Gimme 5

First topic message reminder :

All you have to do is answer the previous 'Gimme 5' and set a new one.
So if the previous poster asked for 5 types of pizza I would say:

Meat feast
Pepperoni
Ham & Pineapple
Calzone
Margherita

Now, gimme 5 coastal countries

Britain
New Zealand South Island
Sicily
Fraser Island
Victoria Island, Vancouver



5 favourite instruments

Piano/Keyboards
Guitar (acoustic/electric)
Saxophone (tenor)
Bass
Drums

5 favourite rugby players

Assuming Union

Jason Robinson
Chris Robshaw
James O'Connor
Richie McCaw
Augustin Pichot

Your fave 5 rugby players

John Eales
Conrad Smith
Serge Blanco
Mark Ella
Bismarck du Plessis

5 Favourite US Presidents

Can't answer that

OK, how about your 5 favourite European holiday destinations.

Rome
Cyprus
Munich
Budapest
Sicily


5 favourite Antipodean beers

Victoria Bitters
Tooheys Old
XXXX
Emu
Fosters

5 favourite American beers

I'll have to pass this one.... only know Budweiser and that Canadian one whose name escapes me.

No idea!

Ok 5 favourite beers from around the world

Otter Bright - UK (Devon)
Cooper's Pale Ale - Australia
Hoegarden - Belgium
Murphy's - Ireland
Kimgfisher- India

No
Repeats from same country


5 albums you are looking forward to

I'm stuck with this one but here's 5 albums I'd like to see from artists who are no longer with us. (similar to my 'live acts I would like to have seen' one)

John Lennon
Jimi Hendrix
Marc Bolan
Jim Morrison
Matt Finish

5 favourite cities in Asia

Abu Dhabi
Bangkok
Beijing
Kuala Lumpur
Tokyo

5 South American Capital Cities

The ones I want to visit-

Lima
Montevideo
Buenos Aires
Santiago
Quito


5 things you'd put in a time-capsule

Images of the day
Music of the day
Samples of rocks, soil, plants and water
A bag of mixed lollies
An Apology Note

Another 5 things you'd put in a Time Capsule

A sperm donation (mine)
Photograph of Gibbo
Newspaper
Link to 606v2 Archives
Photograph of Ulster Rugby 2013 HC Winners

5 Motorbike Manufacturers

(I'm sure your wife would be thrilled with that 1st one... I've just PMd her)

Honda
Suzuki
Harley-Davidson
Triumph
Yamaha

5 favourite Paralympians

Ellie Simmonds
David Weir
Oscar Pistorius
Jonnie Peacock
Richard Whitehead

5 favourite moments of these paralympics

David Weir's 1500m
Jonnie Peacock's Paralympic record in the 100m
Simmonds' 200m IM record
Storey's Road Race
The Wheelchair basketball match I watched live (US vs Spain)

5 characters from books you wish you could be

Jack Reacher
Harry Bosch
Jason Bourne
Peter Rabbit
Professor Dumbledore

5 Favourite Authors

Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Philip King Dick
(biggest guilty pleasure ever) Matt Reilly
China Mieville

at the moment


Yours?

Lee Child
Michael Connelly
John Connolly
Dan Brown
Sam Bourne

5 Best Subjects at School

English
Geography
Maths
History
Science

5 Favourite Tropical Islands

Ko Pan Nnang
Fraser Island
Singapore
The Dominican Republic + Haiti
Australia, if that counts



5 things you'd recommend a tourist to do in your country

Doesn't look like LB is going to answer this so

Go to London
Spend sometime at the Lake District
Have a wee dram in Scotland
Have a night out in Newcastle
Take the music tour in Liverpool

5 favourite soft drinks

Diet Coke
Ginger Beer
Lemon, Lime and Bitters
Lucosade Sport
Real Lemonade

Five favourite meals to order from a pub

Steak and Chips
Roast and veg
Mixed Grill
Surf and Turf
Lasagne

5 favourite pubs

For assorted reasons:


The Globe, Appley, Somerset
The Crabtree, Hammersmith, London
The Dove, Hammersmith, London
The Royal Exchange, Paddington, London
The Merrimeade Inn, Sampford Peveral, Devon



5 favourite ice lollies

Splice (pine lime)
Splice (orange & mango)
Icy Pole
Swirl
Passionfruit flavoured one (forgot name)

5 favourite ice cream flavours

Maple and pecan
Lemon
Ben and Jerry's half baked
Pistachio
Raspberry


5 best sportspeople your country has ever had

Dally Messenger
Don Bradman
Rod Laver
Leigh Mathews
Shane Warne

5 of your country's best sportspeople

Taking my country as England rather than the UK for sports in which the constituents of the UK compete separately: and biased towards my own sports!

