I must have checked every fucking Shell garage in every city from Sheffield southwards
― or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
Chihchester
― treeship., Monday, 29 March 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
sadbury? depressionford?
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Monday, 29 March 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
Think it might be Gloucester
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 March 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
Not Chichester or Gloucester.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 29 March 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
Is it Plymouth?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 March 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
*Gloomcester
― Dinsdale, Monday, 29 March 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
Not Plymouth.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 29 March 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
Melchester
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 March 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
Exeter is my last guess.
― calzino, Monday, 29 March 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
I'm going to be embarrassed if it turns out to be Exeter but I don't think it is it's not just that I don't recognise either shot ,it's that I'd expect to see some evidence of the red Devon stone somewhere if it was.
My guess is Chichester, although I thought I recognised a roundabout and I can't place it on the streetview.
― Tim, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
Haha and I see you've already ruled Chichester out.
― Tim, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
I once spent a night wondering around Exeter and sleeping in the bus station after missing the last northbound national express coach on a sunday afternoon about 20 odd years ago. But usually I've just passed through on a train en-route to Newquay. So I don't claim to know the place - just a wild guess.
― calzino, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
I thought I was being clever with Klagenfurt but it's shit town uk that's stumped us all
― or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
I wonder if this is an old pic and the petrol garage switched companies - feel like I've google every southern city + Shell by a motorway/dual carriageway and no match
― nashwan, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
Same here
― or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
I've tried "virgin media" as well
― or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
I note that Guildford and Milton Keynes are missing from the map of cities above. Haven’t made either fit but maybe others are missing? Or maybe I’m not good at making things fit.
― Tim, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link
They're not cities
― or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
Churchill Way Whttps://maps.app.goo.gl/T2c2bn8jmXMe8Tdn7
Got it, Salisbury
― or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
ha I did see that one but dismissed it foolishly
― nashwan, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
I couldn't see any Russian agents at the Shell cashpoint
― calzino, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link
I somehow expected Salisbury to look better than that. But I suppose nice photos aren't what the thread is about. I've almost certainly been in Salisbury at some point.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 29 March 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
Difficult one, I felt like something would emerge from the image but nothing did and I didn't have a clue. Then cities were being whittled down through collective trial and error at a rapid pace and it still seemed to elude everyone even as the number of available cities dwindled!
kudos on finding the exact spot, still. Even with the process of elimination I was still nowhere near
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
Salisbury it is, well done. jim in vancouver may have got it before but he gave Hardy's name for reasons beat known to himself.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
best known, d'oh
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link
https://postimg.cc/SnNgLv9t
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:34 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/2SngYpSm/20210329-200704.jpg
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:36 (three years ago) link
Is this photo taken at the start of a car race?
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:39 (three years ago) link
Not as far as I'm aware
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:40 (three years ago) link
It's a serendipitous streetview guess the city moment
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:42 (three years ago) link
Getting a South America vibe, but not much more than that yet
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:42 (three years ago) link
it looks like the inner suburb of copenhagen where i lived when i studied abroad. somewhere in amager.
― treeship., Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:43 (three years ago) link
there aren't leaves on the trees, so i think it's a temperate or cold climate. those terracotta roofs and the small cars seem northern european. i don't see a bike lane though so it's likely not in denmark.
― treeship., Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:44 (three years ago) link
Looks Eastern European to me
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:45 (three years ago) link
Feels a little too dusty mountainous for Denmark
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:46 (three years ago) link
Pristina?
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:50 (three years ago) link
Googling blue line road markings threw up possibly the worst pun ever: https://www.theobserver.com/2017/01/blue-lines-matter/
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link
Ooft
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:04 (three years ago) link
Not Copenhagen or Pristina btw
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:08 (three years ago) link
big fat ugly raised steel wired armoured cables on wooden poles rather than sunk (and with a scruffy loop left hanging there) suggests nobody loves this place!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:17 (three years ago) link
Matazlan?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:23 (three years ago) link
Or Mazatlan, even.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:24 (three years ago) link
Definitely feeling Mexico for this (but also feeling Brazil hmm)
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:33 (three years ago) link
Not Mazatlan
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:54 (three years ago) link
Block of flats is confusing me. Looks sort of eastern European but on the other hand green shutters feels Latin
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 11:02 (three years ago) link
What do we think the smelting looking building with the chimneys is on the left? Behind the little building that might be a street church
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 11:07 (three years ago) link
perhaps they don't bury cables or build too high because it is in a seismic zone that frequently has earthquakes? god knows somewhere in Chile?
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 11:08 (three years ago) link
There seem to be mountains in the background too, though I have no purchase in this game right now, just mentioning it.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link