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stevenedel:
You people all seem to live in the kind of places where I get to go on a holiday, if I'm lucky...
To give you an impression of my unspectacular, provincial town (180,000 inhabitants) in the east of the Netherlands, on the banks of the river Waal, I don't have to post any pics... somebody else did it for me! http://www.hulsen.net/Nijmegen.html
Some parts of it are rather nice, actually, and the surroundings are mountainous by Dutch standards. We also claim to be the oldest city in the country, settled by the Romans; we had our 2,000th birthday last year (admittedly, the claim is somewhat contentious, as 50 years ago we celebrated the 1850th birthday of the city... ??? )
It is a pity that the ancient city centre was all but destroyed towards the end of WWII, when an American warplane accidently bombed it because they thought they were already flying over Germany... :'( They weren't that far wrong, really: Germany is a pleasant 25 minute bicycle ride to the east.
I live in an appartment from 1923, from where, sometimes, I get to enjoy lovely sunsets:
Shakesthecoffecan:
Here is a collage of downtown Fieldale, Virginia, Home Sweet Home...
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Well, this is where I am--I live in a nondescript little building, but I do have a nice view:
This is where I look out:
And here's a better look:
Can you guess?
David:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on July 18, 2006, 07:49:23 pm ---Can you guess?
--- End quote ---
John, Is that the old Bellevue Hospital on Roosevelt Island?
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Exactly, David--it's the (now ruined) Smallpox Hospital designed by James Renwick in 1854 (he also designed New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral and Grace Church) on Roosevelt Island (once called Wefare Island, and before then Blackwell's Island) in the middle of the East River--and it's straight across out all my windows!
Tobey Maguire and William Dafoe battled in Spiderman (2002) in the ruin--in a stageset, I guess, but I watched a lot of (night) filming in the real thing when they were making the movie there.
I've been told that the clothes designer (and native New Yorker) Arnold Scassi contibuted the money that illumates the structure at night--can be spooky, no?
I live just a bit to the left from the Citicorp building, near the water, and the Hospital looms!
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