We recently had a request to find the Neighbours set, and we always like to keep our readers happy, so here is the real Ramsay Street.

If you view in ‘Hybrid’ mode you might accuse my of telling fibs, as this cul-de-sac’s real name is “Pinoak Court”. In the soap it’s called Ramsay Street after the Ramsay family who used to live there.

Wikipedia for Ramsay St.

We might as well make a worldwide soaps tour out of it, so let’s head by the small town that was built for the abysmal failure of a soap called “Eldorado”.

Broadcast by the BBC in 1992-93 it was supposed to be a cross between Eastenders and Neighbours but achieved the success of neither and was swiftly cancelled. I wonder what goes on there now?

Wikipedia for Eldorado.

Set in the fictional West Yorkshire village, Emmerdale is another popular UK soap which is actually filmed near Harrogate in the grounds of Harewood House.

Wikipedia for Emmerdale.

Previously featured: Coronation St & Eastenders

Thanks: John Seddon, Martyn Webster & Bruv

Here on Tenerife there’s an absolutely gigantic shape on the landscape, which looks very like a B2 Stealth Bomber. Just a coincidental arrangement of images, or the accidental discovery of a super-secret B2 Invisibility Cloak?

Via haha.nu (Thanks Rob W & Gudlyf)

Take your pick from either a pool of dolphins or a dolphin-shaped pool.

The image of dolphins in a pool was captured from Google Earth, where you can also clearly make out a crowd gathered round a dolphin at the side of the pool, possibly being fed by a keeper.

If you prefer your dolphin in the wild, then perhaps Australia would be a better bet?

Thanks to Chris Thompson, Noel Ballantyne and woowoowoo.

Mazinger Z is a giant manga robot who had his own anime show in the early 70s, and according to Wikipedia had a great influence on the Super Robot genre.

In this satellite photograph we can see a giant statue of Mazinger, standing proudly in a Spanish field. Nope that wasn’t a typo (’Japanese’ being quite a few keystrokes away) – this really is in Spain! But who built him there and why?

I’d never heard of Mazinger Z, but the show was a surprise hit in Spain, despite being edited down from the original violent Japanese version. A babelfish translation of this Spanish article might shed more light on the statue’s origins…

The statue of the Mazinger was constructed 20-25 ago years, when they emitted the series by tele, so Mazinger is the guardian of our urbanization.

Umm, nope, that didn’t help much. Loved the Power Rangers poses though.

Thanks: Gumbor

Despite Western Sahara being one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world (just over 1 person per square kilometre) Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) have been fighting since 1975 about who should control this territory.

Western Sahara has no railways and only 6,200km of roads, but they do have some rather cool large type which (according to our submitter) translates to ‘Allah, the Nation, the King’ – which by all accounts is the motto of the Moroccan Monarchy. It seems to be right next to some sort of encampment and looks to be right on the border of Moroccan and SADR territory.

Spain was in charge here prior to ‘75, and over on nearby Gran Canaria there’s an image of the SADR’s version of the Western Sahara flag with text in Spanish that reads “Sahara Vencera”, literally “Sahara Will Win”. However, according to Flagspot this image might well be reversed from its intended direction… Suspicious methinks.

Thanks to Uri and Virtual Globetrotting.