I can see your house from here...

[Viv]

Not your house, obviously. But thought I'd do a pic thread to see what it's like where you live.

I live in Scotland by the River Clyde, so all I will post pics of the river...:D...inspired because today the river happens to be spectacularly beautiful, like silk, reflecting everything and mirror calm...I love it like that.

So here it is, some are the view from my window, all are within a mile or so of my house:

Looking from the beach where I walk dog every day

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd18/VivR/cloch-from-ferrysmall.jpg

QE2 passing my bedroom window, couple of months ago

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd18/VivR/QE2passingmywindowinGourocklastweek.jpg

My town

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd18/VivR/Gourocksunset.jpg

The river is calm, like this, today

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd18/VivR/clydeview-2-yacht.jpg

Cruisers berth here all summer..

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd18/VivR/GoldenPrincesscruisingoffGreenock.jpg

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd18/VivR/kayak-sunset.jpg

[An Céachta Dearg]

River Boyne the most historical river in Ireland
http://www.lookaroundireland.com/imgages/scenic/large/RIVERB~1.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/10747/boyne.jpg

[Viv]

River Boyne the most historical river in Ireland
http://www.lookaroundireland.com/imgages/scenic/large/RIVERB~1.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/10747/boyne.jpg

For those who don't know...what happened there to make it famous?

[An Céachta Dearg]

For those who don't know...what happened there to make it famous?

The banks of the Boyne are the site of the earliest known human settlements in Ireland dating from around 8,000 BCE. Also they have the oldest man made structures in Europe and some of the oldest in the world in the form of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth. These are passage tombs dating from approximitly 7000 BCE. The River was also the site of the 1690CE Battle of the Boyne which decided the English Throne between King James and William of Orange(later king william). The River runs through the town of Trim(Baile Athá Triom) which is the site of one of the best preserved Norman castles in Western Europe dating from the 1200s CE. Also in the Boryne valley are Tara and many Ráths and Tuaths dating from the Iron age.

[An Céachta Dearg]

Oh and its also a very beautifule River

[Vlaams-Nationalist]

This is my little village (800 inhabitants) which is situated in East-Flanders.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa43/romcornel/Gemeenten/k1a.jpg

The "Centre" :D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Gottem.jpg/800px-Gottem.jpg

Hmm, quite rural ...

[Viv]

This is my little village (800 inhabitants) which is situated in East-Flanders.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa43/romcornel/Gemeenten/k1a.jpg

The "Centre" :D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Gottem.jpg/800px-Gottem.jpg

Hmm, quite rural ...

Vlaams I love where you live. I am definitely going to visit that area, it is so picturesque and pastoral...just beautiful. You said it is close to Ghent? Is Ghent a large town or city...is it beautiful also?

[Vlaams-Nationalist]

Vlaams I love where you live. I am definitely going to visit that area, it is so picturesque and pastoral...just beautiful. You said it is close to Ghent? Is Ghent a large town or city...is it beautiful also?

My little village belongs to Deinze, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinze) which is situated 10 miles from Ghent. Google Earth might be useful for you ;)

Here a big picture of Deinze.

http://album.zoom.nl/public_images/3400/INcFsm.jpg

So Ghent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent) is situated 10 Miles from here, it's a nice city which has 200 000 inhabitants.

http://blogs.cocoondev.org/crafterm/archives/images/ghent-bridge.jpg

A bridge in Ghent

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Ghent_hist_centrum_2.jpg

Vernacular structures along a waterway in Ghent

[bay]

beautiful photos everyone. redplough, god willing, I'll get to see your beautiful land soon. And Viv, Scotland too! And thanks for the history lesson redplough! I eat up history and geography!

fyi, kansas was named after the Kanza indians. Their name means people of the south wind.

Here's the kansas city skyline from atop a brewery roof, LOL... it's kinda drab right now til everything greens up. Lest you think we are a little backwater, it's a metro area of almost 2 million people. far too many people for my liking. I live about an hours drive from where this photo was taken. I'm out in the country.

