I have exactly forty three minutes of battery time left...

[panik]

My new cable won't be here till the end of the week. I really can't spend time browsing around on LJ (I'm having to work with a pen, on paper! O:! Like it's the Middle Ages or something... *g*)

So I'm taking a leaf out of fluterbev's book; that is to say, copying this word-for word from her fabuouls meme:

I've long been delighted and impressed that the people who read my journal originate from far and wide. What I'd love is for you to comment below, and tell me which region/country you are from. And I'd love if you could add to that one particular thing that makes your part of the world unique. It might be music, a TV show, a recipe, a landmark, a specific historical fact. Anything you are proud of, whether other people might be aware of it or not.

Please. Entertain me! I am so very bored!

Meep! 39 minutes and falling...

Comments

[earth2skye.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry you're bored and will cross my fingers for you that the new cable will arrive sooner.

Since your request came last and thus first on my f-list browsing today, you'll get the original. Depending on time I'll later probably just cut and paste from this (though, who knows, I might feel bored, too, and get inventive).

I live in Germany, in a very old town called Goslar. Nobody I ever tell about it knows it but from the hordes of tourists we get every year and the fact that someone at UNESCO once found our old (and really very pretty, even if I do say so myself) town center worthy of being marked a "world cultural heritage", I suppose it's not that unheard of. We have crooked little streets, lined by crooked little half-timbered houses, some panelled with slate, some with wood, some of which are so small I wouldn't move in there even if I were just by myself, let alone had a husband or family, which I suppose the people who built them 500+ years ago had. Parking is a bitch of course, but that's why I live in walking distance from the town center on a foothill of the Harz (mid-height mountain range somewhere in the middle of Germany, south of Hannover) which is (very originally) called "stone mountain" (Steinberg). And (apart from the medival, pretty town center) the Harz, with its wooded, old mountains, national park, more little lakes than I can count and great mountain biking and trekking routes is really what I like best about my home (that's only been my home now for a little more than four years.)

ETA:

Turns out I had some more to tell at L.'s and Bev.'s journals. Here are the links in case you're interested:

http://starwatcher307.livejournal.com/256422.html?thread=1534886#t1534886

http://fluterbev.livejournal.com/497616.html?thread=6183120#t6183120

[t-verano.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, Skye! It's so cool to see your town -- thanks for posting the link! I'm bookmarking to look at more of it later (I've already spent about six years' worth of time this evening, wrestling with LJ slowness, so I've got to be firm and go be productive for a bit now). But the photo of the Market Square just makes me whimper with the wish I could walk around it in person. *So* beautiful. I'm totally looking forward to looking at more of the photos and also the other info you posted.

Just wow!