Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Phuket Webcam - Karon Bay Beach Live

Karon Bay beach in Phuket beach bar, restaurant deck and Andaman sea

A very popular tourist destination with visitors from around the world, the holiday resorts of Phuket offer fantastic weather all year round, glorious sandy beaches and a busy yet affordable lifestyle and nightlife with something for everyone to enjoy.

This webcam view comes from the beachfront at Karon Bay beach, one of the most picturesque and popular beaches on the island, and many would say in the world.

Karon Beach refers to a beach, and the town adjoining it, on the western coast of Phuket, Thailand.

The beach is a popular destination for tourists. Generally quieter than neighbouring Patong Beach, it is especially popular among families and couples, and less popular with singles than Patong. It is also especially popular with Scandinavian tourists, with many businesses catering especially to them.

Karon Beach was heavily damaged by the tsunamis following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, especially in its southern regions, but has since largely recovered and by 2008 showed little evidence of tsunami damage.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Belfast Webcam - Orange Order March 2010

Belfast City Hall, looking out at Donegall Square North and Donegall Place

A feature of the summer in Northern Ireland are the various marches that take place in the country.

Orange walks are a series of parades held annually by members of the Orange Order during the summer in Northern Ireland, to a lesser extent in Scotland, and occasionally in England, the Republic of Ireland, and throughout the Commonwealth. These typically build up to the 12 July celebrations which mark Prince William of Orange's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Although the term 'march' or 'parade' is widely used in the media, the Order prefers terms such as 'walk' or 'demonstration'.

The main march through Belfast on the 12th July will be covered by this webcam view, from Belfast City Hall, looking out at Donegall Square North and Donegall Place

Madrid Webcam - Torre Caja Madrid Web Cam

Madrid city skyline, Chamartín railway station, and Torre Caja de Madrid

After a tournament lasting a full month, the World Cup 2010 finally crowned their champions last night, with European Champions Spain emerging as worthy winners.

The morning after has dawned bright as the the country wakes up to their new status as Champions of the World.

This is the live view of the Torre Caja Madrid (Spanish: Caja Madrid Tower), a skyscraper located in the Cuatro Torres Business Area in Madrid, Spain. With a height of 250 m (820 ft) and 45 floors, it is the tallest of the four buildings in the Cuatro Torres Business Area complex, surpassing Torre de Cristal by less than a metre.

Designed by Lord Foster, it was first known as Torre Repsol and would have served as headquarters for Repsol YPF oil and gas company. During the construction of the tower, Repsol decided to change the location of its future headquarters and the financial institution Caja Madrid purchased the building for €815 million in August 2007. Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA) (Spanish for Four Towers Business Area) is a business park located in the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid (Spain), on the former Ciudad Deportiva of Real Madrid.

The area contain the tallest skyscrapers in Madrid and Spain (Torre Espacio, Torre de Cristal, Torre Sacyr Vallehermoso and Torre Caja Madrid). The construction of the buildings finished in 2008. Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain.[3] The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million (as of December 2009); the entire population of the metropolitan area (urban area and suburbs) is calculated to be 6,386,932. It is the third-most populous municipality in the European Union

Eiffel Tower Webcam - Bastille Day in Paris

Live view of the Eiffel Tower

Bastille Day is the French national holiday which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale (National Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution. Festivities are held on the morning of 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic.

There is a live webcam view from central Paris for this event.

Dubrovnik Webcam - Summer Festival 2010

View of Dubrovnik city streets

Dubrovnik Summer Festival is an annually-held summer festival instituted in 1949, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in the period July 10th - August 25th.

In a unique ambient of open and closed scenes of Renaissance-Baroque city of Dubrovnik a rich programme of classical music, theatre, opera and dance is presented annually. President of the Republic of Croatia, Mr. Ivo Josipović will host the Dubrovnik Summer Festival’s representatives: General manager Ivica Prlender with his associates Ivan Repušić and Dora Ruždjak on June 16 at 11 o'clock. The Festival representatives will traditionally invite the President to attend the Opening Ceremony of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival on July 10. Festival's sales office on Stradun is opened from July 1st, with working hours from 9am till 11pm every day. Apart from Stradun, all guests can buy the tickets in Festival's Palace (Od Sigurate 1 street) or online.

Paphos Webcam - Live Cyprus Mediterranean View

View of the Paphos coast from Chlorakas Hill

A popular webcam view comes from the west coast of the island of Cyprus, looking towards Paphos (Pafos) and the Mediterranean.

Paphos is a coastal city in the southwest of Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District. In antiquity, two locations were called Paphos: Old Paphos and New Paphos. The currently inhabited city is New Paphos.

