European cities

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Duchemin

Vieux Port

Terrible place. Never seen so many Moors in my entire life.. but nice memories of a Corsican comrade who lived in Marselha and helped me get in Spain.

Plage du Prado (beach)

Les Calanque

There is more than one reason why the French call their South "Notre petit Espagne".

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Terrible place. Never seen so many Moors in my entire life.. but nice memories of a Corsican comrade who lived in Marselha and helped me get in Spain.

There is a joke in France that you certainly know : Marseille is the first arab city crossed by the Tour de France. Corsicans are good guys btw, very ethnic.

There is more than one reason why the French call their South "Notre petit Espagne".

Really? Never heard that.

[Youenn]

Naoned - Nantes : Capital of Brittany


Castle of the Dukes of Brittany






Cathedrale Saint Peter






Quartier Bouffay






Quartier Graslin






Beaulieu island





Trentemoult

[Aengus]

héhé quite nice ... never been to Nantes. Actually spent one night there while I was going to Pornic. Pornic haaaaaaaaaaa, lovely

[marius]

Some photos from Romania.

NW Romania, Oradea:




NW Romania, Cluj-Napoca:



Central Romania, Brasov:



Central Romania, Sibiu:



W Romania, Arad:



E Romania, Iasi:



E Romania, Botosani:



S Romania, Bucharest:













SE Romania, Constanta:

[Youenn]

Pornizh - Pornic

[Aengus]

Lovely ...
And behind the tower there stands a little antiquarian bookshop where I bought several books. I even bought a WW2 German cask on a marchet place in Pornic, next to the cemetery erected and paying tribute to the US soldiers killed there ...

[marius]

Targu Mures, Central Romania



Sighetu Marmatiei, North Romania



Sighisoara, Central Romania





Medias, Central Romania



Campulung Muscel, Southern Romania



Targoviste, Southern Romania

[marius]

Piatra Neamt, North Eastern Romania:



Targu Secuiesc, Central Romania:



Turnu Severin, South Western Romania:

[marius]

Mamaia, South-Eastern Romania, Black Sea Coast







Constanta, South-Eastern Romania, Black Sea Coast, during winter time

[Dana]

^^^
Romania is such a beautiful country!
Somebody told me Buchurest is the Eastern Paris
But I wonder, do you have all the same Communist style buildings (ie commie blocks) that we have everywhere else?

[Dana]

Beautiful picture from Minsk, Belarus

[marius]

Originally Posted by Dana

^^^
Romania is such a beautiful country!
Somebody told me Buchurest is the Eastern Paris
But I wonder, do you have all the same Communist style buildings (ie commie blocks) that we have everywhere else?

My dear Dana, you have such a beautiful name... we still have A LOT of communist style buildings, but since the thread has been launched with the idea of showing the nicest cities in our countries, I just followed the main idea. But I am opened, for the sake of fun, to have a thread exactly on the worst looking cities in different European countries. This could have a place in Camera Obscura... What do you say, people?

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by marius

But I am opened, for the sake of fun, to have a thread exactly on the worst looking cities in different European countries. This could have a place in Camera Obscura... What do you say, people?

Why not. Could be funny. Hard to find such a place in France though.

[marius]

Originally Posted by Duchemin

Why not. Could be funny. Hard to find such a place in France though.

Go take a photo in Seine Saint-Denis department (you don't have to go there, you may take a photo from the bus taking one to the Roissy airport) or in Evry, or in Echirolles suburb of Grenoble or in some suburbs of Lyon or Marseille.

But you are right, it is kind of a challenge to find bad looking pictures, because usually the municipalities struggle to hide such places, so I wonder whether one can find them on the web.

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by marius

Go take a photo in Seine Saint-Denis department (you don't have to go there, you may take a photo from the bus taking one to the Roissy airport) or in Evry, or in Echirolles suburb of Grenoble or in some suburbs of Lyon or Marseille.

Have I not said France?

But you are right, it is kind of a challenge to find bad looking pictures, because usually the municipalities struggle to hide such places, so I wonder whether one can find them on the web.

You're right. I failed.

[marius]

I started a thread, again for the sake of fun, in Camera Obscura, over the worst looking parts of towns in European countries and I already posted some from my country. I wonder who has the strength to continue.

http://forum.stirpes.net/showthread.php?t=5788

And with this, I end this small paranthesis about worst looking towns or part of towns.

[Dana]

Originally Posted by marius

My dear Dana, you have such a beautiful name

thank you

we still have A LOT of communist style buildings, but since the thread has been launched with the idea of showing the nicest cities in our countries, I just followed the main idea. But I am opened, for the sake of fun, to have a thread exactly on the worst looking cities in different European countries. This could have a place in Camera Obscura... What do you say, people?

i think it's a good idea actually to see the best of the best and worst of the worst!
anyway, again, great pics!