#places i've been

[flores-et-dracones]

May 2023

Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion

#mine #travel diary #travelblr #athens #Greece #sounion #cape sounion #temple of poseidon #Ancient Greece #places i've been #places #poseidon #he who shakes the earth

[sluttyhenley]

hey did i tell y'all about the time i saw tom cruise in seoul? no?

#cause that's a thing that happened last june #tom cruise #places i've been #mission impossible #cruisepilled 2024

[thedaily-beer]

Toppling Goliath + Radiant Beer Places I've Been Double IPA (Picked up at Windmill Farms). A 3 of 4. A solid hazy double IPA -- smells of lots of tropical fruit and orange citrus, and the body delivers much the same. Nice balance to this with a relatively firm bitterness in the finish behind the juiciness, and a slightly creamy body.

#toppling goliath #radiant beer #places I've been #double ipa #dipa #ipa #india pale ale #beer #windmill farms #san diego #3

[waifu-napoleon]

it's Leipzig time

#Mod post #Places I've been #Pictures will be uploaded once I'm back

[robkadugcaesar]

Travel & Places - Kolar Gold Fields(KGF)

Distance:

63 miles from Bangalore

150 miles from Chennai(Madras)

68.35 miles from Vellore

PERSPECTIVE /RELATIVE BEAUTY

KGF as a mining town has a contemporary history of little over a hundred history. KGF sits at the top of the Deccan Plateau at an altitude of 800 to 900 meters from its nearby Tamil Nadu & Andhra Pradesh plains. Mining started much before the British came.

After taking over from the East India Company in 1856 (during the First War of Independence), the British (Imperial Government) was interested in surveying the Indian terrain at the time they learned about KGF. According to mainstream media, the British only became interested in the folklore of the locals.

But the British now and then do not go simply by popular beliefs only. They research using scientific tools and then only start working on it. and clearly sticks to the plan with room for improvisation. Hence, only the British race by far is the most successful role of the homo sapiens. This KGF area is a very small industrialized area of about 2500 to 3000 hectares. KGF has 2 parts- a)Mining & Govt Estate Area b) Labourer quarters. 100 to 150 years back then mining was very much a laborer's work.

The British got a huge chunk of people from the nearby plains of North Arcot District (presently Chittoor, Nellore, Vellore, Thirapathur, Ranipet, Thiruvanamalai Districts of Andhra Pradesh & Tamil Nadu.

combined with the famines of the 1900s world wars. the KGF employee's families enjoyed a lot of luxuries and privileges in comparison to their counterparts elsewhere in southern India.

This you can find with every KGFian all have a sense of privilege and talk with high emotion in almost every sentence. Because the past glory and gratitude to the KGF mines saved millions of lives from dying in the famine in the plains.

Enjoy the talks of the KGF citizens almost everyone will tell you stories with their own version of the mines.

The old-time KGF steamed with activity every day between 5 am and 8 pm with a lot of snack shops, soup, and tea stalls in action.

The mining area is dotted with Bungalows and Greenplaygrounds.

KGF shut its door circa 2000.

#places i've been #mining town

[damnea]

Hometown's old steamers

The old station tunnels and area in my hometown is being redeveloped. RIP.

So before something big happens I gotta talk about it.

So I wasn't planning on going to the old site at any point, but i'm gonna have to move revisiting up before they change anything.

Looking at the pictures is turning me green with time envy, my mum got to see these but all I can do is ask an uncomfortable amount of questions about them.

The local big engines and diesel railcar having a little 'discussion' about the local tram drama

Oh, and yeah we had trams running about town too, they're still there and one of them does a short little run as part of a heritage preservation project, but he's pretty old now and can only can only seem to muster the odd run on weekends. (Electric trams who can trust them)

He lives in the tram museum so at least we know he's being taken of. The poor fella is probably sick of all the chavs like me gawking at him.

My nephew is also pretty big on trains too, me and my mum used to take him to the tram museum nearly every weekend to give him something to do, and to burn off steam. (Cute place, mostly filled with buses)

I'm gonna have to make the trip back and visit the place, because honestly I never absorbed any of the information there. I didn't care about steam engines back then, I just went along because we went out to eat after.

About what Woodside used to be...

The old railway tunnels stretch beneath the town. If you walk around at street level and look down through the gaps in the street you can see the forest and what's left of the sleepers below. Pretty haunting.

All the lines used to stretch across the peninsula, but I believe the lines got cut off and changed. The local electric locos still use some of the old lines and tunnels but the other half thats abandoned is just that. Left to rot.

You can still get to Chester and all the happy Merseyside places, but not by steam. Sadface.

Yeah, sorry Gordon, Pip and Emma not only took your job here, your days were numbered on arrival.

Its just a carpark now but at least there was something at one point.

Its really cool but looking back I wish i'd have visited the areas more before the lines below became a sunken forest laden with needles... the times I actually did take a closer look predated smartphones. (Sorry i'm old)

Its a bit of a trip to get there but i'm gonna have to move a visit up the calender, before the area gets turned into homes or another ALDI.

All the shots and sources for these images are below

So basically, my mums town had a little slice of Sodor, but since the late 60s and the advent of electric locos, nature has since reclaimed the tunnels, and the steam engines that once called Woodside home have likely moved on or been scrapped.

