T-SHIRT COMPETITION
THE DETAILS
We now have Retro Oxford Stars T-shirts for sale on the Supporter's Club Table. They were designed
by Dave Carr and printed by James Clarke so they're a real home grown effort.
At £10 each they're a bargain. We are having a competition
for those who buy one to see who can have their photo taken wearing their Oxford Stars T-shirt in the furthest
flung or most unusual place. Email your photos to us over the next few months and we will
announce the winner at the start of next season.
This will allow you to take your T-shirts away in the summer too. We look forward to seeing how far the T shirts
travel! This page will allow you to see what the competition is like. Don't forget to tell us a little bit about the picture, its location etc.
There will, of course, be a prize for the winner. If you want to buy one in the offseason contact us using the puck button.
DAVE
Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is located in the SE Pacific Ocean and is under Chilean control. The whole Island is a World Heritage Site. It is of course famous for its Moai Structures, there are 887 stone statues either on the island or in museums.
SIMON
Teotihuacán ("place of those who have the road of the gods") was, at its height in the first half of the 1st millennium CE,
the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas. The name Teotihuacán is also used to refer to the civilization or culture that this
city was the center of, which at its greatest extent included much of central Mexico. Its influence spread throughout Mesoamerica;
evidence of Teotihuacáno presence, if not outright political and economic control, can be seen at numerous sites in Veracruz and the Maya region.
The city is approximately 40 km (about 25 miles) northeast of Mexico City and covers a total surface area of 83 km²
and was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
This photo was taken from the top of the Pyramid of the Sun (the third largest in the world, at ~65m), looking along the Calle de los Muertos
(Avenue of the Dead) towards the Pyramid of the Moon.
SIMON
Construction of the canal was one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. The project of building a canal
was attempted and completed by the United States in Panama in 1914. The building of the 77 km (48 mi) canal was plagued by problems,
including disease (particularly malaria and yellow fever) and landslides. As many as 27,500 workers are estimated to have died during
construction of the canal. Since opening, the canal has been enormously successful, and continues to be a key conduit for international shipping.
Each year more than 14,000 ships pass through the canal, carrying more than 203 million tons of cargo. By 2002 about 800,000 ships had used the canal altogether.
A typical passage through the canal by a cargo ship takes around nine hours. 14,011 vessels passed through in 2005, with a total capacity of 278.8 million tons,
making an average of almost 40 vessels per day. The most expensive toll for canal passage to date was charged on 30 May 2006 to the container ship
Maersk Dellys, which paid US$249,165.00 for passage. The least expensive toll was 36 cents to American adventurer Richard Halliburton who swam the canal in 1928.
The average toll is around US$54,000.
We had a 6 hour stop in Panama so we decided to visit the canal. There is a restaurant overlooking the lock so we lied to the security guard about having a
reservation and went in. The food wasn't bad either.
SIMON
On the middle day of the 6th International Conference on Low Dimensional Structures and Devices we took a boat trip to this little island where we saw lots of fish and lots of palm trees.
DAVE
The Story...
After finally persuading a taxi driver (US Dollars do the trick) to
drive over to Paraguay through the infamous drug smuggling/people
trafficking/generally unfriendly Cuidad del Este and through some
dodgy suburbs I finally made it to the Paraguayan river border with
Argentina & Brazil and some strange landmark to signify their part of
the Three Frontiers. The taxi driver was annoyed at having to drive
his lowered suspension Renault 19 with enhanced sound system and
tinted windows (clearly his pride and joy) over what can only be
described as a shambolic attempt of a road for the last twenty
minutes before the landmark.
Anyway I got the picture and here it is. For those interested the
drivers name was Pablo although I confess his surname escapes me.
ANDY
Andy apparently spotted one of the Hanson Brothers on his trip to Zell am See in Austria. The Zell am See team are in the blue and yellow kit. This team plays in the Austrian League and are currently top of the table. |
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KATE
Took this on my Christmas Holiday to North America and its me in front of Mount Robson. The mountain is located in the Mount Robson Provincial Park, its the second oldest park in BC. The mountain itself is 3,954 metres (12,972 ft) high and is the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. There are no easy routes up the mountain and 50% of attempts to climb it fail. Frequent bad weather means the peak is often only visible for a few days each year. We were clearly lucky when we went past this place in early January 2007. |
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KATE
Also took this one on my Christmas holiday, the Athabasca River runs around Jasper townsite. Both of which are located in the Canadian Rockies. The Athabasca River originates from the Columbia Glacier and is 1,231km long. Both the river and Jasper townsite are in Jasper National Park. Jasper is a small town with a population just over 4,000 it has an indoor ice rink and in the winter frozen lakes are used as hockey rinks. It was so damn cold here (-27 degrees C) that that my eyelids froze shut and the snow was knee deep. It took 19 hrs on a train from Vancouver to get here and a crazy 34 hours to get back, that was a nightmare journey! |
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