Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)

[Yorkie]

Big White Hotel? Whatever that is in the local lingo?

Hotel Branco Grande in Portuguese will get you nao punto!  It is probably the biggest holiday complex in the Algarve quite near the Rio Arada. 

[SteveH]

I give up,even for a wet Sunday, gave it my best, even Google street maps,   

[Yorkie]

I give up,even for a wet Sunday, gave it my best, even Google street maps,   

Assuming that everyone else will also give up, I will reveal the answer.

It is the main part of Clube Praia da Rocha, there being a second part on the side of the road from which the photograph was taken, from about the 12th floor.  Since then the  accent as has bern on building fewer floors.  We stayed in the place (when the photograph was taken), and we hate the complex, although we do like Praia da Rocha and the nearby main Town of Portimao.
 

[SteveH]

   

[Merddin Emrys]

I haven't given up, I think it is the main part of Clube Praia da Rocha? 

[Yorkie]

Absolutely correct!  Very well done indeed!   

[Merddin Emrys]

  it suddenly came to me! Odd though as previously I had never heard of it! 

[Yorkie]

it suddenly came to me! Odd though as previously I had never heard of it! 

That's the power of subliminal advertising for you!  You'll be buying OMO washing powder next!   

[Merddin Emrys]

  We use the powder from Lidl, Formil very good too! 

Does anyone know where this is? We were there last Friday!

[DaveR]

Looks like Aberystwyth Station to me.

[Merddin Emrys]

Yes Dave, it is, I didn't think it would take long! 

[Merddin Emrys]

Another easy one, where is this and what is the name of the steam locomotive?

[hollins]

I think it is the Talyllyn Railway. What a beautiful drive it is down that valley to the sea if I am right. Don't know the engine name but could it be Thomas the Tank Engine?

[Merddin Emrys]

Correct railway Hollins, but which loco and name of station? 

[Yorkie]

Dolgoch at Tywyn wharf.