Archive for August, 2009
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009At a little after 5 o’clock this morning, my family and I were woken by a long, very shaky earthquake. A quick check on Twitter told me that a magnitude 6.6 quake had hit Japan’s Shizuoka region, but it was felt across much of eastern Japan. The U.S. Geological Survey has some layers for Google [...]
This is my virtualtrip around Washington, the capital city of the U.S.A.
Monday, August 10th, 2009Hey guys this is me virtualtripping around the city of Washington in the district of Columbia in the north-east of the United States of America. I have never been there before and wondered what it would be like to explore this capital and great city. So here we go. Did you know that Washington was [...]
This is a Virtual-Trip around CATALONIA’S capital city Barcelona in Spain.
Sunday, August 9th, 2009This is a post about the northern spanish city of Barcelona, it is the capital and the most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the eleventh-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most populous urban area [...]
This is the Virtual trip through the Polish capital city Warsaw.
Thursday, August 6th, 2009This is a virtual trip around the great polish capital city of Warsaw, it is the largest city in Poland, and is located on the Vistula River roughly 370 kilometers (230 mi) from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains. The cities population of 2007 was estimated at 1,706,624, and the Warsaw metropolitan [...]
This is Virtual-Tripping around Mongolia.
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009This post about the Asia country of Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and the People’s Republic of China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only 24 miles (38 km) from Kazakhstan’s [...]
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.