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https://i.postimg.cc/y6SRqkMM/2019-05-151.jpg

(its not Komsomolsk-on-Amur)

cherry blossom, Sunday, 15 March 2020 11:27 (four years ago) link

but it is Blackpool!

thomasintrouble, Sunday, 15 March 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link

Nice easy one!

cherry blossom, Sunday, 15 March 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link

you guys are amazing.

Yerac, Sunday, 15 March 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link

Yeah, I have no idea how they do it.

romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 15 March 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link

https://i.postimg.cc/2SqzbNTW/Screenshot-2020-03-15-at-20-54-41.png

self-distancing edition

cherry blossom, Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link

monday morning self-isolating team have at it!

cherry blossom, Monday, 16 March 2020 06:47 (four years ago) link

Nicosia?

ShariVari, Monday, 16 March 2020 10:42 (four years ago) link

Actually that's a terrible guess. Limassol?

ShariVari, Monday, 16 March 2020 10:46 (four years ago) link

I really wanted it to be Recife, but it is not Recife.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 16 March 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link

It's probably not Limsassol either tbf.

Thought process is that the cars appear to be driving on the left, which suggest ex-British Empire or Japan, air con among other things means it's not the UK, none of the cars are white, which would be statistically unusual for Southern Africa, doesn't feel much like India to me so likely to be Malta, Cyprus, Sri Lanka or Japan, but not much of a clue beyond that possibly faulty logic.

ShariVari, Monday, 16 March 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link

Cars are driving on the right

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 16 March 2020 11:15 (four years ago) link

Damn it!

ShariVari, Monday, 16 March 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link

I really wanted it to be Santander, but I'm pretty sure it's not Santander.

Tim, Monday, 16 March 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link

One of the cars might be a black and yellow taxi, which suggests spain, but also might be anywhere else.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 16 March 2020 11:27 (four years ago) link

Last one was too easy, one before that too hard, this one might be just right!

cherry blossom, Monday, 16 March 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link

I think we can get there!

cherry blossom, Monday, 16 March 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link

Pandemic or not, this fine city isn't going to guess itself

cherry blossom, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link

I think the way the weather looks is seducing people, that housing block front left looks suspiciously Soviet to me and there's a minaret halfway up.

Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 10:58 (four years ago) link

yeah I was thinking either danube or volga but nothing obvious coming up

thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link

The importance of the river makes me think it's somewhere on the cruise circuit, and the only non-obvious candidate for the Volga is Nizhny Novgorod.

Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link

definitely Danube. Galati.

thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 11:45 (four years ago) link

Galati it is! good work Columbo

cherry blossom, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link

I would never guess any of these but I insist on making occasional offerings that amuse me so here’s this curiosity:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mW6uXqmdPXc/TCUs70ZHt3I/AAAAAAAAAnc/OsfAudL5jrg/s1600/DSC00106.JPG

silby, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link

Hmmmm. I'm guessing some place with a big tourist investment in Swiss-chalet imagery. AFAIC there is no McDonald's in Helen, GA, but someplace like that maybe?

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link

you're in the right conceptual neighborhood

silby, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link

Leavenworth?

The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link

yeah :)

silby, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link

https://i.postimg.cc/NBnZVy17/Screenshot-2020-03-17-at-16-34-30.png

wfh special

cherry blossom, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link

Ithaca, NY

rob, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link

not too bad a guess but no, not really, nope, nada,

cherry blossom, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 08:42 (four years ago) link

Nikolaevsk, Alaska?

Neil S, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link

way off the mark

cherry blossom, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 10:01 (four years ago) link

Ok I'll give a clue

If you look very carefully inside one of the windows of the first house, you can just make out Joe Biden standing behind a curtain (if anyone was wondering where he had got to lately)

cherry blossom, Friday, 20 March 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link

https://i.postimg.cc/wTsfb61X/Screenshot-2020-03-21-at-12-46-08.png

I've leave Joe In The Window to simmer for a little bit, and throw in this lil ssturday sparrow

cherry blossom, Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link

San Juan?

ogmor, Saturday, 21 March 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link

Not San Juan!

Here's another shot

https://i.postimg.cc/Ssdq5zgm/Screenshot-2020-03-27-at-13-31-07.png

cherry blossom, Friday, 27 March 2020 13:31 (four years ago) link

Is the previous one Reading PA and the most recent one Mexico City?

I_Got_Loaded, Friday, 27 March 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link

Reading PA is an excellent guess, 9/10. Its more rural than Reading but only around an hour or so's drive from there.

The second one....you're in the right hemisphere, but its not Mexico

cherry blossom, Friday, 27 March 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link

First very very closer but still not quite over the line

Second needs work to get closer

Third is here

https://i.postimg.cc/m2bsv0R6/Screenshot-2020-04-09-at-16-33-33.png

cherry blossom, Thursday, 9 April 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link

Viña del Mar?

never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link

I've never heard of Viña del Mar and had to google it! I'm not sure which thats a guess for, but its closest to the second one with the blue and yellow houses though still some ways off

cherry blossom, Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link

Oh I misunderstood your instructions. I thought all three were for one city, and I had a hell of a time trying to think of a city that would feature all three scenes. The topography in the third photo is reminiscent of Viña's hilly outskirts (where my mother lives!), and they have views of the Pacific. The first photo had a couple of compatible indicators.

never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link

yeah I think I'm confused as to which pictures are the same city

COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link

now I'm not haha

COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link

the second one is in Brazil?

COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link

I'm gonna wager the second one is Lima, if only for the combination of apparent aridity combined with what looks like persistent cloud cover.

never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link

#2 its not Lima but we're getting in the zone now

cherry blossom, Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link

3 unguessed (though the first is so close I might just give it!) and a now fourth, just trying to get some action going here!

https://i.postimg.cc/DZ0DFPVn/ig.png

cherry blossom, Sunday, 12 April 2020 10:35 (four years ago) link


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