Near Palaepaphos (Old Paphos) at the seaside of Petra-tou-Romiou is the mythical birthplace of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty and the founding myth is interwoven with the goddess at every level, so that Old Paphos became the most famous and important place for worshipping Aphrodite in the ancient world. In Greco-Roman times Paphos was the island's capital, and it is famous for the remains of the Roman governor's palace, where extensive, fine mosaics are a major tourist attraction. The apostle Paul of Tarsus visited the town during the first century. The town of Paphos is included in the official UNESCO list of cultural and natural treasures of the world's heritage.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Vatican City Webcam, Rome, Italy

St Peter's Square in Vatican City

Saint Peter's Square (Italian: Piazza San Pietro) is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome. The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace" (Norwich 1975 p 175). Bernini had been working on the interior of St. Peter's for decades; now he gave order to the space with his renowned colonnades, using the Tuscan form of Doric, the simplest order in the classical vocabulary, not to compete with the palace-like façade by Carlo Maderno, but he employed it on an unprecedented colossal scale to suit the space and evoke emotions of awe.

World Cup Final Web Cam

The showpiece moment of the the biggest sporting event on the plant is finally here, and after a month of some of the most fantastic footballing events the final is here.

Whatever happens we will have a new winner as Spain and Holland, neither of who have won the Jules Rimet Trophy previously, will contest the final. As an additional incentive, the Golden Boot is also up for grabs, with David Villa or Wesley Sneijder the moist likely recipients.

This live webcam view takes you to Johannesburg on the day of the final:

Johannesburg city skyline, Soccer City World Cup stadium

Live view from Johannesburg and the Soccer City Stadium by webcam as the city prepares for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final between Spain and The Netherlands

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Soccer City Webcam - Ready for the World Cup Final

The opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup seems like a lifetime ago, but it was only a single month, since which we have witnessed a veritable feast of football, with colourful scenes, memorable goals and one of the best attended and friendly, trouble-free World Cup tournaments in memory. Plus of course the unmistakable sound of the vuvuzela!

Attention now turns to the showpiece final, and whatever happens there will be a new name on the winners' roll as both Spain and Holland look to win the Jules Rimet Trophy for the very first time in their history.

One of the most popular webcams featured by My World Webcams throughout June and July has been the view of the Johannesburg, and the night of the final should prove no exception:

Johannesburg city skyline, Soccer City World Cup stadium

Friday, July 9, 2010

T in the Park Live Webcam - 2010 Line Up

Main Arena and stage at Balado, Kinross Scotland for T in The Park Festival

Main acts performing at the 2010 T in the park Festival confirmed as:

Faithless
Muse
Editors
Paloma Faith
Eminem
Stereophonics
Paulo Nutini
The Proclaimers
Scouting for Girls
Chipmunk
Kasabian
Jay-Z
Biffy Clyro
Dizzee Rascal
The Stranglers
Madness
Groove Armada
Babyshambles
The Black Eyes Peas
Florence and The Machine
Calvin Harris
La Roux
Mumford and Sons
Kate Nash
David Guetta
Goldfrapp

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Bruges Webcam - Brugge Flanders Live View

Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country.

The Market Square in Central Bruges

The historic city centre is a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO. It is egg-shaped and about 430 hectares in size. The area of the whole city amounts to more than 13,840 hectares, including 1,075 hectares off the coast, at Zeebrugge (meaning "Brugge aan Zee" or "Bruges on Sea"). The city's total population is 117,073 (1 January 2008),[3] of which around 20,000 live in the historic centre. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 616 km² and has a total of 255,844 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008.

Along with a few other canal-based northern cities, such as Amsterdam, it is sometimes referred to as "The Venice of the North". Bruges has a significant economic importance thanks to its port. At one time it was the "chief commercial city" of the world

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

T in the Park - Live!

Main Arena and stage at Balado, Scotland for T in The Park Festival

As the UK festival season continues apace, attention this weekend turns towards Balado in Scotland for the annual T in the Park event.

T in the Park is a major music festival that has been held annually in Scotland since 1994. It is named after its main sponsor, the brewing company Tennents. It was originally held at Strathclyde Park, but since 1997 has been held at a disused airfield in Balado, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. T in the Park was originally a two-day festival but since 2007 has taken place over three days, and introduced in 2008 was the chance to upgrade a weekend camping ticket to allow camping access on the Thursday - the day before any musicians performed. The festival is promoted by Big Day Out. It takes place on the same weekend as Oxegen in Ireland and shares a very similar line-up each year.

My World Webcams has a feed at the event, with views of the main arena and stage.

Pamplona - The Running of the Bulls!

Plaza del Castillo, Pamplona. San Fermin festival, site of 'el encierro', The Running of the Bulls

The running of the bulls in Pamplona, in the Navarre region of Spain is one of the most famous, exciting and controversial festivals in the world.

The Pamplona encierro is the most popular running of the bulls in Spain and is broadcast live by two national television channels. It is the highest profile event of the San Fermin festival, which is held every year from July 7–14. The first bull running is on July 7, followed by one on each of the following mornings of the festival, beginning every day at 8am.

Being over eighteen and entering the itinerary before 7:30 are the main requirements to participate. Other prohibitions are to run under the influence of alcohol, run in the opposite direction of the running or inciting the bulls.

