Guess the City

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.

some kind of small sports stadium in the middle of the picture, looks pretty distinctive

I'm drawn to the circular lawn with towered building centre left (an historic university/college?), but it's not helping, yet.

Missoula, Montana

^ that was so awfully specific it couldn't be wrong - and it wasn't :-)

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8585585,-113.973594,3a,75y,9.83h,86.58t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipN0D9re2W1odv16GyYc8zy52UUlhtjc7zKFMJAN!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipN0D9re2W1odv16GyYc8zy52UUlhtjc7zKFMJAN%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya54.536785-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

Aha, I think maybe this featured in a GeoWizard video a good while ago, I remember the M on the hillside causing much discussion. Need to see if I can find it and check.

Missoula, Montana

― All cars are bad (Euler),

Yes, was it one of those you just see it right off the bat?

It looked at first glance like a Rockies place, and it looked like a university what with stadium and the buildings around it, so I thought of a few western university towns and looked if they were on rivers. I tried the university of Idaho first, then Montana second and bingo. I knew it wasn’t Boise State because I’d been to Boise and the stadium has purple turf.

Way to go, I was about to start looking up Utah State

Way to go, I was about to start looking up Utah State

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, January 15, 2021 3:24 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol i have utah expertise and it definitely seemed like it was either further north or higher up to me (evergreens at street level). missoula is beautiful and a nice place to visit.

Yeah I thought Utah myself at first

i don't know exactly how to tell it isn't utah but it's some combination of: no sagebrush, no cedar trees, no juniper trees, looks like it gets a few more inches of rain per year, no lds churches, the wasatch is more abrupt-looking.

i was going to guess medford. definitely north of utah though. good pic.

Methford is not that nice, my man

I caught a trout in that river once, right downtown

I caught a needle in that river once, right downtown

i ate a very nice slice of cherry pie in medford once. did not detect any meth.

Alright, think this one might be a quickie

https://i.imgur.com/UpDmtUK.jpeg

I mean

https://i.imgur.com/UpDmtUK.jpeg

brasilia?

no

no

Ho Chi Minh City

would like to try one

january 15 no. 2

https://images.snapwi.re/4cc5/556cd98182a5e84845918aba.w800.jpg

Ho Chi Minh City

― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver),

South East Asia for sure, but doesn't seem modern enough for HCMC

@ map

Tampico, Mexico

(I went to Structurae and scrolled down through the list of cable-stayed bridges until Puente Tampico showed its hideous face)

South East Asia for sure, but doesn't seem modern enough for HCMC

― cherry blossom

Is it Vientiane?

it is! that's the biggest street in the Laotian capital, as viewed from the "vertical runway" (a giant stone arch thing made with concrete which the USA donated for the building of an airport)

I was there for a few days in 2005, perhaps the most laid back capital I've ever visited.

this is from when I was there in 2008, yes very laid back, big contrast to horrible Vang Vieng

I had a lot of fun in Vang Vieng but I was only young.

it was like Bad Boy Island in Pinocchio, thought I saw someone die within an hour of arriving.

I went to Structurae and scrolled down through the list of cable-stayed bridges

i thought of this except a) using wikipedia or something as I hadn't heard of structurae and ii) i wrote it off as insane as there are probably a million cable stayed bridges. so, kudos.

I did look at about a thousand bridges until I found the one

https://i.postimg.cc/rcHnyZPh/Screenshot-2021-01-16-at-16-23-11.png

Well in that case

I was looking for tallest, diamond shaped cable-stayed, anything to narrow it down but it's clearly not particularly tall or particularly anything so I found nothing xp