Guess the City

doesn't feel like Lisbon to me, couldn't exactly tell you why though

First thought was Corsica or Sardinia. Going by the geography (with Sardinia to the south) is it Bonifacio?

Stop sign in English, though? Gibraltar?

there is what looks like a French blue/white street sign on the right side, though it's perhaps too low down to be a street sign.

yeah looks like provincial France to me, no idea where though

Stop signs in France say "Stop" in English, no? I hope that is true as it's one of my favorite things about Quebec (where they stubbornly say "Arrêt")

yes, they say stop in English here!

I've been looking at some streets in Ajaccio on Google Maps and it looks kind of right, all the streets seem to be in a better state of repair though.

It does look a little raggedy for Corsica to be honest (at least the parts I've seen).

xp though I can't remember having seen one in ages, could it be that there aren't stop signs in Paris? I've barely been out of my quartier since 2019, between strikes & lockdowns, and I don't think there are any around here.

xp yes, raggedy is the word, this isn't a big tourist spot

I lived for more than a year in Marseille & have spent time in numerous other cities in the south of France, like for example Narbonne, and that decrepit vibe is par for the course, even in Marseille's city center. I'm not guessing Marseille though, the sky is wrong.

it looks like a place where a dirtbag (me) can live in peace

Maybe Perpignan?

https://i.postimg.cc/Cx36kHCK/Screenshot-2021-01-12-at-12-21-35.png

Another view

Still reminds me of Corsica. Porto Vecchio? Could also be Alghero on Sardinia.

Croatia somewhere?

yeah I was thinking Dalmatian coast, Split maybe?

I've been to Split and it definitely reminds me of there but geographically nothing quite fits

Figures tbf

is Malta an option?
either way, that white building down there in the bay looks like it's the biggest clue.

still reminds me of the south of France, somewhere between Marseille & the Côte d'Azur, like Toulon or Hyères, but I dunno

yeah I was thinking Dalmatian coast, Split maybe?

Those jokes are peculiarly funny to me. Desperate.

"I say, my wife and I took a holiday in eastern Europe."
"Moldova?"
"No, we decided quite quickly actually."

my favourite one

My wife's gone to Hugo Chavez's funeral in Venezuela.

Caracas?

No, she has a nuanced opinion of his controversial time in power.

please, I beg you

San Remo?

It definitely looks French to me though... St-Raphael?

Is there anything to say it couldnt be the Mediterranean coast of spain too

Both pics look south of France to me, and the first pic has a very typical French house number on the left hand side (although do they have those same blue house numbers in Spain/Italy? I don't know).

Cars look French too

I thought Malta for a second but apparently there are no palm trees in Malta any more

I'd actually guess Northern Africa... Melilla or Nador

Still think it looks French, but I also wonder about the terraced houses in pic 1 - not so common in France, old quarters tend to have small apartment blocks not houses. Also the window shutters are green, which is more common in Italy than France, although still perfectly possible for France.

is it Basse-Terre?

Those palm trees with the big clusters of red fruit don't look like any I've seen and feel like a clue! But I don't know enough about palms to identify the species. Maybe this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonidia_merrillii

or this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactris_gasipaes

or...?

https://i.postimg.cc/8NpnkhB9/Screenshot-2021-01-12-at-12-04-01.png

View #3

Messina?

Now I don't know what to think at all -- Naples but with a British cathedral in it?

Actually, is it Naples? That glass arcade in the foreground looks a lot like the 19th century glass mall there.

huh yes the church does make it look like Messina, and that's consistent with it seemingly being on a strait. I've not been there!

The big McDonalds sign at the bottom left in the second pic (if you zoom in) had me googling branches of McD's that would match up with the geography but needed the third pic with the proximity of what looks like mainland over the water and the shape of the docks to really narrow that down.

Messina it is

That second pic on Streetview

yeah the green McDo sign helped me see that this was Europe. I was looking for pertinent McDos in the Côte d'Azur earlier, didn't succeed obviously but now I reallllllllllly want to be there.

I just want to go to McDonald’s

There aren’t any close to me

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@38.2092891,15.5515575,3a,37.5y,130.11h,84.24t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syYU5gDcCgpsF2lklUwUkPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

the original streetview here

https://i.postimg.cc/w6Qh9TzQ/naaa.jpg

Friday view

Doesn't look European, I'm guessing US

I wondered if it might be Boulder but not sure it's built up enough.