can we just forget i posted jan 24? it'll save some people the displeasure of rooting around american interior west shitholes until they stumble on laramie, wyoming.
― satanist of size (map), Monday, 25 January 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
I've been there, it was nice
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 25 January 2021 22:57 (three years ago) link
But, like, for one night
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 25 January 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
Yes this is a city
https://i.imgur.com/oxImAQz.jpg
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 January 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link
Hmm I think I've worked it out but googling what I did to do so, for such a quick result, seems a little..unsporting.
― nashwan, Monday, 25 January 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
I did think someone would probably get this one quite quickly
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 January 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
I'll just give it a few minutes if someone else knows without needing to do cursory research of Europe's tallest urban viaducts.
― nashwan, Monday, 25 January 2021 23:28 (three years ago) link
that bridge/viaduct is distinctive - not that i can find it via google
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Monday, 25 January 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
Luxembourg?
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 January 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
it is, yes
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 January 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
did you get it from the viaduct or via another method?
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 January 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
ARGH I knew it looked familiar, and I did a similar Google search
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
I've been to Luxembourg and that photo sparked some distant memories.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
another city
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipN_icxJzdQEGq81BmONOH4UjH1q2Vs24xACcLp_=h1440
― satanist of size (map), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link
Vladivostok?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 02:18 (three years ago) link
yes
― satanist of size (map), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
yesssss
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link
how are you people so good at this
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 02:48 (three years ago) link
Lemme try one:
https://i.imgur.com/wL4GCrI.png
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
is that ... penza?
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 03:37 (three years ago) link
xxxpost, but seriously, how do you look at that photo and guess, correctly, Vladivostok on the first guess? i'm genuinely curious.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:26 (three years ago) link
yeah i'm stumped too, I don't see anything distinctive in that night photo
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:53 (three years ago) link
I would never have got the Vladivostok one. I came across some good Vladivostok shots a couple of weeks ago and was going to use one. It does have a distinctive feel - but thats in the daytime. Night time shots are really tough
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 09:09 (three years ago) link
Struggling with that last one too. I thought the lights might be a clue
― budo jeru,
I checked and they have similar lights (that I could fine) but with two bulbs not three (this was near the Duma)
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 09:11 (three years ago) link
how do you look at that photo and guess, correctly, Vladivostok on the first guess?
1. Ex-Soviet apartment blocks2. Port town3. If you zoom in, there's a truncated word that gives you a partial clue
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
These are too easy, let's go back to Podunk, Arkansas (pop. 3,220).
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 13:05 (three years ago) link
Yeah there's a "Sollers" sign, makes sense (in the Vladivostok photo)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
I think the last one might be Samarkand?
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
Correct!
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
hey hey hey!
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6558293,66.9642106,3a,75y,94.6h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPaUtHBSFUv0G4gg7eRDWAjryx5wjwuDWdyb8oO!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPaUtHBSFUv0G4gg7eRDWAjryx5wjwuDWdyb8oO%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya194.80452-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
An impressive showing.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
crazy
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
I've been to Samarkand but I don't recognize that area. Didn't venture far beyond the Registan.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
I was going to guess Ashgabat, figuring it would be somewhere between the Caspian and the stans/Chinese border
― nashwan, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
I'm impressed by how well travelled people are too tbh.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
lol yeah I think i'm just jealous of everyones insane travel knowledge.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:47 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
posts that need a beat
― new variant (onimo), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
Here's an easy one
Just screen-grabbed a photo bc it was so lovely to look at
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50878668013_36474bc7c3_h.jpg
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
Monaco?
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
Yep, that's got to be Monte Carlo. Stock photos are too easy. :)
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
Lemme try another:
https://i.imgur.com/srdvqTS.png
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
Pretty distinctive pink building that looks like a church, well maintained while everything else looks a bit decrepit. I'll take a wild guess at somewhere in Africa, maybe former French or Portuguese colony
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
Intrigued by the anchor crosses on the building behind the church (if it is a church). Sadly I can't nail down any organisation that uses an anchor cross as their symbol. But it is used by Methodist missionaries - which might go with the fact that the "church" doesn't look Catholic (no stained glass windows, too austere). Which might rule out my initial thought of Francophone or Lusophone Africa.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 06:05 (three years ago) link
why am I googling pink churches - what's Google going to think of me now?
― StanM, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 06:57 (three years ago) link
i could easily be wrong but the two entrances suggests its a mosque to me...
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
no visible crosses either
― rob, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
looks more like a church than a mosque to me but yes, no crosses
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
anyway a lot of cities feature both lol
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
Looks like French Switzerland to me... is it Basel? Lausanne?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
if that's true I have been wildly misled by the mural and the anchors
― rob, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link