Welsh Rugby Scarf Travel Log in Pictures

[theborderer]

Did I post on the wrong page to be included ??? I'm not far away from Herm

[WillieMacG]

Jock now dives for cover.

[TurboKittie]

The scarf has made it to it's next destination! I will go back and look for names to be added to the list and make sure the scarf gets a night on the town here...but not tonight. I do not think scarf is interested in going to midnight showing of Harry Potter and would much prefer to see the proper sights and hoist a pint.

[R.S.L. Kiltwearer]

I do not think scarf is interested in going to midnight showing of Harry Potter and would much prefer to see the proper sights and hoist a pint.

why cant it do both even give you a interesting pic to commemorate the midnight showing

[Mike_Oettle]

Like Santa Wally I am going off topic here, but I felt I ought to point out that while the copper mine in the picture might be the largest man-made hole in the world, it has entirely been excavated by machinery.
The largest hand-excavated hole in the world is in South Africa. Known as the Big Hole in Kimberley (capital of the Northern Cape), it is even deeper than it appears, since it is more than half full of water (poisonous, sad to say).
When the diamond diggers first arrived there in 1869, there was a hill standing where the hole is now. Because the first people to dig the diamondiferous kimberlite pipe that made up the peak of the hill came from the town of Colesberg, south of the Orange River, it was called Colesberg Koppie.
The koppie was divided up into individual claims, and each claim was worked separately by its owners. At the height of the individual working, there were hundreds of steel ropes running down from the side of the hole, each to a particular claim.
Because of the difficulty of identifying the separate claims, as well as the great expense of working them deeper into the ground, Cecil John Rhodes bought up the claims and merged them into the De Beers Mining Company.
Many of the first men who developed gold mines on the Witwatersrand (including Rhodes) did so using capital built up at Kimberley.
That became an even more expensive operation, because the gold-bearing reef was far narrower than the kimberlite, and before long ever deeper mines were needed.
Those still operating have levels three kilometres below the surface.
Regards,
Mike


A diagram of the Big Hole.

The Big Hole seen from above.

[Derek]

Great news that the scarf has made its way to yet another destination. Look forward to your pics TurboKittie. I'm sure you will have fun.
Once you have added the new addtions to the list could you count up how many more stops it still has to go, and post the number on this thread. Thanks.
In the meantime I am treating myself to a small tot of welsh Penderyn Whisky and looking back over the scarfs adventures so far.
Iechyd Da
Derek

[TurboKittie]

With the addition of Hamish, it still has 34 stops to make.

With the others requesting to be added to the list on this thread and the challenge one, there are 7 more XMTS members looking to host the scarf (that I added to the back of the list), making a grand total of 41 more places to visit.


I finally managed to get a day off work (because those Big Macs and Quarter Pounders don't make themselves!) so we took the scarf to see the arch!







And, we took a few with my daughter Katie near the old courthouse downtown, St Louis.

[Cowher]

41 more to go?!? Wow.

[Derek]

Cowher ... Thanks for some more fab pics and taking the time out to take them. I luv's your Cymru shirt. Cant fault it. Brill!
If you are able to move the scarf on asap to the next of one of 41 remaining reciprients that would be grand. Thanks.
I am only guessig here, but I reckon if the scarf could reach Canada by the second week of Sept latest, we should have time for it to complete the Canada leg, then head overseas to everyone else around the globe before returning to the last leg back in the UK.
VOLUNTEER REQUIRED.
Is there anyone who would be interested in posting up a map of the scarfs route so far and for its future destinations as they come along. To do that is way beyond my capibility plus I doubt if I got the programs to even start. Posting a pic is about it. Doh.
In the meantime here is one pic from each of its stop overs so far

Iechyd Da
Derek

[TurboKittie]

Next destination has been selected and the scarf will get mailed further along its journey today.

It is going to a US state it has not yet been, and 172nd most populous city in the United States. There is a Harley Davidson dealership is housed in what was originally a movie theater dating from the early 1950s. Another interesting point about the next destination is that a local Mexican restaurant was the setting for one an irreverent cartoon episode.