Guess the City

OMG the reflection in the window! damn

oh no i did look at that briefly but didn't think 'hmm maybe it's a shark'... if i'd been thinking of north instead of south oxford i might have done!

https://i.ibb.co/0F97scp/uz.jpg

Monday Morning

Close but no cigar at Guess the Day of the Week it seems

ha!

Not a lot to work on here. Body of water far left could be a lake, river or harbour - I'm thinking the latter as there's some industrial type construction that could be part of a port facility. White building far left and building with light green facade centre left look European to me. Wild guess with not much to back it up would be somewhere in Italy

Strange tower far right is pretty mystifying

Reminds me of the road up from Peschiera del Garda up the east coast of Lake Garda

looks like a shipping control tower, for the port at left maybe?

https://i.ibb.co/RppWSzp/ka.jpg

View II

Lighthouse, harbour, got nothing.

feels too flat for Norway & not flat enough for the rest of Scandinavia (although... maybe)

why the fuck does google maps suddenly move back to my location whenever I search anything - GRRRRRRRRRRR

lol otm

Are we back in Russia? Defo northern hemisphere and don't think it's anywhere in North America

Googled striped black and white road barrier and got a bunch of stock pics that look pretty similar but frustratingly no location mentioned, although they're copyrighted to a photographer with a Russian name

that guard rail is pretty distinctive - not a sideways W shape like most

the first pic has a yellow/black striped tower/chimney thing - oil refinery?

jeez - https://www.google.com/search?q=power+pylon+types&source=lnms&tbm=isch

although that particular type with the widest at the top and then narrower and narrower below that isn't something I can find in many of those pylon overviews, apparently

I'm guessing this may be somewhere on the Baltic Sea. That type of lighthouse seems to exist there.

that road barrier with stripes is common in ukraine

hint please

Murmansk?

https://www.google.com/maps/@68.9856794,33.0948002,3a,75y,236.84h,98.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQ3f5F9Uml4uE4z6pmi8FMQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

YES !!!

https://www.google.com/maps/@68.9826598,33.0955864,3a,75y,310.18h,90.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smrhk13lnCidCsu5I8f-pFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@68.9860639,33.0960879,3a,75y,254.58h,85.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sujAKG6gpXnAIlhBb_1WQsw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I mean, it was clear from your link that that was THE lighthouse :-)

oh...

https://dissolve.com/stock-photo/Monument-Sailors-Kursk-Murmansk-Russia-royalty-free-image/101-D246-103-494

Murmansk it is

https://i.ibb.co/KGxhVwH/Screenshot-2021-11-02-at-16-59-32.png

Quite a fan of this, one step back from ShariVari's link

That's very Murmansk

Quintessential!

https://i.ibb.co/M8MfYwJ/cmas.jpg

Tis (almost) the season

colonial feel and all the pictures are of white people dressed warmly, guessing either Canada or New Zealand

isn't that rotating wooden candle thing German? (iirc it's called a pyramid?)

... doesn't place this picture in Germany, obv

Card is in English "Christmas Pyramid."

And I'm always amused at the thought of the Google photo-car rumbling through museums, offices, etc.

The electrical outlet is infuriatingly blurry. Can't tell if its US, UK or Euro style.

This is some kind of museum, right?

that's a US outlet imo, because the sockets are one above each other, which doesn't work for UK plugs.

also those vestments look popish.

A cursory google suggests there aren't loads of churches or cathedrals with that single-spire-and-two-tower structure but so far checking museums in the two UK cities which seem to have such a cathedral (Lichfield and Truro) has turned up nothing

the black and white photo of santa also looks very mid-century US.

anyone recognize those churches as ... boston?

If it's the US I'd guess its some museum display about Christmas as celebrated by German immigrants, so most likely somewhere in the upper Midwest. Puzzled by the photo on the right, looks like a Santa standing next to some pianos out on the street? The caption seems to read "(Illegible) Music Store Santa"

i don't get a german american vibe fwiw (i get that this is a museum or whatever, but those pink vestments do feel v catholic)

That Santa photo on the right, taken outside next to a large sign. Lifts? Litts? Maybe an old deparment store?

There's another set of letters in the background, KUM, could be a radio station? There's a WKUM in Puerto Rico

this all feels like some "here's how pope X celebrated christmas when he was a child" display to me - and those three tower pictures... Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Italy?

I don't think it's Ratzinger, this is in his childhood house in Marktl, Bavaria (where they have a couple of free standing square towers but nothing 100% like on those pics): https://www.papsthaus.eu/index.php?page=biografie-raeume

not John Paul II either https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOizlB4Guq8S5BuN8i-qyBkKkaf1P22OBeFmsa6ifPlIaKtPIoqo-BzmAGJsRXg-g?key=MGlVZW85VWx3Qmo1TlJ2dWppZHhjLTd5WGxIY3Fn

That totally makes sense. Though it looks a bit threadbare for a pope's museum. Maybe a cardinal or other luminary of the church?

a small parish when they worked before they got promoted maybe - but we can't go too far back either - when was Santa invented again? he did exist before coca cola gave him the red suit in the early 20th century, right?

it's the saddest christmas tree ever as well. a sign of poverty/famine/wartime?