Guess the City

is that a menu on the table on the right? and is that the Union Jack on the cover? is it a British-themed place somewhere in the world? or a place in a tourist town catering to British visitors?

could the stuffed bear be a clue?

just asking the questions here

it looks dry, maybe Mediterranean, but very unglamorous

in the distance there's a black sign with red letters that could be Caffe = italian?

I’m just going to say Albania

I was kinda randomly google driving around in Barcelona just because of the possible union jack menu but Barcelona is way big and probably wrong anyway

I'm confused by the yellow sign with a black 'X' on it that's in the background right in the center of the picture. It's a weird place to find such a sign that I associate with some danger warning, but maybe it's just a shop sign. For some reason I'm thinking Turkey or Croatia.

looks like lottery or betting signs behind her head

I'm confused by the yellow sign with a black 'X' on it that's in the background right in the center of the picture. It's a weird place to find such a sign that I associate with some danger warning, but maybe it's just a shop sign.

That is the logo of Raiffeisen Bank, you can see the name of the bank written in white on black slightly to the right of the sign. It's an Austrian bank but I don't think this is anywhere in Austria. They have a big presence in Albania as well but I checked all the largest towns in Albania for Raiffeisen branches and couldn't find a match, I could well have missed it though.

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they have branches all over Eastern Europe in fact

Alright anagram, that makes more sense. I guess it's up to whoever is the fastest to check out all of this bank's locations now.

they've got like 100 locations and ATMs in each eastern european city :(

yeah, I tried plenty, but no luck so far

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View II

Graffiti appears to be in cyrillic script, in part at least.

Could be way off but it looks like the Raiffeisenbank sign lettering is in white Latin/Roman (whereas they do use Cyrillic for their branches in Bulgaria) on dark grey background and the country I've noticed that colour combination in the most so far by some distance is Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Yes and there's something at the back of the photo, to the right of the mountain, that looks like it might be a minaret. Maybe Sarajevo?

yep, Sarajevo! Not sure why I didn't look much there before now - lack of Streetview I guess but there are only so many of those banks there
First pic

“Bar London” eh

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Yes, Caffe London in the Ciglane neighbourhood in Sarajevo! Second shot is immediately to the west of the cafe at the bottom of the funicular.

There's also a Caffe Paris just along from there the other side of the bank

https://i.postimg.cc/LXKCBQw3/yu.jpg

Midweek

indoors?!

We've had both Split and Iowa City as indoors correctly guessed before!

Is that Erdogan in those bizarre wall photos?

don’t think so

This shouldn't be too difficult but I'm failing so far. So it's some sort of museum exhibit for a mid-century leader/dictator, either Soviet or Middle-Eastern. Picture on the right at the back looks like it might be Lenin. On the glass cabinet on the right there is what looks like a map, I tried to fit it with any of the stans or maybe Mongolia, but it doesn't work. It most resembles Iran, but I don't see how an exhibit like this could fit in with Iran's history, so I'm stumped.

Actually no I don't think Lenin's in the mix there, all the pics on the right are the same man, an older balder version of the young man in the scarf. Keep thinking it might be Ataturk but no, he didn't make it to old age.

the bowing statuette, the scarf he's wearing in the central portrait (yeah, it's a cliche but) - is he a famous theater figure?

big portrait of Odo from deep space nine.

i think the things in the cabinets are various gifts. (i took the bowing man to be japanese)

i was thinking theatre person too. this is a good one

I am pretty sure that is Ennio Morricone

Looks like him from a distance, also a trumpet in one of the exhibiting cabinets

I can't imagine such a bizarrely chintzy tribute to the man tho, lacking film posters and/or statuettes, so I'm probably wrong

theatre or opera, with some of the costume attributes to the right

There's no way that room is Western European. It's got that Soviet or Soviet-influenced vibe.

On the left, there are a series of certificates with an errant hot-air balloon as the logo, and it seems as if there is a statue of the same, as if this organization has honoured this individual repeatedly. I don't know what that logo is connected to.

It's an odd one. Definitely feels opera-related but not really grand enough for any of the major Soviet houses. It's not the Bakhrushin or Chaliapin museums. The central portrait looks contemporary, so possibly the current director of a company. The building in the picture on the left has an onion dome. I'm leaning towards somewhere like Simferopol or Sevastopol.

what about the main cabinet on the right? is the woman on the colour pic (or is it a painting?) the same as the one on the b/w pic in the smaller cabinet to the right of it? there's also what might be a photo of the actor (?) with a woman (the same one? his wife?) on the top shelf.
plus a ceramic figurine in a yellow dress, and, perhaps more interestingly, what looks like a crown of sorts, or is it a traditional female head dress? - or is it something else altogether?

Zelda Zonk, where do you see that map?

I suspect I might be imagining it at this stage but it definitely looks to me like the top shelf of the cabinet on the right has a women’s headdress nearest to camera and a Boris Godunov-style prop crown partly obscured by the reflection.

xp second glass case from right, bottom shelf. May not be a map though

I thought it might be that one - I associated it with the comedy/tragedy twin masks

can anyone make out the script on the certificates on the left? is it Latin/Roman or something else?

xp hmmmm... maybe you're right!

it might just be wishful watching tho

Again, I might be imagining it but I think the text of the framed certificate says диплом (diploma) but it is fuzzy.

Think you're right. And in the third cabinet on the left there's a picture of what looks like a Byzantine cathedral or maybe mosque just to narrow this down...not at all.

oh re-reading properly and ShariVari caught that already

Leaning more towards Ashgabat now, though not with much to justify that.

the building in the third cabinet on the left doesn't look like it has a dome to me? I get medieval castle ruin vibes but "ruins used as opera backdrops" doesn't narrow it down a lot either

https://i.postimg.cc/MGgN9fp4/yx.jpg

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