[CLOSED] Assist me in finding a vacation spot. :D MTO's Anniversary giveaway

Sweety-Sama · **Reply #60 on:** July 14, 2014, 07:59:02 PM

Well, my favourite vacation spot is the home town of my late grandparents in Horndal, Sweden.
I tried to find some pictures in the internet, because our extern hard drive doesn't work properly. Then I remembered a book my uncle gave me. My late grandfather (as an retired journalist - one of the many things he made by the way) and some of his friends in the town had started to put it together, to show people how it looked like when they where young, then he started feeling bad and couldn't work on it anymore.
After his death my uncle and the friend of my grandfather put the finishing touch to the book and found a publisher to get some properly made books out of it. They had to made some new runs by now because people wanted it like sliced bread.

The house with the number 32 is the house of my grandparents. 33 belongs to the good neighbour and friend of the family. Every time we visit, we talk to each other, drink a coup of coffee together (Fika) and in the early autumn he brings us some good chanterelles.

Here is an old picture and a new one of the main road through town. The supermarket still looks the same like I remember from childhood.

You always get good sandwiches there AND - of course - the best Smörgåstårta! (A bread based pastry with shrimps in)

Horndal once was a iron working town. Everywhere do you find Slagsten (slag stones). There once even was some big piles of the blue-green stones, but tourists and townsfolk have taken them and made fine jewellery out of it. The town is still proud of its history and there is the Bruksparken where you find some old industry pieces and there they will hold the Midsommar festivities.

With my grandparents and later with RT we would visit the city of Falun too. An old mining city, where they got copper out of the mines and the famous Falu-Rödfärg, the traditional colours of the Swedish houses.
The old mines are closed now for mining, but you can take tours through it and learn of the history of mining.

Even several kings and queens of the Swedish Kingdom and the crown princess visited as a tradition and wrote their names on the walls.

And back to horndal we would swim in the lake of Rossen.

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enki_ck · **Reply #61 on:** July 14, 2014, 08:02:06 PM

Sweety just in 58 seconds to the closing time. (19:59:02)

So, from now on ....

ENTRIES CLOSED

I'll make a list of all the entries and get back to you with the winner.

derekmac · **Reply #62 on:** July 14, 2014, 08:04:47 PM

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enki_ck · **Reply #63 on:** July 14, 2014, 08:06:07 PM

Quote from: derekmac on July 14, 2014, 08:04:47 PM

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Good idea, I was feeling kind of hungry. I'll go eat dinner first.

Sweety-Sama · **Reply #64 on:** July 14, 2014, 08:06:46 PM

YAY!!! Haven't watched the time when I saw "still 6 hours"... And the realised that it was sooo close!

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RT1969 · **Reply #65 on:** July 14, 2014, 08:06:58 PM

Quote from: enki_ck on July 14, 2014, 08:02:06 PM

Sweety just in 58 seconds to the closing time. (19:59:02)

Yes, she needed some

from me at first.

And now we wait!

enki_ck · **Reply #66 on:** July 14, 2014, 08:20:11 PM

Here's the list of entries I found ordered alphabetically.

CHECK TO SEE IF YOU'RE ON IT (if you entered of course

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I'll randomize it in a few hours and then do the drawing.

1.   Agent X68
2.   captain spaulding
3.   chivaceae
4.   claws42
5.   Corwyn
6.   Cupboard
7.   DazMechanical
8.   derekmac
9.   detron
10.   Dragon Lord
11.   edcgear
12.   firefightingjosh
13.   Grathr
14.   Havoc
15.   JAfromMn
16.   kkokkolis
17.   Lynn LeFey
18.   Migripper
19.   Monrogue
20.   Mr. Whippy
21.   mr626
22.   neillcurrie
23.   NeitherExtreme
24.   Nhoj
25.   pfrsantos
26.   powernoodle
27.   RamoN
28.   rdub934
29.   rickboone
30.   RT1969
31.   Sparkydave
32.   stealth007s
33.   styx
34.   Sweety-Sama
35.   Top-Gear-24
36.   WildJ3
37.   Zed

styx · **Reply #67 on:** July 14, 2014, 08:59:57 PM

i refuse to believe your reality in which we have to wait. i'd rather believe that this nice SOG is already in the mail to the lucky winner

Sweety-Sama · **Reply #68 on:** July 14, 2014, 09:13:33 PM

Quote from: styx on July 14, 2014, 08:59:57 PM

i refuse to believe your reality in which we have to wait. i'd rather believe that this nice SOG is already in the mail to the lucky winner

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enki_ck · **Reply #69 on:** July 14, 2014, 09:16:25 PM

I'll wait till midnight server offset time, so a bit less than 3 hours from now and then do the drawing.

Sweety-Sama · **Reply #70 on:** July 14, 2014, 09:43:02 PM

Oh nooooooo!!!!!!!

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styx · **Reply #71 on:** July 14, 2014, 09:43:36 PM

me thinks you need more beer

Top-Gear-24 · **Reply #72 on:** July 14, 2014, 09:47:52 PM

Quote from: enki_ck on July 14, 2014, 09:16:25 PM

I'll wait till midnight server offset time, so a bit less than 3 hours from now and then do the drawing.

captain spaulding · **Reply #73 on:** July 14, 2014, 10:35:01 PM

enki_ck · **Reply #74 on:** July 15, 2014, 12:03:55 AM

Randomized list

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List Randomizer

There were 37 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1.   Dragon Lord
2.   RT1969
3.   Corwyn
4.   chivaceae
5.   WildJ3
6.   rickboone
7.   Lynn LeFey
8.   rdub934
9.   Agent X68
10.   mr626
11.   Zed
12.   RamoN
13.   Migripper
14.   Sweety-Sama
15.   Monrogue
16.   edcgear
17.   firefightingjosh
18.   stealth007s
19.   styx
20.   Grathr
21.   Mr. Whippy
22.   Nhoj
23.   Havoc
24.   kkokkolis
25.   neillcurrie
26.   claws42
27.   pfrsantos
28.   NeitherExtreme
29.   powernoodle
30.   detron
31.   DazMechanical
32.   derekmac
33.   Cupboard
34.   JAfromMn
35.   captain spaulding
36.   Top-Gear-24
37.   Sparkydave

Timestamp: 2014-07-14 22:02:44 UTC

enki_ck · **Reply #75 on:** July 15, 2014, 12:08:54 AM

And the winner is RamoN.

Congrats, please PM me your address so we can ship this one to you.

His winning post:

Quote from: RamoN on July 09, 2014, 12:36:29 AM

Province of cordoba argentina, not the best pics ever but ones i had handy of my previous trips. The first two of a trip i did with my motorcycle and the lower two some places you can only reach trekking.

Its my favourite because you have everything in very little distance which is not common in my country. You have mountains, lakes, heat, snow, great roads, great trekking routes, big tourist places, small isolated spots where people seem to live in another century, etc.

Dragon Lord · **Reply #76 on:** July 15, 2014, 12:10:43 AM

Congrats RamoN!

Thanks Enki and MTO for the chance.

RamoN · **Reply #77 on:** July 15, 2014, 12:24:12 AM

Thats my way of saying i dont know how to say a mega super ultra thanks!!!!!!!!

I really cant believe my number poped! i think that i feel like we won the world cup after all

Seriously a big thanks and i will have to find a way to give something back!!!