Bremen has a population of about 540,000.




main station

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Two weeks ago I made a short trip to Freiburg, southern Germany right next to the borders to Switzerland and France.

I was really looking forward to taking some pictures but except for the last day and one hour of the first it was raining non-stop. Because of that I was not very motivated to take pictures but I'll post those that I took nevertheless.




I have been to Freiburg in summer before and it's a totally different city in summer compared to winter. If not for the snowy hills sourrounding the town winter would be hard to bear.



Yep, not everything is cute in Freiburg

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Taken on my way to Osnabrück and Münster from the train, Porta Westfalica:

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I could have taken way more intersting pictures in these very charming and lively city but sadly I only had about 2 and a half hours but hopefully I’ll be back soon with a better camera. This city deserves it.



Walking towards the city centre from the central station.

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If you step out of the Central station you see the cute little Hotel Fürst Bismarck. The other three pictures were taken from the same spot.



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Even though Oldenburg is just 2 hours away by train I have never been there yet. I also have not heard very much about this city, it kinda flies under the radar.

The city absolutely surprised me though. Not only is Oldenburg beautiful it also has a very vibrant and nice atmosphere.

There are canals going through the city, a beautiful yellow castle, a university with 12.000 students enrolled and the city also has a wonderful modern museum.



The popultaion of Oldenburg is 160.000 and the city of Bremen that has a poputaion of more than half a million is only 45 Kilometers away.






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Situated in the south of Lower Saxony, Einbeck (pop.: 26.724 ) is most known for it's beer here in Germany.



The main station is somewhat removed from the historic old-town with it's many half-timbered houses so it took a while to go there.



Not many people about since it was 38°C which the normal German just can't handle.

I assume most people were sitting in the shade or at the lakes and pools somewhere. I was pretty much melting away...






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I took these pics about two weeks ago when I visited a friend in Hamburg.



This is where this neighbourhood is located:

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I really loved it. It was still pretty central but kinda removed at the same time while still being busy and interesting.



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I took these pics about 4 weeks ago when I stopped to change trains in Göttingen.

The pics were taken between 6:30 and 8:30 pm in the evening so obviously I didn't cover the whole city but rather the city center and old-town.

Most shops closed at 7pm.



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Göttingen is a town in southern Lower Saxony and has a population of about 130,000 plus 25,000 students that are enrolled in the old Georg-August University which was founded in 1737. (Ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder studied law there.)




The sign of a student-town - lots and lots of bicycles. This is just a small part of the giant bicyle parking in front of the central station.

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Walking through Quedlinburg, a quaint little town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany


Quedlinburg a little town that's situated in the west of Saxony-Anhalt in the Harz mountains (former GDR). The population is about 23.000.

Quedlingburg is one of the cities with the most half-timbered buildings in Germany.



Since December 1994 the old town of Quedlinburg and the castle mount with the collegiate church are listed as one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. (6th to last picture).




I really is a great town to visit and spend a day, so much beautiful houses. Also the town is located in a really nice region with other stunning little cities like Goslar and Wernigerode just a few kilometers away. I wouldn't want to live there though, the next big city is far away, it seems quite boring.



The first 41 pics were taken with an old analog Canon, the rest with a small digital camera.

We didn't catch the best weather but it still was the only day in the week where it wasn't raining. Should have went this week, it beautiful right now.



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I had some business this Friday in Dallas, so my wife and I went up on Thursday to check out the Big D. This was actually my first time to walk around Dallas' DT. We loved it. Hope you enjoy our walking tour.


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Same photos as the "Dreary Weekend" thread, but I worked with them a little with the crappy photo program that came with my camera. I'm too cheap to pay for photoshop:




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Lunchtime around DT:




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Hope you enjoy the photos. I was there from approximately 3:00 to 5:00 yesterday then had to get back to Houston. Would have loved to stay until the clubs got going at night but couldn't. Not many people on the streets when I was there. Empty streets seem to follow me where ever I go.

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Hello, guys! I don't know if this is the most complete thread ever made about Downtown Los Angeles. All I know is that I spent more than 8 hours walking around Downtown taking lots and lots of pictures to then show 'em to you guys. In other words, your comments will be appreciated. ( It also took me almost 3 hours to make this thread.)




I really don't have that many pictures of the Fashion District and South Park. I definitively don't have any pics from the Toy District, but you have to keep in mind that I did my best and that I walked for 8 hours under the sun (I even got a tan and I'm not kidding). So yeah, try not to be that mean.



Anyway, here are the pics (I took almost 400 pictures).



HISTORIC DOWNTOWN



1) We're starting off at the Historic Downtown.

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Took some pics on my trip back up to Jax this weekend. Downtown was dead when I took these pics on Sunday morning. The weather makes it look even worse, but Jacksonville is probably my favorite downtown in all of Florida because of the character of the buildings. My sister once said, "architecturally, it's the closes thing Florida has to Manhattan."



I only got pics of immediate downtown in the Central Business district, so these pics don't even begin to do the massiveness and diversity of Jax's downtown justice. So think of it as just a taste:



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Tucson's population is around 550,000 (near 800,000 metro) and behind Phoenix and Las Vegas is the largest city in the desert southwestern United States. My brother lives there so I went to visit him last week. I did not think I would like it at first but then I felt what so many people who spend a few days in the desert feel--this sort of intoxication with the odd plants, odd architecture, and dry weather. Now I want to move there, haha.



The Tucson metro area has the largest population of Saguaro cacti in the world. Saguaros are nationally protected plants that can only legally be chopped down by the state to make room for strip malls, and suburban housing Supposedly all the cacti are replanted elsewhere but at over 1000lbs per cactus I doubt it. These giants are also OLD. One arm can take up to 100 years to form, making the average 2-armed Saguaro at least 500 years old. Also, there is no water ANYWHERE in the whole town. No rivers, no lakes, no sea...just dry gulches that fill up under overpasses when it rains. All this said it was so different that I fell in love.




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