Guess the City

I do feel like I saw a few trees like that in Seville - likewise the red and white blocks

I ruled out Portugal because the sidewalk paving is too disconsolate. The place might be "untidy" but the sidewalks are spectacular

"the sidewalk paving is too disconsolate" is too beautiful a line *not* to have been in Robert Ashley's Private Parts.

"The poster has made the thread look stupid."

(ref to my fave line in "Perfect Lives", "the sculptor has made the horse look stupid", not a commentary.)

I'm really invested in knowing where the hell this is now! I'm sticking with northern Spanish city

Will post another view anon. This is hard mode, admittedly.

Going completely against the crowd and trying Cairns

Wow. I'm in Oz, so will have to think about that one.

Here you go:

https://i.imgur.com/GGHninQ.png

Wish I'd waited for that pic before trying Cairns

Was about to say. Those trees lining the road: surely not Aussie.

Bucharest?

Spain or former Spanish colony

Nah, it's too tidy for that. :)

Our churches are quite different too.

xp

(to Neil S, in case there was any doubt)

That's a Spanish no parking sign surely. I'll go Albacete.

Stop sign says Pare so Latin America is likely

100% South America, so thats the continent. Now to find the street

I've been thinking Andean plateau because of the way it seems cold but I've only been to Bolivia there, and only a handful of places there, and this isn't one of them. But the cars (old & small) match those I saw there. The pickup truck suggests something in the USA's orbit, and that this is not total poverty (so again, probably not Bolivia).

no cars like that in a reasonably affluent European country I don’t think

(or (some of) what Euler said)

Agree that the cars absolutely aren't well-off European, so I guess Spanish South American. But it's still cold, people are still wrapped up. Argentina? Uruguay?

That's why I said Andean plateau. It's chilly to cold there year round, at least in many places, because it's so high up.

Unless this photo is from the 90s, I'm very confused by these cars. I did a bunch of street drops across Latin/South America and Bolivia was the only one that remotely matched

I swear to god I've seen those banners before, I thought maybe they were a cellphone provider name I'd seen elsewhere or something but it doesn't seem to be the case

the "accent mark" does look like a text bubble

yeah, what about that banner? on this one more letters are visible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTEL

I thought the red telephone box was key but now I'm not so sure

Breakthrough! xp

FUCK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTEL

lol xp

I figured out the banners. It's for ANTEL, the state telecom company of Uruguay.

xp fuck!

& lol

looool

fuck & lol
even when I was 17

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe,_Canelones

https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.5245801,-56.282197,3a,75y,112.79h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_H7Fb2gxrnHQZ3bn0_QOGQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I knew it was Madrid

If you can guess a pop. 20,000 town in Uruguay within less than 24h based on two adjacent photos, then perhaps the true hard mode is a random nondescript highway in the middle of nowhere.

last few times I tried geoguesser it was always like that: some random dirt road in rural Brazil or Australia or Russia, zero text anywhere, often no buildings

The first photo was impossible though, even if we'd been able to figure out the logo

The church was first on the list of "cathedrals in Uruguay"

I am less impressed with movie spies now I have to say

Respect to the owner of the green car. Maybe it belongs to the parish.

Looking at street view now that little green shed has moved

The church was first on the list of "cathedrals in Uruguay"

True. I should have posted the Museo Spikerman second and the Catedral last.

First photo was at least enough to lean towards Spanish/Spanish heritage I think

perhaps the true hard mode is a random nondescript highway in the middle of nowhere.

Insofar as "random highways" I think this might actually be somewhat easy

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50886930893_294d6ee71b_k.jpg

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