Guess the City

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:

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is this somewhere in crete? chania?

ceuta?

no no no

san juan?

Pastel coloured buildings -> Miami?

I see a mosque dome...

ok, sharp, mosque, with a lot of oil tankers in the background, Djibouti?

Lots of cranes and unfinished buildings too - Dubai?

nope

is it north african?

no.

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diff angle : http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f612d548a8.jpg

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oh, it's back. the picture disappeared for a minute.

For real? Nassau.

Got it, it's Male.

yep. nice work.

wow

127

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8784/panoraman.jpg

dubrovnik?

it is not

Nicosia?

Marseille?

Marseille ... is the right answer

cool. I have to dash out, so happy for someone else to take my turn posting the next one.

128.

http://sweetpickles.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5513a321888330120a56997d6970c-800wi

Bogota?

not Bogota

Lima

Thank you for suggesting that Google image search term, corey.

not Lima

looool

quito

Quito it is.

129
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Quito?

xpost bah, beaten to it

was away googling tall cathedrals :-)

these keep disappearing for me so just in case, 129:

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apparently my IP is banned from using tinypic for violating their terms of service. i have no idea...

looks a bit like Sim city

El Paso

no...i gotta go to bed soon so hint: it's a capital city, and here's another shot:

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