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Just realised it doesn't matter what hemisphere it is: if this is south of the equator, we're looking at the south side of the building, and the dishes would be on the north.

Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link

Second pic?

tomorrow, Sunday, 9 January 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/L86rgj7/11a.jpg

Second pic

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 11:07 (two years ago) link

looks like a similar blue-white-red flag thing on the balcony there

koogs, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 11:28 (two years ago) link

i will nail my flag to the mask of the dominican republic

https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/d/do.gif

koogs, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 11:37 (two years ago) link

(having second thoughts having looked again at pic 1)

koogs, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 11:47 (two years ago) link

Dalmatian coast (based on nothing)

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 12:20 (two years ago) link

I have a new hunch it's Portugal but not sure wherein

tomorrow, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link

no idea. graffiti "cego!!!" "bics risk" ?

StanM, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link

are we missing something or is these two pics just too generic to even start guessing?

StanM, Sunday, 16 January 2022 08:23 (two years ago) link

is/are

StanM, Sunday, 16 January 2022 08:24 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/vYhKsTS/jayu.jpg

III

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Sunday, 16 January 2022 10:09 (two years ago) link

image is broken

micah, Sunday, 16 January 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/TrHcCVy/yay.jpg

iii vers. ii

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Sunday, 16 January 2022 10:18 (two years ago) link

i don't know why this one is so hard. TV tower? not Almaty

StanM, Sunday, 16 January 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link

I guess they look like olive trees, I suppose it'll be somewhere like Macedonia or Albania

assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 17 January 2022 05:39 (two years ago) link

I think it's Porto and that's the Villa Nova de Gaia TV tower

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 17 January 2022 09:15 (two years ago) link

Definitely feels like Portugal but that tv tower doesn't look like the Villa Nova de Gaia, which also appears to have a red and white lattice mast and a smaller tower (which does look like the one in the above pic) adjacent

ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 17 January 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link

possibly, I thought the match was good enough given the distance from the tower in the photo, but you may well be right. It was the small cobbled pavement that made me think Portugal or maybe Spain.

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 17 January 2022 10:22 (two years ago) link

I've google image searched tv tower portugal, tv tower spain, ... sardinia corsica italy sicily france switzerland austria hungary slovakia slovenia croatia montenegro kosovo macedonia bosnia albania greece romania bulgaria moldova ukraine turkey georgia

maybe it isn't a TV tower after all. Some of them look kinda like this one (sofia/vitosha, for instance) but not exactly. Or we're not in Southern Europe. I don't know. :(

StanM, Monday, 17 January 2022 12:56 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/m52s6sC/egg.jpg

Not often something reaches 4 clues but today is one such day

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Thursday, 20 January 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link

if only there was a big chief ispy book of lampposts of the world...

koogs, Thursday, 20 January 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link

weird photo, looks like a digital collage from an architect's mock up. hint of blue on the left side of the car number plate - eu maybe?

two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:04 (two years ago) link

the 'BUS', the P for parking and the X no stopping sign could all be the uk, but for the wrong side of the road thing that's going on.

also uk buildings are generally more finished than that one.

koogs, Thursday, 20 January 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link

That looks like a jacaranda tree behind the lamp post, native to So America, but widely planted elsewhere.

nickn, Thursday, 20 January 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link

what's that yellow pattern/painting on the road? some kind of optical thing that should be seen from a particular angle?

StanM, Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:26 (two years ago) link

It's a box junction ("do not enter unless your exit is clear"), weirdly elongated.

two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link

don't have that in Belgium, which does narrow it down :-)

StanM, Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link

is that a german postbox?

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 20 January 2022 23:11 (two years ago) link

There are several trees there that look like jacarandas, which grow in warm climates so I doubt they have many of them in Germany. The cobblestones, the jacarandas, the racial mix of people and the sort of rundown air all make me think of a suburb in a Portuguese city, or at least somewhere in Southern Europe.

