Well I had a number of cats know exactly where I was, even before they came out with this week’s geography lesson. Camie’s Kitties were the first to let me know.

You are next to one of a pair of sphinxes that stand near Parliament in London, England. Between the two statues is an obelisk called “Cleopatra’s Needle.”

Tavi, Cody, Camie and Miss Jade

Eric and Flynn were able to verify that they got the correct answer. Siena and Chilli and the Taylor Cats agree that Tavi, Cody, Camie and Miss Jade were correct. Yao-lin goes there, but unfortunately he was not there the day I was lost, else I am sure he would have led me to a fine eatery. Milo and Alfie were thrilled to recognize where I was.

Fat Eric said:

Darn, I knew this one but as usual I am too late and someone else has already got it!

You were in London and you didn’t come to visit me, Chey? I am deeply hurt!

Alas, Eric if I had know you were so close I would have come by but I got myself lost and I just could not read the writing on that Sphinx. Had my human known everyone better, she probably would have asked to meet some of the London Cat bloggers. I know we were invited down to Yao-lin’s to meet him, but the humans didn’t have that much time (imagine!)

Molly, Shadow and Troo said,

Drat! We’s too late!! *sigh* The mom said when she was in London she saws them, furry impassive but not as much so when theres a Chey kitteh sittin on dem.

And yes, I am sure it was not nearly such a nice site without me.

Now, as I get lost so often, Skeezix is working on making us all better at geography. He has a great lesson here and it just happens, oddly enough to be about the sphinx that stands were I am… he did that last week too.. I wonder how he does that?

Jeter is Excited about Being Sunday Guest Star

Well no one was getting it but Jeter Harris with a little help from a friend… finally guess where I was!

ah … mais oui … yer in da old harbor towers uv la roche in western france. dere ar three medieval towers heer: the Tower de la Lanterne wich used to be a prison; the Tower de la Chaîne, which held the chain that stretched across the harbor; and the St Nicolas Tower. I don’t know why the towers don’t match.
dat’z it.
dat’z ware u ar.
yerz–jh
pee ess … hoo sed “jersey?” harharhar! i’m laffin an laffin!

In his next comment he did add that it was actually La Rochelle in France. Skeezix offers some nice history here!

Fortunately the timing was very good, else I’d have had to say Derby was the most correct cat, saying:

Mum says it is NOT Windsor Castle, she has been their and said it doesn’t fit. So we know where you are NOT, but not where you ARE.

Many cats thought I was in Ireland, Scotland or perhaps at Windsor Castle. I was actually in the Western Part of France. This grainy photo image was another of the Woman’s photos from her trek through the history of the Loire Valley in 1984. She was there because Cardinal Richelieu (remember him from the Dumas books?) was one of the architects (she thinks but he may have had something else to do with it) of one of the towers. She remembers the story of the chain tower well but lots of other stuff was lost in her memory, along with most of the French that she was required to speak (it was a French Class that went to France in January). Anyway off the coast there is a lovely island with a lovely lighthouse but she can’t remember why they went there too.

Oddly, she has not forgotten what great food she had or the nice wines. She does remember they were building the glass pyramid at the Louvre or refurbishing or something when she was there because she did not get to see it (very disappointing after it was so famous from the Da Vinci Code). She was, however in the old Roman Church that Brown mentions in his book. She did not get photos of that (which may have stumped even Skeezix!)