Photo: Peter Guthrie
There is a fantastic website I just discovered called 43 Places. Laid out like a more simplified Flickr, it has photos, stories and tags of places that people have visited and want to talk about.
If you enter “Paris” in the search engine, you can read if the city of lights is worth visiting or not. “The Parisians were uber snobby and everything was so expensive. If it wasn’t for the history I would have been bored out of my mind,” was one comment.
Skokie, IL elicited this entry: “I drove there from Chicago to meet an actor friend of mine.. I didn’t really see much of anything special, though. I saw that the neighborhoods were culturally diverse.. Polish section, Jewish section, German section, etc.. but that’s about it.. before I knew it we ended up in Evanston, which was much prettier in my opinion.” Skokie doesn’t have a Polish section. Maybe he meant Chicago.
Want to visit Perth, Australia? Here is what someone who has lived there 23 years wrote: “i love Perth. it is sucha quiet place though. if you want excitement don’t visit here! But… if you want beaches, sunshine, surf, outdoor pubs, more beaches, and wineries this is the place to go!!!”
Eating in Berlin? “We came across a great restaurant called the Gugelhof which served traditional German food and turns out it was in the guide book – Bill Clinton has dined there with Chancellor Schroeder. Yummy yummy blood sausage and sauerkraut. Fantastich!”
Here in Van Nuys 