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 21 January 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link

Photo 2 - there's some graffiti mid-right that looks a bit to me like coracao - or at least it looks like it has a tilde over one of the letters

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 21 January 2022 00:27 (two years ago) link

one of them says cego which means blind in both portuguese and spanish, and the place does look iberian

lag∞n, Friday, 21 January 2022 00:32 (two years ago) link

Intrigued by that large yellow boxy thing behind the lamp post.

o. nate, Friday, 21 January 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link

according to my googling spanish mailboxes are yellow but tbh more lemony than that one

lag∞n, Friday, 21 January 2022 02:39 (two years ago) link

clothes recycling collection? glass recycling?

StanM, Friday, 21 January 2022 02:50 (two years ago) link

Well the "no stopping" and "parking" signs are standard EU

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 21 January 2022 03:30 (two years ago) link

feeling pretty convinced this is Lisbon

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 21 January 2022 03:33 (two years ago) link

It's Lisbon, the Benfica Railway Station area:

Pic 1, 22/1/3 (6, Estr. Buraca):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7442957,-9.2047569,3a,60y,281.05h,105.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGAU5FtQPoEZu6hOBKxqfmw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Pic 2, 22/1/12 (Campolide?):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7446855,-9.2032527,2a,37.5y,85.63h,94.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLWAL3tqWr1_MQDifaueChQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Pic 3, 22/1/16 (R. Issan Sartawi / R. Garcia de Orta):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7451261,-9.2049262,3a,75y,126.81h,99.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOtSjlQZyI3qcYWwJ9HG9Ug!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Pic 4, 22/1/20 (R. da Venezuela):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7448069,-9.1993145,3a,75y,260.8h,103.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stuoK_ShThX7gApWoHFvLoA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Note about that TV tower:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Forest_Park
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Florestal_de_Monsanto#Antenas_de_Monsanto:
“Thanks to the dominant position in relation to the entire Lisbon region, Monsanto was equipped with several antennas. Among these stands out the Centro Emissor de Monsanto, a communications tower of Portugal Telecom, which succeeded the former antenna of RTP. With a height of 100 meters, it is one of the tallest structures in Portugal.”

kousenband, Friday, 21 January 2022 08:40 (two years ago) link

Nice one! I looked at the aerial views and gave up, however did you figure out which part of town?

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 21 January 2022 08:42 (two years ago) link

nice one!

StanM, Friday, 21 January 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link

The last picture gave me strong Lisbon vibes, more specifically it reminded me of Sete-Rios station, where we embarked on a train or metro every morning while staying in Lisbon in 2019 to venture into the city centre or away from it. Confirmed by the box junction thing: Wikipedia only mentions Malta, Cyprus and Portugal as Southern European countries where it’s in use. Streetview showed some very similar buildings along the railway to the ones in the second pic when exiting the station, so I decided to move down the line away from the centre, further into the suburbs. Hit the jackpot at the very next station. Locating pics 1 and 3 took a bit more time.

kousenband, Friday, 21 January 2022 09:25 (two years ago) link

picture two looks to be taken from a freight train

koogs, Friday, 21 January 2022 12:35 (two years ago) link

and the yellow thing is vestuario usado = used clothes

StanM, Friday, 21 January 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link

Good work kousenband!

I didn't expect this one to be so tricky, at least after the second pic anyway. Good work on getting all shots, wanted to keep them as close together as possible while showing something different

And yes, the shot of outside the station is oddly reminiscent of an architects mock-up photo. The lighting, and maybe the way the people are placed

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Friday, 21 January 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/R9XBhdJ/oc.jpg

Monday

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Monday, 24 January 2022 12:49 (two years ago) link

Don't think I'm sticking my neck out saying USA

Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 24 January 2022 15:18 (two years ago) link

the tiny shack on the right looks like it says **** Brazillia

koogs, Monday, 24 January 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link

Hotlanta

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 24 January 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link

no idea. three bridges near each other, midsize buildings, could be a suburb of 3/4 of the usa. shrug

StanM, Monday, 24 January 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link

I'm not sure "suburb" is how I'd describe that view

rob, Monday, 24 January 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link


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