Where's your favourite ever place you've been

[xsnaggle]

How on earth did you get to meet Hess?

When he was sick he was escorted to the British Military hospital for treatment where they had a whole floor (called men's medical) clear all the time just for him, with his cell ward right at the back.
We used to do close protection on that floor to prevent him being sprung by neo-nazis. A company of infantry did the external perimeter cordon. This also meant escorting him when he exercised on the hospital roof, which had a 12 ft chain link fence all round the edge of it to prevent him topping himself. given a choice I'd have let the shite jump. He never renounced anything the bastards did and still revered Adolf till the day he finally did manage to top himself!! complete cwnt with everyone he dealt with.

[Mr Soul '68]

. He never renounced anything the bastards did and still revered Adolf till the day he finally did manage to top himself!! complete cwnt with everyone he dealt with.[/QUOTE]

Are you 100% sure he topped himself? There is a lot of info out there that suggests otherwise....

[xsnaggle]

. He never renounced anything the bastards did and still revered Adolf till the day he finally did manage to top himself!! complete cwnt with everyone he dealt with.

Are you 100% sure he topped himself? There is a lot of info out there that suggests otherwise....[/QUOTE]

Put it this way, he had been trying and failing for years. When the Soviets took over the guard on Spandau they stripped everything out of his cell and left him with the bare things that his sentence dictated.

The Brits let him have books radio stuff like that and he had a workshop like a man shed in the grounds. Lets be fair he had a whole fecking prison to himself.

The yanks gave him anything he wanted and left him to his own devices apparently. I personally got the opinion theie average soldier had no real idea what he had been part of and how high up in the thing he was. But each time he had tried previously it was when the Americans were on guard duty. And so it was in the end. I believe he hanged himself with electrical flex but he shouldn't have been left alone long enough to get access to it.

The French were just useless.

you might think it was better to top him and someone did it, but his death raised a problem no one wanted, which was where to bury him without it becoming a shrine to Neo Nazis. It was a very serious consideration at the time.

People always said the Soviets wanted to keep him alive so they had reason to station Armed troops in West Berlin, but that was plain bollox, the duty was as much a pain in the neck to them as it was to everyone else. It was the politicians driving it. And from my observations it was the Brits who wanted him alive the most!!

[Harry Monk]

Berlin when the wall was up. The history and place still standing in 1971 were amazing/
6 years living there, my son was born there and I met people who are still my friens
I also met Rudolf Hess there. The man was an asshole till the day he died, but again amazing history

Welsh Guards?

[xsnaggle]

Welsh Guards?

No.

[Glos Blue]

The Maasai Mara and Lake Naivasha in Kenya,
The Rocky Mountains, Calgary and Medicine Hat in Canada,
The Danish islands,
Anywhere in Bavaria, Germany.

A few countries that I've been to are supposed to be beautiful now, they weren't so when I visited; Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo.

The British Army provided some great all inclusive holidays!

[G rangetown Blue]

Mont Tremblant
New York
Chester Racecourse
Zadar

[life on mars]

Berlin .
New York.
London.
Cardiff.

Just been to Lisbon, lovely place and reasonable prices.

[The Bob Banker Spanker]

Cape Town with the Navy.
Same time we beat England in the Rugby World Cup 3 years ago.
All the South Africans supporting us.

[Malckent]

Austria, ibiza, Tenby, Barry, home.

[Maccy Blue]

Plovdiv. Stunning place while still a bit rough round the edges. 2 litre bottle of beer in the supermarket for about 70p or £1 for a better tasting one. Meal out with the missus came in at less than £10 in a traditional Bulgarian restaurant.

[Harry Monk]

Plovdiv. Stunning place while still a bit rough round the edges. 2 litre bottle of beer in the supermarket for about 70p or £1 for a better tasting one. Meal out with the missus came in at less than £10 in a traditional Bulgarian restaurant.

Saw Wales u21 play there in the mid nineties.

[Mr Soul '68]

Perth, Western Australia

[Carl Dale's Mole]

I live here! (in Singapore). Wanna come round ours to watch the Chelsea game?

[Carl Dale's Mole]

I live here! (in Singapore). Wanna come round ours to watch the Chelsea game?

I had the candles ready and everything. Where were you?!

[Hilts]

Cheltenham on the 1st Day of the Festival.

CCS

Grand Canyon.

[Welshcake.]

Sydney is pretty spectacular

[light up the darkness]

Too many beautiful and memorable places

For me it’s;
Ta Prohm in the early morning

Phong nha Ke Bang

Ban Gioc – Detian Falls on the Quây Sơn River border between China and Vietnam

Xian

Kyoto Old town

Monument Valley

Peter Whittinghams left foot esp Wolves and Middlesbrough

[uncle bob]

Charters bar Peterborough
Floating Barge on the river selling hundreds of real ales and massive beer garden with live bands playing on a bandstand in the summer

https://youtu.be/N9mObgG3r-Q

[NYCBlue]

Southern Utah.

[Parti Mellow]

New York, London, Paris, Munich. Everyone's talking about pop music.

[The Bob Banker Spanker]

When he was sick he was escorted to the British Military hospital for treatment where they had a whole floor (called men's medical) clear all the time just for him, with his cell ward right at the back.
We used to do close protection on that floor to prevent him being sprung by neo-nazis. A company of infantry did the external perimeter cordon. This also meant escorting him when he exercised on the hospital roof, which had a 12 ft chain link fence all round the edge of it to prevent him topping himself. given a choice I'd have let the shite jump. He never renounced anything the bastards did and still revered Adolf till the day he finally did manage to top himself!! complete cwnt with everyone he dealt with.

Seriously interesting stuff there.
He’s a massive part of modern history...unfortunately.

[Pearcey3]

Seriously interesting stuff there.
He’s a massive part of modern history...unfortunately.

+1

[dandywarhol]

The park in Poole Dorset.Had my first shag there

[Hubert Cumberdale]

I'm in Singapore at mo and its defo up there. It's London without the knobheads and Bangkok is without the danger.

Eh? What exactly the danger in Bangkok?