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Post by bjd on Jul 7, 2010 8:11:56 GMT
And in a marshrutka going to the bus station in Lviv, Ukraine
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Post by Kimby on Jul 7, 2010 19:31:30 GMT
This is the kind of guy that exists in many countries -- the driver's assistant who yells the bus's (or minibus's) destination and then collects the money. This one is in Ecuador. What I find interesting is that all of these guys hold their money the same way. That's how I was taught to hold paper money when I was a cocktail waitress in college. Wrapping the bills around your finger leaves the rest of your hand free to do other things AND makes it hard for anyone to grab the bills out of your hand.
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Post by Jazz on Jul 7, 2010 23:00:53 GMT
Great thread. Especially, I like the Mexican 'moto-taxis', but it surprises me that they seem to have a plastic curtain for a door. Since it is so hot there, I would have thought cloth, bead strings etc. I also like the 'elvadores'. Askar, your photo of Tajikistan fascinates me, not the van, but the lovely simple house built into the hillside. (#26) I wonder about its history. It would be cool and the roof could be planted. This is a particular area of house design that I have read about in a book , The Natural House Book, by David Pearson. Published in 1989, it was ahead of its time in one sense. www.amazon.ca/New-Natural-House-Book-Ecologically/dp/0684847337/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278543258&sr=8-3The Scandanavians like this kind of design and it is very environmentally conscious. It now seems to be gaining popularity with our ecological problems. However, it is our 'rediscovery' of an intelligent, ancient method of building as your photo shows.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 8, 2010 1:15:22 GMT
Jazz, where I live is a high elevation. It's always cool here in the mornings and evenings. The hot season is also the dry season, so it's not muggy.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 19, 2010 4:55:28 GMT
This is NOT your typical Montana city bus, but a trolley that serves the farmers' markets and Out-to-Lunch (in the park) events.
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Post by rikita on Jul 25, 2010 22:06:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 11:14:23 GMT
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Post by mossie on Jul 31, 2012 14:14:30 GMT
Paris Tram T3
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 5, 2012 1:56:01 GMT
Oh, sniffle ~~ N.O. streetcars. That's a super picture, Casimira, such a wonderful angle. & it is accidentally a great follow-up to Rikita's photo of two years ago. (& would also work in The Restrained Palette.)
Love that pic, Mossie, with the interesting shapes, colors, & sense of motion.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2012 13:15:51 GMT
Today, the T3 looked just the same!
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Post by lugg on Sept 8, 2012 6:34:28 GMT
That is a great photo K2 This is the last of the hand pulled ferries across the Wye To set the scene ... Close up He must make a good living in the Summer at least...£1.20 to cross one way
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 8, 2012 16:59:44 GMT
Love the gleaming green and yellow of the T3.
Wonderful pics, Lugg. Long may it, uh, pull!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2012 19:49:15 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 8, 2012 22:50:12 GMT
Super, super photo, Kerouac, on many different levels.
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Post by mossie on Nov 1, 2012 16:20:02 GMT
While shuffling through some photos my son had recently digitised for me I came across this, as we haven't had many boats I thought it would fit in here. uboat.net/allies/merchants/1509.htmlAs you see It had quite a history.
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Post by mossie on Nov 1, 2012 16:24:20 GMT
Blast Photobucket for altering their system. If I eventually find out how to make it work I will post proper size
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Post by mossie on Nov 2, 2012 15:35:13 GMT
Managed to revert to the old Photobucket and get it working again. Why do they continually have to keep meddling, all this technology is getting away from me
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 9, 2012 6:12:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2012 20:15:34 GMT
Rangoon, early 1980's
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Post by rikita on Jan 15, 2013 17:42:55 GMT
was not uncommon for the busses to break down in this area - as it was quite a steep climb...
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Post by anshjain97 on Jan 16, 2013 15:52:06 GMT
Bangkok Skytrain Bangkok Tuk-tuks. Dubai river boats, called abras. Vienna tram Vienna U Bahn Munich tram
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 25, 2013 10:09:32 GMT
Going up to the Stubai Glacier in the Tirol:
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 19, 2013 6:30:27 GMT
I've just remembered this. Can you spot what's wrong with this picture?
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Post by bjd on Aug 19, 2013 6:45:32 GMT
The passenger doors are on the side where traffic is?
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Post by mossie on Aug 19, 2013 7:13:17 GMT
The silly beggars are all driving on the wrong side of the road.
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Post by fumobici on Aug 19, 2013 14:56:16 GMT
The fake American Crown Vic taxi with the 555 prefix phone number for one. Must be filming something that is supposed to be located in the US.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 19, 2013 16:45:47 GMT
Spot on, fumobici. Livened up a Saturday morning at the supermarket in Canary Wharf, at least, to see lots of people in ten-gallon hats driving the wrong way up the one-way system, only to stop every now and again to let the bus go through. Best of all was seeing two different groups of tourists trying to get into the yellow taxi.
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Post by lugg on Mar 2, 2014 17:21:05 GMT
Waiting for the ferry ... and on board ....
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2014 13:44:06 GMT
Two great pictures, Lugg, both because of the photographic excellence & the information contained in them.
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Post by questa on Mar 8, 2014 23:01:30 GMT
Irkutsk, Russia
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