The dividing line between the two parts of Cyprus runs through it
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
just, like i googled it, but, tom, ismael -- have you been there? im just impressed.
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
oooooh. i read about that somewhere. right.
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
here http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/books/review/Schuessler-t.html
would love to frolic
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, so 126:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/5b7a8d8fd1.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 10:32 (fourteen years ago) link
is this somewhere in crete? chania?
― ampersand (remy bean), Monday, 12 July 2010 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link
ceuta?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 12 July 2010 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
no no no
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
san juan?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 12 July 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Pastel coloured buildings -> Miami?
― StanM, Monday, 12 July 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I see a mosque dome...
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Monday, 12 July 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, sharp, mosque, with a lot of oil tankers in the background, Djibouti?
― StanM, Monday, 12 July 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Lots of cranes and unfinished buildings too - Dubai?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
nope
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
is it north african?
― del griffith, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
no.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f612d548a8.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
diff angle : http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f612d548a8.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, it's back. the picture disappeared for a minute.
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
For real? Nassau.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Got it, it's Male.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yep. nice work.
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
wow
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Monday, 12 July 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
127
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8784/panoraman.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
dubrovnik?
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
it is not
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Nicosia?
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Marseille?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 12 July 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Marseille ... is the right answer
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
128.
http://sweetpickles.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5513a321888330120a56997d6970c-800wi
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Bogota?
― kkvgz, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
not Bogota
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Lima
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Monday, 12 July 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Thank you for suggesting that Google image search term, corey.
― StanM, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
not Lima
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
looool
― kkvgz, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
quito
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Quito it is.
― kenan, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
129http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/65423a8fbb.jpg
― rent, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Quito?
xpost bah, beaten to it
― ailsa, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
was away googling tall cathedrals :-)
― ailsa, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link