Sir Steve Redgrave
Lord Seb Coe
Dame Kelly Holmes
Martin Johnson
Richard Hill -

5 things you think people can take out if and learn from sport

Respect
Discipline
Teamwork
Fitness
Joy

5 least favourite sportsmen/women

Luis Suarez
Joey Barton
Callum Clarke
Cristiano Ronaldo
David Haye

5 sportspeople you don't like either

Adam Scott
Roy Keane
Gareth Bale
Wayne Rooney
Nasser Hussain

5 sports teams you dont like

Man U
Chelsea
St George (Illawarra is OK though)
Roosters
Melbourne Storm

5 sports teams you don't like

Man U
Hull FC (rugby league)
Lancashire CCC
Everton
Inter Milan

5 City/Towns you dont like

Hanoi (parts of it freaked me out)
Dubai (it just felt soulless... kind of spectacular though)
New Delhi (utter mayhem and sad looking kids everywhere)
Port Moresby (never been there but heard it's lawless)
Jakarta (a complete hole with about 10 million people/ 28 million in metro!)

5 city/towns you hate

Athens - desolate, uncharming, hot smelly and with the usual grace of a capital city in its citizens (ie very little)
Los Angeles - intimidatingly big and overly "American", too hot and nothing really interesting to me
Slough - enough said
Miami- way too noisy and the beaches were underwhelming. No soul
Paris- nice sights, some not so nice Parisians and just a bit snooty and expensive. Coming from a Londoner.

5 favourite days of the year for whatever reason

Christmas Day ... for the look on the kids faces
3rd June
5 April
1st January
5th November

5 favourite places

Hammersmith Bridge
Wonderland, Toronto
My parent's house in Devon
Edinburgh Castle
my house, London

Same for you?

sorry... more cities rather than 'places'

London (just love the place... old buildings, parks, etc)
Tokyo (absolute buzz, everything so easy despite all the people)
New York (great feel in certain neighbourhoods)
Berlin (the lifestyle seems so easy going, interesting history too)
San Francisco (parts remind me of Sydney - which I love. Laid back city)

5 Cities you want to go next time (which you haven't been to before)

Rome (I want to see the colosseum and Sistine chapel)
Auckland
Berlin (Looks like there'd be a lot of culture and an interesting city)
Vancover (my parents have been there and raved about it)
Lima, Peru (I'd like to experience a totally different culture and go on the Machu Picchu trail, which I know is a fair way away from Lima but still)

Favourite console games

Rome and Vancouver are must visits, beautiful cities. Auckland was my least favourite Kiwi city to be honest, preferred Wellington and Christchurch


The Legend of Zelda, Majora's Mask
Resident Evil 4
Banjo Tooie
Super Smash Brothers Melee
GTA- San Andreas

5 favourite cartoons

Cheers for the info Chequered Jersey
(if I can include 'adult' cartoons then)

Simpsons,
American Dad
Monkey Dust
Family Guy
Southpark

otherwise
Wallace and Gromitt
X-Men
Batman (there's lots of different versions, most cheesy but there's a really dark one that I love)
Spiderman
Johnny Bravo

5 favourite music genres (apologies if this has already been done)

Blues
"Anthem" rock
Folk-esque acoustic
Late Renaissance
Indie rock


5 bands nobody else knows but they should

Good choices (for the record mine are Indie, Metal, Blues, Reggae and Punk/Ska)

Misunderstood - great 60s band who influenced a huge range of bands, but were cut short by being drafted to Vietnam.
Modest Mouse - really good and different indie band
Mariachi El Bronxo - a Latin Guitar version of the Bronx, a metal/Post hardcore Punk band from LA
Rodrigo Y Gabriella - some of the most amazing guitar playing I've ever seen, live or otherwise - latin guitar at it's best and amazing covers of Stairway to Heaven and Orion (by Metallica)
King Blues - great mix of political and funny lyrics, rap, indie punk and pop. Really funny and intelligent.

Right back at ur
5 bands nobody else knows but they should .

A couple of mine recently became big-ish! Rodrigo Y Gabriella and Modest Mouse both known to me, both great. Ironically, my choices don't all fit my general favourite genres!

Alabama Shakes.- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sSl11GMkMI
King Charles- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN_cOsjErDE
Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4G0jnP3wi4
Powderfinger- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ1-bZBlnzM
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEHok4S2mos


5 other periods in history which you would like to visit

Around 43,000 years ago - helping a group of ancestors build some shelters, grow crops, etc.
At the opening ceremony of a pyramid or temple during one the Egyptian Pharaoh's rule.
Around the time when Jesus Christ was on the road travelling between different communities.
with Ancestor's from Devon in 13th C (during the good times)
Vienna/Budapest in the late 19th C (hang around the coffee shops, etc)

Your 5 other periods in history...