Drought Reveal Roman Camp In Spain

[Nick Harbud]

I just found this little pcture on the BBC website.  A view of the Roman camp Aquis Querquennis, located on the banks of the Limia river in the As Conchas reservoir, in Ourense, Spain. The camp is usually submerged but is exposed due to the low water level.



It is an ill drought that brings nobody any good....

...BTW, UK wine growers are expecting a vintage year.  If this sort of climate persists, one can apparently expect places as far north as Edinburgh to become centres of viniculture.

Cheers!   

[Imperial Dave]

thats a fabulous site

[Erpingham]

Trip advisor has lots of visitor photos that show it in its semi-submerged state

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g777801-d5113982-Reviews-Aquis_Querquennis-Bande_Province_of_Ourense_Galicia.html#/media-atf/5113982/249869724:p/?albumid=-160&type=0&category=-160

[Imperial Dave]

looks like a top place to visit

[Jim Webster]

Looking at the tree line it cannot be all that submerged?

[Erpingham]

If you look at the Tripadvisor pictures, it's only the top left corner that seems regularly submerged.  The rest is consolidated ruins in the style of , say, Housesteads, with interpretation boards scattered around.

[Mark G]

I fear that if Scotland did reach the point where grapes became a viable crop, they would be planting to varieties used in buckfast tonic wine * and not a Medoc or Chablis.

* note that Tonic does not denote medicinal qualities.

[Imperial Dave]

 

a bit like Sanatogen Tonic Wine (which btw I used to make professionally 12 years ago)

[Erpingham]

I fear that if Scotland did reach the point where grapes became a viable crop, they would be planting to varieties used in buckfast tonic wine * and not a Medoc or Chablis.

* note that Tonic does not denote medicinal qualities.

At the weekend, I had to use Wikipedia to prove to disbelieving daughter and son in law that Buckfast was in Devon, not any part of Scotland 

[Mark G]

I tried to convince a chap who made movies to do a road trip film of a bunch of comedy weegies on a pilgrimage to Devon to the abbey.

[Nick Harbud]

Has the Buckfast Abbey pilgrimage trip not already been filmed?  I seem to recall an episode of Rab C Nesbit that covered this subject.

[Mark G]

It's the whole journey road movie, I was suggesting.
The abbey is just the mcguffin to get them there .  Like carlsberg at the end of ice cold in Alex (boy must they have been disappointed)

[Nick Harbud]

Anyway, for those culturally impoverished individuals who have not seen this classic of Scottish comedy, here is the link.  Be sure to catch the scene with Norman Lovett (Holly from Red Dwarf) as a monk trying to eat his soup whilst one of the other brethren is consuming a packet of crisps behind him.

[DougM]

I fear that if Scotland did reach the point where grapes became a viable crop, they would be planting to varieties used in buckfast tonic wine * and not a Medoc or Chablis.

* note that Tonic does not denote medicinal qualities.

Nice bit of casual racism there. Going to make jokes about Irish labourers and Afro-Americans being good dancers next?

[Justin Swanton]

I fear that if Scotland did reach the point where grapes became a viable crop, they would be planting to varieties used in buckfast tonic wine * and not a Medoc or Chablis.

* note that Tonic does not denote medicinal qualities.

Nice bit of casual racism there. Going to make jokes about Irish labourers and Afro-Americans being good dancers next?

I was thinking of a Scotsman selling a guest a cup of tea.