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/2614/workstourbrewery6st5.jpg


here's where I was in California in Feb. I rode a horse over that fookin bridge and I'm terrified, let me rephrase that, FOOKIN TERRIFIED, of heights and bridges.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/6418/aerctripmountainsnohandld7.jpg

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6298/tevistrailrideneocam1bm1.jpg

Here's my Kansas neighborhood from last fall

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/9967/alidec20atcreek2br5.jpg

sunset on the prairie

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9152/sunsetfrom2005qu9.jpg

Kansas is the sunflower state, a little bit of trivia for you.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/874/sunflowerdq9.jpg

[bay]

If ya'all want to come on a virtual trail ride in kansas with me....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEP63sU5IsY

here's my favorite one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlg2hpJRLDQ

guess I see a lot of the world thru a horse's ears.

[An Céachta Dearg]

Heres the main street of my dump of a town

http://www.drakkart.com/photos_ire/navan01.jpg

another pic of the Boyne
http://www.trimtown.com/Images/BoyneSceneAutumn.jpg

[Viv]

Heres the main street of my dump of a town

http://www.drakkart.com/photos_ire/navan01.jpg

another pic of the Boyne
http://www.trimtown.com/Images/BoyneSceneAutumn.jpg

Umm...is it me, or is that a beautiful place??

Why do you call it a dump? It's lovely.

[bay]

Redplough, that is fookin gorgeous that river! And what a lovely town. If that's a dump, I'm on the next plane to Ireland! To this little kansas girl, that looks like the Emerald City!

but, why are all the cars parked on the wrong side of the road (bay is running and ducking......)

[An Céachta Dearg]

Redplough, that is fookin gorgeous that river! And what a lovely town. If that's a dump, I'm on the next plane to Ireland! To this little kansas girl, that looks like the Emerald City!

but, why are all the cars parked on the wrong side of the road (bay is running and ducking......)


We drive on the Left hand side of the road lol!!!

thats the real way to drive...

Its always so confusing when we go to the European mainland!

Its the most littered town in Ireland thats why its a dump

[bay]

then you need an environmental activist over there to inspire the townspeople to clean up after themselves.... says she who doesn't clean her own house, LOL....

[An Céachta Dearg]

then you need an environmental activist over there to inspire the townspeople to clean up after themselves.... says she who doesn't clean her own house, LOL....

but putting a McDoanlds into a 200 year old building???

[bay]

well, if I was queen of all the world, there would be no mcdonald's anywhere!

[quirk]

These photos are not my own but of the internet. This is South Armagh where I live:

http://www.armaghguidedtours.com/uploads/images/View%20from%20Gap%20of%20North.JPG

http://www.newryjournal.co.uk/images/stories/Places/South%20Armagh/OldAndNew.jpg

http://www.south-armagh.com/uploads/images/CAMLOUGH%20HORIZON.jpg

[bay]

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!!!! stop putting up all these beautiful photos of ireland. darn you all.

note to self, get thee to the passport dept on monday

tell me how to pronounce the name armagh, quirk.

if you all don't mind, I'm gonna ask a lot how to say things. I'm trying to learn.

[quirk]

our ma

[An Céachta Dearg]

I thought it was only fair to put up pictures of Tara

http://www.hilloftara.info/images/12.721.jpg
http://www.yorku.ca/kdenning/+3130%202006/Hill_of_Tara.jpg

[bay]

go raibh maith agat quirk

redplough... you are one evil dude....................<BEG>

[An Céachta Dearg]

Heres some pics of our capital bayrab
http://www.toddadams.net/images/wallpaper/hires/Ha'penny%20Bridge%20at%20night,%20Dublin,%20Irelan d.jpg
http://baixaki.ig.com.br/imagens/wpapers/BXK8813_dublin-irlanda800.jpg
http://irelandposters.com/images/oconnell_st_2004.jpg
And then the most significant building in the country the GPO
http://www.lookaroundireland.com/counties/dublin/flat/GPO.jpg

[An Céachta Dearg]

Apart from teh Dublin pictures I've been showing pictures of where I'am from Meath

