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TAR15 EP7:"This is Not My Finest Hour" (The Netherlands)
puddin:
^^ and another by the way GMTA peach :neener:
georgiapeach:
Oh and don't get too hung up on "Groningen" for the pitstop.
Groningen is not only the town...it is also the district or county which would include the towns of Zoutkamp amd Vierhuizen.
Heee...all my time in the Netherlands is finally paying off! :yess:
But so sad for DUtch if they don't credit his charming town of Zoutkamp separately after all...
theschnauzers:
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--- Quote from: theschnauzers on October 28, 2009, 02:45:34 PM ---Since teams are having to drive themselves, the release clue to likely going to tell the Racers to fly to XX and then drive yourself to YY. They're not going to be given a choice of airports to fly to to up pick their cars.
So it has to be either Bremen for all the teams, or Amsterdam for all of the teams. And given the hyperspeed at which this season was filmed, it's going to be whichever of the two is closer.
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Everyone is entitled to an opinion and I value yours although I do not agree with all of them. The closer airport to Groningen is clearly Bremen at 52 miles. I did the calculation of distance from Schiphol Airprot to Groningen and it I remember it as either 113 miles or 103 miles. Bremen is over an hour closer and favored particuarly since no driving in an Amsterdam rush hour would be required.
I do not agree that all teams have to go to the same airport. It is not probable but certainly possible that all teams will not be directed to one airport. If so, that airport should be Bremen for a number of reasons, most notably its proximity to Groningen. But, as Celaestor says, we'll see. Indeed we will.
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I'm not taking sides in whether the teams end up flying to Bremen or Amsterdam, I'm just saying that it makes little economic or time sense for production to leave sets of vehicles at multiple airports so teams have choices where to fly. I cannot think of a single instance in the past where teams were given such a choice, and I'd be highly surprised that they would do so this time, absent some overriding reason we haven't been privy to. So I'm 99 percent certain that all the teams had to fly to the same airport, although they may have used different flights and connections to get there.
apskip:
--- Quote from: puddin on October 28, 2009, 03:35:28 PM ---:fan:
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Here is a description of farmer's golf:
Farmers golf is played with a special wooden golf club, with a club head in the shape of a wooden shoe, or clog (in Dutch: klomp). A farmers golf ball is, with its 20 centimeter diameter, much larger than a traditional golf ball.
A golf hole is made by placing a bucket in the ground and a flagpole beside it. The 8 to 10 holes have, on average, more than 200 meters distance between them. A typical Farmersgolf TM course consists of 8 hectares or about 20 acres.
The defining feature of Farmer's Golf is that the game is played on an otherwise unaltered farm. Obstacles and "hazards" include anything one might find on the farm, including live cows, ditches and barbed wire.
The pin is also the start point for the following hole.
The ball can always be moved a club length from where it lies as long as it is not moved closer to the pin. A hole is finished when the ball is hit into the bucket at the pin. The ball is then removed from the bucket and placed 4 metres away in the direction of the pin for the next hole. This is continued until all ten holes of the course have been played.
There is mention that the game is traditionally played in Dutch wooden shoes.
To me this looks like a variant of croquet with the mallet swung in a golf-like arc instead of rotated in an arc by your legs.
Slowhatch:
What kind of campground are you looking for? There's one in Zoutkamp, De Rousant, located on the spit of land just below the town (click the photo upper-left for a pano).
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