Freddie Mercury's birthplace

[HeyWayne]

Oh yes, don't they think Englandshire is tiny and backward? We were trapped in a pod on the Eye with teenage Americans. The girl said "oh look a plane ! Make a wish !"
we still snigger about it

Sorry, you have that wrong! They know Englandshire is tiny and backwards because it says so on Wikipedia.

[Mikey]

Surely you only have to watch celebrity big brother to know that?

[Two_Sheds]

^ I wouldn't admit to that in public Mikey

[shobhna]

Zanzibar: been there when I was knee-high to my Daddy. Vaguely remember the Sultan's Palace. It had a string of lights and viewed from the ship it all looked very nice. I can't remember much else since it's all becoming lost in the mists of time. :-)
I think Freddie Mercury would have been about 11 or 12 when I visited there.

Zanzibar became part of Tanganyika (I think in 1961 or 62 - independence time) and then it was renamed to Tanzania though I still think that Zanzibar should have kept it's own identity.