You can also see some very good images if you just do Google Maps instead of Google Earth. With a bit of tweaking I got to Benidorm and can see the whole coastline and all the hotels, although it's all taken from above, with no provision (as far as I know) to get a view like you get on Google Earth you can at least tell where everything is. You can either see it in Map form which is just the roads like on a map (obviously), Satellite form which shows photographs of the buildings etc. or Hybrid which shows the photographs but with road names which can be very useful as it's quite easy to get lost, you just have to keep zooming in and out and up and down. The advantage is that it doesn't look as if you have to pay anything and nothing needs to be downloaded. I am using broadband but I suppose it would work with dial up

I, too, have seen my house and my little car outside!