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
last few times I tried geoguesser it was always like that: some random dirt road in rural Brazil or Australia or Russia, zero text anywhere, often no buildings
― rob, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
The first photo was impossible though, even if we'd been able to figure out the logo
The church was first on the list of "cathedrals in Uruguay"
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link
I am less impressed with movie spies now I have to say
― rob, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
Respect to the owner of the green car. Maybe it belongs to the parish.
― nashwan, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:19 (three years ago) link
Looking at street view now that little green shed has moved
― or something, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:19 (three years ago) link