I'm leaning somewhere in Cyprus for now, but the road signs don't quite feel right for there
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 04:54 (three years ago) link
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
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 05:31 (three years ago) link
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
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 13:30 (three years ago) link
Not Limassol or Nicosia.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
Or any other city in Cyprus
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 13:39 (three years ago) link
I'll do a reverse view in a few hours.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 13:48 (three years ago) link
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?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
Georgetown, Guyana?
― nickn, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
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
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link
Alexandria
― rob, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
Definitely driving on the left!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
Windhoek
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
https://goo.gl/maps/UiAGMT5JUXFcrnyz5
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
Yes, well done! How did you work it out?
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
...except for the coastal bit :)
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
Second pic definitely required, that first one was a real needle in a haystack
― or something, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
Sorry "coastal" may not have been the best descriptor but when looking at maps of continents, Windhoek seems coastal from that perspective.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
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
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
My turn?
https://i.imgur.com/NTtLTW3.png
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 11 February 2021 05:13 (three years ago) link
too easy
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Thursday, 11 February 2021 09:32 (three years ago) link
Beersheba?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 February 2021 09:46 (three years ago) link
Monterey, California?
― or something, Thursday, 11 February 2021 09:57 (three years ago) link
definitely reminds me of Israel
― All cars are bad (Euler), Thursday, 11 February 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
also like the hills above Palo Alto, looking toward the Pacific, but the colors and tbh the fences look more like the eastern edges of Jerusalem
― All cars are bad (Euler), Thursday, 11 February 2021 10:59 (three years ago) link
That's a race track no? Hence my guess. A few minutes googling famous racetracks (or raceways as I found they're called in the US) took me to Laguna Seca outside Monterey. This looks a lot like it, even down to the blue and white strip along the track
― or something, Thursday, 11 February 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
Looks close to the spot
The Corkscrewhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/9npXDVUyBQx5NDiH7
― or something, Thursday, 11 February 2021 12:39 (three years ago) link
correct, the corkscrew at Laguna Seca! Apologies if that was too easy.
I have vomited at the apex of that climb three times in an hour long event.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 11 February 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/5yvg6GYy/16387-A3-C-2-AC4-495-B-90-CE-06-D38371-F1-E6.jpg
Quite a few leads in the picture for this one.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 February 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
Laguna Seca
Is this actually in a city?
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 February 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
I checked with your mom and she said that yes it is.
― lord of the ting tings (map), Thursday, 11 February 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
Yours said it isn't.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 February 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
Yes Tom Dombadilly, Laguna Seca is in Monterey, CA, USA.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 11 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
https://virtualvacation.us/guess now with video
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 February 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari),
I can't really look properly until tomorrow but this looks a good one
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 February 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
singapore
― treeship., Friday, 12 February 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
Not Singapore.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 12 February 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
the sign says "BOUISI" so somewhere that was formerly part of french indochina. it just seems like that region to me.
― treeship., Friday, 12 February 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
Surabaya
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 February 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@-7.2393138,112.7373624,3a,75y,3.29h,98.77t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sbBEjYxN59iAra0jfGD16oQ!2e0!5s20190201T000000!7i13312!8i6656
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 February 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
I figured it was Indonesia but no real clue where, dropped in Surabaya and saw similar roofs straightaway, but finding the actual building was tougher
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 February 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
Correct!
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 12 February 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
I was clear on it being Indonesia and found the similar buildings and all, but then I thought the same thing with thinking Windhoek was in Cyprus and that I'd found the right building in Limassol
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 February 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
gah, what a missed opportunity! thought it might be a police car, but couldn’t quite read how exactly the word was spelled here, and then fixated on that street lamp pole, which looked so familiar, but I couldn’t get it through googling. never occurred to me those red shapes could be letters. “polisi” would have been such a dead giveaway. damn you, low resolution!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 12 February 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/PrgcBGQS/ux20.jpg
Monday
― cherry blossom, Monday, 15 February 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
That looks so much like Toronto, that style of high school underpass mural. Can't place it, or the red trusses, though
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 15 February 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
I'm deeply tempted to say Philadelphia, but I don't know that mural and can't find anything about it on the local mural sites. The buildings toward the center-right look deeply eastern US seaboard to me, or at least east of the Mississippi.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Monday, 15 February 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
I *really* think it's Philadelphia, in the "I feel like I've driven by that mural on the way to the airport" sense. Does on the way to the airport give a clue?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
The foliage does place it around Philly, to my eyes... slightly too verdant for Toronto
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 15 February 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
it's not on the way to the airport
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link