Guess the City

Thanks guys! Never in a million years did I think I would get one of these. Once I had the right country, it didn't take too long to scoot through high-level, split-lane motorways looking for an adjacent roundabout - I started off with less-obvious cities first in fact.

How does it work? Do I get to do one now?

Good work!

How does it work? Do I get to do one now?

Yes! (I think it works that anyone can do one as long as there's not one already in play)

Cool! OK, guess the city!

https://i.imgur.com/BnHK5eu.png

buildings, foliage, road condition looks like eastern US or canada. dont see any SUVs/trucks though

#2 I know several people buried here (moving backward on the same road)

https://i.imgur.com/hGrVR9i.png

#3 Again, following the road backwards. That's all for today.

https://i.imgur.com/nmJvmYq.png

oh huh that first one really faked me out lol

you’re spoiling us !

can anyway make out what it says on that snack bar on the right in the first picture? is it PARK or (much more intriguingly) PANN- ?

It's definitely Sweden, I think... too prominent a "-vägen" is visible on that sign. Looks like it could be Eriksvägen but there is no roadway by that name that resembles this neighbourhood

I gotta get back to work so I'm just going to guess Landskrona and hope I'm right

I also thought Sweden but god knows where

yeah i assumed denmark or sweden once i saw the signage though i couldnt read the actual text on the street sign. doesnt look like a major city to me with those road conditions unless its pretty far out of the city center

3 images!

I saw the first just before I went out and was thinking Northern Germany or Denmark, but I now concur on Sweden

I found something similar to the house on the left in the first photo but it didn't lead anywhere fruitful

It's definitely PARK but I think it refers to the location and not the name. I think the name is the cursive on the far left of that strip and on the sandwich board with the milkshake on

I think it might be Sundbyberg as there's a cemetery next to an Eriksvagen but can't find the other details.

Are we sure it says Eriksvagen?

It didnt say that at all for me until someone said it did

to ne it looks like there’s some extra letters between the Erik(s) part and the vägen part (assuming these are correct)

I'm on board with vägen for multiple reasons but I'm pretty wary about this Erik business

I did immediately think Erik too, then a couple of letters and then maybe wegen or wingen?

southern part of Sweden definitely

https://i.redd.it/d7awcyw4s6x71.jpg

Pic 3 looks like a football ground next to an ice hockey rink

I don't see football goals, only smaller hockey goals - so outside fake-grass hockey

I think it might be Sundbyberg as there's a cemetery next to an Eriksvagen but can't find the other details.

yes, you literally proceed from Eriksvägen to Kyrkogårdsvägen (Churchyard Road) - I have been roaming these roads, but no luck here either

ive been looking at cemeteries since that seems like the most specific of the 3 photos in that theres few per city, been hard to find one with a hill like that

its definitely not Eriksvägen, it's something like Er_s_vägen and that first blank could be 2 letters

i guess its not impossible for the first letter to be K and not E as well

What it looks closest to is "Erik s:t vägen"

"s:t" being the Sverige abbreviation for "Sankt" (a.k.a. Saint)

I have found "S:t Erik Vägen" in other places in Sweden (and a few "Sankt Erik Vägen") but no incidence of "Erik S:t Vägen" or any reason why the placement of the honorific would be reversed like that, if it is in fact an "s:t" that I'm seeing

Bingo

https://goo.gl/maps/ddTtJZaqKrdZpUzJ7

Eriksövägen, Vaxholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

awesome work

great job! and that letter in between was the key: the secret too

first view. it says "PARKGRILLEN" on the snack bar.

second view, the cemetery.

important detail:

For historical reasons it has always been referred to as a city, despite the small number of inhabitants, which as of 2010 total was 4,857.

Great work - well done!

I took great care with the visible text in the first image, and then I could have kicked myself when I realised I left that street sign in at the edge of picture #3. But at least it caused a bit of confusion.

I have walked down the road in these pictures many times. I realise it looks a bit grim from these views, but if you go on past Parkgrillen, you reach the bustling harbour town, the first and biggest stop in the archipelago for all the boats from Stockholm. There is a large fortress, many shops and cafes, a beach, loads of tourists. Vaxholm does feel very much like a town rather than a city, but as breastcrawl just pointed out, it clings to its tenuous city designation, hence qualifying for the competition.

That was a good one, and I was pretty wide of the mark, I'd found a few false trails in Gothenburg and was too reluctant to let it go and focus elsewhere

thanks for putting me out of my misery fgti! Google kept trying to send me to thrift stores called Erikshjälpen.

I was in Stockholm last fall, and almost took the boat to Vaxholm for the day. Maybe if I'd gone, I'd have recognized it.

Stockholm was my last trip abroad.... many years ago. just renewed my passport, can't wait to go somewhere.

https://i.ibb.co/FhtNRLD/Screenshot-2023-03-01-at-19-39-17.png

The heavens dictate

If the white circular thing is a thermometer (which it might not be) then it's in fahrenheit which would mean we're in the US. The filter coffee, the bible quote on the screen and the look of the family in the photos would appear to confirm this.

That looks like a Mr Coffee coffeemaker too. And I have a cheap wine carafe just like that one, Gallo, I think.

The heavens dictate

It looks like that in the photo, but it's really "the heavens declare". The same image can be found in a few places, including on this page: https://deebrestin.com/2014/05/the-lords-two-great-books-psalm-19/. Running an image search off that one hasn't taken me anywhere particularly useful though.

Seems like the best lead would be to try to identify that logo on the top of the letterhead and on the business card. Very blurry though.

The heavens declare the glory of God; the firmament shows his handiwork.

The thermometer is in Farenheit and it's a pretty mild day, around 70 degrees.

Looks like some decent forest cover in the window reflection.

if we only knew where cherry blossom resides…

I guess the thermometer shows the temperature inside?

the reflection outside the window could be anywhere green that has tower blocks but the cubicle setup alone made me think USA too tbh

otoh, IS this a cubicle? do they generally/ever have those wide windows (are they windows?)

I think it's a mirror?

I think it's "The Heavens Declare The G(lory of God)", not dictate. Psalm 19

There appears to be a body of water in the reflection behind the photographer, and the light in the photos (and the manner of dress) looks decisively Carolinian, Georgian, Floridian