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A Storm to Phare
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:16 pm
by oldgaffer1
This video is certainly making me re-consider my cruise to Britanny this year!
Kin'ell!
(My apologies if you have seen this before.)
Cheers,
Alister.[/url]
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:35 am
by Silkie
I just can't understand why they build them in such terrible places.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:59 am
by Telo
Wuzzat ra Mozart Requiem Mass in D Minor?
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:05 am
by SkerryMerry
Shard wrote:Wuzzat ra Mozart Requiem Mass in D Minor?
"Naw jist means ye cannae get ra train tae St'ens'on son".
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:34 am
by So_Sage_of_Lorne
I have sailed within a mile of that lighthouse on two occasions, that video is the first time I have actually seen it!
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:28 pm
by stephenh
Silkie wrote:I just can't understand why they build them in such terrible places.
Not so much 'why' as 'how'....
"The lighthouse at Ar Men, the most legendary of all, is built on a rock which emerges to a height of just 1.50 metres at low tide, right in the middle of the Raz de Sein. When time allowed, the construction workers drilled a hole for the future anchoring bars. The first year they drilled only 15 holes and only 34 the next year. Throughout the whole of the year 1870, they could only work for 8 hours and for 6 hours in 1873. The construction of Ar Men was to take 14 years. "
14 yrs ? - quite amazing....