that bridge/viaduct is distinctive - not that i can find it via google
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Monday, 25 January 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
Luxembourg?
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 January 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
it is, yes
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 January 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
did you get it from the viaduct or via another method?
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 January 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
ARGH I knew it looked familiar, and I did a similar Google search
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
I've been to Luxembourg and that photo sparked some distant memories.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
another city
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipN_icxJzdQEGq81BmONOH4UjH1q2Vs24xACcLp_=h1440
― satanist of size (map), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link
Vladivostok?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 02:18 (three years ago) link
yes
― satanist of size (map), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
yesssss
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link
how are you people so good at this
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 02:48 (three years ago) link
Lemme try one:
https://i.imgur.com/wL4GCrI.png
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
is that ... penza?
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 03:37 (three years ago) link
xxxpost, but seriously, how do you look at that photo and guess, correctly, Vladivostok on the first guess? i'm genuinely curious.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:26 (three years ago) link
yeah i'm stumped too, I don't see anything distinctive in that night photo
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:53 (three years ago) link
I would never have got the Vladivostok one. I came across some good Vladivostok shots a couple of weeks ago and was going to use one. It does have a distinctive feel - but thats in the daytime. Night time shots are really tough
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 09:09 (three years ago) link
Struggling with that last one too. I thought the lights might be a clue
― budo jeru,
I checked and they have similar lights (that I could fine) but with two bulbs not three (this was near the Duma)
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 09:11 (three years ago) link
how do you look at that photo and guess, correctly, Vladivostok on the first guess?
1. Ex-Soviet apartment blocks2. Port town3. If you zoom in, there's a truncated word that gives you a partial clue
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
These are too easy, let's go back to Podunk, Arkansas (pop. 3,220).
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 13:05 (three years ago) link
Yeah there's a "Sollers" sign, makes sense (in the Vladivostok photo)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
I think the last one might be Samarkand?
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
Correct!
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
hey hey hey!
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6558293,66.9642106,3a,75y,94.6h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPaUtHBSFUv0G4gg7eRDWAjryx5wjwuDWdyb8oO!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPaUtHBSFUv0G4gg7eRDWAjryx5wjwuDWdyb8oO%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya194.80452-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
An impressive showing.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
crazy
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
I've been to Samarkand but I don't recognize that area. Didn't venture far beyond the Registan.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
I was going to guess Ashgabat, figuring it would be somewhere between the Caspian and the stans/Chinese border
― nashwan, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
I'm impressed by how well travelled people are too tbh.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
lol yeah I think i'm just jealous of everyones insane travel knowledge.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:47 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
posts that need a beat
― new variant (onimo), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
Here's an easy one
Just screen-grabbed a photo bc it was so lovely to look at
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50878668013_36474bc7c3_h.jpg
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
Monaco?
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
Yep, that's got to be Monte Carlo. Stock photos are too easy. :)
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
Lemme try another:
https://i.imgur.com/srdvqTS.png
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
Pretty distinctive pink building that looks like a church, well maintained while everything else looks a bit decrepit. I'll take a wild guess at somewhere in Africa, maybe former French or Portuguese colony
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
Intrigued by the anchor crosses on the building behind the church (if it is a church). Sadly I can't nail down any organisation that uses an anchor cross as their symbol. But it is used by Methodist missionaries - which might go with the fact that the "church" doesn't look Catholic (no stained glass windows, too austere). Which might rule out my initial thought of Francophone or Lusophone Africa.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 06:05 (three years ago) link
why am I googling pink churches - what's Google going to think of me now?
― StanM, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 06:57 (three years ago) link
i could easily be wrong but the two entrances suggests its a mosque to me...
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
no visible crosses either
― rob, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
looks more like a church than a mosque to me but yes, no crosses
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
anyway a lot of cities feature both lol
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
Looks like French Switzerland to me... is it Basel? Lausanne?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
if that's true I have been wildly misled by the mural and the anchors
― rob, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
I was noting the brands of cars, the particular quality of the trim, and the fact that Basel and Switzerland are the 'grotty' Swiss cities (rich kids who are into Emma Goldman)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
*Basel and Lausanne, that is
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
Something about it says southern hemisphere to me, maybe the roof of the building on the right but thats very tentative
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
window AC = not europe. but the grafitti makes me think not asia. i think it's south america somewhere. santiago?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
graffiti on wall ends "her" which certainly suggests someplace where Roman script is used.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.5434455,-149.573821,3a,75y,258.17h,99.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipO2FTstMNMar_NldxyiZU4t4uAxGmKp9YTtHmCU!2e10!3e11!7i7680!8i3840
Papeete
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
bien fait damn
― rob, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link