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Your home towns
Ladybug:
I miss Stockholm! Spent about a week there a few years ago with my family, and even though it was hoooot and I lived in a hotel room without air condition with my entire family, it was great. Loved Gamla Stan and all, but I wish I could've spent more time there without my mom dragging us around wherever she wanted to go.. Hm. Stockholm should go on my "Places to re-visit"-list, in addition to England and Copenhagen.
My home town is Bodø in Northern Norway. It's a fairly small town with a population of about 46 000 (including the rural areas that lie within the municipality known as Bodø, but not really in the city), but I kinda like the size of it. And it has a loot of beautiful surrounding nature, which I love. Parts of the centre are also kinda pretty, while others not so much. I don't live there anymore, though (minus during the summer), and I don't know if I'll wanna move back for good, but it's definitely not because of the city itself, more becaues of people, jobs etc. Most of the city was destroyed during WW2, but it was rebuilt fairly quickly, and thus parts of the city is...well, not exactly pretty, but ah well. It's home.
The centre of the town and the airport(s) (Bodø has a fairly long history with the Royal Norwegian Air Force, has a military air base and the Norwegian Aviation Museum)
Saltstraumen, the world's strongest maelstrom, about 20 minutes away from the centre of the city. Pretty and excellent for fishing:
I love that you can walk for about 1,5-2 hours and get this amazing view (crappy photos, taken by me, but ah well. Click for big-technology!):
The port downtown, which I really like:
I wanted to find a good picture of some rocks at the end of the pier that are great for just lying around, relaxing, eating a baguette and drinking something cold, but I couldn't find a decent one. The pier is to the left of this photo, though.
The main street/shopping area, with the ingenious glass house (there's about 6 wind-free days here a year, if that many, and crappy weather):
I'm trying to decide what my favourite part of the city is, but I'm not sure. At the moment, our house or "cabin"/house by the sea, maybe :p House (click for big-techology again):
imapiratearg:
Arg! I want to at least visit England one day. Doesn't Brighton have a huge palace that's furnished in entirely Eastern antiques?
öde:
Man, Brighton looks pretty excellent despite the horrible beach.
calenlass:
Hooray for Brighton! I really do like it. It has this kind of amazing 2D quality that really isn't a bad thing at all - like there is nothing bad or mafia-esque going on under the surface, and the only things to do there are fun and exciting things like the Fringe all the time! (or starving artist type things, or I guess crazy hippie things - I assume bad shroom trips happen in Brighton, too.)
imapiratearg:
Sounds like my kind of town!
(Except without the acid trips.)
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