Europe

Invasion of the fat planes! There's a really fat green plane at Heathrow (which looks a little like Thunderbird 2)... And at Hong Kong International, there's some sort of fat pink alien spacecraft! (Or these might be fire training aircraft…

The Potsdamer Platz is a huge traffic intersection and square in Berlin. In the 20s and 30s it was one of the busiest traffic centres in Europe and was the heart of Berlins's nightlife. As is sadly the case with…

The other day, Windows Live Local added high-resolution aerials of Edinburgh, and Alex and I promptly wasted hours and hours finding everything there was to see in our home city and arguing about the exact date the photos were taken.…

This is the Armadillo in Glasgow. Oh all right, it's really the Clyde Auditorium, but everyone calls it the Armadillo. It was designed to be a 3,000 seat extension to the boxy beige building to the north - the Scottish…

As reported by both the Google Earth Blog and Ogle Earth, Microsoft has provided an awesome update to the UK satellite imagery on their Live Local service. (I still can't work the zoom tool unfortunately, has anyone else noticed that…

This is Gulliver Park in Valencia, Spain. The figure you see is an enormous fibreglass model of Lemuel Gulliver trapped by the Lilliputians, and the ropes that tie him to the ground form part of a children's adventure playground. Children…