that polygonal horse & rider logo on the van looks distinctive.
― ledge, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
haha, ledge, yes, but that is my contribution
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link
https://i.redd.it/c33b4kskznk61.png
― horizontal, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
game changer. now do one for lamp posts
― koogs, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
Similarly...
https://i.redd.it/0c3ez4qmvdf81.jpg
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/DSC04000-768x512.jpg
^ Portugeuse post van
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
Porto
incredible job
― ledge, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
you don’t say!
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
xp
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
very impressive!
― StanM, Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
Cool! OK, guess the city!
https://i.imgur.com/BnHK5eu.png
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:20 (one year ago) link
buildings, foliage, road condition looks like eastern US or canada. dont see any SUVs/trucks though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
#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 (one year ago) link
#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 (one year ago) link
oh huh that first one really faked me out lol
― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
I also thought Sweden but god knows where
― kinder, Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
I did immediately think Erik too, then a couple of letters and then maybe wegen or wingen?
― StanM, Friday, 24 February 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
southern part of Sweden definitely
https://i.redd.it/d7awcyw4s6x71.jpg
― StanM, Friday, 24 February 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
I don't see football goals, only smaller hockey goals - so outside fake-grass hockey
― StanM, Friday, 24 February 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
― kinder, Friday, 24 February 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
i guess its not impossible for the first letter to be K and not E as well
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 February 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
Bingo
https://goo.gl/maps/ddTtJZaqKrdZpUzJ7
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 24 February 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
Eriksövägen, Vaxholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
awesome work
― nxd, Friday, 24 February 2023 22:10 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
thanks for putting me out of my misery fgti! Google kept trying to send me to thrift stores called Erikshjälpen.
― kinder, Saturday, 25 February 2023 13:20 (one year ago) link