Guess the City

Heroic. The cook pines were not a clue btw, had not heard of them before.

I just went immediately north of Kenwyn and dropped on a couple of streets till I found one with the same cloudier sky. Similar cloud formation made me think its a north-south street so just kept going north and it arrived after about a mile

Anyway back to Weekend at Cherry's (Obelisk edition)

not the faintest on that one.

It's giving me Canaries vibes but is probably far too green for them

https://i.postimg.cc/25jSDYTg/zau.jpg

Weekend at Cherrys isosceles-free view

Now it looks Scandinavian to me

Would it help if I put the triangle back in?

the outdoor pool in the first pic makes me think this is somewhere warm-ish.

Maybe it's the cold part of a sauna

Not sure where that is, but 100% sure I'd rather be there than where I am.

otm

i feel that way about literally every city. except the nottinghams. and reno.

There's a pool there so I'm fairly sure it's not Nottingham this time.

https://i.postimg.cc/VvQ86h2c/jolo.jpg

Weekend at Cherry's (View III)

The mountains aren’t big enough to be Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy but it has the feel of somewhere in the East of Russia you usually see covered in snow.

The snowy peak in the distance looks big enough for kamchatka

It actually looks like Elbrus

Out and about but a cursory look at the map of the plains north of Mt Elbrus suggests Pyatigorsk might be in the right position, it even has a local hill for the view in pic 3

Yeah I can see views of the same three peaks from the outskirts of Pyatigorsk. If not there maybe it could be one of the nearby spa cities.

There are about a hundred streetview dots on top of the hill pic 3 was taken from but I can't find the particular one cherry blossom used. Here's another with some freaky disembodied people and a handy viewfinder

Pyatigorsk Tower
https://maps.app.goo.gl/F93t39kwPUDnJSYPA

And here's location 2

Поселок Свободы
https://maps.app.goo.gl/SYKcXnjdJvyhHxB27

I think the first one is beyond me

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0192805,43.0141974,3a,75y,253.24h,92.82t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPtu2EMjIqcE7pxCK1HJ1Owrn4nQ7e0eYWilJN7!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPtu2EMjIqcE7pxCK1HJ1Owrn4nQ7e0eYWilJN7%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya75.962105-ro-0-fo100!7i10258!8i5128

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0570569,43.0911895,3a,75y,343.53h,86.9t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMFe4k2pHbkOdWCB0rshaUw5BldRLW-QsEl_tpP!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMFe4k2pHbkOdWCB0rshaUw5BldRLW-QsEl_tpP%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya330.50504-ro-0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096

Elbrus was a relatively big clue but good work to slot home from there nonetheless

I wouldn't have got it without Elbrus but it's a pretty distinctive mountain, not many tower above their surroundings like that

Oh that's basically Georgia!

A really good one because it's unexpected. If someone had said to me: this is near Izmir,.I would have totally believed them until I saw Mt. Elbrus. I've been to Izmir, highly recommended.

I like the huge dog print you see if you navigate just left in the first link cherry blossom posted there.

I was really close to including the dog in the view, but there wasn't quite enough room to have the dog and the hill in the same view

https://i.postimg.cc/3xdQRCR9/Screenshot-2021-04-15-at-16-34-26.png

What's he got in there?

It's probably not the UK (looks more like France maybe) but if it somehow is the UK then it reminds me a lot of Cheltenham

Portugal, maybe?

the blue logo on the top right corner of his box is the shape of France, no?

yeah it's a prepaid package from La Poste, like this one:
https://prod.isg.bruneau.media/OMM/Images_Basse_Definition/ZoomHD/69/54/69545.jpg

the building on the left looks like a real estate agency

Is that a sliver of a gothic arch I see on the far right?

Isn't that a ridiculously small road for pedestrian traffic lights? I don't know what to make of that (a gigantic amount of pedestrians there?) - also, the poles are blue, which I don't think is the default color everywhere?

Dropped down into a few cities in the south of France and so far the only one where i can find any of those blue pedestrian crossing posts is Montpellier

I thought the flower shop name could be "Aroma" but so far this has lead to nowhere

Looks more like it ends with "-ama" to me, and begins with an "O," but that has also led me nowhere.

now I’m hoping it’s...
Vichy
you hit me with a flower
you do it every hour
Obama, you’re so Vichy

earnest guffaw at that, breastcrawl.

> Montpellier

back to Cheltenham then...

> Montpellier

back to Cheltenham them...

love the origin story for viscious (sorry for the tangent)

Reed said it was Andy Warhol who provided fuel for the song. "He said, 'Why don't you write a song called 'Vicious,'" Reed told Rolling Stone in 1989. "And I said, 'What kind of vicious?' 'Oh, you know, vicious like I hit you with a flower.'

would help if I could spell

Montpellier

back to Cheltenham them...

― koogs, Thursday, 15 April 2021 23:11 (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Had to google this niche geographical quip

It would be a satisfying bit of synchronicity if correct tho

man, Montpellier is big :(

and it may not even be there either :-)

Confirmation that it is indeed not Montpellier might be helpful here. I kind of got it into my head last night that it might be an unrepresentative area of Paris but that's even bigger

I thought ILXors were good at this, but no, Benjamin Kuo is the guy who's good at this

Unable to locate Mr. Compean through the photo’s metadata — he had disabled his cellphone’s location settings — the authorities disseminated it on social media, where it eventually landed on the radar of the Twitter user @ai6yrham, according to Sgt. John Gilbert, a Sheriff’s Department spokesman.

The user, whose Twitter bio identifies him as a ham radio operator named Ben, responded to the Sheriff’s Department call for assistance on Tuesday morning with a thread that included satellite images and predicted the missing hiker’s coordinates. He wrote in a post that he had made sure to forward his predictions to the authorities.

Later that afternoon, Mr. Compean was located by rescuers, safe with no known injuries, in Angeles National Forest.

“I think, at least for our team, we haven’t had anything exactly like this,” Sergeant Gilbert said of the user’s assistance.

In an interview with KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, the Twitter user, whom the station identified as Benjamin Kuo, said he leaned on the scenery captured in Mr. Compean’s photo to help him deduce the hiker’s location.

“I’ve got a very weird hobby, which is I love taking a look at photos and figuring out where they’re taken,” Mr. Kuo told the station.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/us/missing-hiker-found.html