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Warm-up Foxer (Where am I?)

I'm in a village transformed by globalisation. I can see a palm tree and a tabby-and-white cat. The road I'm on is named after a man with a distinctive middle name. The country I'm in has played in only one FIFA World Cup. If I flew around the globe at this latitude I wouldn't pass over the contiguous United States. I'm 100 metres from a canal. I'm due south of one of the oldest golf courses in the world. Ten years ago passenger trains returned to the local railway line after an absence of almost half a century. This village shares a name with a controversial US political figure. I'm three miles from a very unusual bridge and four and a half from the remains of a ship that was afloat when Vlad the Impaler was impaling.

Feature Foxer

This enlargeable collage has a hidden theme. What is it?

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SOLUTIONS

Last week's warm-up foxer: I was here (defoxed by Gusdownup)

Last week's wordchain:

1. TAKLAMAKAN - The Silk Road skirted this desert (AFKAMC)
2. ANCHOR - An object that links Popeye to Pope Clement I (AFKAMC)
3. HORATIO - An unusual christian name shared by two well-known British military figures (Gothnak)
4. IONA - An island equidistant from Frankfurt and Reykjavik (chuckieegg)
5. NAMER - An extremely resilient APC (chuckieegg)
6. MERCATOR - A drone, telescope, and geographer (AFKAMC, Electric Dragon)
7. TORNADO - The mount of a famous freedom fighter (Electric Dragon)
8. DORADO - A WW2 submarine lost in the Atlantic on her maiden voyage (AFKAMC, Electric Dragon)
9. ADOBE - Mix-up this low-tech building material to make a home (AFKAMC)
10. OBERON - A natural satellite of Uranus (Gothnak)
11. RONDEL - Armpit armour (Gothnak)
12. ELECTRA - A word that links Amelia Earhart to Eugene O’Neill (AFKAMC)
13. TRAPEZIUM - One of the 206 (AFKAMC)
14. UMBRELLA - In its Bulgarian form, a deadly weapon (chuckieegg)
15. LACONIA - The three liners that carried this name all met untimely ends (chuckieegg)
16. NIAGARA - A North American river that’s also a British aero engine (Electric Dragon)
17. ARABESQUE - A ballet position and a Gregory Peck film (AFKAMC, AbyssUK)
18. QUETZALCOATL - He terrorised NYC in a 1980s movie (phlebas, AbyssUK)
19. ATLAS - A pedal-powered whirlybird (phlebas, AbyssUK)
20. LASTUN - A diminutive hatchback made in Eastern Europe (Gothnak)
21. TUNGSTEN - During WW2 much of Britain’s came from Devon (Electric Dragon)
22. TENERIFE - Close to Scotland, vexillogically speaking (Gothnak)
23. FERNET - An alcoholic drink big in Buenos Aires (Gothnak)
24. ETIHAD - One of the airlines that operates A380s (AFKAMC)

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Tim Stone: A vereran PC games journalist, Tim has been covering simulation, strategy and management games in print and online for over 30 years. At Rock Paper Shotgun, he was the writer of The Flare Path, a weekly column, from 2011 until 2022.
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