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
I lived for more than a year in Marseille & have spent time in numerous other cities in the south of France, like for example Narbonne, and that decrepit vibe is par for the course, even in Marseille's city center. I'm not guessing Marseille though, the sky is wrong.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 11 January 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
it looks like a place where a dirtbag (me) can live in peace
― map, Monday, 11 January 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
Maybe Perpignan?
― Daz White (darraghmac), Monday, 11 January 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/Cx36kHCK/Screenshot-2021-01-12-at-12-21-35.png
Another view
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 12:30 (three years ago) link
Still reminds me of Corsica. Porto Vecchio? Could also be Alghero on Sardinia.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 12:43 (three years ago) link
Croatia somewhere?
― or something, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 12:46 (three years ago) link
yeah I was thinking Dalmatian coast, Split maybe?
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 13:39 (three years ago) link
I've been to Split and it definitely reminds me of there but geographically nothing quite fits
― or something, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
Figures tbf
― Ole Blueyes Solskjaer (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
is Malta an option?either way, that white building down there in the bay looks like it's the biggest clue.
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link