Where do you all come from?

[Saul]

This is the city I was raised in

Ashdod Israel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUfQns3XxLc

[uffeviking]

Thank you, Dave! 

The quality of the photo is not the best, should be brighter, without the dull sheen. But that's all you get!

[Haffner]

I am no Van Gogh, but this is one of my paintings:

Your painting is really cool! It could be seen almost like a mix of geographical and human anatomical. Very original.

[ChamberNut]

Grew up in a very small village of 50 people (1 street), about 1 hour south of Winnipeg, Canada.

Winnipeg is where I live now and love it.  Great city for the arts!

[lachlanbutch]

Sydney, Australia!! 

So lovely here...although i would love to live somewhere a bit bigger...with more access to concerts and entertainment...london, new york, paris...you get the idea lol...what we have here is very limited in comparison...and very expensive

In Sydney, we count ourselves lucky to have perhaps one symphonic concert a week...and at the Sydney Opera House, we can have months go by where not one opera is performed!!!!

-LB

[pjme]

Antwerp, on the banks of the Schelde ( Scaldis/Escaut) river.

[Sergeant Rock]

Rheindürkheim, Germany, a village a few miles north of Worms on the Rhine River.



The solid green areas on the left side, running south to north, are vineyards, collectively called the Rheinterrasse (Rhine Terrace).


Sarge

[MN Dave]

...north of Worms...

Heehee.

[Sergeant Rock]

Heehee.

One eventually gets used to the name... 

Sarge

[marvinbrown]

Rheindürkheim, Germany, a village a few miles north of Worms on the Rhine River.



The solid green areas on the left side, running south to north, are vineyards, collectively called the Rheinterrasse (Rhine Terrace).


Sarge

  Any beautiful Rheinmaidens in that area Sarge?  Come on, you knew I had to ask  ??

  marvin

[Lethevich]

...north of Worms...

Heehee.

One eventually gets used to the name... 

I always felt that the pink cyllindrical cathedral was very appropriate...

[Sergeant Rock]

Any beautiful Rheinmaidens in that area Sarge?

  marvin

Yeah, I married one    Seriously, she's from this area. Her hometown, Lampertheim, is across the river from Worms:



The blue area bordering the west side of the town is the Altrhein (the old Rhine), the course of the river before it was straightened for navigational purposes. It's now a protected wetlands. So Mrs. Rock was, literally, a Rhinemaiden when I met her.

You probably know Worms was where many of the events of the Nibelungenlied took place. Worms was the capital of the Burgundian tribe. The tribe's history became the basis of the Nibelungen saga. There are references everywhere here: a main street is the Siegfried Straße. There is a statue of Hagen on the riverfront and our micro-brewery is the Hagenbräu. There's a dragon fountain in the middle of town. The bridge over the Rhine is called the Nibelungen bridge. A few miles east across the river there is a town that claims to be the place where the historical Siegfried was murdered.

It seems I was destined from a very early age to eventually find a home here.   When my first marriage ended (I was stationed then at a nearby army base and living in Lampertheim), I stood on the Nibelungen bridge and threw her gold wedding band into the river. I thought that was appropriate 

Sarge

[Renfield]

It seems I was destined from a very early age to eventually find a home here.   When my first marriage ended (I was stationed then at a nearby army base and living in Lampertheim), I stood on the Nibelungen bridge and threw her gold wedding band into the river. I thought that was appropriate 

Very cinematic a way to terminate a marriage! My admiration for that, Sarge.


Lethe,

Isn't Google Earth fun?

Go for "Heraklion, Crete" for me. It's where I was born, although the Heraklion I know is the one enclosed by the old walls (clearly visible) near the harbour. Quite a nice place to (largely) grow up in, bar the fact that it's not exactly the prettiest city in Greece.

Certainly rather interesting with respect to all the people that have, throughout history, tried to conquer it - and often succeeded!

[Hollywood]

Born in Hollywood, Calif. grew up in Eagle Rock, Calif. and now live in Vienna, Austria. 

[vandermolen]

I live in Rotherfield, a village in East Sussex UK. I was born and grew up in Earl's Court, London.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

You probably know Worms was where many of the events of the Nibelungenlied took place. Worms was the capital of the Burgundian tribe. The tribe's history became the basis of the Nibelungen saga. There are references everywhere here: a main street is the Siegfried Straße. There is a statue of Hagen on the riverfront and our micro-brewery is the Hagenbräu. There's a dragon fountain in the middle of town. The bridge over the Rhine is called the Nibelungen bridge. A few miles east across the river there is a town that claims to be the place where the historical Siegfried was murdered.

It seems I was destined from a very early age to eventually find a home here.   When my first marriage ended (I was stationed then at a nearby army base and living in Lampertheim), I stood on the Nibelungen bridge and threw her gold wedding band into the river. I thought that was appropriate 

Sarge

Great story, Sarge!

I was born in Amsterdam. I now live in the beautiful city of Delft, made famous by (among others) the painter Johannes Vermeer.

[Christo]

Born here:
   

Living here:
   

[vandermolen]

Born here:
   

Living here:
   

You were born in a field?

[Christo]

You were born in a field?

Yep. Born in a field , living in a church  0:) 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Yep. Born in a field , living in a church  0:) 

Nice. But size isn't everything. Voilà my humble abode: