Random picture thread. (Real photos rather than AI please)

[Hugin&Munin]

Thanks a lot.

 

[Gibbs505]

Had to use Google image search to find it, I had seen that before but didn't know the history of it. R. Buckminster Fuller, the architect who designed the geodesic dome, designed that car. It had three wheels, one wheel in the back used for steering, which meant it could pretty much turn a 360 in place, but also made it dangerous as hell to drive at any speed. There were three of them made, and I think this is one of the original three.

An interesting but, alas dangerous vehicle!

 

[Gibbs505]

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[Gibbs505]

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[thehangingtree]

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closed with nice beach shots....

 

[Gibbs505]

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[geolier]

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Where is #6? It looks like Königssee, near Berchtesgaden.

 

[Gibbs505]

Where is #6? It looks like Königssee, near Berchtesgaden.

Norway I think, but could be wrong.

 

[Madiosi]

Norway I think, but could be wrong.

Both wrong. It's Austria, Hotel Schafbergspitze.

Start • Hotel Schafbergspitze

Unser Hotel Schafbergspitze liegt auf 1783 Meter über St. Wolfgang am Schafberg und bietet kulinarische Köstlichkeiten sowie Sonnenterrasse, Gaststube, Zimmer, Seminarraum, u.v.m.

schafberg.net

 

[Gibbs505]

Ah, in my pic it is the restaurant?

 

[Wragg]

Both wrong. It's Austria, Hotel Schafbergspitze.

Start • Hotel Schafbergspitze

Unser Hotel Schafbergspitze liegt auf 1783 Meter über St. Wolfgang am Schafberg und bietet kulinarische Köstlichkeiten sowie Sonnenterrasse, Gaststube, Zimmer, Seminarraum, u.v.m.

schafberg.net

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If you don't fancy climbing, you can take a mountain railway train up the Schafberg:



The 'Eagle's Nest', near the Konigsee, has a similar outlook but it looks a lot more, well, concrete.

 

[Apostate]

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Being a closet Trekkie since the Johnson Administration, I had look this one up.

Captain Kirk And His Jupiter 8, 1960's

 

[Gibbs505]

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[Silent_Water]

OK, we Germans are said to love our forests and trees much more than other neighboring nations, but what these young "Umweltschützer" (= environmentalists) are doing in our days is a bit too exaggerated for most of my generation:



... and why is no one in this unchivalrous poor city here helping this young and small lady in a hurrry with her luggage, so that she can get dressed on her way to the train station? :


Oh, I have just heard that I was wrong and it was simply too hot in this country to wear too much clothes and her sister was already looking and waiting for her to take her home on her horse:

 

[Sonnelom]

 

[thehangingtree]

Please post images in 'thumbnails'!

 

[Gibbs505]

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