Careful there, lest you turn ole Sunshine into a glutton!

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@Sunshine

I guess compared to Chinese cities Vienna may be a calm one, but I can't really know as I have never been to an Asian city let alone a Chinese one. Compared to central London central Vienna may indeed be calmer. The subway is not as crammed usually, and probably no way as crammed as in many Asian cities.

You want more peaceful scenes? Here we go

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What are your interest?
Personally I do not enjoy NY or Boston, far to busy to be enjoyable...But that is my opinion, I prefer smaller and more relaxed places.

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Anyone who thinks freedom comes cheap, please put the blindfold on and stand against the wall.

IT IS TIME for Americans to take back the country and start a new government.

As for Europe, I only been to France and Germany so far.
Loved the ancestral structures.......Can only be amazed as to how people built them back then with all the detail and complexity.
I wish I hadnt lost most of those pictures.

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Anyone who thinks freedom comes cheap, please put the blindfold on and stand against the wall.

IT IS TIME for Americans to take back the country and start a new government.

Hey Slartibartfas you are really into promoting your current home, aren't you?

Good job and even although I wouldn't call my current home town a beauty nor overly important; here are some pics of my city.

World heritage; Zeche Zollverein





Villa Hügel; The former Krupp's family home, now used as a museum + showing a wide range of changing exibitions for a truely fair price; entrance fee around 1 - 3,50 €.





Hundertwasser house in the Grugapark



Lichtwochen, light show + x- mas market with changing host countries

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It's one of my weaknesses

Zeche Zollverein is certainly an interesting thing to see.


A city which fascinates me from the pictures I have seen so far (I have never been there): Buenos Aires

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the styles of the first picture is actually called neo classical georgian or Palladian.....

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"The captain has turned off the `No Dubbing' sign. You are free to speak any language you choose."

I thinks its "in the city" or simply "the city"......

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"The captain has turned off the `No Dubbing' sign. You are free to speak any language you choose."

totally,the Earth is the most beautiful blue planet in galaxy.

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Let me sing a song,the old song
i sing slightly,you echo slowly
can you remember the past dream
and the hopeful brilliant days
we passed toil for our ideal
we once cried
and smiled together
i wish you can rember forever
we once had shining days

Zeche Zollverein is nice, but the Landschaftspark Nord in Duisburg offers more of a fun expierence:














Really worth a visit (I'm not saying so, only based on the fact that parts of my family live there)

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I stand corrected. However there IS a lot of Greek revival architecture in Nashville. When my son moved to Atlanta one comment he made was that Nashville has so much more 'texture' than Atlanta which is all new. That was quite an interesting observation coming from a 18 year old. My kids and I LOVED Nashville. There are many things I miss about it. The traffic is not one of them. LOL

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How absolutely gorgeous! Vienna is on my bucket list. Well, it's hard to think of one that isn't.

Here is Vienna's namesake - Vienna, IL. Not far from where I live. Only thing is here it is pronounced VI (long I) Anna. LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna,_Illinois



There is an area near there in IL call 'Little Egypt.' Southern Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It has towns called Cairo, (pronounced Kay Roh, long A), Thebes, Dongola, Palestine, Lebanon, New Athens (pronounced "Ay-thens"), Sparta, and Karnak.

I am told that the crops failed up north one year back in the 1800s and people came to southern IL to buy food, like they went to Egypt to buy food in the Bible. That is supposedly how it got that name. They really play up that "Little Egypt" theme. Here is the VA hsopital in Marion, IL:




Yep, your eyes are not deceiving you. That's a pyramid on top. And inside it also has a strong Egyptian theme.

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^^ I realise now that I addressed that post to you while actually responding to Winter... uups

You're welcome nonetheless. I have been close to Vienna, Virginia once already.

PS: Greek revival? As you wish

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No problem, a happy accident. It is Vienna, Illinois. Tried to find some pics and all I found was Vienna, VA.


If I recall correctly Winter is from China?? Right?

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I think there are a hand full of Viennas in the US. The Vienna close to Washington DC, pretty much a suburb of it actually seems to be the better known, or maybe only for me as I stayed not too far away from it once.

Actually I have no clue how it is to have the name of a much bigger city somewhere else.

In France there is a city called Vienne (French for Vienna). Its actually not younger than my Vienna so its hard to say which one is the original I am suspecting however that both derived their names differently but ended up in the end with the same one. Actually it was before the arrival of the Romans already a Gaul capital. Later on it was a provincial capital in the Roman Empire.

As Wikipedia claims this Vienne has its name from Roman "Vienna" which came from "„Via Gehenna" which meant "way to hell". Not very charming name Vienna, Austria got its name from Roman "Vindobona", which was actually derived from celtic "Vedunia" and I have no idea what that meant.

Vienne, Isère, France (pop. 30.000)


I guess so.

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