Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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See Dover got 2 in the list. Doesn't include the American asking "Who was this Norman geezer anyway?" and "Why did the Romans live underground!"
Here is the list:
"Is this where Sharon and Ozzie actually live?" - a visitor to Osborne House, Isle of Wight
"What time do you switch the mist off?" - a visitor to Dover Castle and the Secret Wartime Tunnels, in Kent
"Where are the monkeys?" - a group of children at Cleeve Abbey in Somerset
"Why did they build so many ruined castles and abbeys in England?" - a tourist at Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire
"Is it a bouncy castle?" - a little girl at Clifford's Tower, York
"Can you tell me where I can see the Hobbits?" - a visitor to Kenwood House, Hampstead
"Did they all have the same dad?" - a visitor to Osborne House, Isle of White, who learned of Queen Victoria's nine children
"How many bricks are there?" - a visitor to Witley Court and Gardens, Worcestershire
"Does my ferret need to be on a lead in this area?" - a visitor to Kenwood House, Hampstead
"How long does life membership last?" - a visitor to Osborne House, Isle of White
"Did Lady Rachel ever de-bone her fish before eating it?" - a visitor to Witley Court and Gardens, Worcestershire
"Are the tunnels underground?" - a visitor to Dover Castle and Secret Wartime Tunnels, Kent
"Is that a manmade jetty?" - a visitor to Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland, pointing at a 300 million-year-old rock formation
"Is this Dracula's Castle?" - a visitor to Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire.
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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good stuff there paul.
there is a story of the american tourist being asked for a light from a soldier in ww2 uniform up at our castle.
on the way out the visitor commented to a member of staff "that is a great hologram there".
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Oh dear I might well have asked that last one about Whitby - doesnt our dear friendly bloodsucker have connections with Whitby. Didnt his sea voyage from Transylvania eventually bring him to brooding Whitby...where he wreaked havoc among the local panting virgins
There wasnt a pale lilywhite neck unsucked, nor a heaving boosom unheaved...
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I was in Castle Street some years ago and was stopped by an American who pointed to the castle and asked 'Is that real?' when I said yes and told him that the main structure was around 900 years old and parts around 2,000 he was visibly shocked.
I like the one about the American in Windsor who asked why the Queen built her castle so close to an airport!!!
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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There's some great ones there! You are right about Whitby PaulB.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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PaulB & Jeane
Here is something I found on a Whitby tourist site
But, strangest of all, the very instant the shore was touched, an immense dog sprang up on deck from below ... and running forward, jumped from the bow on to the sand. Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier ... it disappeared in the darkness."
from Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897
Dracula's Whitby
Looking across the harbour toward East Cliff, you can see the view that inspired the fertile imagination of author Bram Stoker, who stayed in the Royal Hotel on the western side of Whitby while writing his famous novel.
The above extract is from a critical point in the book's story-line, where the Russian schooner Demeter raced across the harbour before the blast of a massive storm, with its dead captain lashed to the helm, and crashed into the pier just under Whitby's East Cliff below the Abbey, whereupon the immense dog leapt onto English soil.
The dog was known to be one of the many forms into which a vampire could transform itself. Count Dracula had arrived in England.
Sorry PaulB I couldn't find any references to ''panting virgins''
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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I think you will find that the 'panting virgins' reference comes from the various Hammer film interpritations of the Dracula story. They were noted at the time for their preponderence of 'panting virgins' and 'heaving bosoms', for some reason this made the films very popular.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Go figure.....................
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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I remember back in the early 80s when I worked at the ferry dock at the west, because it was tidal it used to take 45mins for the ship to be pumped up at low water, enough for any cars or passengers to disembark.
A disgruntled American and his wife came off and wanted to know why things took so long.
After explaining the way things work he said.
"Why the hell could'nt you have done that before the ship arrived "
Ian...
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
