marseille?
― plax (ico), Friday, 29 January 2021 11:16 (three years ago) link
The green shelter kind of looks like something you'd find in a French park. Only I don't think this France, so I'm extrapolating to Latin countries - but I don't think Italy or Portugal so I reckon northern half of Spain is a good guess. Unless it's some wealthy southern bit of South America, aaaargh!
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:19 (three years ago) link
That streetlight looks very short
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:22 (three years ago) link
Almost stunted, so the air could be a little on the dusty side
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:23 (three years ago) link
I think it's Zaragoza
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 January 2021 11:36 (three years ago) link
I think there's a clue in the trees lining the road (plane trees I think). They've been treated in a particular way - central trunk cut out and branches growing up around the stump. I'm sure I've seen that but not sure where. Not France, again I think Spain.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:52 (three years ago) link
Or Portugal?
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Friday, 29 January 2021 11:53 (three years ago) link
Maybe! But the scene all looks a bit tidy for Portugal. Tons of park benches, a council with money.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:55 (three years ago) link
Also very flat: if it was Portugal it would have to be in the north, and it's hilly up there
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:05 (three years ago) link
I do feel like I saw a few trees like that in Seville - likewise the red and white blocks
― nashwan, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link
I ruled out Portugal because the sidewalk paving is too disconsolate. The place might be "untidy" but the sidewalks are spectacular
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:31 (three years ago) link
"the sidewalk paving is too disconsolate" is too beautiful a line *not* to have been in Robert Ashley's Private Parts.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 29 January 2021 12:34 (three years ago) link
"The poster has made the thread look stupid."
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:45 (three years ago) link
(ref to my fave line in "Perfect Lives", "the sculptor has made the horse look stupid", not a commentary.)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link
I'm really invested in knowing where the hell this is now! I'm sticking with northern Spanish city
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link
Will post another view anon. This is hard mode, admittedly.
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:53 (three years ago) link
Going completely against the crowd and trying Cairns
― or something, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
Wow. I'm in Oz, so will have to think about that one.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
Here you go:
https://i.imgur.com/GGHninQ.png
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:04 (three years ago) link
Wish I'd waited for that pic before trying Cairns
― or something, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
Was about to say. Those trees lining the road: surely not Aussie.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:07 (three years ago) link
Bucharest?
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link
Spain or former Spanish colony
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
Nah, it's too tidy for that. :)
Our churches are quite different too.
xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:10 (three years ago) link
(to Neil S, in case there was any doubt)
That's a Spanish no parking sign surely. I'll go Albacete.
― nashwan, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
Stop sign says Pare so Latin America is likely
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
100% South America, so thats the continent. Now to find the street
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link
I've been thinking Andean plateau because of the way it seems cold but I've only been to Bolivia there, and only a handful of places there, and this isn't one of them. But the cars (old & small) match those I saw there. The pickup truck suggests something in the USA's orbit, and that this is not total poverty (so again, probably not Bolivia).
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link
no cars like that in a reasonably affluent European country I don’t think
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
(or (some of) what Euler said)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
Agree that the cars absolutely aren't well-off European, so I guess Spanish South American. But it's still cold, people are still wrapped up. Argentina? Uruguay?
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
That's why I said Andean plateau. It's chilly to cold there year round, at least in many places, because it's so high up.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
Unless this photo is from the 90s, I'm very confused by these cars. I did a bunch of street drops across Latin/South America and Bolivia was the only one that remotely matched
I swear to god I've seen those banners before, I thought maybe they were a cellphone provider name I'd seen elsewhere or something but it doesn't seem to be the case
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link
the "accent mark" does look like a text bubble
― rob, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
yeah, what about that banner? on this one more letters are visible
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTEL
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
I thought the red telephone box was key but now I'm not so sure
― or something, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
Breakthrough! xp
― or something, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link
FUCK
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link
lol xp
I figured out the banners. It's for ANTEL, the state telecom company of Uruguay.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
xp fuck!
& lol
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link
looool
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link
fuck & loleven when I was 17
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe,_Canelones
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.5245801,-56.282197,3a,75y,112.79h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_H7Fb2gxrnHQZ3bn0_QOGQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
I knew it was Madrid
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
If you can guess a pop. 20,000 town in Uruguay within less than 24h based on two adjacent photos, then perhaps the true hard mode is a random nondescript highway in the middle of nowhere.
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link