Pronounced Me-yid

[bay]

fookin eh, redplough, and I sit here thinkin at least dorothy had ruby slippers she could tap three times to get someplace, LOL

[An Céachta Dearg]

fookin eh, redplough, and I sit here thinkin at least dorothy had ruby slippers she could tap three times to get someplace, LOL

I take it you liked the pictures??:p:p:p

[Enver]

These photos are not my own but of the internet. This is South Armagh where I live:

http://www.armaghguidedtours.com/uploads/images/View%20from%20Gap%20of%20North.JPG

http://www.newryjournal.co.uk/images/stories/Places/South%20Armagh/OldAndNew.jpg

http://www.south-armagh.com/uploads/images/CAMLOUGH%20HORIZON.jpg

South Armagh: where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.

[bay]

then I guess that means women are safe, eh, enver???

[bay]

Well, hey you all, I got Dodge City, Wyatt Earp and the OK Corral. sigh....

[Enver]

I live in the South East of County Dublin. :D

These two photos were taken by a friend on a hill very close to my house.

Here is the view from the north face of the hill overlooking Dun Laoghaire....

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i1658236_67878.jpg

And here is the south face of the hill overlooking Bray Head and the Wicklow mountains....

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i1658244_23633.jpg

[bay]

Enver, I thought you were my friend! Now you have joined the conspiracy to torment bay!

[Phædrus]

I must say...

http://courses.unt.edu/hwilliams/GEOG_3350/permianreef.jpg
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/field/flint/oil1.jpg
http://cals.arizona.edu/research/azalfalf/images/small_fertile_mesquite.jpg

Midland, Texas fucking sucks.

[Enver]

Another nice shot of Dun Laoghaire harbour....

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i1658249_DunLHarbour.JPG

[Phædrus]

Of course, I grew up in Cincinnati, OH, which isn't a bad city:

http://access.nku.edu/foundation/images/cincy%20skyline.jpg
http://www.nmsg.com/images/CincyDowntown_skyline.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Cincinnati-procter-and-gamble-headquarters.jpg/300px-Cincinnati-procter-and-gamble-headquarters.jpg
http://photos.igougo.com/images/p111773-Cincinnati-The_Purple_People_Bridge.jpg

It just isn't very spectacular or pretty.

[Enver]

The forest which covers most of Dalkey hill (The village I live in is called Dalkey which was established by the Vikings)....

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i1658259_darkandkillhill200.jpg

[An Céachta Dearg]

The forest which covers most of Dalkey hill (The village I live in is called Dalkey which was established by the Vikings)...

Oh Enver i nevor reloished your frum dalkey loike fock sake loik, roysh man im talking the piss lol

[bay]

Ok, someone, tell me how to say Dun Laoghaire

Phaedrus, haha, mesquite bushes and oil wells, Yup, texas is miles and miles of miles and miles..... but I do like san antonio and the hill country. Been to cincinnati a couple of times. Jogged along the riverfront, been to see a Reds game. Had Cincinnati chili.

[An Céachta Dearg]

Ok, someone, tell me how to say Dun Laoghaire

Phaedrus, haha, mesquite bushes and oil wells, Yup, texas is miles and miles of miles and miles..... but I do like san antonio and the hill country. Been to cincinnati a couple of times. Jogged along the riverfront, been to see a Reds game. Had Cincinnati chili.

Dun is said as it sounds
laoghaire is awkward to describe


Lay-wree

[quirk]

Ok, someone, tell me how to say Dun Laoghaire


Done lear E

[An Céachta Dearg]

Ok, someone, tell me how to say Dun Laoghaire

Phaedrus, haha, mesquite bushes and oil wells, Yup, texas is miles and miles of miles and miles..... but I do like san antonio and the hill country. Been to cincinnati a couple of times. Jogged along the riverfront, been to see a Reds game. Had Cincinnati chili.

A reds game????

it isnt american football ur reffering to is it?? (no offence but it is the most boring sport on the planet)

[bay]

ohmy, two diff ways to say it, Im sunk.....

Cincinnati Reds, baseball

[An Céachta Dearg]

ohmy, two diff ways to say it, Im sunk.....

