BL Travel Guide: A Locals Guide to YOUR TOWN!

L2R

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In your words, tell us about highlights of your town. Include pictures, from the web or taken by yourself!

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

1-Pitt Street Mall
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Sydney shopping central, with almost anything you could want. It apparantly has something like the third most expensive retails rental prices in the world.

2-Sydney Botanical Gardens
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The gorgeous harbourside gardens on the steps of the Opera House. In my teen years, i had sex here.

3-Sydney Opera House
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Fantastic architecture forms the first half of Sydney's premier landmarks. During one of my many twisted nights out around the town, i figured that from a certain angle above, the Opera House can appear like the saliva of a spitting face of sydney (the bridge being the eye line).

4-Sydney Harbour Bridge
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The awesome world famous coat hanger is a the second half of Sydney's premier landmarks. It's a great walk across, intoxicated or not. I want to to the bridge climb (climb the arch) but i haven't had the chance yet.

5-Darling Harbour
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My lovely doorstep. This waterfront area is enclosed by Pyrmont Bridge which swings open whenever needed to allow larger water traffic through, contains many bars, restaurants and other attractions as well as the home to home nightclub. This place has an inspired mix of modern architecture and bird wildlife, which i enjoy every day.

6-AMP Tower (Centrepoint)
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Another classic landmark that rises from the Pitt Street Mall to a magnificent birdseye view of the city. It also now offers skywalk, which allows a controlled external view from it's top apparantly on a steel mesh walkway which can be seen through straight down onto the streets way below.
A shot of the view from top.
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7-Sydney Monorail
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Mono means One and Rail means Rail. This cute little addition has more sentimental than practical value since you could stroll the spans of the track in about as much time the train takes to get there. It encircles Pitt Street Mall, Darling Harbour and Chinatown.

8-Sydney LightRail
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Sydney's very limited and relatively new tram system that connects Central Station to Lillyfield via the markets and China Town, Darling Harbour, Star City Casino and the Fish Markets.

9-CityRail
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The whole metropolitan area is connected with this train network which seems to go through 2 year cycles of good and bad service. Pictured above is the Milennium Train, meant for the 2000 Olympics, but actually arrived years later.
In my school daze, i practically lived on these things.

10-Star City Casino
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It's a fuckin casino, and hotel, and serviced apartments. I used to work there.
bleh.
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good cocktails though

11-Sydney Art Gallery
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Sitting on the edge of the Domain and aside the Botanical Gardens, it's a nice old building, full of artistic goodness.
Also there's the Sydney Museum, the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Arts, The Maritime Museum, as well as others all over the place.

12-Taylor Square
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The gay heart of the oxford street, the gay central to the gay capital of the world. Oxford street is the main stretch for the annual Mardi Gras parade which happens to be on every year around my birthday.

13- Hyde Park
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This gorgeous park is directly across the road from my workplace and contains some beautiful greenery, a large fountain with sculptures and a war memorial.

14-Kings Cross
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The dirty, seedy end of town, packed with bars, clubs, strip clubs, and nightworkers.

edit: adding
15- Chinatown
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How did i forget Chinatown?! Bargain and food central.
 
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Fuckin' cool thread idea. I'll participate later.
 
Lead by example. I spent all morning on this.

Besides, didn't ghandi say something like "Be the change you seek in the world."
well, I am a horrifically mutilated dead vietnamese hippo in customer services named phuong (this bitch really shits me to tears).
 
LONG ISLAND, NY.

there's not really much exciting around here, but there are some 'famous' locations:

there's the amityville horror house:
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montauk point lighthouse:
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the alledgedly haunted former psychiatric center, pilgrim state:
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that's all i can really think of now. i think the place you lives in tends to be less interesting to you than it would to an outsider who's experiencing it for the first time.
 
^^^mostly just homeless people and teenagers looking to do some amateur ghost hunting. there were plans a couple of years ago to tear it all down and build an aquarium... but that was shut down when they researched traffic patterns or something.
 
L2R said:
Lead by example. I spent all morning on this.

Besides, didn't ghandi say something like "Be the change you seek in the world."
No, I said that, in a thread a couple of days ago.

I can see why you'd get us confused, though.

Nice idea, will try to post a few pictures of sheep and rugby players later.
 
eh, see one emaciated old man you've seen em all. ;)
 
^oh come now, you've got like a hill or something !
 
Nashville,Tn

Cheekwood
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Music Row
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State Capitol
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Cumberland River
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Inside Opery Land Hotel
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^descriptions?

music row is a telegraph pole with two dodgy flags on it?

whats that arch behind the bridge?

can you swim in that hotel fixture?
 
music row is where all the country (and some other) artists record
i think the arch is just part of the bridge
and you cannot swim in that particular part of the hotel but theres a nice little ferry that takes you through the river
and cheekwood is botanical gardens where alot of people get married
 
Lincoln, Nebraska:

Corn
Shitty college football team
Oh yes, and "The Penis Of The Plains" - aka the state capital building

So when can I expect all of you? ;)
 
google silly girl! ^thats fuckin cool!
tell us about it
 
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