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frere hall
Posted June 02, 2006 at 09:05 AM by Omar
Photos of Frere Hall in Karachi, Pakistan. This building is a remnant of the British Raj and stands in the middle of a public park coming down from Clifton Bridge towards downtown Karachi, just opposite the Marriott Hotel. These photos are from a room in the top floor of the Marriott.
The history of the building itself is a bit murky to [...]
Mountains...oh how nice (part 1)
Posted July 24, 2007 at 05:05 AM by Mr Wheelie
Mountains, I forgot about them. China's natural defensive against the marauding Moguls. They are also good for keeping heavy tricycles at bay too. Pathetic progress is all I can say. A magnificent 28km. Not even a nice round 30. Never mind, the more I eat the lighter the load becomes.I saw the great wall, the sections that seemed to [...]
Sites and Sounds: Bucharest
Posted May 28, 2007 at 05:53 PM by sgarba
This is from a trip to Bucharest, Romania. Not exactly the most picturesque city in the World, yet still striking by virtue of its history (Ceau?escu), its people and its new found status as one of the recent entrants into the EU.
Haussmann-free Paris
Posted May 29, 2007 at 03:38 AM by lapetite
In the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III commissioned Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann to rebuild Paris for the modern era. Up until this point, Paris had been much like other European cities: dirty, dark, disorderly, and in grave danger of fire or plague. But Haussmann changed all that — he swept away most of the teetering medieval [...]
la sagrada familia
Posted June 20, 2006 at 03:09 AM by hiba
This is the famous Gaudi cathedral located in the heart of Barcelona. It has been under construction for a really long time and has yet to be completed. Even though it is still unfinished, you cannot visit Barcelona and not visit the Sagrada Familia. It was Gaudi's brainchild, but he died before its completion. The images and architecture are [...]
