Since my last transfer of my blog  to the new host where I am still at with my own domain, I have had a 1000 visitors. regular visitors may know that I sometimesgoogle up information and post something about the city where a visitor comes from and I figured with having exactly 1000 visitors it is a good idea to tell something about the place where my last visitor comes from.

So here we go.

Country: PHILIPPINES (PH) City: Makati

What does wiki have to say about Makati: The City of Makati (/m??k??t?/ m?-kah-tee; Filipino: Makati), in the Philippines, is one of the 16 cities that make up Metro Manila, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Makati is the financial center of the Philippines. As the host of various embassies, it is also an important center for international affairs.

With a population of 529,039, Makati is the 16th largest city in the country and ranked as the 41st most densely populated city in the world with 19,336 inhabitants per square kilometer.

Makati became the financial center of the Philippines during the 1960s. Makati is home to the Philippine Stock Exchange and the Makati Business Club.Makati is notable for its exceptionally multicultural lifestyle, significant center for intercontinental matters and for it’s reputation as a major entertainment center in the metropolis. The city is also being known for its cosmopolitan culture because of its major shopping centers, condominiums, financial hubs, hotels, and entertainment hubs are located around the city.

There is a lot more info about Makati on wiki but lets see what other pages have to say.

Lets visit the government site of Makati.

After having a short look at the touristic info I can tell already that Makati has a lot of cultural and interesting places to see and visit if you ever end up there. It looks as its a very modern city with everything for anyone. You can read on this site about anything you want and need to know of Makati. It is so much that I really wouldn’t know where to start. So I’ve decide to just quote a part of the page that reads about its history.

From a distance, at ground level, the skyscrapers of Makati are an impressive sight. But you should see Makati from a plane or a helicopter. The view is simply majestic. And to think that when it was founded in 1670 – as a visita of Sta. Ana de Sapa under the jurisdiction of the Franciscans – this was swampland, practically a wilderness, dismissed by Juan Miguel de Legazpi as worthless in 1571.

Yet over the centuries, this small community would leave large imprints in social, economic and cultural history. The friars established two of the earliest churches in the Philippines – the Nuestra Señora de Gracia in Guadalupe and the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul – in Makati, drawing pilgrims from all over the country. At the turn of the century, the Americans established Fort McKinley in Makati, and in 1901, San Pedro de Makati, with a population of 2,500, was incorporated into the province of Rizal. On February 28, 1914, the Philippine Legislature passed Act 2390, shortening the name San Pedro Makati to Makati in the 1930””s, the first airport, Nielson Airport, opened in what is now the Ayala Triangle. The first centrally planned community was established in the 1950””s, and since the 1970””s, Makati has been the undisputed financial and commercial capital, the once worthless swampland becoming prime real property.

And last but not least I like to present you one of the sights of Makati. The Makati skyline. If you like to know more about Makati I suggest you start with one of the above mentioned sites.

It has been a while that I checked where my visitors came from and today I decided to bring Redmond, Washington into the spotlights. Again please let me repeat from a former post, I’m by no means a stalker, I just take the opportunity to virtualy visit some places and learn more about them. Lets see what Wikipedia has to say about Redmond, Washington.

Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, in the United States. Redmond is best known as the home of Microsoft (for which Redmond has become a metonym) and Nintendo of America. Redmond is also known as “the bicycle capital of the Northwest”. Due to its large population of highly paid technology workers, especially those of Microsoft, Redmond is an affluent community. Based on per capita income, Redmond ranks 20th of the 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked.

Native Americans had settled in the Redmond area 400 years ago, and the first European settlers arrived in the 1870s. Luke McRedmond filed a Homestead Act claim for land next to the Sammamish Slough on September 9, 1870, and the following year Warren Perrigo took up land adjacent to him. The rivers and streams had so many salmon that the settlement was initially named Salmonberg. More settlers came, and with the establishment of the first post office in 1881, the name of the community was changed to Melrose. The new name was taken from the Perrigos’ successful inn, Melrose House, which upset McRedmond. After becoming postmaster, he successfully petitioned to have the name changed to Redmond in 1883.

Ofcourse a City like Redmond has its own website too: http://www.redmond.gov/ . You will find information there about the population, recreation, plans and projects and anythign else related to Redmond. All together it looks  like a cute city worth paying a visit when you are in the neighbourhood. 🙂

My blog is popular in CA I have noticed, Again we have a visitor from California, This time from La Mesa.

You can find La Mesa in San Diego county in California. The population was 54,749 at the 2000 census. It was founded in 1869 and officially incorporated as a city on February 16, 1912. It is the hometown of NBA player Bill Walton, football stars Reggie Bush, and Alex Smith, famous actor Dennis Hopper, singer of rock band Pearl Jam Eddie Vedder, and the birthplace of heavy metal musician Dave Mustaine. (Quoted from Wikipedia)

“A near perfect climate, tree-lined streets, walkable neighborhoods, easy access to retail and commercial areas, and a quaint downtown village make La Mesa a highly desirable community in which to live, work and do business.”

That’s how La Mesa is being described on its homepage. On that homepage you can find plenty of information about La Mesa of course and all about whats there to find and to do. I suggest you pay  that site a visit if you are truly interested in La Mesa.

If you know of a good site that can tell us more about La Mesa in California then by all means tell us!!!

One of my recent visitors, I do not know who, comes from Mountain View in California. Don’t worry I am not a stalker, I just wanted to travel arround the globe virtually and I virtually visit the places where my visitors come from.

From the information that Wikipedia gave us we now know that: “Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 70,708.”.

After Googling this city and looking at the many pictures I found, I can tell you it looks like a very nice and friendly place to live :). Mountain View have there own city website where you can find lots more information what this city has to offer.

Mountain View houses many of the notable companies that Silicone Valley has to offer, For example we find here the headquarters of Google, also called the Googleplex. Mozilla Foundation can be found there as well and a couple of Microsoft divisions and Symantic, you know from the antivirus software and such…

Ofcourse I can Google a lot more information and pictures from Mountain View but none if would be really very original. Instead I invite you, my visitors, to provide me with the kind  of information that I won’t be able to find that easely on the web. If you are from Mountain View and can tell us a story about the city then please do not be shy and tell us. Me and my readers like to know more about this city.