122.http://i28.tinypic.com/w99szq.jpg
― AlanSmithee, Sunday, 11 July 2010 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Seen that pic before but I'm not sure - Mediterranean? Something to do with the crusades?
― StanM, Sunday, 11 July 2010 09:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Valletta?
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 09:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, Valletta
― AlanSmithee, Sunday, 11 July 2010 09:34 (thirteen years ago) link
123:
http://i35.tinypic.com/wteuy9.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 09:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Taipei?
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 11 July 2010 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Not Taipei. I think I actually did Taipei upthread somewhere.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 10:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Valetta - so beautiful.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 11 July 2010 11:04 (thirteen years ago) link
kaohsiung? macau?
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 11:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Nope. Here's another view:
http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/3042/graveyardi.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Is this some kind of cemetery?
― StanM, Sunday, 11 July 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I was going to pretend they were really small tower blocks, but you're right, it is a cemetery
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
duh, the image is called graveyardi.jpg , I now see. :-)
― StanM, Sunday, 11 July 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
kyoto
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Correct!
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
but the signage in pic 1 is in mandarin isnt it? wtf this game is impossible.
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
hate this game
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Is the first picture in the graveyard? Or just it Kyoto as well?
― StanM, Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
124. http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/TEG2309.jpg
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it's the City of Butthurt Image Hosts?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
oh bugger, I'll try to find another one!
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/10/25/102538_9f83adc7.jpg
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Lincoln?
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
must be a record. yes it is.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
(used URL to look at photo with cathedral visible)
http://i30.tinypic.com/hueik1.jpg
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, mine is obviously #125
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Nicosia?
― AlanSmithee, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Varosha/ Famagusta
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
apols for quadruple posting. ILX just tripped out on me.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Ankara?
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
tomofthenest x 4 correct, is Famagusta
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
like what? what is famagusta?
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The dividing line between the two parts of Cyprus runs through it
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:15 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
oooooh. i read about that somewhere. right.
― rent, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:19 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link