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Here we have the banquet table at Restaurant Number One in P'yongyang's charmingly retro Koryo Hotel - plenty of food and lighting on offer, but only because it's a "tourist" hotel (heh heh)
In partnership with Boxman Studios, Compass Group and Missouri University of Science and Technology opened their Mediterranean container restaurant, Zatar
The store has that very catchy name of "souvenir shop." The items are priced in won, but naturally they want hard currency.
Modern household kitchen with blue tiled backsplash, several drawers for storing kitchen items, under cabinet lighting, sink and faucet, and chairs.
This fishing village is somewhere between Outer Mt. Chilbo and Poch'on - it may be called 'Sungshin' but, like Poch'on, it's not on the official maps. It's not available on the tour itineraries yet...but in the future maybe? ;-)
This is the "old-school" view of the Kim mausoleum, taken in 2010, and the weather is suitably dreary. Today the mausoleum - "that final folly of the rich" - houses (apparently) both Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's picked remains. A KITC update says it is slated to reopen to tourists sometime in the summer of 2013.
This is the Shinp'yong rest area on the P'yongyang-Wonsan highway. It's a bona fide truckstop, with a small bar, restaurant, ping-pong tables (!) and guest bungalows. But of course you won't find any No-Doz, claw machines, or "Through the Gears" magazines. ;-)
From the speeding - and, at this point, curb-jumping - tour van....This is the Pong-hwa subway stop on the Chollima line, just north of the Puhung and Yonggwang (Glory) showcase stops, and on the way toward Kaeson on the "extended" ride. Alas, the guides won't allow anyone inside this one, as it's believed to be too decrepit to show off. ;-)
A misfire from the speeding (and we do mean speeding!) bus....but interestingly enough, the Ryugyong hotel shell takes on the same shape as the trees. :-O
Shown are two options I've come up with for modifying the cooling system on the M50 engine. Both involve cutting the heater and throttle body valves out of the loop. The first assumes just following the existing plumbing and the second blanking those outlets from the engine off completely which would be the tidier option.
I'll need to add a coolant header tank in but this needs to be the highest point in the system so mounted on the battery box seems the obvious place. I had planned to stick the battery in the back of the car anyway to save room up the front.
I'm working from the assumption that when the engine reaches temperature, the thermostat opens and allows hot water into the top of the radiator. In this case it will also allow any excess due to expansion back to the header tank via a much more constricted pipe therefore ensuring the bulk flows through the rad and gets cooled
From the (really) speeding bus, so quite blurred - but nothing can obscure this humongous "Great Leader is always with us" slogan sprawled along a riverbank. Hamhung was a favorite city of the Great Leader, which may explain all the outsize slogans. ;-)
Much better results on the second attempt. I've replaced all the injector O-rings as well as the two on the fuel pressure regulator and that's sorted the leak out. Visually the old ones looked the same with no flat spots but when you cut them off they had no elasticity left.
I ran it for about 25 minutes and brought the engine up to temp. The thermostat opened at ~98 degrees but the fan never cut in at the lower temp. I suspect this is because the top of the rad is not full so the sensor wasn't fully immersed. I'll top it up and try again. I did notice the engine bogged for half a second when manually switching the fan on, not sure what that's all about. Main thing was that none of the coolant hoses were leaking.
My rev counter is still not working but all other gauges seemed ok, oil warning lamp went out straight away as did the charge lamp.
I'll have to fire a question off to the place I bought my gauges from to see if they have any ideas. The pulse signal from the ECU is around 36 Hz when settled into the low idle which is much higher that the 10Hz I'd expect to get from the crank sensor when idling around 600rpm. There is power at the gauge but the only time the needle moves is a wild fluctuation when cranking at start up. Even with the high pulse reading I'd still expect the revs to read off at ~2100rpm rather than no activity at all.
Using the KitCam fisheye lens and bespoke frame/film to create an artsy effect. I think it looks quite interesting.
Kit Courter's Conversations 2025 presentation focused on "Fifty Years of Luminous Railroad Night.” (EL photo)
There are times when the only thing on the Kim Channel is the evening rerun of "How The Great Comrades at Migok Cooperative Farm Surpassed Their Grain Quotas." But thanks to the wise and thoughtful leadership of the Great Comrade General KJI, you will never lack varied and interesting reading material in the DPRK.
Socialism + Korean-style Confucianism = a nightmarishly dreadful service industry. It would have been easier to list the days the pool IS open, and even when they are working, the Diplo's staff has all the delicacy of the soup Nazi in Seinfeld. ;-)
Seen parked at a highway service station in North Korea, the modern coaches used by the Korea International Travel Company. KITC is the only way for foreign visitors to see inside North Korea.
Canon 7D
Canon 24-105 L
Something was amiss with the girl in the second row toward the right (farther from the window) of the picture. Her green-and-white "music" book is actually a "word study" (ta-no kong-bu, in Korean) book. Gives credences to the notion that these "performances" are just dog and pony shows for tourists. But who knows, right? ;-) ;-)
These local folks are taking the steep route to the top - along the tracks of the busted tram. They just hoofed right up and didn't seem to mind the rigors of the hike.
A ride-by from the speeding bus, so not great...but you can see the REAL Big Daddy - Kim Il Sung - towering over the people milling around on the sidewalks. The skies are sunny but the buildings are drab. And in the far left there's a peek at the still-unfinished Ryugyung Hotel ;-)
The benevolent and wise Great Leader has always seen to it that tourists in the DPRK don't go home empty-handed. Here we have some publications, pamphlets, and postcards for fond memories of the visit. The Saturn one is especially apposite, as a trip to the DPRK often seems like visiting upon another planet. ;-)
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Remember when you were little and played with mudpies? Wouldn't you have loved a Pallet Mud Kitchen like this one? This was our first attempt with no plans; just an idea and a bit of hope!
Pallet Mud Kitchen: Two pallets and some gifted accessories equal a lot of fun!
We recycled as much as we could to make this mud kitchen. We used two pallets to create the worktop and back board and some old center stringer pieces from pallets we had previously taken apart. The worktop was fastened together with small nails. The bottom shelf was a recycled shelf that once housed our fish tank! The whole thing was secured together with decking screws and painted in some really old varnish we found buried in the garage. The accessories were gifted or sourced at minimal cost! We are pretty pleased with how it came out; not bad for a first go with no design or plans!
A fun idea, indeed. Now how about an outdoor Kid's Bench?
These folks may or may not be soldiers - often uniformed workers do stuff like park maintenance, tree trimming, etc. The area is very well-kept, so no one is slacking.