Odessa, Ukraine is a very different city than the one in TX. It's an old warm water port city servicing Russia, and, later the Soviet Union. When I stayed there -during the mid-2000s, it had it all: crumbling European 19th Century architecture; decrepit Soviet artifacts, and the marble palaces of the newly rich.
New Otani Hotel,
Tokyo, Japan
a Taipei-metro image
pentax dslr, pentax 18-55
