Ziggurats, Towers and Spires

Bsilica del Pilar Zarago Aragon, Spain

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Church in New Mexico

Fascinating that Bologna (Italy) used to look like this in 1100! During the times of Dante..

Conversation at a temple in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, India.

Great photo there.

Fantastic both picture and structure.
But I prefer to be closer to earth

I lived on the 18th floor of this tower block on the right for 3 years in Leicester England, and quite liked the spectacular views over the city and the spooky feeling of living midway between heaven and earth, but at times I wished I lived on the ground where I could see trees outside my window instead of thin air..

and here you are caught between nothing and the deep blue sea.

Yes a lot of pictures look nice and we think "I wouldn't mind living there", but if we stop to think for a moment we realise they're not so nice after all, for example the river might wash our house away in floods, or a tsunami or storm surge might hit us near a seashore, or there might be a noisy airport nearby, or the nearest shops might be a 5 mile hike away, or we could get snowed in without power in winter etc..
For example in this true film Chris McCandless set up home in this abandoned bus in Alaska and died from starvation after eating poison berries-

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My father's parents house in Norway was on an island about 40 times that size.

Do you know where in Norway your grandparents lived?

Boroy

Further south than my in-laws came from.

Are you also Scandinavian?

Very much so. One parentsDanish one parent Swedish and my in-laws Norwegian. Can it get any worse???

I am a mongrel (hehe), half Norwegian, 1/4 Slovakian and 1/8 English and the other 1/8 possibly Scottish and/or Irish...