bulb after bulb out of nowhere with the correct answer, well played
― ignore the blue line (or something), Sunday, 4 April 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
How did you do it?
don't you remember the time we went to Bangor?
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 4 April 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
ha.
Was thinking Ireland, so GISed ferris wheel Ireland, looking for the blue stanchions.
― bulb after bulb, Sunday, 4 April 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
If you move forward in streetview that wheel disappears, guess it's not permanent. Thought I'd leave it in to make things easier after three days of increasingly sparse responses tho
― ignore the blue line (or something), Sunday, 4 April 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
I have such a knowledge of Tesco petrol station architecture variations now.
― nashwan, Sunday, 4 April 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
Feeling possibly somewhere in Wales
― cherry blossom, Friday, 2 April 2021 08:07
I don't get it! Bangor was one of the first tesco's I checked on streetview but it doesn't look like that
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 4 April 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
This is Bangor in N Ireland
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 4 April 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
They've put one there now as well?
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 4 April 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
Hey, spare a thought for me. I was streetviewing N Irish Tesco petrol stations this morning, there are two of them, I checked one of them (the wrong one, as it turns out) but for some unaccountable reason skipped over the second.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 4 April 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
^ two in Bangor, I mean
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 4 April 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
another. Bangor.
(n.b., joke handcrafted for breastcrawl)
― rob, Sunday, 4 April 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
It was meant to be: hadn't looked in on the thread in a few days and finished Great Granny Webster last night:
The Clandeboye Estate is a country estate located in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, 12 miles (19 km) outside Belfast. . .The estate is also the inspiration for Dunmartin Hall in the 1977 novel Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood, who lived at the hall as a child.
The estate is also the inspiration for Dunmartin Hall in the 1977 novel Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood, who lived at the hall as a child.
(did not make this connection until after I found the ferris wheel, mind) great book!
― bulb after bulb, Sunday, 4 April 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
another. Bangor.(n.b., joke handcrafted for breastcrawl)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 4 April 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
I checked dozens of Tescos in Slovakia, Poland, Czechia and Hungary for this on Friday, started doing Ireland and N Ireland as well (on Saturday, I guess), but didn’t follow thru. There’s only so many Tesco stations a person can take in in one lifetime. I finally got a handle on navigating Streetview in the process, so it wasn’t all for nothing
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 4 April 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
I'm still confused where the petrol station is
― cherry blossom, Monday, 5 April 2021 08:24 (three years ago) link
Where Old Belfast road meets Killeen Ave
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Monday, 5 April 2021 08:56 (three years ago) link
https://goo.gl/maps/RBgaBv2FqLL8MHPT7
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 5 April 2021 08:57 (three years ago) link
Ah, google maps put it in a slightly different location and I couldn't find it
― cherry blossom, Monday, 5 April 2021 09:16 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/ht0mDRgz/8-C22-D651-4262-4-BE6-A0-D1-F395-F14-A7-ED7.jpg
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 5 April 2021 09:54 (three years ago) link
For a second I was like 'whoa is that a bear'
― nashwan, Monday, 5 April 2021 10:19 (three years ago) link
Is this one of the many cities with extensive streetview coverage in Mexico that got referenced during the Salta guesses?
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 5 April 2021 10:26 (three years ago) link
I thought it was a cat
― cherry blossom, Monday, 5 April 2021 10:40 (three years ago) link
Possibly....
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 5 April 2021 10:51 (three years ago) link
The blue stripe is pretty unusual.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 5 April 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
I thought it was pokey the penguin.
― Computers I can live with, I even dried them in the oven (ledge), Monday, 5 April 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
It’s a pothole. I have cropped out the local councillor pointing at it.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 5 April 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
Based on next to nothing - is it Leon?
― nashwan, Monday, 5 April 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
It is not Leon.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 5 April 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
Ah got excited for a moment having clicked on a random street there (actualy after guessing Leon) and immediately seeing those same cubey trees and very similar buildings.
― nashwan, Monday, 5 April 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
The blue stripe is pretty unusual
^
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 5 April 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
I'm going to guess San Juan, Puerto Rico. I have noticed they like painting hazard paint on the edge of their pavements there.
― calzino, Monday, 5 April 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
It’s not San Juan.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 5 April 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
Is this one of the many cities with extensive streetview coverage in Mexico that got referenced during the Salta guesses?Possibly....― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 5 April 2021 11:51 (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 5 April 2021 11:51 (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Well as I've got nothing else right now and a cursory search suggests some similarities and they're all incredibly dense to search I'm just gonna guess one that was mentioned - Mazatlan?
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 5 April 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
Yes, it’s Mazatlan.
I couldn’t resist posting the one city that actually does have a big blue line down the middle of the road.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 5 April 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
Haha I genuinely thought that was just the streetview line again. I got rewarded for laziness there, should really try and find the spot
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 5 April 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
Carnavalhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/kzaLrHug3bLLyVnK7
There you go
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 5 April 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
i clicked around randomly and was suddenly confronted with a senor frog's lol
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Monday, 5 April 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
Wait what I was joking, is that a real blue stripe?!
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 5 April 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
Looks real!
― calzino, Monday, 5 April 2021
This was my guess too, or at least it was until I couldn't find it (and the old town part there seems pretty small)
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 05:21 (three years ago) link
It is real.
Mazatlan has a designated safe tourist route for cruise ship passengers, etc, marked in blue, that looks almost exactly like the street view thing.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 06:47 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/tgP4cDxV/thurs.jpg
Thursday
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 8 April 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link
Kansas City? I feel like i've seen that building before.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 8 April 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link
Hole in one!
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 8 April 2021 10:15 (three years ago) link
Blimey!
― Madchen, Thursday, 8 April 2021 11:41 (three years ago) link
It's the Kansas City Convention Center. I think i must have been eyeballing a conference for work in 2010, which i ultimately didn't get to go to, and it has lodged in my mind.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 8 April 2021 11:52 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/7L5ZtxZy/thurs-ii.jpg
Thursday II
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 8 April 2021 12:30 (three years ago) link
Bologna
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 April 2021 12:35 (three years ago) link
Definitely feels like Italy.
Ancona, maybe?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 8 April 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
Not enough Fiat for Italy. There are a few Seat so I'm thinking Spain.
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 8 April 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link