The ever popular, where was i thread

orraloon

Nope.

pinno

A bike race?

Guernsey Donkey

Some sort of moped/motorbike flower event in Sassenheim (where that crane operator os based)

orraloon

Ooh, getting v close to winning the point there. Sassenheim is correct, a suburb of / next door to Leiden.

[Edit. Forgot to add, suspicion of googling means you don't get the win outright. ]

The event? Not a bike race. And not primarily a motor bike / moped event though clearly these were involved in some manner. Which leaves?

Guernsey Donkey

Kings Day? The only googling was the name of the crane operator which is about the only clue in the photo

pinno

orraloon wrote:

Ooh, getting v close to winning the point there. Sassenheim is correct, a suburb of / next door to Leiden.

[Edit. Forgot to add, suspicion of googling means you don't get the win outright. ]

The event? Not a bike race. And not primarily a motor bike / moped event though clearly these were involved in some manner. Which leaves?

The Grand (sheep) National of Holland.

orraloon

C'mon, say what you see. More help.





S'easy.

priory

Oh, it's Spalding Flower Parade.

orraloon

Flower Parade, yes. Spalding, no. C'mon the answer is all there.

pinno

Stoke flower festival?

priory

the road sign points to tulipland

http://www.tulipland.co.uk/

further proof that it is Spalding . Your flight was diverted and you landed at the old runway at binbrook. east lincs is so full of foreigners now you would not know you were in england .QED.

Guernsey Donkey

Well I guess it must be Sassenheim Flower Parade or whatever the Dutch translation is.

orraloon

I think some of you might not be taking this seriously.

It is indeed the annual bulb flower parade in North Holland, aka Bloemencorso Bollenstreek, runs from Noordwijk to Haarlem every April and comes through Sassenheim on outskirts of Leiden, where these pictures were taken. We were on a football tour couple years ago, had a match very (too) early on a Saturday morning and afterwards came across the parade. Thought Mr Polis with his bouquet was sweet.

So win goes to the tax dodging Eeyore from the Channel Islands, even if there was resort to googling. To you sir.

pinno

orraloon wrote:

I think some of you might not be taking this seriously.

That's a terrible accusation.

Why are we waiting...

Guernsey Donkey

Sorry for the delay...

Try this one. No bikes in the picture but there was one here.

pinno

Stuttgart?

orraloon

VTech's garage?

orraloon

New York?

Guernsey Donkey

Stuttgart is correct. More precisely, it is the Porsche museum.

pinno

Oh bollox. A speculative punt and I get to search for a picture... might be away a while so bear with me and you are welcome to sing.

pinno

I used to go here regularly as a boy.

orraloon

Your granny's but 'n ben?

Those non-Scots not familiar with the term but 'n ben should seek out the D C Thomson comic strip The Broons, a staple of that national institution The Sunday Post.

chris_bass

I know where it is but i used the url of the pictures so won't guess as I kind of cheated!

pinno

Noo ma granny's but n ben.

priory

trossachs?

pinno

Not the Trossachs.

orraloon

Somewhere in Scotland?

pinno

orraloon wrote:

Somewhere in Scotland?

Yes Sherlock.

orraloon

Chris Bass wrote:

I know where it is but i used the url of the pictures so won't guess as I kind of cheated!

Kind of?? Cheat! Cheat! Cheat!

Perthshire?

pinno

Perthshire, yes.