this is hard
― StanM, Thursday, 11 August 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
Bearsden has a pump track that looks right but Street View has a hedge rather than a fence. Also another one in Greater Glasgow that has the right buildings but downhill instead of uphill.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Thursday, 11 August 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
Whew, this one is hard, even with a hint!
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 12 August 2022 01:58 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/xjyfDRj/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-06-44-27.png
three
― Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Friday, 12 August 2022 05:37 (two years ago) link
Tow Law Town FC! Christ these are getting smaller and smaller cherry blossom
11 Ironworks Rdhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/KDwmcGyVrbSHhAur7
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 12 August 2022 09:28 (two years ago) link
3rd pic
5 Valley Clhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/YgPz5kFDhxL3Vb239
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 12 August 2022 09:30 (two years ago) link
wow! well done! I had given up
― StanM, Friday, 12 August 2022 09:33 (two years ago) link
and the pump track
33 B6297https://maps.app.goo.gl/2hXNWSicWyeqUNKc9
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 12 August 2022 09:36 (two years ago) link
definitely a niche one for the UK crew. without a bit of knowledge of English non-league football teams you'd be looking for it forever (tho with that knowledge i feel i should have found it sooner, was clear from the first pic that there was a football ground and it was prob key)
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 12 August 2022 09:39 (two years ago) link
This is also the very first time I hear about a place called Tow Law. Was the parking violation solution invented there?
― StanM, Friday, 12 August 2022 12:08 (two years ago) link
Wikipedia on Tow Law Town (the football club) has this line: "However, not all of the club's fans are hooligans"
― StanM, Friday, 12 August 2022 12:14 (two years ago) link
Do any Britishers want to talk about what that part of England is like? I have my guesses but maybe I'm being a dumb American
― a (waterface), Friday, 12 August 2022 14:03 (two years ago) link
It looks pretty bleak tbh
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
Though also rather pretty. It seems "bleak but pretty countryside surrounding" is a descriptor of many small cities and towns in the UK and everywhere else, too.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
right that was my impression for sure
― a (waterface), Friday, 12 August 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
"it's grim up North" is a well-worn English cliche
― rob, Friday, 12 August 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
Local boozer looks quite pretty
https://goo.gl/maps/9xFsQrXT45q9Jad67
― Ste, Friday, 12 August 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/Sy2tc64/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-21-45-26.png
Ha'way
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 12 August 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/YPHckd9/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-21-48-17.png
cold
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 12 August 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
After looking at way too many pump tracks to do me good, I am glad someone got it. at times I was near and plenty of time very far away.
I introduced this game on another board as they are a good group to play it.
Someone got this on picture 1, within an hour.
― horizontal, Saturday, 13 August 2022 01:16 (two years ago) link
You're obviously dealing with pros. How did they get it so quickly? Through the ground?
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 13 August 2022 02:43 (two years ago) link
She was as a surprised as anyone. It is a soccer board. her words were “I was only checking Tow Law because it’s the right type of town and their ground is famously on a hill”.
They are from the North East UK, so the famously can be treated with a suitable amount of salt.
― horizontal, Saturday, 13 August 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link
Well, "right type of town" is the kind of intuition that goes a long way
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 07:23 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/ZHgVrTk/Screenshot-2022-08-16-at-09-19-33.png
Tuesday
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 07:24 (two years ago) link
The lighthouse (if that's what it is) looks pretty distinctive and could be the key. I see a couple of towers in the distance that look like cathedral steeples, and a couple of other steeple-like constructions. I'm guessing it's a coastal city somewhere in Northern Europe, on the North or Baltic Seas or something.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 07:49 (two years ago) link
There are a lot of striped lighthouses out there, I'm learning
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:03 (two years ago) link
Other distinctive factors: strange fin-like thing centre-left; incredibly long (but well-trimmed) hedge; apart from a red people-carrier, all the cars seem to be white, what are the odds of that? Row of flags has me thinking we're at one of those "international" hotels, so maybe the white cars are rentals.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:11 (two years ago) link
Man centre-right with flaming red hair - although the apartment blocks on the left don't look too Irish to me
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:17 (two years ago) link
Ostend / Oostende / Ostende? Looks like Lange Nelle the lighthouse, those stripes in particular.
― Tim, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:23 (two years ago) link
Just beat me to it! Based on the flatness of the terrain I googled Ostend lighthouse and got Lange Nelle...
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:32 (two years ago) link
https://goo.gl/maps/UmiQ97i72MZnBZeV6
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:34 (two years ago) link
Just beat me too! I got it with an image search for 'thin lighthouse'!
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:36 (two years ago) link
this is more precise: view from Ankerstraat instead of Vuurtorenweghttps://goo.gl/maps/qt471SdChFMqJ1pA9
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:38 (two years ago) link
the white car thing is just a coincidence, judgng by the makeup of that parking lot on the Google Maps image
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:41 (two years ago) link
I had a trip to Ostend all planned out, we were going to see the big Van Eyck show in Ghent and it got COVIDed. :(
― Tim, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:41 (two years ago) link
Ostend it is, that one went quickly!
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 09:13 (two years ago) link
oh wow! my neck of the woods, but hadn't recognized it.
― StanM, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 11:38 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/N1p088q/Screenshot-2022-08-18-at-11-05-13.png
Thursday
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 18 August 2022 09:33 (two years ago) link
Top right hand corner there looks to be a Belgian flag in the window. If that's right, and I'm not entirely sure it is (do Belgians put flags in their windows?), then it's too hilly to be Flanders. There appears to be a street lift, but it's not the one in Brussels.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 18 August 2022 09:52 (two years ago) link
Belgian flags can be seen on the national holiday or when there's international soccerball going on. Parts of Flanders are that hilly too.
― StanM, Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:44 (two years ago) link
guessing Liege maybe?
― StanM, Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:50 (two years ago) link
If it's Thursday this must be Belgium, again
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:51 (two years ago) link
Could also be a German flag hanging down.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 18 August 2022 11:52 (two years ago) link
black-yellow-red is Belgium. Germany has the red next to the black.
― StanM, Thursday, 18 August 2022 11:57 (two years ago) link
Is that a bridge or an elevator in the middle of the pic?
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 18 August 2022 12:18 (two years ago) link
Looks like an elevator to me, which should make this easy... but googling Belgian street elevators is not giving me the answer
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 18 August 2022 12:29 (two years ago) link
big glass roof to the left of the walking man - museum? government building?
― StanM, Thursday, 18 August 2022 14:45 (two years ago) link
or a train station, that could have an outside elevator too
― StanM, Thursday, 18 August 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link
given the suitcase i figured station
― koogs, Thursday, 18 August 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
The street elevator and hairpin turn with mirror remind me of Monaco, but the trees on that hill look a bit too lush to be Mediterranean.
― o. nate, Friday, 19 August 2022 16:56 (two years ago) link