Archive for September, 2008
« Previous EntriesYamanashi Maglev Test Track, Japan
Saturday, September 27th, 2008I live in Japan, and one of the greatest pleasures living here is riding the bullet train. I don’t do it often, but traveling at over 200km/h as you wind your way through Japan’s mountains is an incredible thrill, even though it’s smoother than riding in a passenger car. The bullet train just isn’t fast [...]
One of Scandinavia’s European Country, Sweden.
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008This is my post on Sweden, one of five Scandinavian countries, the others are Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway. All situated in north-western Europe, which forms a peninsula bounded by the Artic Ocean in the north, to the east you have the Gulf of Bothnia, in the west they have the Atlantic Ocean and to [...]
Pyongyang’s Mysterious Ryugyong Hotel
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Before I learned about 3D building layers in Google Earth, all you could see of the Ryugyong Hotel in the North Korean capital was a long, looming shadow. The shape of the building makes it difficult to make out when looking down from space, and I wondered if it had been censored by Google. After [...]
The Southern Oceanian Country of New Zealand.
Sunday, September 21st, 2008This post is about New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean in the southern part of the world, her neighbour and trading partner is Australia. New Zealand is built up of Two mainland Island North and South Islands, and with many smaller Islands. The two Islands are separated by the narrow Cook Strait and a number [...]
The Danish Territory of Greenland.
Thursday, September 18th, 2008The polar Island of Greenland is the largest Island in the world, it is situated at north-east of north America, but it is mostly in the Artic Circle, in 2007 the population of the Island was 57,564 which is mainly made up of Inuit people, and the Island then was 2,175,600 area square km or [...]
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.