Ankara?
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:09 (fifteen years ago)
tomofthenest x 4 correct, is Famagusta
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:09 (fifteen years ago)
like what? what is famagusta?
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:11 (fifteen years ago)
The dividing line between the two parts of Cyprus runs through it
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:15 (fifteen years ago)
just, like i googled it, but, tom, ismael -- have you been there? im just impressed.
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)
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
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:18 (fifteen years ago)
oooooh. i read about that somewhere. right.
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:19 (fifteen years ago)
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.
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:21 (fifteen years ago)
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?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:21 (fifteen years ago)
here http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/books/review/Schuessler-t.html
would love to frolic
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)
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!)
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)
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.
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:27 (fifteen years ago)
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.
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:30 (fifteen years ago)
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.
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:35 (fifteen years ago)
ok, so 126:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/5b7a8d8fd1.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 10:32 (fifteen years ago)
is this somewhere in crete? chania?
― ampersand (remy bean), Monday, 12 July 2010 10:53 (fifteen years ago)
ceuta?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 12 July 2010 11:01 (fifteen years ago)
no no no
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 12:16 (fifteen years ago)
san juan?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 12 July 2010 14:45 (fifteen years ago)
Pastel coloured buildings -> Miami?
― StanM, Monday, 12 July 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)
I see a mosque dome...
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Monday, 12 July 2010 14:53 (fifteen years ago)
ok, sharp, mosque, with a lot of oil tankers in the background, Djibouti?
― StanM, Monday, 12 July 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)
Lots of cranes and unfinished buildings too - Dubai?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:00 (fifteen years ago)
nope
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:14 (fifteen years ago)
is it north african?
― del griffith, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:15 (fifteen years ago)
no.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f612d548a8.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:25 (fifteen years ago)
diff angle : http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f612d548a8.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:27 (fifteen years ago)
oh, it's back. the picture disappeared for a minute.
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)
For real? Nassau.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:30 (fifteen years ago)
Got it, it's Male.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:32 (fifteen years ago)
yep. nice work.
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:33 (fifteen years ago)
wow
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Monday, 12 July 2010 15:34 (fifteen years ago)
127
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8784/panoraman.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:42 (fifteen years ago)
dubrovnik?
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)
it is not
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:45 (fifteen years ago)
Nicosia?
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:50 (fifteen years ago)
Marseille?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 12 July 2010 16:03 (fifteen years ago)
Marseille ... is the right answer
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:04 (fifteen years ago)
cool. I have to dash out, so happy for someone else to take my turn posting the next one.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 12 July 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)
128.
http://sweetpickles.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5513a321888330120a56997d6970c-800wi
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)
Bogota?
― kkvgz, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)
not Bogota
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:24 (fifteen years ago)
Lima
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Monday, 12 July 2010 16:28 (fifteen years ago)
Thank you for suggesting that Google image search term, corey.
― StanM, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:32 (fifteen years ago)
not Lima
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:33 (fifteen years ago)
looool
― kkvgz, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:33 (fifteen years ago)
quito
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:34 (fifteen years ago)
Quito it is.
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:34 (fifteen years ago)
129http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/65423a8fbb.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:37 (fifteen years ago)