Cincinnati Reds, baseball


A commercial rounders!!!

You have to like football(soccer)

"Some people think football is a matter of life and death.
I am very disapointed with that attitude....
It is far more important than that"
-Bill Shankley

Liverpool player: Sorry gaffer should have kept my legs closed
Shankley: No your mother should have kept her legs closed

[bay]

LOL, too funny.

no, roundballers are basketball players, aka, pumpkin pushers. something which holds no attraction for me.

One of my horse riding buds is a retired rugby player. He says horses beat him up a lot worse than rugby did, haha

so is liking soccer a prerequisite to becoming an adopted irish person? I'm in trouble.

[Enver]

Oh Enver i nevor reloished your frum dalkey loike fock sake loik, roysh man im talking the piss lol

:D:D:D:D

Dalkey isn't all that posh, and very few people actually talk like that.

You need to head further in towards town to places like Foxrock where the housing estates have names like 'Westminster Avenue' or 'Windsor Park' to find West Brit tramps who blather on like that.

[Enver]

ohmy, two diff ways to say it, Im sunk.....

Cincinnati Reds, baseball

Quirk's way is better.

[An Céachta Dearg]

LOL, too funny.

no, roundballers are basketball players, aka, pumpkin pushers. something which holds no attraction for me.

One of my horse riding buds is a retired rugby player. He says horses beat him up a lot worse than rugby did, haha


No rounders is a sport in europe that is very similar to baseball but not taken seriously like.

Which Rugby did he play Rugby League or Rugby Union? two very different codes

[ciaranxavier]

http://www.canadian-rockies-tours.com/albums/Edmonton-Alberta-Canada/Alberta_Legislature_Building_Edmonton_sized.jpg
heres where albertas bosses work.

http://www.charitylinkrealty.ca/cityprofiles/Edmonton/Edmonton%20Real%20Estate.jpg
this is edmonton downtown skyline at night
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=80608&rendTypeId=4
this is edmonton downtown skyline at day
http://image52.webshots.com/52/0/48/13/2581048130000101585Vouxyf_fs.jpg
this is fort edmonton my fav site to see in summer.
http://www.westcanoon.com/images/ftedmonton.jpg
more of fort edmonton.
http://www.carsonstravels.us/Pictures/Ft.%20Edmonton%20full.jpg
one more of fort edmonton
http://www.stanford.edu/~wavelet/photos/Summer04/Edmonton/WestEdmontonMallShip_large.jpg
a picture of west edmonton mall THE BIGGEST MALL IN THE WORLD, i never go there.

[bay]

I've not been to Edmonton, Ciaran, but I've been to Winnipeg twice, does that count? And I drank Labatt Blue in a lumberjack bar in Kenora, Ontario.

Redplough, I have no idea what kind of rugby. He played in the east coast USa, not sure what the rules are there. I'll have to ask. We have an endurance riding competition this weekend so I should see him there.

[An Céachta Dearg]

Bayrab this is the greatest moment of my life


http://youtube.com/watch?v=jP5mBN1VV2s will never ever forget it and i was 9 when it happened lol

[Enver]

Bayrab this is the greatest moment of my life


http://youtube.com/watch?v=jP5mBN1VV2s will never ever forget it and i was 9 when it happened lol

Bloody United fan....

[ciaranxavier]

I've not been to Edmonton, Ciaran, but I've been to Winnipeg twice, does that count? And I drank Labatt Blue in a lumberjack bar in Kenora, Ontario.

Redplough, I have no idea what kind of rugby. He played in the east coast USa, not sure what the rules are there. I'll have to ask. We have an endurance riding competition this weekend so I should see him there.

its nice here, ive never been to winnipeg so were even. and i dont drink canadian beer i like mine imported. though if i had to choose one it would be kokanee.

[An Céachta Dearg]

Bloody United fan....

Sense bitterness?

[ciaranxavier]

Sense bitterness?

no intelligence :)

[An Céachta Dearg]

no intelligence :)

hear hear!!

