« Reply #3773 on: February 09, 2014, 05:41:40 pm »
Lucky you!
Where is this lovely chateau, and what is its name?

I'll have a quick guess at Castell Coch near Cardiff although it doesn't look very red in the photo.

I'll have to ban you Hugo!  Much too clever for my simple puzzles!   &well&
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« Reply #3774 on: February 09, 2014, 09:17:20 pm »
Wow Hollins, what a beautiful Mosque. Obviously no expense spared.


Yes, it was absolutely stunning. I was particularly impressed with the floral marble patterns and how feminine it is. I found this article which I thought summed it up quite well and has some more info but no costs of course.

http://arabiczeal.com/sheikh-zayed-mosque-floral-exquisite/

When we visited the 2nd largest mosque in Egypt last year, my wife was not allowed inside.... and a particularly aggressive old man didn't really want any infidels going inside.
Only when tour guides tried to calm him down did he allow anyone to stand in the doorway and peep inside.  But no further.
It was a waste of time, and made me realise what an intolerant religion Islam 'can' be.
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« Reply #3775 on: February 09, 2014, 10:30:58 pm »
Here is another easy one.   Where is this?          $walesflag$ $welsh$

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« Reply #3776 on: February 10, 2014, 12:23:19 pm »
There was a motte and bailey castle here but it was destroyed  many years ago but where is this place?       $walesflag$

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« Reply #3777 on: February 10, 2014, 02:27:40 pm »
There was a motte and bailey castle here but it was destroyed  many years ago but where is this place?       $walesflag$

Were Mott and Bailey the precursors to Marks and Spencer?

At a rough guess I would say that this is the place!  Took me all of 5 minutes!

At Sycharth are the well preserved earthworks of a medieval castle occupying a low knoll in the base of the Cynllaith valley, below its steep wooded slopes. The castle may be as early as the twelfth century, but direct evidence is lacking. It was fullsomely, but obliquely described in a poem of about 1390 and was burnt in 1403, having no further history.

This is a motte and bailey castle, consisting of a large ditched earthen motte or castle mound, 50m in diameter and 10.6m high with a 26m diameter summit, with a crescentic bailey platform, 64m across and 32m deep, on the south-west side. Excavations of a small part of the motte top in 1962-3 only uncovered evidence for two timber framed buildings, part of what the 1390 poem describes as 'a fine wooden house atop a green hill'. Further buildings, including a great lordly hall, would have stood within the bailey. The poem mentions a mill, fishponds, a warren and a deerpark containing a lodge.
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This is a pic of reconstruction of same.
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« Reply #3778 on: February 10, 2014, 03:34:55 pm »
Well done Yorkie          &well&

Sycharth Castle one of the homes of Owain Glyndwr and a place I visited last year for the first time.

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« Reply #3779 on: February 11, 2014, 04:37:50 pm »
Who are the two horsemen?   Where are they playing?
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