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[uk_vette]

Well, I took a few more photos the other day when I was waiting for some of my friends to turn up for a day out.
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These are from my apartment window, on the 19th floor.
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[joinerman]

Not much garden space out there !!!!!!

[leon]

from day to night .....must have been a long wait for your friends  

that last one a toutch of time laps there ? you using a digi or 35 mm ?
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[Wandering Willy]

Having nothing much to do, I decided to find Yantai on Google Earth to see where it is.

The Lat/Long is:-

37deg 28min 20.72sec N, 121deg 26min 46.89sec E

That makes it a good way south of the UK (I'm 52 deg N in Norfolk)

Google Earth shows a large city with the coast running along the north east side. Facing it across the sea is North Korea.

The sea is named as the Yellow Sea a bit further south so possibly at Yantai it's called something different (the Dark Brown Sea, perhaps!).

It's impressive - or scary depending on your view of the future - how China is developing. However, I remember how Japan was thought of when it began to export transistor radios and motorbikes back in the early 1960s. It's now in decline from competition from places like China and South Korea.

That's progress!

Willy
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[garystockton]

From Wikipedia:

Yantai (simplified Chinese: 烟台; traditional Chinese: 煙臺; pinyin: Yāntái) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Located on the southern coast of the Bohai Sea and the eastern coast of the Laizhou Bay, Yantai borders the cities of Qingdao and Weihai to the southwest and east respectively.

The contemporary name of Yantai came from the watchtowers constructed on Mount Qi in 1398, during the reign of the Hongwu Emperor, founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty (yan—smoke; tai—tower). The towers served to raise alarms against invasions of Japanese pirates.

You learn something (useless!!) every day  

edit:  After reading a bit more, I come across this gem of (mis)information:

After the Americans won World War I, they turned Yantai into a summer station for their entire Asian fleet.

Great - glad the late-comers managed to conclude that event all on their own ...  One more for them, then  
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