A to Z of place facts

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CrazyUSA is presumably in the US and so at least 4-hours behind us. But is surely the most prolific poster of trivia on here!

Back to the alphabet.

Zennor. a small, interesting town in Cornwall

Whittlesey is a small market town in Cambridgeshire not far from Wisbech, the ship of the fens, and Welney water fens with their glorious wildfowl variety

Old Trafford is a suburb that is part of Trafford. It is not a suburb of the City of Manchester and never was or will be.

Despite it's M16 post code.

Remember the Man City wind up football poster from years back.
Saying Man City was only real Manchester football team.

Point made

Yalta. On the Black Sea coast.

Where Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met to plan the reorganisation of Europe, after the war.

Xi’an - city in China, famous for the Terracotta Army

Walthamstow - The William Morris gallery is in Lloyd Park

Verona is a UNESCO World Heritage city in Italy, famous for the "Romeo and Juliet" balcony and the Verona Arena.

Utrecht - if you have the energy, climb the 465 steps to the top of the Dom Tower, the tallest church tower in the Netherlands.

Truro. With a magnificent Gothic Revival cathedral.

Santiago - final stop on the Camino

Rochester. An ancient town on the Medway in Kent. Norman castle and cathedral and an old Huguenot quarter off the High Street.

Quimper, where I visited the cathedral with my late DH

Plymouth - The Spanish Armada was first sighted off the coast in 1588.

Oxford - city of dreaming spires.

Norwich, on my list of cathedral towns to visit.

Monte Carlo. Capital of Monaco and famous for its casino and Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Llandeilo. A really good Toast shop there

Keukenhof Gardens in The Netherlands is home to beautiful tulips.

Japan, land of the Rising Sun

Ingham - a village in the West Lindsay district of Lincolnshire and, during WW2, the base of RAF Ingham, a satellite airfield to RAF Hemswell with three grass runways.

Hull - capital of culture 2017

Gargrave is a large village on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, just outside Skipton.

Florence is home to the prestigious Ufizzi gallery

Esbjerg is Denmark's largest seaport with a long history of fishing and now centre of the country's oil industry.