Guess the City

Colombo

Not Sri Lanka.

found it! Sharjah, UAE - Rolla Square, to be precise

Correct!

not good at manoeuvring through Google Maps/Street View, but it's around here: https://www.google.com/maps/@25.3564388,55.3896858,3a,75y,348.82h,107.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sL91ToI9apzg3kBC34OPfgg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=nl

Good work

not good at manoeuvring through Google Maps/Street View

I am!

https://goo.gl/maps/ZpGU8n69oQw9g66H6

a search for black and yellow curbs in Asia got me this pic:
http://geotips.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/srwpd3s.jpg

was expecting Bangladesh or Pakistan, but it turned out to be a UAE construction firm. then checked UAE for cricket-ness, not expecting anything, but yes! tried Abu Dhabi parks first, but then switched to Sharjah, which was also mentioned as a cricket-friendly city, and found a pic of a park that seemed to match.

Al Rolla Square, as it happens, is actually named after its banyan trees!

ah thanx, right on the money!

xp

I thought those black and yellow curbs might do the trick!

yep, I went with your suggestion, seemed like the only way in

I only just noticed it actually says Sharjah on that pic as well!

I looked up street views of Dhaka & Colombo and there would be thousands of scooters and Vespa Apes parked on the sidewalk if it was one of those towns, and the sky would be smoggy, and abject poverty

time for some red & white curbs

https://i.imgur.com/AuRAomp.jpg

or are they black & white? (honestly can't tell the difference, sorry)

that looks like spain?

Maybe somewhere in the Caribbean?

Is that car driving on the left though?

Somewhere warm, somewhere (it seems to me) left hand driving, so former British colony?

These are very good questions, ZZ, and there is an interesting answer which would be too much of a clue at this stage.

Convinced myself that it's India but there's really not a lot to go on. Feel like identifying the spongebob-like cartoon on the mural is key

Driving on the left + scrubbiness of vegetation consistent with Anglophone Caribbean.

From the comment that there's an interesting answer to my questions that would give too much away, I surmise that this isn't exactly a former British colony, but perhaps once occupied by the British or maybe is still a British overseas territory. For a moment I got excited about Israel, as they seem to have red and white curbs, but sadly they drive on the right. However, Cyprus drives on the left, could it be Nicosia?

The far right tbh

Feel like we can be a little quick with the clues. Clues were popping out for Sharjah before I'd even seen the pic! (not that I was anywhere close to getting it)

Clues from the poster of the pic I mean, not from guessers!

I'm leaning somewhere in Cyprus for now, but the road signs don't quite feel right for there

Googling black and white curbs, I come up with Singapore and Malaysia. Could this be Malaysia? Drives on the left and has "interesting" (to say the least) former relations with Britain. Not quite tidy enough looking to be Singapore, I feel

Is it like a big roundabout thing? Whats in the middle? like a raised angled plaque.

I'm stuck on this being Limassol but can't quite make it work

Not Limassol or Nicosia.

Or any other city in Cyprus

I'll do a reverse view in a few hours.

It definitely feels Caribbean to me but doesn’t remind me of anywhere I know. If the cars are on the left, perhaps Charlotte Amalie in the USVI. If they’re on the right, Belize City?

Georgetown, Guyana?

I was going to do a reverse view but can't find the exact spot, so here is just another view of the city, think this should be a bit more helpful.

https://i.imgur.com/21ruP92.png

Alexandria

Definitely driving on the left!

Windhoek

https://goo.gl/maps/UiAGMT5JUXFcrnyz5

Yes, well done! How did you work it out?

I tried for 5 mins to find the original location but I cannot find it. I believe it's somewhere around the roundabout near Christuskirche but I don't have the time today for further goofing off.

The 2nd pic was way more telling. I could make out Alexander F____ House which suggested it was an English speaking country. The palm trees made me believe it was equatorial or southern hemisphere and definitely a coastal city.

...except for the coastal bit :)

Second pic definitely required, that first one was a real needle in a haystack

Sorry "coastal" may not have been the best descriptor but when looking at maps of continents, Windhoek seems coastal from that perspective.

I believe it's somewhere around the roundabout near Christuskirche but I don't have the time today for further goofing off.

It's in Limassol. Or, at least its twin is. I was sure I found the building in the distance, the kerb markings, almost everything, in Limassol. Definitely wide of the mark once again

My turn?

https://i.imgur.com/NTtLTW3.png

too easy

Beersheba?

Monterey, California?