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A screenshot of Essen’s official homepage.
The city of Essen is located in Germany’s industrial Ruhr region, which is like Europe’s black lung. I lived there for a while, during an internship I did with a German newspaper. I had a great time, even despite the relentlessly gray surroundings.
And so it was acutely painful for me to see that the official page of the city of Essen boasts a bizarre map of Europe, in which all the former republics of Yugoslavia seem to be underwater — leaving Albania as an inexplicable island.
I’ve seen plenty of geographic novelties, but Slovenia-as-Atlantis is a new one. It’s almost commendable in its creativity.
(Thanks Rox!)
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maybe they think the rest of the e-Yu countries DID disappear? Maybe only Albanians go to Essen? Maybe they are just scared to DEATH of the Albanian Mafija! Anyway it’s nice to know not just Americans flunk Geography!I feel WAY better! Germans and Germany get so underestimated on the nice scale! I want to spend some time in Germany sometime
Seems Greece is gone too. But the fact that Albania is there is just puzzling…
Geography was always my talent, so I think I got a possible solution for you…That pale spot in the big blue looks like Sardinia to me. Only, it is on the wrong side. Here I could start a line about the designer’s sub-conscious playing game with her/him and the politics… but Hungary is already far to over-politicized.Or the graphic designer is simply a visionary medium. In the later case start your contingency relocation planning and mind your visionary dreams
Cheers,
I think this is a deliberate act on the Germans! Don’t mention the war! As Fawlty would say. Only joking, but at least Slovenia should be shown on the map, no cares about the other former Yugo states! Of the topic but can anyone explain why Slovenians in Slovenia always say “cool” after every sentence (Usually Uni students)?
Anyone seen Waterworld by Kevin Costner? Now I know who wrote the script :))@Paul: It’s one of those bizzare instances where a word from a foreign language takes on a different meaning in native language. It’s a surrogate for "OK". An upgraded version of this is the "full cool" - which actually means "very cool".
pengovsky: the way i see it, the phrase “full cool” is one of those phrases that made it into the subconcious of the general populace as an example of “youth-speak”, but did so a tad late. true, it was once generally used. but it’s not, anymore. nobody says that anymore. except people, who want to stress how the youth nowadays speaks.besides, i don’t think it’s bizarre at all. it’s just natural developement of languages - a word from one language doesn’t neceseraly have to mean the same thing when borrowed and adopted into another.btw, this map is the wet dream of all those people who act like yugoslavia never existed in the first place…
Ha, I’m like the blonde from the “How-do-you-make-a-blonde-laugh-on-Monday”joke (with the obvious anwser: “you tell her a joke on Friday”) - it’s six in the afternoon and only now I’ve got the joke from the title: “eaten by Essen”. lol.
What amazes me are those imaginary borders in the east where the sea meets the land (probably Romania and Bulgaria). Such great details. You can see every little imaginary bay. I can almost spot a silhouette of a face there.
Perhaps Albanian agent 012 was hoping no-one would notice their deliberate mistake if they cleverly placed the word "Impressum" there. [Perhaps now they are cursing your powers of observation. Perhaps, yes.]
Not only Yugoslavia is gone, but Greece, too — and Deszo, that island is definitely shape of Albania, plus, Adriatic is not so wide…
Actually there are (very beautiful) bays in the east, where the Romanian-Serbian border follows the Danube."Full cool" gets bizzare when used in English; if I remember correctly, even LP’s (Lonely Planet) readers were warned of it.
We all will meet on the island between Italy and the Balkan coast.
Interesting idea for a Diplomacy variant…don’t think the Austro-Hungarian player would go for it.