Starting on the journey in Farringdon
If you’re anything like me then you’re likely to spend an inordinate amount of your life plugged into a day-dream playing inside your (cavernous) head where you’re living out an alternate reality, traveling the world, experiencing new and wonderful places every day.
Imagine my delight when a colleague showed me a new internet site that brings my day-dreams to life (well, photo imagery at least) and shows me these places up close and on my screen.
Some smart folk have developed the ultimate Google Street View hack game/application where you can shuffle randomly through the streets of cities, in countries, on every continent*. Like a Chatroulette for globetrotting geeks.
*the continents that have Google Street View (5 currently)
One minute you’re exploring the back streets of Hong Kong and in the click of a button you’re whisked off (safely in your seat) to the winding mountain roads in Spain and…..*click*……off to the long, seemingly endless, stretches of roads through Central Africa. For a day-dreaming wannabe explorer like me it’s a great way of nosing around new places without the need for jabs and a moneybelt.
It’s incredibly compelling also just for the childish excitement that, at some point, you may happen across something really unusual and stunning (or rude!).
Go on, go and have a play here…and if you do find something particularly exciting then let us know by posting it on here. Thanks.
Missouri
Hong Kong
Spain
Africa
Australia
Denmark
