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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago)
ok, so 126:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/5b7a8d8fd1.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 10:32 (sixteen years ago)
is this somewhere in crete? chania?
― ampersand (remy bean), Monday, 12 July 2010 10:53 (sixteen years ago)
ceuta?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 12 July 2010 11:01 (sixteen years ago)
no no no
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 12:16 (sixteen years ago)
san juan?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 12 July 2010 14:45 (sixteen years ago)
Pastel coloured buildings -> Miami?
― StanM, Monday, 12 July 2010 14:50 (sixteen years ago)
I see a mosque dome...
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Monday, 12 July 2010 14:53 (sixteen years ago)
ok, sharp, mosque, with a lot of oil tankers in the background, Djibouti?
― StanM, Monday, 12 July 2010 14:58 (sixteen years ago)
Lots of cranes and unfinished buildings too - Dubai?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:00 (sixteen years ago)
nope
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:14 (sixteen years ago)
is it north african?
― del griffith, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:15 (sixteen years ago)
no.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f612d548a8.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:25 (sixteen years ago)
diff angle : http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f612d548a8.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:27 (sixteen years ago)
oh, it's back. the picture disappeared for a minute.
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:28 (sixteen years ago)
For real? Nassau.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:30 (sixteen years ago)
Got it, it's Male.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:32 (sixteen years ago)
yep. nice work.
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:33 (sixteen years ago)
wow
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Monday, 12 July 2010 15:34 (sixteen years ago)
127
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8784/panoraman.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:42 (sixteen years ago)
dubrovnik?
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:44 (sixteen years ago)
it is not
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:45 (sixteen years ago)
Nicosia?
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:50 (sixteen years ago)
Marseille?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 12 July 2010 16:03 (sixteen years ago)
Marseille ... is the right answer
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:04 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago)
128.
http://sweetpickles.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5513a321888330120a56997d6970c-800wi
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:10 (sixteen years ago)
Bogota?
― kkvgz, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:22 (sixteen years ago)
not Bogota
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:24 (sixteen years ago)
Lima
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Monday, 12 July 2010 16:28 (sixteen years ago)
Thank you for suggesting that Google image search term, corey.
― StanM, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:32 (sixteen years ago)
not Lima
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:33 (sixteen years ago)
looool
― kkvgz, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:33 (sixteen years ago)
quito
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:34 (sixteen years ago)
Quito it is.
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:34 (sixteen years ago)
129http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/65423a8fbb.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:37 (sixteen years ago)
Quito?
xpost bah, beaten to it
― ailsa, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:37 (sixteen years ago)
was away googling tall cathedrals :-)
― ailsa, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:38 (sixteen years ago)
these keep disappearing for me so just in case, 129:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/65423a8fbb.jpg
apparently my IP is banned from using tinypic for violating their terms of service. i have no idea...
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:42 (sixteen years ago)
looks a bit like Sim city
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:05 (sixteen years ago)
El Paso
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:07 (sixteen years ago)
no...i gotta go to bed soon so hint: it's a capital city, and here's another shot:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/19ccf85d71.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:23 (sixteen years ago)
kind of obscure i guess
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:24 (sixteen years ago)
Hmmm... Cairo?
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:28 (sixteen years ago)
Driving on the left - Hamilton, Bermuda?
― ailsa, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:40 (sixteen years ago)
not cairo or hamilton
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/aef76e5735.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:41 (sixteen years ago)
Windhoek
― kkvgz, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:46 (sixteen years ago)
yes!
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:47 (sixteen years ago)