Asia
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Google has released a fantastic tour of the Beijing Olympics in Google Earth. You can explore it in 2D, but for the 3D buildings, you’ll need to download them from the official 2008 Summer Games by Google page. I found it quite tricky to get all the 3D stuff working, but if your computer can [...]
The Caucasus country of Georgia
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Georgia is a small country in the northwest Caucasus area of southwest Asia. The country is on borders of Europe and Asia, and faces the black sea, and is separated from Russia, by the Caucasus mountains. And with all the problems going on there this beautiful little country is suffering. About one third of the [...]
Tokyo, Japan: The Electric City
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008I am writing this post for the Japan Blog Matsuri, a blogging carnival in which people write about Japan. This month’s theme is “First Impressions of Tokyo“. I have been to Japan, but never to Tokyo and I always wondered what it would be like. So after some research into the city this is what [...]
Nagasaki’s “Battleship Island”, Gunkanjima
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008While my brother is gallivanting around Europe, documenting his virtual trips to Russia, France and some beautiful, sun-drenched Mediterranean islands, I’ve been struggling to find time to explore the virtual earth.
I did however learn a little bit about this:
Although it looks as welcoming as Alcatraz, I can assure you it’s much worse. You won’t find [...]
The sleeping giant Russia
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Russia is a country which blends into two continents Asia on the north side and Europe on the east side, it’s borders touch many countries in the north Finland and Norway, in the west you have Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, Poland in the north-west and Azebaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Korea and China in [...]
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.