My World Webcams have a webcam view of the centre of Pamplona for this event.

Live Webcam at the Munich Oktoberfest Festival

Wiesn Beer Tents at the Munich Oktoberfest Festival

Oktoberfest is a 16-day festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, running from late September to early October. It is one of the most famous events in Germany and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year. The Oktoberfest is an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.

The Munich Oktoberfest, traditionally, takes place during the sixteen days up to and including the first Sunday in October. In 1994, the schedule was modified in response to German reunification so that if the first Sunday in October falls on the 1st or 2nd, then the festival will go on until October 3 (German Unity Day). Thus, the festival is now 17 days when the 1st Sunday is October 2 and 18 days when it is October 1. The festival is held on an area named the Theresienwiese (field, or meadow, of Therese), often called d’ Wiesn for short.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Top 10 Webcams

A brand new addition the the webcam directory - the current My World Webcams top 10 webcam listings from around the world, compiled from our visitor numbers over the last 7 days.

This is the top 10 for June 2010:

My World Webcams Top 10 Webcams

The list will be updated every month with the latest favourites.


London 2012 Olympics - Construction Webcams

London 2012 Olympics Webcams

2012 may seem a long way away, but with less than 2 years to go now it will be with us before we know it. Work is well underway on the various facilities that will be required for London to deliver on it's promise of hosting the best Olympic games ever.

There are a series of webcam views providing live views on construction progress, including the London Olympic Stadium and the Olympic Village

Live webcam on The Royal Mile, Edinburgh

The Royal Mile, scene of Edinburgh Festival

The Royal Mile is a succession of streets which form the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland.

As the name suggests, the Royal Mile is approximately one Scots mile long, and runs between two foci of history in Scotland, from Edinburgh Castle at the top of the Castle Rock down to Holyrood Abbey. The streets which make up the Royal Mile are (west to east) Castle Esplanade, Castlehill, Lawnmarket, High Street, Canongate and Abbey Strand. The Royal Mile is Edinburgh Old Town's busiest tourist street, rivalled only by Princes Street in the New Town. During the annual Edinburgh Festival, the High Street becomes the city's central focus, and is crowded with tourists, entertainers and buskers. On the left is the High Court of Justiciary, Scotland's supreme criminal court. On the right, about one-third of the way down from the Castle toward the Palace is Parliament Square, named after the old Parliament House which housed both the law courts and the old Parliament of Scotland between the 1630s and 1707 (when it was adjourned by the Act of Union) Parliament House is now the home of the Court of Session, Scotland's supreme civil court. St Giles Cathedral, the High Kirk of Edinburgh, also stands in Parliament Square.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Zugspitze Summit View, towards Alpspitze, site of the Alpspix viewing tower

Summit of the Zugspitze, towards Alpspitze, site of the Alpspix viewing tower

One of the more popular ski resorts in the alpine region on Bavaria, the Zugsptize and Alpspitze mountains have been enhanced by a new attraction.

Visitors can enjoy a mountain experience with a difference from the observation deck AlpspiX. At the foot of Alpspitze steel arms extend both in the form of an "X" 13 meter free-floating over the abyss - once prone and once down the sky towards the direction of the Zugspitze.

There is a series of webcam views of the area, allowing remote viewing of this dramatic scene.

Sarasota Bay Live Webcam View

Sarasota Bay and downtown Sarasota, Florida from Siesta Key

At a time when many are growing concerned that tourism numbers to Florida, and the coastal areas in particular, will be severely affected by the oils slick form the ongoing spill in the Gulf of Mexico, My World Webcams brings a live webcam feed directly form the coast at Sarasota Bay:

The view from Siesta Key, one of the famous Florida Keys, shows a tranquil and peaceful scene, with no sign of the tar balls that have been appearing elsewhere. In fact, local tourism officials have been quick to point out that this area had been largely unaffected, and hope that visitors will continue to arrive in large numbers, as the local bars and restaurants of the tourist industry are heavily dependent on their arrival.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

T4 On The Beach - Webcam at Weston-Super-Mare

Grand Pier and Beach at Weston-Super-Mare

T4 On The Beach is a British one day music event which is held on the beach at Weston-super-Mare and televised for Channel 4. The day consists of a number of major contemporary pop and rock music acts from the UK and overseas, performing short sets in front of an audience of over 40,000 predominantly 16-24 year olds. In addition to the main stage a smaller 4Music stage has provided a platform for newer upcoming bands.

The following acts have been confirmed for this year's event:

Dizzee Rascal
Ellie Goulding
Tinie Tempah
Professor Green
Chipmunk
Scouting for Girls
The Saturdays
Basshunter
Pixie Lott
Jason Derulo
Alexandra Burke
Iyaz
Kids in Glass Houses
N-Dubz
Faithless
Taio Cruz
Kelis
Dom Vincent

My World Webcams have been able to provide a live view from Weston-Super-Mare, a camera view of the famous Grand Pier and beach where the event will be taking place: