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Seeing as my village is so small and boring, I decided to use the nearest relatively know city of Denmark: Ribe

 

First Google image:

bi_RibeIdyl.jpg

Entitled "Hyggeligt bymiljø i Ribe" = "Cosy city milieu in Ribe" (Ribe is the oldest city of Denmark - and it shows. It is a very cosy milieu. :))

 

Penultimate Google search result:

http://www.regionsyddanmark.dk/wm204744

The official website of Ribe County.

 

First YouTube search result:

It seems to be from some Russian movie. I have no idea what the feck it's about.

 

First YouTube search suggestion:

Ribery

Apparently some football (soccer) player.

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What is 'football' in Danish anyway? Hyakenflakenboll? I dunno, something like that. Probably not.

 

EDIT:

Guess what the first image is when you type Birmingham into Google...

 

Yep. A picture of Birmingham, Alabama.

 

Not the original Birmingham.

Not the Birmingham that spawned the other hundred Birminghams in the USA.

Not the greatest Birmingham.

Not the real Birmingham.

Not the Birmingham that is the birthplace of Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, ELO, The Football League and The Industrial Revolution.

But Birmingham, Aller-fucking-bammer!

 

That's fucking disgusting! It's wrong! At least on Wikipedia, when you type in just 'Birmingham', you're directed straight to the original Birmingham. :nono:

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Bournemouth Beach of course! Best beach in Brittain might i add :)

 

bournemouthbeach395.jpg

SO MANY LIES IN ONE POST! *head explodes*

 

... seriously. Boscombe down the road from you has way nicer beaches. Unless you're counting them! Then there's blackpool, brighton (sic) and cornwall.

Nami I live not too far from Chesterfield. How come you know Shorty?

BISH it up to find out MOAR!

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What is 'football' in Danish anyway? Hyakenflakenboll? I dunno, something like that. Probably not.

 

Close ... not really.

 

It´s fotball I think.

You can bet on the danish to write it like that.

 

Actually, that's more like Swedish. We call it "fodbold" with a lovely soft Danish D. I'd say it's like the English "th" sound, just without aspiration.

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City: Hasselt

 

First image:

Luchtfoto_Hasselt.jpg

Which I guess is an image of our city, though I find it hard to recognise anything on there.

 

Penultimate link:

http://www.cchasselt.be/programma.php

Which leads to the site of our cultural centre place, where there's concerts and the like.

 

Youtube video:

Some DJ playing at a festival in our city.

 

First Youtube suggestion: "Hasselt skatepark"

 

 

And if I were to use the town I sort of live in instead of the city, I get this.

 

Town: Sint-Lambrechts Herk

 

First image:

Sint-Lambrechts-Herk-2.jpg

Heh, picture taken at the annual fair, which is tiny.

 

Penultimate link:

http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/Woning-te-koop-Sint-Lambrechts-Herk-4-slpk_W0QQitemZ360083290685QQihZ023QQcategoryZ140871QQcmdZViewItem

House for sale on ebay.

 

Youtube video:

Some video from 1985 of the carnival (kids/people dressing up and going through the streets).

 

And no suggestion at all.

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Harpenden, where me, DomJcg, and Dan-Likes-Trees come from:

 

Harpenden_high_street.jpeg

 

Link: Harpenden Hotels. Joy.

Oddly, the last link was to Youth With A Mission's Harpenden branch. Ironic, eh?

 

The first Youtube link is of the Highland Gathering (largest in Europe outside of Scotland), but the second is getting posted as it was made by people who were in my year at school. I can name every actor in it.

 

 

The suggestions were non-existent.

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For Knebworth:

 

knebworth-house-gnr.jpg

 

This is actually closer to Stevenage, but called Knebworth house.

 

Knebworth Park Cricket Club

 

Also Stevenage.

 

 

First suggestion: knebworth robbie williams

 

Yeah, there was a Robbie Williams thing...

 

For Cambridge:

 

cambridge05.jpg

 

Funny view... The backs, but I'm not sure which college. Maybe Kings.

 

Cambridge Journals Online

 

 

Lol at this, seen it before though. The college with the American guy who doesn't get the joke and the guy in front of the white house is mine.

 

Suggestion: cambridge university

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