Victoria, in the Seychelles?
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link
my guess is Madagascar, also a former French colony in the same region. is it Antananarivo?
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
(the licence plate seems to match as well)
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTrhKs2ejdVxXXKCVLGpMLZTNf5ykxFA8k59Q&usqp=CAULycée Andohalo
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
Correct!
Other angles:
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2ABAE9P/cathedrale-catholique-d-andohalo-antananarivo-madagascar-2ABAE9P.jpg
https://travel2madagascar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/bigstock-In-The-Streets-Of-Antananarivo-101524019-e1498467221265.jpg
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 January 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
Very cool, one of the places I've wanted to visit more than most.
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 4 January 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
That second one is "the other cathedral", wrong image sorry :)
One of my closest friends took a trip to Madagascar some fifteen years ago to shoot a documentary on a musician who was there. He had the best time!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 January 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
He told me a funny story that involved a pig but it's pretty gross so I won't repeat it
It is a pretty fucked up place, from what I can tell, given the nature of the colonialist extraction economy that continues to fuck everything unabated. But all that biodiversity!
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 4 January 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/mknj9xJL/ok.jpg
Blue
― cherry blossom, Friday, 8 January 2021 05:50 (three years ago) link
Want to spout English seaside cities as I'm sure that's what it is but I've no idea which
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 January 2021 07:49 (three years ago) link
Jim OTM.
Is it Hastings / St Leonards?
― Tim, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:20 (three years ago) link
I never have the slightest clue with these but this looks familiar. I want to say Penzance, but worried it might be too hilly. Possibly too built up as well.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 8 January 2021 09:31 (three years ago) link
It looks like Anglesey too but again, too built up.
Swansea
― ledge, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:45 (three years ago) link
Haven't found the blue house yet but there's a hill in the right place, that looks like the civic centre on the left and it would be devon across the water.
― ledge, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:48 (three years ago) link
Good spot Ledge - quick google for Swansea steep hill leads me to https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4049845 - Constitution Hill.
― Tim, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link
"In the early 20th century, the Swansea Constitution Hill Incline Railway operated up and down this hill."
Phwoar.
― Tim, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:53 (three years ago) link
I had managed to persuade myself that the land visible across the water was in fact a cloud formation. Bah. I do try my best not to think too much about north Devon.
― Tim, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:56 (three years ago) link
I have never been to Swansea but whenever I see a photo of Swansea I think "that looks like exactly like Swansea"
Wasn't sure how easy/difficult to make this one
― cherry blossom, Friday, 8 January 2021 11:12 (three years ago) link
That looks pretty
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 8 January 2021 12:27 (three years ago) link
https://cdn2.wanderlust.co.uk/media/1004/shutterstock_1281338881-1.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=1440&height=0&format=auto&quality=90&rnd=132246828580000000
― ledge, Friday, 8 January 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link
I was going to say Iceland but too many trees.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 8 January 2021 12:39 (three years ago) link
Also, driving on the left?
Port Stanley?
― cherry blossom, Friday, 8 January 2021 12:52 (three years ago) link
yep. i think finding a decent city / pic to guess is harder than the actual guessing.
― ledge, Friday, 8 January 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
It felt like Stanley right off the bat, but those Rover vehicles clinched it
― cherry blossom, Friday, 8 January 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
Feel like somebody will get this one very quickly
https://i.imgur.com/L3Lufe3.jpg
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 January 2021 11:27 (three years ago) link
Helsinki?
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Monday, 11 January 2021 11:46 (three years ago) link
I think that's Helsinki, based on (a) the sign you can see from behind bottom left saying Helsingen something and (b) the brick tower on the right.
― Tim, Monday, 11 January 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link
Was thinking Helsinki too.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 11 January 2021 11:48 (three years ago) link
the ferry port right in the city and the island in the bay are also characteristic, if we're right
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Monday, 11 January 2021 11:48 (three years ago) link
I got helsinki based on 'tapiola' on one of the buildings but took me ages to confirm, the brick tower is erottaja fire station.
― ledge, Monday, 11 January 2021 11:48 (three years ago) link
yeah it's Helsinki
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 January 2021 12:44 (three years ago) link
That was interesting - I've never been to Helsinki and I imagined it as a modernist / International Style wonderland; although it looks nice I'm a bit disappointed to see quite a lot of neoclassical / 19th century gothicish architecture.
― Tim, Monday, 11 January 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
My experience w Helsinki and Finland in general is that the interfacing of of old and new architecture is spectacular. Tallinn, too
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 11 January 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
I've visited once, and there's a lot of monumental Hanseatic architecture, redolent of Hamburg or Copenhagen, along with some excellent modernism. The huge central station marries the two.
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Monday, 11 January 2021 13:48 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/8zxWC86S/oy.jpg
― cherry blossom, Monday, 11 January 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
Lisbon? Looks like another landmass across a bay.
― ledge, Monday, 11 January 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
doesn't feel like Lisbon to me, couldn't exactly tell you why though
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 January 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
First thought was Corsica or Sardinia. Going by the geography (with Sardinia to the south) is it Bonifacio?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 11 January 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
Stop sign in English, though? Gibraltar?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 11 January 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
there is what looks like a French blue/white street sign on the right side, though it's perhaps too low down to be a street sign.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 January 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
yeah looks like provincial France to me, no idea where though
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 11 January 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
Stop signs in France say "Stop" in English, no? I hope that is true as it's one of my favorite things about Quebec (where they stubbornly say "Arrêt")
― rob, Monday, 11 January 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
yes, they say stop in English here!
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 11 January 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
I've been looking at some streets in Ajaccio on Google Maps and it looks kind of right, all the streets seem to be in a better state of repair though.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 January 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
It does look a little raggedy for Corsica to be honest (at least the parts I've seen).
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 11 January 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
xp though I can't remember having seen one in ages, could it be that there aren't stop signs in Paris? I've barely been out of my quartier since 2019, between strikes & lockdowns, and I don't think there are any around here.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 11 January 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
xp yes, raggedy is the word, this isn't a big tourist spot
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 January 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link