Real life Cantr?

[tiddy ogg]

I've just been to the funeral of my brother's wife. She came from Tristan da Cunha, reputedly the most isolated human settlement on the globe, an island in the south Atlantic. She was evacuated, with all the other islanders in 1961 when the volcano erupted. Many of the islanders returned and they have their own website, containing pictures, I believe, of the Tristan longboats, on which the initial evacuation, (to a neighbouring island,) was carried out. Their economy is based on potatoes and fishing.
There's a good article on the island in Wikipedia, and their website is www.tristandc.com

[Phalynx]

Great, really interesting, thanks for that...!

[Valsum]

Indeed.

[Stan]

Wichita, let us know when you plan to go. I might tag along.

[Pie]

*Handcuffs him to wichita* I'M COMING TO!!! finally, a cantr with NO SUICIDAL NEWSPAWNS!!! IN REAL LIFE!! IT'S LIKE MAJIK!!!

[Doug R.]

Permission
Your first task before planning a visit is to Email the Secretary to the Administrator to outline the purpose of your visit, proposed dates, preferred shipping , and accommodation sought. The Tristan Government controls passages on the SA Agulhas and fishing boats and all enquiries for travel must be made via the Tristan link above.

Yea, sounds like some Cantr towns I've been through alright! It amuses me that the next subject below Permission is entitled "Projects," even though it has nothing to do with anything like a Cantr project.

[SekoETC]

Ummmmmmmm how did wichi come up in this? He is as puzzled as I am XD

[Stan]

It was a joke because he's travelling everywhere.

[Dee]

Umm...

Dude, the guy's brother's wife just died and you are making jokes?


I'm sorry for your loss, tiddy ogg...

[tiddy ogg]

Huh? No offence with jokes. It's just that her death reminded me of Tristan and looked it up on the web. At the funeral the vicar was talking about longboats, (all the usual guff... Jesus is our longboat that will save us,) and that's what triggered it all off.
They were a very nice set of people, the Tristans, with, at their arrival, a very odd form of English. I don't know what the web site told you, but the present inhabitants all stem from shipwrecks around 1839. There are only 7 different surnames on the place, partly English, partly Italian.
The first postage stamp I saw from there had imprinted on it: "Local value, 2 potatoes". All the Tristans I spoke to said this was a joke, but who knows?

[Razorlance]

Have you looked at the map? it's got some great names, my favourite has got to be Ridge where the goat jump off followed by Pigbite. Of course the main settlement name is the best, Edinburgh, I'm from Edinburgh, Scotland. And it has Carlisle Beach, my Dad's from Carlisle, Cumbria, small world eh?