Looks like a mix of New-Orleans and a Russian or Baltic city !...
I see your point!
That building is rather unique in Cape Town, not typical of the building style used (which is why I used the pic). Apparently at one time it was a brothel..... Now it's used as a youth hostel. It's in Long Street, one of Cape Town's most famous streets for it's restaurants and shops, formerly known for it's prostitutes... female and male.... When I lived in CT about 14 years ago we used to avoid Long Street like the plague... now it's the place to be! _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject:
Initially, I was going to name some city in Belgium because the skies look so dreary, but now that I think of it, the buildings in your last 2 pictures look remarkably like those in Vienna (not that I've ever been to Vienna, but I've seen pictures of Vienna to know how it looks).
Yes, you guessed well, it is Vienna!
Ja, das ist gut ! wien ! (not sure about mys first steps in German...)
I've just came back from there, this was my first trip in central Europe actually (I don't usually don't condider the places of Germany where I've been as central Europe). Vienna has many common points with Paris in quite a lot of ways, which leds me to think that we are somehow much closer to Austria than to Germany in a lot of points.
both cities were capitals of important empires in the 19th century, and are both marqued by what we could call an "imperial urbanism". I didn't see it in no other European capital really.
both cities are somehow between northern and southern Europe, situated at about the same latitudes. Vienna have been the "door" to the Balkans and had many contacts with Ottoman empire (and dominations, from where it recieved its coffea culture), and in the same time is part of the Germanic northern Europe for its language, but so close also to Slavic Europe, Italy and Hungary.
both cities have been strong artistic centers at the 19th and begining of 20th centuries.
And both are famous for their "café" culture, even if, due to climatic conditions the Vienner cafés have not what make their Parisian counterparts famous, the "terrasses", but have very good coffeas and excellent "Viennoiseries"(which became also somehow a Parisian speciality for some of them)
Said that, Vienna still is very Alemanic on many points.
And outside of the language, the other big difference for me was the climate, despite being at the same latitudes, Vienna has really VERY cold winters from a french point of view. It was maybe about -8°C, while it was +8°C in Paris... about 15°C of amplitude.
It is interesting to see ho small is now a country which was one century ago a huge European empire, bigger than France.
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Location: San Francisco, Noord-Kalifornië, Noord-Amerika
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:20 am Post subject:
Elaine wrote:
I thought it was San Francisco and that you were being funny again.
Oh, good -- it worked! I was inspired to do this after seeing a movie that takes place in Lisboa and saw one shot of what must have been a funicular on a very steep street with a view of the estuary. It looked just like a cable car in SF with a view of the bay.
Well, despite the fact that both cities have tramways on hills with a view on a bay, and a metallic bridge I don't think we could confuse both cities when looking at the architecture which has very few in common.
Well, to reactivate this thread I'll post a new one:
Location: San Francisco, Noord-Kalifornië, Noord-Amerika
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject:
fab wrote:
Well, despite the fact that both cities have tramways on hills with a view on a bay, and a metallic bridge I don't think we could confuse both cities when looking at the architecture which has very few in common.
For that very reason, I didn't show much of the architecture, only that which -- at least at first glance -- looks
as if it could be in SF. (White buildings with red clay tile roofs are quite common here.)
It looks a bit like a Spanish seaside resort, perhaps on the Atlantic coast. However, the overall impression is everything looks "too new". I don't know. Maybe a brand new tourist spot somewhere between Gijón and Santander ?... (Si ça se trouve j'ai tout faux → Mer noire, Indonésie...)
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Now it's used as a youth hostel. It's in Long Street, one of Cape Town's most famous streets for it's restaurants and shops, formerly known for it's prostitutes... female and male.... When I lived in CT about 14 years ago we used to avoid Long Street like the plague... now it's the place to be! 
