Guess the City

Valletta?

Yes, Valletta

123:

http://i35.tinypic.com/wteuy9.jpg

Taipei?

Not Taipei. I think I actually did Taipei upthread somewhere.

I love Valetta - so beautiful.

kaohsiung? macau?

Nope. Here's another view:

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/3042/graveyardi.jpg

Is this some kind of cemetery?

I was going to pretend they were really small tower blocks, but you're right, it is a cemetery

duh, the image is called graveyardi.jpg , I now see. :-)

kyoto

Correct!

but the signage in pic 1 is in mandarin isnt it? wtf this game is impossible.

Turns out they use four alphabets in Japan - one is the same as mandarin, one is the same as Latin. So you see signs in English and you think it's weirdly helpful, but it's not actually that strange

hate this game

Is the first picture in the graveyard? Or just it Kyoto as well?

I did manage to make out the word "calico" on that board, but there are 8 zillion bars/cafes/restaurants in the world called Calico, so that was a no-go.

124. http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/TEG2309.jpg

I think it's the City of Butthurt Image Hosts?

oh bugger, I'll try to find another one!

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/10/25/102538_9f83adc7.jpg

Lincoln?

must be a record. yes it is.

(used URL to look at photo with cathedral visible)

http://i30.tinypic.com/hueik1.jpg

First picture of Kyoto is just a shot in some backstreets by the river, I think. I liked the mix of old wooden buildings with higher modern ones, you don't seem to get that so much in other cities (because they were all burnt to cinders in the war basically). It's a fabulous city to visit and stroll in thanks to that, and because the streets are so tight that it's just crammed full of interesting things.

Sorry, mine is obviously #125

Nicosia?

Varosha/ Famagusta

Varosha/ Famagusta

Varosha/ Famagusta

Varosha/ Famagusta

apols for quadruple posting. ILX just tripped out on me.

Ankara?

tomofthenest x 4 correct, is Famagusta

like what? what is famagusta?

The dividing line between the two parts of Cyprus runs through it

just, like i googled it, but, tom, ismael -- have you been there? im just impressed.

Was evacuated in 1974 following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, remains uninhabited and exactly as it was then. Residents given two hours to get out, no-one's been back in since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famagusta#Since_1974

oooooh. i read about that somewhere. right.

I was a few miles away on holiday in the Greek part of Cyprus a couple of years ago, we took a boat trip up near it, but couldn't go past the Green Line (which extends into the sea) out of Greek waters. I think you can get near enough by land to take better photos, and if we'd have been there longer, I'd have liked to have gone up.

um, couple of weeks ago. not couple of years ago.

Wow. If the big hotel in Pyongyang deserves a thread of its own then so does that. I can't imagine why it's still sealed off?

here http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/books/review/Schuessler-t.html

would love to frolic

Haven't been there, but I really should've made a point of going as in a former life I used to do a lot of work kind of obliquely concerning the place (was still going to guess Nicosia but was saved by xpost!)

About two miles from our hotel, there were two military encampments, one used by the UN Peacekeeping Corps on the Greek side, the other by the Turkish armed forces a few hundred yards away on the other side of the arbitrary border. It was totally fucking bizarre to think we were in a lovely holiday resort, looking along at what was built up to be the main holiday resort on the island but stuck in a timewarp and basically condemned to curiosity/anomaly status.

in that book i linked to the author uses it as a case study of what would happen, in the short-term, if humans vanished from the earth. so fascinated by places like that though.

Yeah, I was really struck by even dull translated-into-five-languages boat commentary. We could have done a tour up nearer, through to the Turkish side and round the city walls and stuff, but never had the time. Will be hitting up the library for some more information soon.

ok, so 126:

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/5b7a8d8fd1.jpg