I thought Malta for a second but apparently there are no palm trees in Malta any more
I'd actually guess Northern Africa... Melilla or Nador
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 00:43 (three years ago) link
Still think it looks French, but I also wonder about the terraced houses in pic 1 - not so common in France, old quarters tend to have small apartment blocks not houses. Also the window shutters are green, which is more common in Italy than France, although still perfectly possible for France.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 02:41 (three years ago) link
is it Basse-Terre?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 08:30 (three years ago) link
Those palm trees with the big clusters of red fruit don't look like any I've seen and feel like a clue! But I don't know enough about palms to identify the species. Maybe this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonidia_merrillii
or this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactris_gasipaes
or...?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/8NpnkhB9/Screenshot-2021-01-12-at-12-04-01.png
View #3
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
Messina?
― nashwan, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
Now I don't know what to think at all -- Naples but with a British cathedral in it?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
Actually, is it Naples? That glass arcade in the foreground looks a lot like the 19th century glass mall there.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
huh yes the church does make it look like Messina, and that's consistent with it seemingly being on a strait. I've not been there!
― All cars are bad (Euler), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
The big McDonalds sign at the bottom left in the second pic (if you zoom in) had me googling branches of McD's that would match up with the geography but needed the third pic with the proximity of what looks like mainland over the water and the shape of the docks to really narrow that down.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
Messina it is
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
That second pic on Streetview
― nashwan, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
yeah the green McDo sign helped me see that this was Europe. I was looking for pertinent McDos in the Côte d'Azur earlier, didn't succeed obviously but now I reallllllllllly want to be there.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
I just want to go to McDonald’s
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
There aren’t any close to me
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@38.2092891,15.5515575,3a,37.5y,130.11h,84.24t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syYU5gDcCgpsF2lklUwUkPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
the original streetview here
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/w6Qh9TzQ/naaa.jpg
Friday view
― cherry blossom, Friday, 15 January 2021 08:31 (three years ago) link
Doesn't look European, I'm guessing US
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 15 January 2021 08:51 (three years ago) link
I wondered if it might be Boulder but not sure it's built up enough.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 15 January 2021 08:57 (three years ago) link
some kind of small sports stadium in the middle of the picture, looks pretty distinctive
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 15 January 2021 11:41 (three years ago) link
I'm drawn to the circular lawn with towered building centre left (an historic university/college?), but it's not helping, yet.
― brain (krakow), Friday, 15 January 2021 11:57 (three years ago) link
Missoula, Montana
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 15 January 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
^ that was so awfully specific it couldn't be wrong - and it wasn't :-)
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8585585,-113.973594,3a,75y,9.83h,86.58t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipN0D9re2W1odv16GyYc8zy52UUlhtjc7zKFMJAN!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipN0D9re2W1odv16GyYc8zy52UUlhtjc7zKFMJAN%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya54.536785-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352
― StanM, Friday, 15 January 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
Aha, I think maybe this featured in a GeoWizard video a good while ago, I remember the M on the hillside causing much discussion. Need to see if I can find it and check.
― brain (krakow), Friday, 15 January 2021 13:25 (three years ago) link
― All cars are bad (Euler),
Yes, was it one of those you just see it right off the bat?
― cherry blossom, Friday, 15 January 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
It looked at first glance like a Rockies place, and it looked like a university what with stadium and the buildings around it, so I thought of a few western university towns and looked if they were on rivers. I tried the university of Idaho first, then Montana second and bingo. I knew it wasn’t Boise State because I’d been to Boise and the stadium has purple turf.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 15 January 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
Way to go, I was about to start looking up Utah State
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 15 January 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, January 15, 2021 3:24 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol i have utah expertise and it definitely seemed like it was either further north or higher up to me (evergreens at street level). missoula is beautiful and a nice place to visit.
― map, Friday, 15 January 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
Yeah I thought Utah myself at first
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
i don't know exactly how to tell it isn't utah but it's some combination of: no sagebrush, no cedar trees, no juniper trees, looks like it gets a few more inches of rain per year, no lds churches, the wasatch is more abrupt-looking.
― map, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
i was going to guess medford. definitely north of utah though. good pic.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 January 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
Methford is not that nice, my man
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Friday, 15 January 2021 22:24 (three years ago) link
I caught a trout in that river once, right downtown
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 January 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
I caught a needle in that river once, right downtown
― map, Friday, 15 January 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
i ate a very nice slice of cherry pie in medford once. did not detect any meth.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
Alright, think this one might be a quickie
https://i.imgur.com/UpDmtUK.jpeg
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
I mean
brasilia?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:45 (three years ago) link
no
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:46 (three years ago) link
Ho Chi Minh City
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:53 (three years ago) link
would like to try one
january 15 no. 2
https://images.snapwi.re/4cc5/556cd98182a5e84845918aba.w800.jpg
― map, Saturday, 16 January 2021 00:37 (three years ago) link
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver),
South East Asia for sure, but doesn't seem modern enough for HCMC
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 16 January 2021 12:21 (three years ago) link
@ map
Tampico, Mexico
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link
(I went to Structurae and scrolled down through the list of cable-stayed bridges until Puente Tampico showed its hideous face)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
― cherry blossom
Is it Vientiane?
― chap, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
it is! that's the biggest street in the Laotian capital, as viewed from the "vertical runway" (a giant stone arch thing made with concrete which the USA donated for the building of an airport)
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:32 (three years ago) link
I was there for a few days in 2005, perhaps the most laid back capital I've ever visited.
― chap, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
this is from when I was there in 2008, yes very laid back, big contrast to horrible Vang Vieng
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link
I had a lot of fun in Vang Vieng but I was only young.
― chap, Saturday, 16 January 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link