Castles
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I loved the bit in Austerlitz where he talks about how forts developed after the middle ages into these increasingly complex shapes, intended to render them proof against increasingly powerful artillery, until by WWI they had ground plans like some sort of mutant alien crab.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
These images are amazing, but they also make me want to behead the nearest aristocrat.
Leo
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Baroque is, if nothing else, the principle that more is more.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
We went to a couple of the smaller Ludwig II gaffs when we went to Bavaria - Lindenhof and the little mountain bolthole that I can't remember the name of. Amazing places but Neuschwanstein looks next level.
Ludwig was an interesting character, too - mates with Wagner at the point where Wagner had basically been cancelled for being a seditious radical, idolised Louis XIV and paticularly the idea of him as a centre-of-everything absolute monarch (hence the Versailles-inspired decor) but actually hated public events and was largely at the beck and call of his ministers. Eventually got fed up of arguing with politicians and flounced off to spaff the public finances on Neuschwanstein, got declared mad, then was finally probably bumped off.
Ludwig was an interesting character, too - mates with Wagner at the point where Wagner had basically been cancelled for being a seditious radical, idolised Louis XIV and paticularly the idea of him as a centre-of-everything absolute monarch (hence the Versailles-inspired decor) but actually hated public events and was largely at the beck and call of his ministers. Eventually got fed up of arguing with politicians and flounced off to spaff the public finances on Neuschwanstein, got declared mad, then was finally probably bumped off.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Harlech has the official steepest street in the world now
Harlech street takes record as steepest in the world
Guinness World Records says the Harlech street has beaten the previous record holder in New Zealand.
www.bbc.com
Murphy
cat malogen
Have you heard of the Roman siege at Alesia? They did the former then bypassed the latter for full slaughter mode.
Britain has some outstanding hill forts. Anyone been to Danebury? Another quality day out if you take in Maiden Castle too.
Murphy
cat malogen
Harlech has the official steepest street in the world now
Harlech street takes record as steepest in the world
Guinness World Records says the Harlech street has beaten the previous record holder in New Zealand.www.bbc.com
If you can be arsed, it has some gorgeous beaches just below it. Big holiday weekend for northerners with Shell Island and you can take in Caernarfon too. Just hold your nose at the Prince Charles investiture bits.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I think that was on that utterly cretinous ghost hunter programme.
IdleRich
IdleRich
That's a crazy building, makes me want all the more to go to Georgia.