Its so bizarre seeing all the old photos, even weirder is seeing a big station and little tank engines probably hustling about. I mean look at them.

All working hard.

Like I did my christmas shopping around here last year, never bothered looking around.

Update on this post my sister has found me a link to an urban explorer. This lad by the name Fleet has been down there and got some great shots which i'll link here!

Believe it or not, theres a signal box amongst the forest down there.

Credit for all the photos and the stuff goes to this website here

Everything else is what my mums told me so thats my cited source. I will get some pictures of the place when I have time to visit.

Some of the stuff is things I remember seeing.

#real steam engines #old stuff #stations #places i've been #steam engine

[urrone]

Top 5 places you have visited and top 5 places you want to visit.

ooooooooooh I like this!!

Places I've visited:

Rothenburg ob der Tauber, which is the super awesome medieval town in Germany

Salzburg

The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, although St. Petersburg in general was a favorite, it is sooooooo far removed from literally anything I was familiar with

Windsor Castle

Prince Edward Island

Places I want to visit:

Iceland, soooo much Iceland

I want to go to one of the Scandinavian countries in the winter time and stay in one of those glass igloo hotels so I can lay in bed and watch the northern lights, I am not particular as to which

New Zealand, specifically Hobbiton, but I'd be happy on any part of the islands

Scotland, I've been to Edinburgh which was great but I want to see more, like road trip around the place

I studied a lot of Asian religions in college and have really wanted to visit Japan as well.

#top five #painterofhorizons #places to go #places i've been

[segemarldoodles]

I did the thing everyone on twitter is doing because I'm a SHEEP I GUESS

#us map #tenpages #places i've been

[reblogthiscrapkay]

Reykjavik Street Art

#iceland #reykjavik #places i've been #personal #art

[stuckinapril]

lived my whole life in guilt bc i thought i was responsible for people's feelings. newly realizing that other people are responsible for their feelings and reactions, even if they make it seem like i'm the problem. a lot of the time it really has to do w them and their own emotional regulation. i can't keep thinking i'm not allowed to have space bc of other people's insecurities. like i literally refuse to dim myself. other people are responsible for their feelings just as i'm responsible for mine.

#like i'm always gonna operate from a place of kindness but i've had to deal w so many people who're bad at communication/confrontation #which led me to think i'm the problem #that i deserve to be given the silent treatment or dismissed disregarded belittled etc #that's j not true. i'm far from perfect but i think so few people deserve that kind of reaction. and my biggest revelation is i do not #even if people want to make me think i do / that their reaction is justified / that i'm a burden etc #my biggest problem is i humor people like this for too long bc it's been normalized behavior to me #does this make any sense to anyone. it's the end of the year and i'm reflecting on so many things #p

[flores-et-dracones]

April 2023

Cambridge, UK

#cambridge #travel diary #mine #places i've been #places #uk #dark academia #rainy Cambridge #travelblr #studyblr

[sluttyhenley]

Seoul - June 2023

#seoul #south korea #places i've been #i have this unbearable need to share pictures i've taken #of places i've been #can't resist really #and i haven't shared these anywhere #because of reasons #so i'm putting them here

[karlarevisited]

#cerro de san miguel #atlixco #mexico #my pics #2022 #dic 2022 #places i've been #atlixco de las flores 💐

[whosherefor-thechaos]

incredible translation of sheeesh thank you google

#german stuff #like listen idk how i would translate sheesh but my first thought would not have been meine güte #or even my second or third thought #actually sheesh is probably best left untranslated #also don't ask me why youtube is offering to translate to german in the first place even tho i've set the app to english #rhys's pieces

[lazylittledragon]

i refuse to believe that boycotting is hard. my favourite thing in the world is ordering maccies after a late night at work/a concert/getting drunk. yes i do miss it sometimes. but the other night i ordered from a small place near my house instead and it was the most orgasmic burger i've ever had in my life. i very rarely say this but fucking suck it up people are DEAD

#ramble #also only 0.29 delivery instead of 3.99 #and chilli cheese bites #i swear to god the best food you'll ever eat while drunk is from the tiny shithole that's open until 4am #if you're refusing to do literally the smallest thing you can do to help then i have questions #it's FOOD. you'll survive #it's not even NECESSARY food #if it was like a chain grocery place and you don't have access to anything else then i would understand #but it's just NOT #make your own coffee for the love of god #when there is NOTHING you can do to stop this fucking tragedy. and let's be honest there isn't a lot normal people can do #and people say to you 'do this insignificant thing just to show that you even CARE' #and you DON'T do that???? what is actually wrong with you #also i've been worried about this since my last post about sbucks but this is Not an attack on the people who WORK at the boycotted places #because it is an absolute privilege to be able to leave your job and immediately find a new one

[allweknewisdead]

Transcendent Kingdom (2020) - Yaa Gyasi

I loved Alabama in the evenings, when everything got still and lazy and beautiful, when the sky felt full, fat with bugs.

#yaa gyasi #transcendent kingdom #book #reading #novel #ghana #alabama #palo alto #stanford #cover art #read in Tel Aviv #read in December 2022 #places I've been #addiction #science