Puzzles

[Ragged Robin]

Even in daylight take a torch....on a walk....?

[Lori S.]

Errr, well, a tunnel, cave or ice cave... ?

[Paddy Tobin]

River in ravine?

[Stephenb]

I have a strong suspicion that this is in connection with a glacier- a view in an ice cave with stairs (glacier cave)-  a cable car or alpine railway nearby  somewhere in the alps, probably not too far away from our Ragged Robin (Valais). Probably totally wrong, but lets's have a go anyway....

[Ragged Robin]

Errr, well, a tunnel, cave or ice cave... ?

Lori, well guessed - it's a very small tunnel, one of two, only big enough for one car at a time and if you walk through it is quite eerie because the tunnels are so dark and water dripping produces long icicles in winter    I always think it would be a perfect setting for Hercules Poirot to discover something sinister with the icicle being the weapon that melts away  

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River in ravine?

as Paddy suggests, is just close by over the vertical edge at the side of this dead    end road!!!!!!

Thanks for unmasking the scene everyone!!!

[Maggi Young]

Great puzzle, Robin!

[Ragged Robin]

I have a strong suspicion that this is in connection with a glacier- a view in an ice cave with stairs (glacier cave)-  a cable car or alpine railway nearby  somewhere in the alps, probably not too far away from our Ragged Robin (Valais). Probably totally wrong, but lets's have a go anyway....

All those close by Stephen   

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Maggi, glad you enjoyed it 

[tonyg]

Wicked puzzle Robin - Jacinta did think I was quite mad to be bothered with it when she saw the first mask!  We did end up on foot even if I couldn't see where we were going

[Paddy Tobin]

Good one, Robin; a complete tease, almost impossible to figure it out.

Paddy

[Lori S.]

It seems there's a puzzle within a puzzle then... why blast through a mountain to make a dead-end road...

[Paddy Tobin]

Can I start a new puzzle?

This is also a puzzle for me and I don't have the answer.

The Greatorex doubles were named, almost completely, after characters from the writings of William Shakespeare. However, there is one Greatorex double named, "White Swan", certainly not one of the well-known Shakespearean characters.

Can anybody shed any light on this name?

I know there is an hotel in Stratford-on-Avon called "The White Swan" and it occupies a building which was extant during Shakespeare's lifetime though, apparently, used as a bakery at that time.

Perhaps, students of literature might be able to shed light on this choice of name by Mr. Greatorex.

Paddy

[ranunculus]

Never saw through that one, Robin!  Probably tunnel vision!  Excellent puzzle.

So that you have a way back, Lori!!  

[tonyg]

It seems there's a puzzle within a puzzle then... why blast through a mountain to make a dead-end road...

I once found a dead end road near Benasqe in the Spanish Pyrenees.  The highway just stopped at the bottom of a mountain.  I later discovered that the plan was to bore a tunnel through to France, making it much quicker and easier to cross the border.  However one side withdrew their support ... I think it was the French, worried that the much lower prices in Spain at the time would see all the natives crossing the border undermining the local economy on the french side ...   

[Ragged Robin]

It seems there's a puzzle within a puzzle then... why blast through a mountain to make a dead-end road...

Lori, beyond the tunnels a deep valley with a river opens out and there is a very old village up there and Alpine meadows that used to be cut off completely in the winter, above that Lake Salanfe.......