Your city by night?
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Topic: Your city by night?
Posted By: Svetonio
Subject: Your city by night?
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 08:34
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 09:41
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Cool Svet.....there's no way we can compete with underage drinking and being allowed to smoke still, but here's a taste of our little corner. I would have chosen some different places and highlighted different things, but, I'm too lazy to make my own video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3jZ_OqwlU" rel="nofollow - Minneapolis |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 09:50
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Welcome to Atlanta, a quick tour by night through some of the more interesting areas of town. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3PwWsZrxOM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3PwWsZrxOM ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 10:23
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 11:52
Mumbai by night |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 12:00
Also this....the Marine Drive promenade. This one apparently snapped during festivities. Probably the kind of photo you are most likely to see in picture postcards as it presents a flattering view of the city.   |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 12:45
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someone_else wrote:Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 12:51
I live in a village not a city, and we don't have street lights because according to the parish council, "it will spoil the character of the village", so at night it looks like this:
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 12:57
^ 
I live in a village too. There's probably some more light, but not something special to make a photo from.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 13:00
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 14:33
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 19:48
Heh.....cool video. My daughter and son in law lived there (Richfield) for 6 years so my wife and I spent some time in the Twin Cities. We mostly hit the pubs/taverns (Muddy Pig..British Pub downtown..etc..) and restaurants (Manny's , Sample Room, Cuban sandwich place...that was on Diners Drive Ins and Dives... ) since we are into micro brews and we went to Surly brew pub a few times..... nice area and we really liked going there but then they moved to Chicage so now we are exploring the Lincoln Square area.  Oh....I live in northwest Indiana....not much happens here . For fun we visit Chicago.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 20:34
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We're down in a little bit of a valley so can't see the scape. This house is oriented so that occasionally a full moon makes it's way through the blinds to our bed.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 02:46
Is that Utrecht? I used to live there, and it looks it.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 09:28
Yes, this is Utrecht indeed. Some more characteristics: The Dom church (tower):  Unique for Utrecht are the wharf storage facilities:  And even more, though often unnoticed: Lantern consoles. The lanterns are designed in the 1950s after the model of gas lanterns, which were replaced by electric lanterns c. 1905. Some of their pedestals have a unique sculpture. I guess there are some 600 of them. These were created in the late 1950s:  -------------
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 09:49
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I have to admit it never occurred to me that Philadelphia would look so "concrete and glass", for some reason I had a different image in my head.
Anyhoo, of the cities I have lived in the one that remains my favourite by day or by night is Edinburgh:
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 10:04
| Hey Dean, can you show us a pic of your village by day....I'm curious....small semi-rural? |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 10:06
 Probably my favorite place I've lived, Newcastle upon Tyne ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 10:19
There isn't much to see, it has a population of 2000 and is 4 miles from one boundary to the next, so as you can imagine it's not exactly densely populated, we have one pub, a church, a cricket ground and bowling green... and that's about it. The pub (called The Castle of Comfort) looks quaint, but it's not the friendliest place in the world, I've drank in there once and since then have referred to it as the Castle of Cold Comfort.
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 10:24
| Nice. I'd love to get out of the city someday. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: April 02 2013 at 18:39
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 04:09
Great pics. I also remember student meetings in the wharf consoles. A unique city, and I could go to concerts of Yes, Peter Hammill, IQ etc. by bike Everything was so close by in the beautiful centre. Great city.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 04:28
It seems that we share some similar memories. Maybe we have attended the same IQ gig (to which I went by bike as well, must have been the Nomzamo tour; even today I travel most of the time by bike). I know that Peter Hammill has come to Utrecht several times. I remember I went to see John Cale, Camel and David Gilmour there as well. -------------
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 05:44
http://s312.photobucket.com/user/exitthelemming/media/brisbane-city.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"> Brisbane is one of the best kept secrets in the southern hemisphere aesthetically (if you disregard what became tantamount to Bjelke-Petersen's Police state of the 70's) - strange but true - look it up if you don't believe me that Queensland, Australia was governed by an institutionally corrupt regime who often sought recourse to law enforcement agencies that resembled the east German Stasi in their brutality and ruthlessness. First time Billy Connolly toured Australia, he was beaten up by the Police in Brisbane - hence his 70's joke that if the world was ever to undergo an enema they should insert it in Brisbane...'Arkansas with a beach' (Greg Proops) ------------- 
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 06:35
Here's a photo of my lovely city at night Here's a photo of our historic Mission Inn at night   ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 07:20
Have you been a student in Utrecht too? I was later into IQ: only from the Ever tour on I went to see them. I've seen Camel too, but not in Utrecht. In Rotterdam, my city of birth, I also went to see bands going by bike, like Camel. It's the Dutch way  Since I live in Belgium, I don't take the bike very often any more. Less cycle paths, it's a pity, but taking the car has also become a habit, I admit |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 07:24
I have been a student in Utrecht too (although I hardly studied ). And to violate my own rules concerning internet silence about my whereabouts a bit more, I never left and I've been lurking around over there for more than 35 years now.-------------
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 07:38
Oh, I took my time as well for my studies .I left the beautiful city because of my job. But... a wonderful city and I'm glad I've could have lived there for some years.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 09:08
I had the luck to work at biking distance  . I always liked that region. -------------
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 09:54
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If I posted a pic of the Belgian village I currently live in at night it would be just a black square But I'l always consider myself also a citizen of my native Barcelona, it's a very nice city to live in, in a radius of less than 150 Km you have big city, countryside, sea, mountain, a bit of everything... you can move from the beach to a ski resort in 1.5 hours drive.   |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 10:04
^ That second photo is ... 
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 11:14
When it will be finished there will be an even higher tower in the center, this is a rendition of how it should look like (probably I will die before seeing it finished). I used to live very near from it, I could see the towers from my terrace (actually I still own the apartment but I have it rented)  |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 11:43
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The city where I was born and where I live... by night. Another view here: ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 12:16
Coimbra, a small city known as the learning centre of Portugal, (in)famous for it's student life.       ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 12:21
^ wow, I though Lisbon was great, Coimbra looks even better.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: April 25 2013 at 14:12
| Coimbra is great, and Portugal in general a lovely underrated country! As a Spanish I know that many Spanish and Portuguese seem to have some rivalry but this is only because of ignorance, any Spanish having visited Portugal or any Portuguese having visited Spain knows that we feel like in our second home when visiting the neighbour country (as is the case with most people who have not traveled enough. Intensive traveling would solve most of the world's hatred problems, if economy would allow it, travelling should be a compulsory subject for all teens from 15 to 25 years old, even more than history, chemistry or literature). |