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Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Odori Park in downtown Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan in summer.

Odori Park Snow Festival (just one of many sculptures)

spidey · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:37 am Post subject:

This is the view from Gifu Castle overlooking the City of Gifu in the heart of Japan.

If you look really hard on the left hand side of the photos, you can see my house. Laughing

Notice the lack of trees. I sure have. Crying or Very sad

Stosskraft · Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 252 Location: Japan

I have broken my code of silence, I think this is a great thread.

For Spidey, here are some trees for you !!

These pics are taken at a park near my apartment, during cherry blossom season.

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:

On Geoje Island, South Korea, about an hour south of Busan, southeast of the peninsula.
The island is officially one urban area, with two of the world's top six shipbuilders on the north (Samsung) and east (Daewoo's DSME) coasts.
But the air is fresh and Koreans like to live all crammed together,
so, this community of about 40,000 in Okpo seems like a big city:

Yet I just have to drive two minutes or walk ten minutes (literally)
to get to one of many rural fishing ports, quiet bays and countryside:

No snow on this island, except for about an hour or two at most for one afternoon a year. It's often the warmest spot in Korea, surprisingly much milder in winter than famous Jeju Island far to the southwest. It's because many of the mainland Asia weather systems end up crossing just north of here when pushed by high pressure systems coming from the south.

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

SimonM · Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 1835 Location: Toronto, Ontario

I wasn't able to find any photographs actually IN Lishi/Luliang city but I found one photo in the Luliang Prefecture, 48 KM away from Lishi that could be in the hills above town...

found a couple more ...

http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~gleung/peopfo/pas11.htm

Thanks for the assist Kent!

thelmadatter · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject: son

My son is almost 17 ... a bit older than your little one. Needs to stay in the States for his education. A 17-18 hour plane ride is probably a bit much for a visit.

He�s here now visiting me in Mexico ... and says "hi" to all of you. Very Happy

Zero Hero · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 944

This is a bit old (the IFC tower is finished now), but this is the view of HK from The Peak as captured with a disposable $20 camera (yes that's someone's private swimming pool in the bottom right corner). No shortage of minerals in the air you will notice.

distiller · Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: 249

Dim sum La! And no that weird looking guy in the foreground is not me-I'm much stranger looking.

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

SimonM · Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 1835 Location: Toronto, Ontario

To be fair I am not the first foreign teacher to work in Lishi. There is a British chap who has been here for years and three Americans who couldn't take it here and did a runner. Wink

distiller · Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: 249

Hong Kong of course.

Horizontal Hero · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:41 am Post subject:

My place

The backyard

downtown

The missus and out out for walk (OK, this one was near Beijing)

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

van-island · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:27 am Post subject:

My little town pop. 5000 in western Japan. The school on the right with the big dirt field is one of the elementary schools I work at. Join the JET program my friends, and this mountain paradise could be yours!