Where is this?

[Auntie Helen]

Those of a nautical mind should recognise the strange green blobs behind my husband. For a bonus point, where are we?

(Apologies if this kind of thread should be elsewhere...)

 

[wafflycat]

Greenblobland

 

[Auntie Helen]

I think the good burghers of ******** would be appalled to think it might be renamed Greenblobland.

The Blob out of shot (on t'other side of the road) should of course be red, but it isn't, it's green too.

Sorry about the rubbish photo quality - phone cameras are never that good.

Oh, and a further hint, we're on the NCN Number 51 at this point.

 

[Cathryn]

Calais? They have burghers.

 

[gavintc]

If the one on the other side of road should have been red, you were going upstream away from the sea. Apart from that - i have not a clue.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

Is this the place where Nelson first authorised the use of green blobs against the Frenchies?

 

[wafflycat]

Oh, and a further hint, we're on the NCN Number 51 at this point.

NCN 51 is here
http://www.sustrans.org/default.asp?sID=1098181510437

You may be able to have your memory jogged if you look at it?

 

[Cathryn]

Do we win anything?

 

[Auntie Helen]

If the one on the other side of road should have been red, you were going upstream away from the sea. Apart from that - i have not a clue.

Yes, the other one should have been red - although it was also green. I wasn't really going upstream, more towards the river which was flowing east to west (on a rising tide), but I was probably less than 50 metres from the river on the NCN51, if that gives more clues.

 

[Auntie Helen]

Do we win anything?

Sadly not, except for the self-satisfaction of getting it right - if anyone does get it right.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Harwich?

 

[ComedyPilot]

Mistley?

 

[Auntie Helen]

Not Harwich or Mistley, the river I am near was further south.

 

[Dayvo]

Maldon?

River Crouch?

River Chelmer?

*clutching at straws*

 

[Auntie Helen]

Getting much warmer... although a bit too far south. It's a maritime village on a river between the Stour and the Crouch...