Pictures Taken By you...

[Janine]

Schok, your Ireland pictures are amazing. You look so pretty in the photo at the mall. So it is always windy there in Ireland? The one on the bridge is nice, too.That mall is really interesting looking architecture. The photo is great - I like it on the curious angle.
Claes - you take terrific shots of everything! I feel I am going on a virtual trip to Europe looking at them.
Johnny, Your Paris photos were great! Love the Ef.Tower shot....interesting angle.
Virgil, I liked you beach shots. All the photos you posted were good. Sorry bout yesterday - I was not insulting you - just trying to be silly...not myself at all yesterday - think I took too many drugs for my cold. Really nice photos; and the donkeys were interesting pictures, as well. How neat to just come across them roaming free. Arizona is an amazing place.
Niamh - what a great idea to make a thread with Dublin literary locations. I can't wait to see that one. Glad Virgil thought of it and will give you a listing from the novel. Maybe other people will request places as well or post them in your thread.
Everyone else - what wonderful photos! Thanks for posting so many. I have been enjoying them emensely. The wildlife shots were something - very pretty. I love wildlife pictures and the birds, lovely, like the peacock.

[Niamh]

hey everyone! just had a wonderful time in edinburgh and thought i'd show you some of the wonderful places there!
There are also some pics from the Blair st vaults, possibly the most haunted place in Britain and one of the most haunted places in the world! my computor is a bit slow at the moment so will hopefully have them for you soon!

[Madhuri]

I will wait...

[Niamh]

right here we go!
this is a picture of St Giles Cathedral on the royal mile!


this is a really cool looking building beside the castle! looks like something out of a fairytale!


this is a picture of the gallery taken from a tour bus!


this is walter scotts monument. its an unbelievable tribute to am author!


here is a view of the castle! i've one taken of the castle from the top of the hill but forgot to upload it!


here it is!

[Niamh]

now these are from the Blair street vaults! it was almost pitch black down there!


they are very creepy to walk around!
next to photos were taken within seconds of each other an the first has a few possible orbs/light anomilies in it!

now you see them!


now you dont!


this one is a little creepy! looks like there is a shadowy figure standing under the arch! can you see it?

[Madhuri]

Very nice pictures, Niamh

I liked the building, it looks like a doll house and the Scotts monument, very impressive. The entrance to the castle reminds me of a smiliar entrance that I saw of a fort in Jaipur.

The vaults looks creepy, if I were to walk through I will be glancing behind, incase someone is approaching to grab me

What were these vaults for?

[Niamh]

Edinburgh old town is on a hill and like rome, modern day edinburgh is stretched out over about seven hills/exstinct volcanoes. When the old town council back in the 8th cent decided it was time to expand the borough, they decided to built bridges from one hill to the next. The north brdge was built first and the the south. These vaults were the arches of the south bridge which they subdivided into levels and rooms as they had this idea of still using the space to rent to traders. so for a while they were used as bars and shops etc. but they werent water proof so people started to refuse to rent the vaults. eventually it was abandoned. But soon the crime world moved in and the poor. People were murdered, body snatchers operated in the dark arches, prostitutes worked, people squated, lived and died there.

they were very creepy. I keep on thinking that there was someone behind me when no one was there, which was when i decided to take the last picture i posted. Its almost like there is a dark transparant shadowy figure in the corner. that freaked me out a bit! and elsewhere i heard a crashing noise from the same place twice, like some one had dropped a tray on the ground. but we were the only people in the building. in one room i got this smell of whiskey. few minutes later the tour guide told us that sometimes people get a strong smell of wiskey for a few minutes before it vanishes quickly.

i also went to a place called mary kings close which was fasinating, and at one point in the tour i thought someone was buzzing and humming in my ear, but there was no one directly behind me then either!

[Janine]

Oh no, Niamh, I can't see any of the pictures - they are just a block with an X in on my computer. I wanted to see these cool pictures of yours Help!

[Virgil]

Me too Niamh. I get the same as Janine.

[Madhuri]

I think the problem must be with the host site, because yesterday I was able to see the pictures, but today even I am not able to view. These pictures haven't uploaded properly here.

[Niamh]

humm.... i put them up with photo bucket, but i can see them now. i'll edit them and see what happens.

[Niamh]

oops! it turned out i'd made a booboo. broke the link. Anyway hopefully sorted now so pictures should be appearing. Aer for me!

[Madhuri]

I can see now....

[Niamh]

yeay!...

[Madhuri]

Hum...am not sure now! I like to take pictures not be in them. i'm not photogenic.

You denied my request

*emotional blackmail*