Capital cities you've visited that you can see other countries from...

[vernon]

You're right. The island you can see is Irish. I thought it was British.

User was wrong!!!



And he admitted it.!!!

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've visited Liverpool which is the capital of Ireland and from there you can see England,

 

[Mr Celine]

From Edinburgh you can see the Kingdom of Fife.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

User was wrong!!!



And he admitted it.!!!

Get a news crew, quick!!

 

[winjim]

From Silloth you can see Scotland and on a good day you can see the isle of man from Whitehaven.

From the top of Black Combe you can see England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

From the top of Black Combe you can see England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man.

From the international space station you can see.... loads.

but neither Black Combe nor the ISS is a capital city.

 

[winjim]

From the international space station you can see.... loads.

but neither Black Combe nor the ISS is a capital city.

Well no, but my post was a reply to one citing the views from Silloth and Whitehaven, so had already deviated from the subject in hand.

 

[srw]

One not mentioned yet (I haven't been there) - Israel maintains that its capital is Jerusalem, a city disputed between Israel and Palestine.

I shall leave it to another thread to let others dispute the capital city status and the nationhood statuses.

 

[User482]

I've seen Uruguay from Buenos Aires, Thailand from Vientiane and Indonesia from Singapore.

England from Cardiff Bay doesn't quite count...

 

[robjh]

I've seen Uruguay from Buenos Aires, ....

Were you up a tall building? I seem to remember that the River Plate was so wide at that point that you couldn't see the opposite shore from ground level. But maybe it was a hazy day.

I reckon you should be able to see Argentine territory from Asunción in Paraguay, but I haven't been there to test the theory.

 

[robjh]

You can see Mount Ararat in Turkey from Yerevan, capital of Armenia

 

[snorri]

This thread is c**p.

 

[Globalti]

You can see Brazzaville Congo across the Congo from Kinshasa in the Democratic republic of Congo. Here's the Congo looking downstream from Kinshasa, you can just make out the start of the Stanley rapids, which make the river un-navigable for the 350 kms down to the Atlantic. From Kinshasa upstream the river was a major transport artery; go on Google Earth and look at Kinshasa and you'll see the remnants of the Belgan river shipping industry in hundreds of lighters, barges and steamers all sinking and rusting around the port area.

I love this photo, which I took from the window of the Fleuve Congo hotel; The DRC on the left and Brazzaville Congo on the right. The Congo is massive and flows sluggishly past Kinshasa in an immense muddy volume of water, which turns into monster rapids just downstream as the river drops down through rocky ravines.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Not Constantinople?

Why did Constantinople get the works?

 

[winjim]

Why did Constantinople get the works?

Unless you are of Turkish descent, I don't believe that's any of your concern.