Contest #280 answer: Kasteel Drakesteijn, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands
Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands announced her abdication last week. On 30 April 3013 she will hand over the throne to her eldest son, Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife Princess Máxima.
After her abdication she will move to het old home, Castle Drakesteijn where she lived before she became Queen and the place where she raised her children.
The castle is a octagonal shaped building, erected in 1640 and since 1959 in the possession of Beatrix van Oranje.
Those who sang the Wilhelmus
- rob de wolff
- Wista
- Farceur
- steve willis
- Paul Voestermans
- Felix Bossert
– Hint –
- krenek
- mccrumplair
- Cloudspotter
- Paul Franson
- Sasha Smith
- Walter_V_R
- Chris Nason
- Shelly
And this concludes another series, with a clear winner with full marks: Farceur. Congratulations, Richard.
Contest #280 hint
A royal retirement home
Contest #280
Contest #279 answer: AnsaldoBreda factory, Pistoia, Italy
AnsaldoBreda is a manufacturer of trains and urban rail carriages. They are the manufacturers of the not quite successful Danish IC4 trains and the Dutch/Belgian V250 (‘Fyra’) high speed trains, which were put out of service last week after they had only run for 1,5 month and parts were falling off.
Believe it or not, these trains were designed by Pininfarina of Italy, famous for their Ferrari designs…
Those who went by car
- rob de wolff
- Paul Voestermans
- Cloudspotter
- Farceur
- hhgygy
- Felix Bossert
- steve willis
- Sandworm
– Hint –
- donaaronio
- Wista
- Adam Macer
Contest #279 hint
They spoilt it with the Danish a few years ago and last week with the Belgians and Dutch too.
Contest #279
Contest #278 answer: Siding Springs Observatory, NSW, Australia
With a total of 12 telescopes, the Siding Spring Observatory is the main optical telescope site in Australia and was originally set up in 1924.
Last week a raging bushfire destroyed some of the support buildings on site, but the telescopes were not damaged, as it seems.
Those who put the fire out
- mccrumplair
- hhgygy
- steve willis
- rob de wolff
- Gillian B
- Petesafe
- ACG
- Chris Nason
- Cloudspotter
- LawnBoy
- Marty
- Adam Macer
- Felix Bossert
- Farceur
- mehmet durmus
- ewen
- Noisette
- Keith M
- Sasha Smith
- Paul Franson
- krenek
– Hint –
- Paul Voestermans
- Dennis S.
- Shelly
- Rosella
- Wista
- kevin45
- Mik
- Pascal Gilbraith
- Rolando Marín Monge
- Colin
- David Kozina
- Sandworm
- Ernesto Posse
Contest #278 hint
Nearly destroyed by fire, last week