In these photos, you can see the city lights of Minneapolis and Chicago glittering against the night sky.
According to the compass screwed onto the bow, Max was sailing directly for it, due north-northwest, and yet the city lights were growing fainter.
The home has views of the sunset over the mountains in the west, all the way south to Long Beach and Catalina Island as well as of the city lights of downtown Los Angeles and easterly views of the sunrise over the San Gabriel Mountains.
In the evenings the city's wealthy roam the streets of Karada, in the center of the city, where the lights shine almost as bright as Times Square.
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Michelle and I will never forget the opportunity to introduce our daughters for the first time to the City of Lights.
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Buy some beautiful wall art or photos of the City of Lights, and hang them on your walls to remind you of all that you can accomplish solo.
Guests are picked up at their hotel for a 20-minute drive outside the city to view the lights from higher elevations.
The city's lights project ethereally across the starry, cloudless sky.
Whether your room overlooks the mountains or the twinkling lights of the city, Mother Nature puts on a nightly show to be appreciated from your private patio.
After 45 minutes or so, I began to find the cumulative effect of all the magnificence rather overwhelming, so it was a relief finally to be able to stroll through the palace gardens to a magical belvedere that commanded a view of the glinting lights of the city below.
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From the top of a skyscraper in the center of the city at night, the lights of apartment buildings and office towers twinkle all the way to the horizon.
Sunderland-born, Jeffries became the first boxer ever to bring an Olympic medal back to the city earlier this year - an honour which saw him handed the responsibility of switching on the city's Christmas lights.
Next, pause for free-form reverie in the designated Poet's Chair upstairs at City Lights, the bookstore owned by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who won a landmark 1957 free-speech case over the publication of Allen Ginsberg's incendiary epic poem Howl.
Nevertheless, the city held musical concerts during the night and the city streets were decorated with coloured lights.
All the more reason to move out to the Gol Bungalow veranda, for evening cocktails, with the lights of the city 2, 000 feet below.
Sending her camera gliding languidly into the noonday shadows of a rotting shack, darting dangerously through heavy marshland foliage, or jaunting past city lights from the back of an open-air bus, Akerman embraces the rapturous but desperate beauty of the countryside and the chill of the metropolis.
Their operators will be based in the new hub alongside specialists from TRAFFCOM - the team in charge of the city's traffic lights and traffic cameras, who currently work from separate bases.
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And because of their baby blue franchise, this is an opportune time for OKC civic leaders to do their utmost to market and promote their city while the lights are shining brightest.
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The unlikely pair met amid the neon lights of New York City's Times Square over the weekend and headed back to the squat brick home of 73-year-old Joseph Galfy Jr. on a quiet cul-de-sac in suburban Clark, N.
With names like Morning Star, Celestial Star and Twinkling Star, the ferries are most romantic at night, festively strung with lights, as the city buildings beam onto the rippling water.
Roads were widened, six new subway lines were opened, 4, 000 extra taxis were let loose on the road, fresh paint was slathered on buildings, truckloads of flowers were put up, city lights were upgraded and the capacity of the Hongqiao International Airport was increased by 60%.
Now fully gripped by festive fever, Quest takes centre stage in Vilnius, Lithuania -- in front of 25, 000 people -- it's time to turn on the lights of the city's Christmas tree.
"You can no longer just take a short drive from the city and look at the Milky Way or the northern lights, " says Chad Moore, a board director for the International Dark-Sky Association, a Tucson-based nonprofit organization.
Four years after 9-11, I was in an almost fatal taxi crash, sitting in the back of a taxi, as the driver purposefully careened through red lights in the middle of New York City.
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Los Angeles was the first city in America to control its traffic lights centrally when it rewired a handful of intersections near the Coliseum in 1984 in anticipation of a crush of Olympics traffic.
Christmas in Florence Not only is the city wonderfully deserted at this time of year, but the lights that adorn every shop window give the place an almost magical feeling.
You will need cloudless, dark skies away from city lights to see the shower.
Little comets of white lights arcing over the city's narrow streets made Vienna feel more like Christmas than any sleigh-and-reindeer-infested lawn ever could.
As dusk falls, settle into your deckchair, grab a blanket and watch from a selection of cult classics while surrounded by the twinkling lights of a busy city.
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