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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #30 on: October 20, 2012, 10:36:50 pm »
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Home of some WARPIGS, Jerez de la Frontera in the country of Mordor

Where are farms and peasants, and peasants working on farms? Why you have to prove me wrong dammit...

Really nice place, wish I could spend some time there :)

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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #31 on: October 20, 2012, 11:44:50 pm »
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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #32 on: October 21, 2012, 12:12:52 am »
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Haha, found the picture I wanted to show you guys!
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That HOLLYWOOD thing is amazing, too bad they rebuilt that area and there is nothing drawn there.. I hope someone will do it again, it's been there since I was a little kid.

This is our little "mountain" as we call it here, (because the whole region is flat)
and there's this marketplace thing, every saturday there are markets and people selling stuff, at least that's how it was a few years ago, I don't really visit there.

The town is called "Dunaföldvár", by the way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunaf%C3%B6ldv%C3%A1r

So now If some big van comes up with people breaking in here, I know who to accuse.  :mrgreen:
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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #33 on: October 21, 2012, 03:47:19 am »
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I'm from Quebec City, Canada.

The only European city in America!  :P

We still speak 100% french in our daily live despise being surrounded by english speaker for more than 300 years but it will slowly fade in due time I guess, Montreal is already 50/50. Mondial globalization I suspose.

Pop is around 500k.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City

Most famous sight (Le Chateau Frontenac, which is a hotel btw)

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The Old Quebec as we call it and the old fortification.

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Other historical or cultural point if interest...

Parlement de Quebec (Political house of Quebec)

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Les Plaines d'Abraham (Historical field of battle, the biggest fight for the city took place there between the French and the English, today it's more like a big park also serve to present big show during the summer. First 2 pictures is during Metallica Show)

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The 2 Quebec brigdes

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La grande allee (Quebec most famous street known for it's bar, pub, restaurant, during the summer this street is closed to automotive circulation nearly half the time!  :wink:)

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Place d'Youville (Kind of Plaza between 2 of the big theatre of the city, persent a lot of outdoor event and got a skating ring half year round)

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The marina of Quebec

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and at last important point of interest in the outskirt of the city (Approx 50km)

La chute Montmorency

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La Basilique St-Anne de Beaupre

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Le Mont St-Anne (Biggest ski resort in Quebec)

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La Vallee de la Jacques-Cartier (Nature at his greatest, hiking, kayak, rafting, etc)

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And last the Village Vacances Valcartier (Water or Snow slide theme park)

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Probaly forgot a lot of things!  :? :D
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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #34 on: October 21, 2012, 08:35:16 am »
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I hail from a small yet slightly radioactive town known as Richland, which is very close to this bad boy:

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or this one:

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sigh, or this one:

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OR THIS ONE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umatilla_Chemical_Depot

Yaaaayy nuclear reactors within 100 miles of where thousands of people live!

However, I now reside next to these:

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(abandoned and have never been used)
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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #35 on: October 23, 2012, 01:35:34 am »
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And you got no hometown?

Well, it's not that much compared to Cologne...

The city of Erlangen (located in the region Franconia in northern Bavaria) counts about 105.000 inhabitants.

One of the most significant buildings is the castle which was erected during the baroque age by the rulers of the marggravate of Bayreuth to which the town belonged at that time.

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The statue in front of the castle shows marggrave Friedrich of Bayreuth, who founded the university of Erlangen in 1742. Today the castle gives home to a major part of the university's administration.

The baroque age was indeed a very important one for the city because, after the city had suffered heavily in the 30-years-war, in the 1680s and 1690s about 1500 Huguenots, calvinistic refugees from France, settled down in the city. The Huguenots were skilled and diligent craftsmen and thus helped the city's economy on its feet again in exchange for liberty of religion.

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View on the church from a different angle, showing the surrounding bulidings of the "Erlanger Neustadt" (Newer town), a planned quarter especially erected for the Huguenots.

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Another important event was the decision of the SIEMENS corporation to move its administration after WW2 from destroyed and divided Berlin to Erlangen. Their buildings are not that attractive though they are certainly... special.

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Monument for the 6th Bavarian Jaeger battallion which was garrisoned in Erlangen from 1868 until 1878
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But maybe the city is best-known to strangers not of all those buildings, but rather due to the Bergkirchweih, one of the countless beer-festivals in Germany, which attracts about one million visitors during twelve days around Pentecost every year.

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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #36 on: October 23, 2012, 01:20:55 pm »
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My hometown in a nutshell:

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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #37 on: October 23, 2012, 02:42:46 pm »
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Current location: Swansea, Wales

Great town center with really busy main street, great collection of nearby castles, new development and surf locations.

Swansea Bay:
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Swansea Castle:
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However i was raised for most of my childhood in Devon on Dartmoor, near the location of Arthur Conan Doyles 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'

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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #38 on: October 23, 2012, 07:27:11 pm »
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Lived in Tartu whole life. University town of Estonia. Not to big, not too small, just right imo. Frankly my countries capital is a real shithole as far as im concerned, so if it comes to the borders of my country atleast, theres not other place id rather be in.

The uni
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The town centre from far
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Town centre up close
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"Gunpowdercellar" pub, if you wanna get drunk medieval style while jugging large juggs of ale down your throat.  You may find me there, under the table some nights.  :mrgreen:
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And than there is the brewery that makes my favorite ale in this forsaken land
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Well....lucky for me atleast the rent is cheap on that side 8-) Althou it lacks eyecandy effect
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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #39 on: October 24, 2012, 01:19:11 am »
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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #40 on: October 24, 2012, 01:24:28 am »
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My parents wedding photo has less bloom than that.

Dis is heaven
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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #41 on: October 24, 2012, 11:14:41 pm »
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Re: Your hometown
« Reply #42 on: October 29, 2012, 12:38:33 am »
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i am from Görlitz/ Zgorzelec, Upper Lusatia. because of the last world war there are two towns, a polish and a german one.
it is the easternmost town in Germanyland and virtually in the middle of Europe.

The war has caused not that much damage and so the whole historic district is still intact.
They use this sometimes as movie set for historic filmes ( mostly domestic prodictions, but some international as well like Inglourious Basterds or The reader).


St. Peter's Church, view from Poland
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Kaisertrutz, a bastion part of the old town wall, todayan historic museum
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the town hall at the lower market
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a replica of a steam locomotive in one of the town parks (it is fully functional)
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my old district (hey i can see my old house), quite ugly as every estate of prefabricated houses, but the gallows hill near by was a good toboggan run during the winter.
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