Guess the City

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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

somewhere in NZ, Nelson/Richmond? haven't found the right roundabout yet

thomasintrouble, Sunday, 12 April 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link

other end of the island. Invercargill !

thomasintrouble, Sunday, 12 April 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link

is #1 Gettysburg?

dip to dup (rob), Sunday, 12 April 2020 12:57 (four years ago) link

and let's try Quito for #2

dip to dup (rob), Sunday, 12 April 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link

Invercargill it is, top bins no messing about!

Gettysburg/Quito are both not bad guesses, but both are worse than the previous best guesses of Reading/Lima. Gettysburg is going on wrong direction

cherry blossom, Sunday, 12 April 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link

alright Cusco then

dip to dup (rob), Sunday, 12 April 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link

If Viña del Mar was really close then, unlikely as it seems, is it Valparaiso?

all the best people go on holiday to Fife (aldo), Sunday, 12 April 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link

Lima is the closest so far for #2!

cherry blossom, Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link

Wow... I spent a long time dropping pins on every single Smith & Smith location in New Zealand to try and guess Invercargill.

Oddly enough, I found another place (in Invercargill!) that has a Market South adjacent to a Smith & Smith, on a roundabout:

https://goo.gl/maps/jBn4brjZV4bSikEM9

we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link

Thats the same one!

cherry blossom, Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link

Found the church!
https://goo.gl/maps/gwBTDHiDJM6iDVk77

bougie white woman (doo dah), Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link

Great work doo dah! You are now promoted to the first team.

It was indeed Nesquehoning!

cherry blossom, Sunday, 12 April 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link

I spent way too much time looking in Homestead & Braddock!

bougie white woman (doo dah), Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link

You get it from looking for orthodox churches?

cherry blossom, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link

xp omg YES I see it now, there's ANOTHER roundabout

My Googlemaps tour of NZ showed me a lot of aluminum siding, the entire country looks like suburban Quebec

we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 12 April 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link

XP - yes, though your hint about Biden helped, so I looked for orthodox churches around Scranton.

bougie white woman (doo dah), Sunday, 12 April 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link

that’s impressive doo dah

don't know where that street with blue/tan/white houses is but I like the image

Dan S, Sunday, 12 April 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link

the street is amazing and I'm surprised it's not super easy to find!

thomasintrouble, Monday, 13 April 2020 09:13 (four years ago) link

Trujillo for #2? I can't find the streets but the lighting and some of the architecture look right?

thomasintrouble, Monday, 13 April 2020 10:06 (four years ago) link

Trujillo is definitely close, but not it

No takers for #3 with the tower blocks?

cherry blossom, Monday, 13 April 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link

XP - yes, though your hint about Biden helped,

Impressive, as the comment about Biden was actually a red herring. I was just imagining him hiding in that window, it wasn't a location hint!

cherry blossom, Monday, 13 April 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link

although maybe subconsciously it was!

cherry blossom, Monday, 13 April 2020 11:04 (four years ago) link

Some of the towers are similar in design to ones I saw in Lisbon

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link

Though they had flat roofs

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:08 (four years ago) link

Its not Lisbon! Here's another angle

https://i.postimg.cc/Qjfdnchb/Screenshot-2020-04-13-at-12-31-31.png

cherry blossom, Monday, 13 April 2020 11:35 (four years ago) link

Guessing Chimbote or (Nuevo Chimbote) for #2. I've googled pretty much every city in Peru and it seems the most likely

we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 13 April 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link

I can't quite remember the location of the first Chimbote pic, but it was around here somewhere

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-9.0618,-78.5812719,3a,75y,295.33h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s82RJUKxvpwRpRvd4nqZ2wA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

cherry blossom, Monday, 13 April 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link

is the game to post just pics you've taken yourself?

Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 13 April 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link

Not at all Euler. The world is your oyster.

never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link

Get one in there Euler!

And have a go at NotLisbon Tower Blocks too

cherry blossom, Monday, 13 April 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link

GOD I'm so happy I figured out it was Chimbote

I was confusing which pics were of which city (to be honest). I wouldn't have got Chimbote without other people's guesses of Lima/Trujillo... I was literally googling "fastest growing cities in Peru" just to track down where such commie-looking suburbs might've popped up

we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 13 April 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link

Is #3 (not Lisbon) in Turkey?

we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 13 April 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link

The minaret suggests "Islamic", it looks too verdant to be Northern Africa, too dry to be India/Bangladesh/Indonesia, too modern to be Middle Eastern, both "new economy" and also "not rich", I actually don't think it's Turkey but think it's a former USSR -stan country

we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 13 April 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link

Turkey seems a good bet, Izmir/Smyrna?

ogmor, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link

It isn't Izmir.

There's some decent coastline/mountain/terrain info in that last photo!

cherry blossom, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 09:52 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

No takers for NotLisbon (or Izmir)?

https://i.postimg.cc/QtMrCCmW/Screenshot-2020-04-30-at-06-39-56.png

Here's a new one to go with it, ThursdaySkyline

cherry blossom, Thursday, 30 April 2020 05:55 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I've forgotten where ThurdaySkyline is! Going to have to try guess my own city!

DoubleHeader-1

https://i.postimg.cc/dqKXx7N1/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-21-33-48.png

DoubleHeader-2

https://i.postimg.cc/1RKbGyrt/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-21-23-31.png

cherry blossom, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link

first one is Dundee?

COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link

rusty tin roofs of the second one is making me think Russia but I'm out of my element

COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link

Chelyabinsk?

ShariVari, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link

Dundee YES!
Chelyabinsk NO!

cherry blossom, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link

second one Norilsk?

thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link

Second one is Norilsk, too iconic to be anywhere else!

Shall I give the answer to NotLisbonOrIzmir? Or leave it to posterity?

I can't give the answer to ThursdaySkyline because I've forgotten where it is. I might try guess it myself later today

cherry blossom, Sunday, 24 May 2020 12:45 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

https://i.postimg.cc/8zvR70x2/gtc1407.jpg

guess the city 14/07

cherry blossom, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link

it's Batumi, right?

No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link


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