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The incongruous penguin and friends should have been more of a giveaway it wasn't South America

cherry blossom, Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:11 (five years ago)

when I google "yellow church" there is one in Macau but it's another one alltogether :-)

StanM, Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:16 (five years ago)

This would have been view #4

https://i.imgur.com/jEUCAim.jpg

Can never tell how easy/hard these will be.

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:29 (five years ago)

Anyway, who's up next?

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:30 (five years ago)

Its only a matter of time before there is one with a branch of Card Factory, a fully grey sky, and a road sign that says Bosom-on-Trent 4 miles and it will be in Wenzhou

cherry blossom, Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:30 (five years ago)

There will be a perfect replica of The Britannia stadium and a Pulis lookalike on the street outside a hologram of Greggs. It will then turn out that Tony is the manager of Shenzhen Town

cherry blossom, Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:35 (five years ago)

A much easier one, I think:

https://i.postimg.cc/hGqSSR7G/0948-D7-CC-DE69-414-A-9042-EE68946-B9-EDA.jpg

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:36 (five years ago)

Alexandria?

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:42 (five years ago)

Not Alexandria.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:45 (five years ago)

Found a mosque which looks very much like that in Dubai, but not next to a highway.

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:13 (five years ago)

Al Khor, Qatar?

calzino, Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:15 (five years ago)

Not Al Khor or Dubai.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:16 (five years ago)

Doha?

calzino, Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:39 (five years ago)

Not Doha.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:51 (five years ago)

Avenue des Martyrs
https://maps.app.goo.gl/4vaFotTatZVeGJP37

Sfax, Tunisia. Was working my way along North African coast and that building came up on the first page of a gis of Sfax. It's a fish market

or something, Sunday, 14 March 2021 16:42 (five years ago)

Indeed it is. Well done!

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 March 2021 16:44 (five years ago)

the closest I got was wondering around Algiers for a bit

calzino, Sunday, 14 March 2021 16:46 (five years ago)

snazziest fish market I've ever seen

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 March 2021 17:44 (five years ago)

https://i.postimg.cc/PJHThGrq/eee.jpg

Monday morning

cherry blossom, Monday, 15 March 2021 12:23 (five years ago)

looks a bit like Manchester at first glance

calzino, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:12 (five years ago)

Lol I was thinking the estuary and skyline looked like Liverpool, the Mersey and the Wirral from Everton valley if you squint hard enough

or something, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:24 (five years ago)

I was looking at the river (bay?) and what appears to be a big inlet or tributary - maybe even a massive canal going through the middle of town and I started thinking about one of the ports along the Rhine but I think the Rhine is probably too narrow. Hamburg?

As usual I feel I'd have a better chance if I could see some church towers.

Tim, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:43 (five years ago)

it looks Nordic and/or Baltic to me, but I don't think the layout is that of Hamburg. Helsinki perhaps?

Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Monday, 15 March 2021 13:49 (five years ago)

Belfast?

calzino, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:57 (five years ago)

Nord Iron

calzino, Monday, 15 March 2021 14:01 (five years ago)

First instinct is Europe, maybe France? Looking for a French city with an estuary, Le Havre seems like it could fit, similar architecture. Can't find that spot yet tho

or something, Monday, 15 March 2021 14:07 (five years ago)

don't those pine trees look kinda southern?

StanM, Monday, 15 March 2021 15:34 (five years ago)

Pretty sure they have those in Normandy at least.

Tim, Monday, 15 March 2021 15:58 (five years ago)

The trees are throwing me a bit.

Woke For Luck (Tom D.), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:28 (five years ago)

100 Rue Georges Lafaurie
https://maps.app.goo.gl/aXbkLjWhZsg5izn4A

Turns out I was right, it is Le Havre

or something, Monday, 15 March 2021 18:09 (five years ago)

oh wow

StanM, Monday, 15 March 2021 18:17 (five years ago)

Good one.

Tim, Monday, 15 March 2021 20:29 (five years ago)

Good work. good when the initial hunch comes in

cherry blossom, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 07:14 (five years ago)

https://i.postimg.cc/wjZLwPrb/fog.jpg

tuesday

cherry blossom, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 17:53 (five years ago)

Perth, Australia?

Tim, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:31 (five years ago)

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania?

calzino, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:43 (five years ago)

I was thinking maybe somewhere in Quebec on the St. Lawrence.

o. nate, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 19:28 (five years ago)

it's not Montreal, and I don't think there's another option for a place as dense as that

something about the architecture / roofs looks not North American to me

rob, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:00 (five years ago)

I’m pretty sure it’s Perth now.

Tim, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:09 (five years ago)

The trees don't look right for Australia.

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:18 (five years ago)

pretty sure it's in a deciduous zone.

map ca. 1890 (map), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:41 (five years ago)

Is it Dnipro, Ukraine? I can't find the exact view from that angle, but some bridges and buildings look very suggestive of being in the right place.

o. nate, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:44 (five years ago)

i've tried the mid-atlantic seaboard in the u.s. and some baltic cities. can't find anything that looks that bright / new lol. feel like it's gotta be a somewhat major shipping port (river adjacent to large body of water?) with those bridges.

xp!

map ca. 1890 (map), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:44 (five years ago)

the row of buildings at center right stretching into the bg looks soviet possibly

map ca. 1890 (map), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:46 (five years ago)

Think it's Dnipro, found the bridges

or something, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:18 (five years ago)

So o. nate otm

or something, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:19 (five years ago)

xp, but ima post anyway.
Not anywhere in the US, I don't see a single billboard or any large advertisement sign, which would be very unusual in that much city.

nickn, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:21 (five years ago)

Dnipro for sure, this is the red-with-white-stripes building in the bottom right corner:
https://goo.gl/maps/wjNfp9u6tZod9EDw9

Dinsdale, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:22 (five years ago)

that is one nice-looking post-soviet city!

map ca. 1890 (map), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:26 (five years ago)

i got as far as Zaporizhzhia but did not move further up the dnieper. which is huge lol

map ca. 1890 (map), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:27 (five years ago)


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