https://media.tenor.com/LlBBzlkIQk4AAAAd/do-you-have-any-idea-how-little-that-narrows-it-down-that-narrows-it-down.gif
― ledge, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:40 (three years ago)
that polygonal horse & rider logo on the van looks distinctive.
― ledge, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:46 (three years ago)
haha, ledge, yes, but that is my contribution
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 17:44 (three years ago)
https://i.redd.it/c33b4kskznk61.png
― horizontal, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:03 (three years ago)
game changer. now do one for lamp posts
― koogs, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:05 (three years ago)
Similarly...
https://i.redd.it/0c3ez4qmvdf81.jpg
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:26 (three years ago)
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/DSC04000-768x512.jpg
^ Portugeuse post van
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:27 (three years ago)
Here you go...
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1659918,-8.5812913,3a,75y,265.89h,84.61t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1scU7AckOKFcB7RlysHKi_Jw!2e0!5s20140601T000000!7i13312!8i6656
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:43 (three years ago)
Porto
incredible job
― ledge, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:48 (three years ago)
I literally was googling Porto earlier haha
Those sidewalks looked decisively Portuguese but not lime enough to be Lisbon
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:05 (three years ago)
you don’t say!
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:14 (three years ago)
xp
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:15 (three years ago)
very impressive!
― StanM, Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:15 (three years ago)
That went quicker than expected! Good work on the postal van, but how did you get from there to finding the correct spot so quickly?
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:04 (three years ago)
Thanks guys! Never in a million years did I think I would get one of these. Once I had the right country, it didn't take too long to scoot through high-level, split-lane motorways looking for an adjacent roundabout - I started off with less-obvious cities first in fact.
How does it work? Do I get to do one now?
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:09 (three years ago)
Good work!
Yes! (I think it works that anyone can do one as long as there's not one already in play)
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:13 (three years ago)
Cool! OK, guess the city!
https://i.imgur.com/BnHK5eu.png
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:20 (three years ago)
buildings, foliage, road condition looks like eastern US or canada. dont see any SUVs/trucks though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:37 (three years ago)
#2 I know several people buried here (moving backward on the same road)
https://i.imgur.com/hGrVR9i.png
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:50 (three years ago)
#3 Again, following the road backwards. That's all for today.
https://i.imgur.com/nmJvmYq.png
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:51 (three years ago)
oh huh that first one really faked me out lol
― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:54 (three years ago)
you’re spoiling us !can anyway make out what it says on that snack bar on the right in the first picture? is it PARK or (much more intriguingly) PANN- ?
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Thursday, 23 February 2023 21:43 (three years ago)
It's definitely Sweden, I think... too prominent a "-vägen" is visible on that sign. Looks like it could be Eriksvägen but there is no roadway by that name that resembles this neighbourhood
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:01 (three years ago)
I gotta get back to work so I'm just going to guess Landskrona and hope I'm right
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:06 (three years ago)
I also thought Sweden but god knows where
― kinder, Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:25 (three years ago)
yeah i assumed denmark or sweden once i saw the signage though i couldnt read the actual text on the street sign. doesnt look like a major city to me with those road conditions unless its pretty far out of the city center
― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:32 (three years ago)
3 images!
I saw the first just before I went out and was thinking Northern Germany or Denmark, but I now concur on Sweden
I found something similar to the house on the left in the first photo but it didn't lead anywhere fruitful
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 24 February 2023 11:36 (three years ago)
It's definitely PARK but I think it refers to the location and not the name. I think the name is the cursive on the far left of that strip and on the sandwich board with the milkshake on
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 24 February 2023 13:41 (three years ago)
I think it might be Sundbyberg as there's a cemetery next to an Eriksvagen but can't find the other details.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 24 February 2023 13:52 (three years ago)
Are we sure it says Eriksvagen?
It didnt say that at all for me until someone said it did
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 24 February 2023 14:02 (three years ago)
to ne it looks like there’s some extra letters between the Erik(s) part and the vägen part (assuming these are correct)
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 February 2023 14:19 (three years ago)
I'm on board with vägen for multiple reasons but I'm pretty wary about this Erik business
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 24 February 2023 14:24 (three years ago)
I did immediately think Erik too, then a couple of letters and then maybe wegen or wingen?
― StanM, Friday, 24 February 2023 15:31 (three years ago)
southern part of Sweden definitely
https://i.redd.it/d7awcyw4s6x71.jpg
― StanM, Friday, 24 February 2023 15:35 (three years ago)
Pic 3 looks like a football ground next to an ice hockey rink
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 24 February 2023 15:44 (three years ago)
I don't see football goals, only smaller hockey goals - so outside fake-grass hockey
― StanM, Friday, 24 February 2023 17:10 (three years ago)
― kinder, Friday, 24 February 2023 18:09 (three years ago)
yes, you literally proceed from Eriksvägen to Kyrkogårdsvägen (Churchyard Road) - I have been roaming these roads, but no luck here either
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 February 2023 18:20 (three years ago)
ive been looking at cemeteries since that seems like the most specific of the 3 photos in that theres few per city, been hard to find one with a hill like that
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 February 2023 18:21 (three years ago)
its definitely not Eriksvägen, it's something like Er_s_vägen and that first blank could be 2 letters
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 February 2023 18:29 (three years ago)
i guess its not impossible for the first letter to be K and not E as well
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 February 2023 18:30 (three years ago)
What it looks closest to is "Erik s:t vägen"
"s:t" being the Sverige abbreviation for "Sankt" (a.k.a. Saint)
I have found "S:t Erik Vägen" in other places in Sweden (and a few "Sankt Erik Vägen") but no incidence of "Erik S:t Vägen" or any reason why the placement of the honorific would be reversed like that, if it is in fact an "s:t" that I'm seeing
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 24 February 2023 21:48 (three years ago)
Bingo
https://goo.gl/maps/ddTtJZaqKrdZpUzJ7
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 24 February 2023 22:05 (three years ago)
Eriksövägen, Vaxholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
awesome work
― nxd, Friday, 24 February 2023 22:10 (three years ago)
great job! and that letter in between was the key: the secret too
first view. it says "PARKGRILLEN" on the snack bar.
second view, the cemetery.
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 February 2023 22:40 (three years ago)
important detail:
For historical reasons it has always been referred to as a city, despite the small number of inhabitants, which as of 2010 total was 4,857.
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 February 2023 22:43 (three years ago)
Great work - well done!
I took great care with the visible text in the first image, and then I could have kicked myself when I realised I left that street sign in at the edge of picture #3. But at least it caused a bit of confusion.
I have walked down the road in these pictures many times. I realise it looks a bit grim from these views, but if you go on past Parkgrillen, you reach the bustling harbour town, the first and biggest stop in the archipelago for all the boats from Stockholm. There is a large fortress, many shops and cafes, a beach, loads of tourists. Vaxholm does feel very much like a town rather than a city, but as breastcrawl just pointed out, it clings to its tenuous city designation, hence qualifying for the competition.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 24 February 2023 22:58 (three years ago)
That was a good one, and I was pretty wide of the mark, I'd found a few false trails in Gothenburg and was too reluctant to let it go and focus elsewhere
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 25 February 2023 02:53 (three years ago)