Guess the City

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iii vers. ii

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

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

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

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

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.

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. :(

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

is that a german postbox?

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.

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

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

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

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

clothes recycling collection? glass recycling?

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

feeling pretty convinced this is Lisbon

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.”

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

nice one!

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.

picture two looks to be taken from a freight train

and the yellow thing is vestuario usado = used clothes

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

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

Monday

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

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

Hotlanta

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

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

Feel like the giveaways will be logo above 'moving supplies', side on logo on nearest building in centre of pic and xxxx brazxxxx

Kind of imagine Niagara Falls would look like that if there was no famous waterfall there, just a river

Shreveport, Louisiana

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.5102604,-93.7433561,3a,43.1y,352.72h,89.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skwnMH2WppLoYsf_66WV6iA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Got a guess a while back from combing thru a list of US truss bridges, started there. Found some in Memphis that felt similar but no dice, zoomed out and started looking thru a few southern cities. Got lucky with Shreveport!

oh, it was "L STER BRAZZEL'S USED CARS & TRUCKS"

nice find btw

BANG! done.

I thought of Memphis, but the river was too small to be the Mississippi. Tried Little Rock. It did look Southern to me.

these are fun

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/13/travel/13travel-quiz.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/26/travel/abstract-architecture-quiz-ii.html

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welp

i would read the hell out of an oral history of this entire phenomenon

crazy