A-Z Places

[AuAL]

Kurraragin (Egg Rock), Numinbah Valley, QLD

 

[Cutesie]

The Shah’s sarcophagus is to the side of his wife’s. It is the only feature of the Taj Mahal that is asymmetrically placed.

There is some dispute regarding whether or not the central dome is perfectly symmetrical, with various studies published on the subject.

 

[Cutesie]

Lahore Museum, Lahore, Pakistan. It was established in 1865, moving to the current site in 1894. About 40% of its collection was transferred to India when the division into two countries took place in 1948.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

McDermitt, Nevada

 

[AuAL]

Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland

An impressive Neolithic passage tomb built around 3,100 BCE on a hill above the River Boyne. The roof-box above the door admits light from the winter solstice sun all the way to the centre of the tomb. (Tickets for the dawn visit at that time are very sought after. I was there in summer, but they shone a light in so we could see the light creep up the passage.)

 

[Cutesie]

Orange Health Service, also called Orange Hospital, on the Bloomfield Health Campus, Orange, New South Wales, Australia. It opened in 2011, replacing Orange Base Hospital as the region's referral hospital.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Panaca, Nevada

 

[AuAL]

Queen’s Wood, Muswell Hill, London

 

[NDR2]

Raa Atoll, Maldives

 

[Cutesie]

Singapore Management University

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Tonopah, Nevada

 

[Cutesie]

The Union Buildings, seat of the national executive, Pretoria, South Africa. (The legislature meets in Cape Town.)

 

[AuAL]

Victoria Peak, Hong Kong

 

[Cutesie]

A portion of Washington Street, Cork, Ireland. On the left is the Cork Courthouse, which handles civil and family matters. Established in 1824 as Great George's Street in honor of King George III, it was renamed in 1918 for the American rival of that king.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

x marks the little town of

Yoncalla, Oregon

Located on an impossibly green yet lonely strip of forested highway, right smack dab in between other towns with funny names, like Drain, Curtin, and Rice Hill.

 

[AuAL]

Zytglogge, Bern, Switzerland

A medieval clock in the city centre. Sorry, some of my photos are not “well-framed”. Sometimes i just had a chance to look up and shoot.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Alamo, San Antonio, Texas

Twice in my life have I seen the hallowed Alamo, as a young wanderer. Both times I was silent. Still, to this day I feel sort of an hollow, grieving spot in my chest when I recall the sight. It honestly is one of those things that makes me proud to be an American.

 

[Cutesie]

Twice in my life have I seen the hallowed Alamo, as a young wanderer. Both times I was silent. Still, to this day I feel sort of an hollow, grieving spot in my chest when I recall the sight. It honestly is one of those things that makes me proud to be an American.

I like how you got "hallowed" and "hollow" in a single paragraph.

Bridgend, Wales. Seen is the town's namesake, Old Bridge, which was constructed around 1425 as a crossing over the River Ogmore. It carried vehicles until 1920, when it became a footbridge exclusively. In the distance is the tower of Newcastle Castle, which was built by the Normans in around 1106.

 

[AuAL]

Cancún, Mexico

This was not the view from my room. I had a whole suite to myself, but it was in accommodation adjacent to the golf course a couple of kilometres away from the hotel where the conference was being held. (It was also cheaper than a single room in the hotel, overlooking the beach.) This was the view from the room of one of my colleagues.

A group of us went swimming one day and a couple of Canadians in the group had to be rescued by lifesavers. The Aussies looked at the surf where they had decided to go in and thought, “No way, that’s a rip there.” We later saw the (little) pennants planted in the sand at the back of the beach - red flag = don’t swim here, white flag = safe to swim.

 

[Cutesie]

Doha, capital of Qatar