Who in your opinion is the best red of all time Ciaran

Have to say for me its between george best and Eric Cantona

All time XI

GK:Schmiecal
RB:Neville
CB:Edwards
CB:Pallister
LB:Irwin
RM:Best
CM:Charlton
CM:Keane or Liam Whelan
LM:Giggs
CF:Cantona
CF:Law

[ciaranxavier]

hear hear!!

Who in your opinion is the best red of all time Ciaran

Have to say for me its between george best and Eric Cantona

All time XI

GK:Schmiecal
RB:Neville
CB:Edwards
CB:Pallister
LB:Irwin
RM:Best
CM:Charlton
CM:Keane or Liam Whelan
LM:Giggs
CF:Cantona
CF:Law

sorry you mistook me i was saying he was intelligent.......:p

[An Céachta Dearg]

sorry you mistook me i was saying he was intelligent.......:p

Oh oh oh

Sorry which team have u the unfortunacy of supporting?

[Phædrus]

Baltimore, MD; the city where I was born:
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=98408&rendTypeId=4

And Washington DC, less than 50 miles away, where I've spent some time (my dad used to work on 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., just down the street from the White House).
1750 Pennsylvania Ave:
http://smithcommercialrealty.com/_/Image/300x500/1750_Penn_NEW_big.jpg
And DC's skyline:
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=77990&rendTypeId=4
And the Mall:
http://palmhaven.info/Data/Docs/P-19uu-WashingtonDC-Mall.jpg

[An Céachta Dearg]

Baltimore, MD; the city where I was born:
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=98408&rendTypeId=4

And Washington DC, less than 50 miles away, where I've spent some time (my dad used to work on 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., just down the street from the White House).
1750 Pennsylvania Ave:
http://smithcommercialrealty.com/_/Image/300x500/1750_Penn_NEW_big.jpg
And DC's skyline:
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=77990&rendTypeId=4
And the Mall:
http://palmhaven.info/Data/Docs/P-19uu-WashingtonDC-Mall.jpg

I dont mean to sound pompous or anything, but how can cities such as that be seen as beautiful,i mean all the buildings are high steel and glass. They dont begin to compare with european cities such as Prague, Bucharest, Dubrovnick, Vienna, Brussels, Dublin and the much over rated but still beautiful Paris

[ciaranxavier]

theyre not pretty. maybe they will be in 500 years though.

[bay]

never been to baltimore but I've been to Dc a lot. hahahaha, was sooo completely stoopid about the rules in Washington the first time I got sent there for an environmental conference.....

so I show up for a tour of the library of congress in a hippie chick dress, complete with little bells and all and an army back pack, not even occuring to me they might search me
and not remembering that I've got a couple of doobies in the backpack.......until the very moment I have to walk past the guard........................................

the luck of the irish was with me on that day, LOL.... I didn't make the same mistake twice.....

whoaaaaaaaaaaaaa am tellin ya, there's angels in this world that watch over us...

but I have to say, I cried like a baby at the Vietnam Vets memorial.

[An Céachta Dearg]

Back to the sport for just a moment

Heres the greatest Rugby moment ever(well from an irish perspective :P)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Eqg5B4XY8-o

[ciaranxavier]

Back to the sport for just a moment

Heres the greatest Rugby moment ever(well from an irish perspective :P)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Eqg5B4XY8-o

you should probably start a thread for your sports clips.

[bay]

can't watch your video links til I get my wireless connection back! fookin dial up is too fookin slow....

but I gotta agree with ya, all that steel and glass is just cold ina city. I like old architecture. really love gargoyles on old buildings.

[Nationalrevolutionär]

I'm from a small town (32000 inhabitants) quite near to Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Here some pictures of my boring town :D

http://kornw.de/pic70806/picture-0015.jpg

That is the tower of the town hall. The high chimney in the backgound is from the Salamander shoe factory.

http://kornw.de/pic70806/picture-0011.jpg

http://kornw.de/pic70806/picture-0013.jpg

Salamander shoe factory. Kornwestheim was/is very famous for Salamander but today they produce in China or in an other country.

http://kornw.de/pic70806/picture-0001.jpg

The train station. It looks very nice but it can be a very dangerous place. Always trouble with foreignern :rolleyes:

[bay]

lovely place. ... gotta watch out for those furreners...

