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Geography Name Game
Last week Terry Riley at Tripso posted this creative bit about vocation vacations. His list of locations and matching vocations is catchy and fun, inspired by Site 59's work-themed travel packages.
As Labor Day comes to a close and many of us prepare to head back to work tomorrow, I decided to try and find just a few more places with vocation-like names, this time venturing outside the states to see what I could find that matched up with English language words for certain jobs. Some of these are a stretch, I'll admit, but it's as creative as I could get on my day off! If you think of any more, please add them in the comments below.
R&B Musician - Seoul, S. Korea
Soap Maker - Ivory Coast
Wine Maker - Cork, Ireland
Doctor or Nurse - Medicine Hat, Canada
Sandwich Maker - Delhi, India
Cheese Maker - Munster, Germany or Cheddar, England
Map Maker - Atlas Mountains (Africa)
Chef - Cook Islands, New Zealand
Travel Agent - Tours, France
Diver - Plunge, Lithuania
Hair Dresser - Perm, Russia
Gymnast - Split, Croatia
Body Builder - Pecs, Hungary
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Keith Bergstrom Dec 18th 2005 5:34PM
How about the locksmith's home in Key West, the watch maker in Colorado Springs, the wandering monk from Rome(okay, that one's bad), the super hero from Capetown, South Africa, or the other one from South Africa, the plummer from Port St. Johns, the ship's ironsmith from Anchorage, AK, the proctologist from Colon, Panama (sorry about that one),or the trumpeter from Cape Horn, Argentina?
Kelly Dec 18th 2005 5:34PM
Thanks Keith, some excellent additions to the list. I like Capetown superhero the best ;-)