Enjoy this walking tour of Bucharest, with lots of photos. The author says it’s “a city of the grandiose, filled with the humble.”
This photo is the palace built by/for Nicolae Ceausescu, begun in 1983. It now serves as the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest. Here are more photos from Romania via EarthPhotos.com.
That’s how Timothy Snyder describes the American attitude toward air travel. It appears Mr. Snyder was not pleased with his recent experience with Delta Airlines. Read about it here.
(Note: This post sent me to EarthPhotos.com to retrieve the photo of the Delta jets up there, taken at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson airport. In the EP Transport Gallery, there are 1058 photos of all sorts of different ways of getting around, from all over the world. Check it out, you might enjoy it. You can set up a slide show from the Transport Gallery main page by clicking where the arrow points, as below.)
Ah, but politicians are making me tired. Here’s a worthy diversion: birds!
Click ’em for enlargements and more bird photos from EarthPhotos.com.
The ship Captain Cook used to ‘discover’ Australia may have been found — sunken in a U.S. harbor.
And while we’re down under (in more ways than one), how about a spin through 409 photos, like this one, from around Australia, at EarthPhotos.com.
A fourth installment. Here are the previous three: 1, 2, 3. See how many of these cities you can guess. Answers at the end. Some of these photos are a few years old. And yes, some are impossible.
IMPORTANT: You can click to enlarge them for a better look, but there will be a caption at the bottom that gives you the answer. Careful.
Answers:
1. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2. Melbourne, Australia
3. Montreal, Canada
4. Perth, Australia
5. Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
6. Saigon, Vietnam
7. Kigali, Rwanda
8. Minsk, Belarus
9. Durban, South Africa
10. Riga, Latvia
There are 1153 more photos in the Cities and Urban Life Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
A third installment. Here are the previous two: 1, 2. See how many of these cities you can guess. Answers at the end. Yes, some are impossible.
IMPORTANT: You can click to enlarge them for a better look, but there will be a caption at the bottom that gives you the answer. Careful.
Good luck.
Answers:
1. Riga, Latvia
2. Sydney, Australia
3. Buenos Aires, Argentina
4. Lucerne, Switzerland
5. Greater Muscat, Oman
6. La Paz, Bolivia
7. San Salvador, El Salvador
8. Dublin, Ireland
9. Bratislava, Slovakia
10. Montreal, Canada
There are 1153 more photos in the Cities and Urban Life Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
A second installment to compliment last week’s version. See how many you can guess. Answers at the end. Yes, some are impossible.
IMPORTANT: You can click to enlarge them for a better look, but there will be a caption at the bottom that gives you the answer. Careful.
Good luck.
Answers:
1. Kyiv, Ukraine
2. La Paz, Bolivia
3. Gangtok, Sikkim, India
4. Rome, Italy and Vatican City
5. Hong Kong
6. Dar es Salaam, Brunei
7. Salzburg, Austria
8. Riga, Latvia
9. Valetta, Malta
10. Quito, Ecuador
There are 1153 more photos in the Cities and Urban Life Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
See how many you can guess. Answers at the end.
IMPORTANT: You can click to enlarge them for a better look, but there will be a caption at the bottom that gives you the answer. Careful.
Good luck:
Answers:
1. Sydney, Australia
2. Singapore
3. Antananarivo, Madagascar
4. Muscat, Oman
5. Istanbul, Turkey
6. Windhoek, Namibia
7. Havana, Cuba
8. Rome, Italy
9. Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
10. Reykjavik, Iceland
It’s true: some were easy enough, others were hard and a couple were pretty much impossible.
If you had fun with this leave a note and we can do this once in a while. Because there are 1153 more photos in the Cities and Urban Life Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
This guy lives in the Munich zoo. He’s from my other web site, EarthPhotos.com, where there are some 20,000 photos from over 100 countries. Check it out.
Here are the four most viewed photos there, as of today:
Tree climbing lion, Ishasha, Uganda
Vegetable market alongside the huge fish market in Hoi An, Vietnam
Balloon ride over Cappadocia, Turkey
And here, masters of the(ir) universe, in an office block along Oxford Street, London at quitting time
Explore all 20,000 photos.
The post a couple weeks back called Animals with Personality was kind of fun, so now, equal time: Who’s up for a world tour of birds? Click to view them larger, from the Birds Gallery at Earthphotos.com.
This guy lives in one of the floating villages around Tonle Sap, Cambodia.
If I remember this guy right, he’s from a falconry in Scotland.
Kingfisher in Amboseli Park, Kenya.
This ostrich just dropped by our chalet in Sossusvlei, Namibia.
Good-looking guy from Antigua, Guatemala.
It’s a long way down for this cockatoo in New South Wales, Australia.
Crowned cranes from the Tierpark Hellabrunn, Munich, Germany.
Pretty sure this guy is from the same Scottish falconry.
Swan also from the Tierpark Hellabrunn, Munich, Germany.
And, of course, the amazing levitating penguin from Simon’s Town, South Africa.
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