[Phædrus]

I dont mean to sound pompous or anything, but how can cities such as that be seen as beautiful,i mean all the buildings are high steel and glass. They dont begin to compare with european cities such as Prague, Bucharest, Dubrovnick, Vienna, Brussels, Dublin and the much over rated but still beautiful Paris

That's because they aren't. There aren't a whole lot of beautiful American cities. Some areas of some of the older cities, yes, but there's nothing pretty about a metropolitan area. If you want pretty, though, just step over to the land of my ancestors in Kongeriget Danmark:

Aalborg:
http://brian.sol1.net/photos/Aalborg/images/snowy-aalborg.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/cruises/1/0/a/s/1/aalborg002.jpg
Skagen:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Centrum_Skagen,_2007_ubt.jpeg/800px-Centrum_Skagen,_2007_ubt.jpeg
Skagen tip:
http://www.sailingyachts.com/scandinavia/s_skagen-tip.jpg
Hjørring:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Hjoerring_2004_3_ubt.jpg/800px-Hjoerring_2004_3_ubt.jpg
København (Copenhagen to non-Danish folk):
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/946/50530205.JPG
The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen harbor:
http://aphs.worldnomads.com/tingays-in-europe/4680/P1010023.jpg


If I were to move to a foreign country, Denmark would be it.

[Finny]

I'll do a few.. first off where I live.. Columbus, Ohio.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/ColumbusEast.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/Nationwide.jpg

I use to live in the DC area.. No building within the DC area is taller then the Washington Monument.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/DC2.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/DC.jpg

[Finny]

Now to make Bayrab a bit more green, from my last trip back to Ireland.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/ireland2028.jpg
Cobh area(Co. Cork)
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/ireland084.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/ireland109.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/ireland119.jpg

Dublin...
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/ireland071.jpg
Landsdowne during the early stages of "remodeling"..
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/ireland122.jpg

A recent trip to South Korea (this is along the DMZ)
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/Picture039.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/Picture053.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/Picture017.jpg

And the best slogan I've ever seen in my life..
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/ROK4.jpg

[Phædrus]

Now, some prettier parts of the US:

Mt. Hood:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/MtHood_TrilliumLake.jpg/380px-MtHood_TrilliumLake.jpg
Three Sisters in Oregon:
http://staytondailyphoto.com/photos/three_sisters1b.jpg
Grand Tetons:
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-wyoming/GrandTeton-600.jpg


Now for some places I've actually been:
Gettysburg National Park:
http://www.hyperbear.com/acw/gettysburg/photos/acw-getty-lrt-from-dden.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/honeymoons/1/0/u/C/3gd_DEVILS_DEN.jpg

Yosemite National Park:
http://www.matthewfelton.com/Photos/Yosemite/8713YosemiteBridgeHiContrast.jpg
http://www.astronomynotes.com/nature/images/yosemite8.jpg

The Grand Canyon:
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/photos/american_west/images/Grand%20Canyon.jpg

Arches National Park:
http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/utah/images/s/utah-arches-national-park.jpg
http://www.wildnatureimages.com/images%202/051013-139..jpg


We have ugly cities, but I think the natural beauty makes up for it.

[Finny]

Now for some places I've actually been:
Gettysburg National Park:
http://www.hyperbear.com/acw/gettysburg/photos/acw-getty-lrt-from-dden.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/honeymoons/1/0/u/C/3gd_DEVILS_DEN.jpg




That would be Devils Den and part of Little Round Top (known as the Valley of Death)...

[Phædrus]

That would be Devils Den and part of Little Round Top (known as the Valley of Death)...

Yup. I used to climb around on the rocks a lot when I was little when we went on our annual trip (my dad is a Civil War buff). It's also interesting to see the difference in the 20th Maine monument on Little Round Top from before the movie Gettysburg and after the movie became a hit. Before: tiny, hard to see trail with an overgrown monument and marker. After: a well graveled path, brush nicely cleared, monument polished, always a dozen or so people around it...

