Varosha
January 14th, 2014, 10:37 AM
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Varosha
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25496729
You can read the article, and others, as you like. The long and short comes down to .. this city in Cyprus was abandoned much like Chernobyl and Fukushima .. but without the radioactivity. My point of discussion being
Made me think about what sort of cars, and what shape they'd be in. Unlike Fukushima who's cars were modern, and mostly damaged by floods and earthquake damage, and Chernobyl where they were russian cars that nobody in his right mind wanted in the first place ... Varosha was a popular modern resort city, hip with american and european 'beautiful people'. The cars would have been the creme de la creme.
You can read the article, and others, as you like. The long and short comes down to .. this city in Cyprus was abandoned much like Chernobyl and Fukushima .. but without the radioactivity. My point of discussion being
Signs warn tourists peering across the fence that "photos and movies are forbidden." Trespassers risk death. Exiled residents regularly pin love-letters and flowers to the barbed wire.
Other than Turkish soldiers, few have ventured inside. Those that have describe extraordinary sights. A car dealership still stocked with 1974 cars, window displays of mannequins dressed in long-gone fashions, the sand dunes that have encroached over the seafront with rare sea turtles nesting in them.
Pictures of the devastation circulate online but the photographers won't always admit to taking them
Other than Turkish soldiers, few have ventured inside. Those that have describe extraordinary sights. A car dealership still stocked with 1974 cars, window displays of mannequins dressed in long-gone fashions, the sand dunes that have encroached over the seafront with rare sea turtles nesting in them.
Pictures of the devastation circulate online but the photographers won't always admit to taking them
