Around Second Life in eighty hours – part 1

Hey guys,

we’re starting a series of posts here that will show you, loosely inspired by “around the world in 80 days”, eighty hours of exploring Second Life, loosely following a trail through “Search/Places”, trying to find cool spots that are at least vaguely inspired by places in the real world, if not modelled after such places.

So here, without further ado, is part one.

4 November 2009
Tim Horton’s New Home at Brimir

We set out on the start of our quest to see sights in sl that are based on rl at brimir sim, the new home of Tim Horton’s. I bought a box of Timmy’s donuts of course, and got a bit nostalgic about their iced capuccinos. We need to get some Timmy’s franchises here in Germany

Stonehenge at Tefnut

Claims to be a full scale replica of the rl Stonehenge. We cannot attest to that, since neither of us have visited the real place, but it is a cool build. We also liked the fact that rezzing is allowed, so we rezzed our Rendevouz Couple tool, and wandered around hand in hand.

Glengarry Caste Ruin at Tefnut

After leaving Stonehenge, we wandered through Old York, and crossing Linden Road 8B, we entered the Glengarry Castle Ruin. More information about the real life Glengarry Castle and its area is available at
www.myglengarry.com .

Sankt Pauli  Landungsbrücken at Hamburg

A pretty good build of a famous area of Hamburg waterfront, showing the area where boat tours of the harbour begin. I had to take a close up of the sailboat necklace and earrings purchased at a previous exploration location, which was not worth blogging about.

Itsukushima Shrine at Sedig

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsukushima_Shrine
The Itsukushima Shrine is a Unesco World Heritage Site. The SL version is a lovely location, albeit with the usual gift shop that no SL attraction seems to be without. It is so pretty and peaceful here. Note that the Slurl takes you to a skybox over the island, where the owner is selling his creations that were used in building the place.

Wandering around, we found tea house, where Yuukie entertained us by playing a Japanese Koto instrument.

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