It's amazing what a movie can do for a place's popularity. But I do think that Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th ME deserve a good memorial, so I ain't complaining.

[bay]

Finney, you are so bad dude!

Phaedra, the west has much beauty that's for sure. Now if we could keep the yuppies out.... sigh....

well folks, I'm outa here. I'll get some phone cam pix of Missouri from horseback.

[Viv]

That's because they aren't. There aren't a whole lot of beautiful American cities. Some areas of some of the older cities, yes, but there's nothing pretty about a metropolitan area. If you want pretty, though, just step over to the land of my ancestors in Kongeriget Danmark:

Aalborg:
http://brian.sol1.net/photos/Aalborg/images/snowy-aalborg.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/cruises/1/0/a/s/1/aalborg002.jpg
Skagen:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Centrum_Skagen,_2007_ubt.jpeg/800px-Centrum_Skagen,_2007_ubt.jpeg
Skagen tip:
http://www.sailingyachts.com/scandinavia/s_skagen-tip.jpg
Hjørring:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Hjoerring_2004_3_ubt.jpg/800px-Hjoerring_2004_3_ubt.jpg
København (Copenhagen to non-Danish folk):
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/946/50530205.JPG
The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen harbor:
http://aphs.worldnomads.com/tingays-in-europe/4680/P1010023.jpg


If I were to move to a foreign country, Denmark would be it.

These are beautiful Phae. But I disagree that American cities have nothing to recommend them, I find them aesthetically pleasing in many ways and throughout Europe the buildings can be pretty similar and a little depressing tbh...

[Chookie]

Feast your eyes.....................

Falkirk Wheel
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h190/Donnachaidh/picasabackground-1.jpg
Edinburgh Castle
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h190/Donnachaidh/Castle.jpg

Calton Hill
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h190/Donnachaidh/CaltonHillfromRadicalRoad-1.jpg

St Andrews Castle
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h190/Donnachaidh/StAndrewsCastle-1.jpg

Linlithgow Palace
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h190/Donnachaidh/LinlithgowPalace.jpg

Bass Rock
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h190/Donnachaidh/BassRock.jpg

West Lomond
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h190/Donnachaidh/WestLomond.jpg

[Viv]

What does the Falkirk wheel actually do?

[greektzon]

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[Chookie]

What does the Falkirk wheel actually do?

It's a rotating boat lift - so far, it's the only one. It transfers canal boats between the Forth & Clyde and Union canals, The difference in the levels of the two canals at the wheel is 24 metres (79 feet), roughly equivalent to the height of an eight storey building.

[Jabato]

Folks, this is part of Maspalomas beach, in the South of Gran Canaria.


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/87/235343012_a7f74cc6aa.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/125314021_f2de2b8673.jpg?v=0

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9004/maspalomas8155ry1.jpg

http://www.holidaycheck.es/data/urlaubsbilder/mittel/2/1156129729.jpg

Saludos

[Viv]

It's a rotating boat lift - so far, it's the only one. It transfers canal boats between the Forth & Clyde and Union canals, The difference in the levels of the two canals at the wheel is 24 metres (79 feet), roughly equivalent to the height of an eight storey building.

Sounds scary...have you had a go on it then?:D

[Viv]

Folks, this is part of Maspalomas beach, in the South of Gran Canaria.


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/87/235343012_a7f74cc6aa.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/125314021_f2de2b8673.jpg?v=0

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9004/maspalomas8155ry1.jpg

http://www.holidaycheck.es/data/urlaubsbilder/mittel/2/1156129729.jpg

Saludos

This is beautiful, Jabato. I don't know why I have never made it to Gran Canaria, I have been all over the Med. Must make a point of it soon...

[bay]

You all are so evil!!!!!!!!!!! As I sit here in Kansas still in it's winter drab. But spring is coming, the tulips are coming up, grass is greening, trees have buds on them....

Here's pictures from my gray weekend in Missouri, our neighboring state:p

Zab - an Arabian, one of my horses.

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3653/statefairexpress7st6.jpg

Wish, my friend's horse, and Zab tied to my "white trash" trailer. lest any of you think that one must be bourgouis to have horses.... this trailer is from 1978, it's a rust bucket, but still safe, and I tow it with a truck that has 140,000 miles on it. What's fun in my sport is we can compete with people who drive brand new trucks and pull "rigs" worth $60,000 or more. Money does not make you a better rider and doesn't necessarily buy you a better horse! And all of us come back to camp, muddy, dirty, tired and pretty much equals regardless of our class or station in life.

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7369/statefairexpress1nu6.jpg

Zab cam on trail with my friend ahead of us. This was the easiest and MOST BORING trail I've ever ridden on. It's made out of an abandoned railroad line. It's great for hikers and bikers, but boring for equestrians. I'm used to hills, rocks, trees, obstacles, not just 25 miles of straight road!

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6994/statefairexpress4fh9.jpg

this Katy trail goes almost from St. Louis to Kansas City which is about 250 miles.

http://www.mostateparks.com/katytrail/mapWEB1.gif

This rural train depot was one of our stops along the way.

http://www.mostateparks.com/katytrail/photogallery/section1/images/mp191_6.jpg

What it will look like in a couple of weeks

http://www.mostateparks.com/katytrail/photogallery/section1/images/mp242_0.jpg

[Viv]

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Greece I have visited, it was the hottest place I ever survived but very beautiful.

The history was fascinating. I was in Corfu and took a few trips, one to Actium Bay. Greektzon can correct if my memory is inaccurate, but the story was that Anthony and Cleopatra engaged in their final sea battle there and Octavion built the city at Actium Bay as a memorial to his great victory. But no one would live there, because it is in the centre of a disease-breeding swamp, so it fell to ruin and when I visited it was being excavated from the undergrowth,they had a half-restored amphitheatre and an entire city still waiting to be unveiled.

Fascinating...also visited an "Oracle", where in ancient times people went to get advice from "the other side" ...they showed us footprints in the secret tunnels between the walls of the Oracle's rooms, where an ancient dog was put to barking and pretending to be Cerberus the hound dog which guards hell. They reckoned the people who went to the Oracle for advice took great risk in doing so and often died. They thought this was because in order for people to have that journey and believe they had travelled to the underworld to speak with the dead, the journey they took was really drug-induced and the things they saw were enhanced by that.

Really interesting...

[bay]

I'm so jealous. I'm Greek and have never been to Greece! Im the only one in the family who has not!

[Chookie]

More from civilisation..........

St Rules Tower
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h190/Donnachaidh/StRulesTower.jpg

Holyrood Palace
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h190/Donnachaidh/HolyroodHouse-1.jpg

Forth Bridge
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h190/Donnachaidh/ForthBridge1.jpg

Broughty Ferry Castle
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h190/Donnachaidh/picasabackground.jpg

[Viv]

Chookie, St Rules Tower, is what? A monastery?

[Chookie]

It's just that, a tower. It was there before the abbey was built.

St. Rule (AKA St. Regulus) is the person generally credited with bringing the bones of St. Andrew to Scotland.

[Viv]

It's just that, a tower. It was there before the abbey was built.

St. Rule (AKA St. Regulus) is the person generally credited with bringing the bones of St. Andrew to Scotland.

I felt sure you would slap me for not knowing that already.

[Chookie]

Fine that, you're slapped.



Happy now???

[Viv]

Why do you abuse me so, Chookie? I am always nice to you. :p

[bay]

Well, it's not the River Boyne, but it's where I went today .. it's a great place when you need to escape humanity for awhile.:p

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/3793/10milecreek2ui7.jpg

[Viv]

It's just that, a tower. It was there before the abbey was built.

St. Rule (AKA St. Regulus) is the person generally credited with bringing the bones of St. Andrew to Scotland.

Vaguely recall being told that, in primary school.

I live opposite the Holy Loch. Saint Andrew's remains are supposed to be under water at the mouth of the loch, they were lost there when the ship transporting them sank.