Guess the City

It's new York in house of mirth

Yes, it is. Also another recent film with Meryl streep in it. Can't be bothered looking it up though.

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oh! good one - never would have guessed :-)

Hope this works...

https://i.postimg.cc/T3XnsWMz/clue1.jpg

off to the big book of bridges again

I've been there - do I still get to guess?

Let's not - hint: I'm from Belgium so it's either in or near there :-)

I mean it screams Netherlands but

but?

looking at a lot of Dutch cities, Arnhem is the closest so far but it's not right

close

I’m also recusing myself

but it’s very close

Looks like this one is going to go before I get a chance to have a proper look. Off top of my head without looking I'm making an opening move with Krefeld.

Going to have a look around now tho

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.841902,5.699407,3a,75y,111.12h,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOj2OKOiVJNxYEsUJFpvqz4s8bqFCuzTvtfaga_!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOj2OKOiVJNxYEsUJFpvqz4s8bqFCuzTvtfaga_%3Dw241-h100-k-no!7i2048!8i849

Nijmegen

yay!

wait, what? something wrong with your link but it was Nijmegen

https://www.google.nl/maps/@51.8536428,5.8701745,3a,75y,245.02h,85.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKSBb9QwINrmLxc8bM9GW8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.841902,5.699407,3a,75y,111.12h,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOj2OKOiVJNxYEsUJFpvqz4s8bqFCuzTvtfaga_!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOj2OKOiVJNxYEsUJFpvqz4s8bqFCuzTvtfaga_%3Dw241-h100-k-no!7i2048!8i849

yeah it picked up the previous url for some reason

eh, it keeps linking back to the wrong url whatever I do

lets try again

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.8536428,5.8701745,3a,75y,264.15h,82.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKSBb9QwINrmLxc8bM9GW8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The road we're on is named after the general who... kinda majorly messed up securing the bridge during WWII ? Nice tribute!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Gavin#Operation_Market_Garden

I'm reading "Time of Gifts" by Patrick Leigh Fermor, and I just got to the part where he passes through Nijmegen.

oooh, always heard great things about that (2/3 books?)

I just started it. It's 2 books, I think. This one and the sequel "Between the Woods and the Water", tells the story of a walk across Europe he did in the '30s.

broken road, the third part was edited and published posthumously a couple of years ago. they're conversational but also quite dense/long. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766419.A_Time_to_Keep_Silence is a smaller investment and broadly similar in style/content/tone if you're interested in checking him out.

my, what a great book review site, thank you - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253984.A_Time_of_Gifts

all three of those are well worth reading, Fermor was a great writer.

Nijmegen! I looked at pictures of it but nothing quite matched up.

Will also stan for those Fermor books - what a life. I put this on another thread at some point, but it bears repeating:

At the age of 18 Leigh Fermor decided to walk the length of Europe, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople (Istanbul). He set off on 8 December 1933 with a few clothes, several letters of introduction, the Oxford Book of English Verse and a Loeb volume of Horace's Odes. He slept in barns and shepherds' huts, but also was invited by landed gentry and aristocracy into the country houses of Central Europe. He experienced hospitality in many monasteries along the way.
Leigh Fermor arrived in Istanbul on 1 January 1935, then continued to travel around Greece. In March he was involved in the campaign of royalist forces in Macedonia against an attempted Republican revolt. In Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzène (Bălaşa Cantacuzino), a Romanian Phanariote noblewoman, with whom he fell in love. They shared an old watermill outside the city looking out towards Poros, where she painted and he wrote. They moved on to Băleni, Galați, the Cantacuzène house in Moldavia, Romania, where he remained until the autumn of 1939. On learning that Britain had declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 Leigh Fermor immediately left Romania to return home and enlist in the army.

As an officer cadet, Leigh Fermor trained alongside Derek Bond[11] and Iain Moncreiffe, and later joined the Irish Guards. Due to his knowledge of modern Greek, he was commissioned in the General List in August 1940 and became a liaison officer in Albania. He fought in Crete and mainland Greece. During the German occupation, he returned to Crete three times, once by parachute, and was one of a small number of Special Operations Executive (SOE) officers posted to organise the island's resistance to the occupation. Disguised as a shepherd and nicknamed Michalis or Filedem, he lived for over two years in the mountains. With Captain Bill Stanley Moss as his second in command, Leigh Fermor led the party that in 1944 captured and evacuated the German commander, Major General Heinrich Kreipe.

Leigh Fermor was noted for his strong physical constitution, even though he smoked 80 to 100 cigarettes a day. Although in his last years he suffered from tunnel vision and wore hearing aids, he remained physically fit up to his death and dined at table on the last evening of his life.

dined at table on the last evening of his life.

what now?

xp that was what was known as "a good war"

The very high positivity rates around the country suggest actual case counts are *much* higher, which weirdly may be good news insofar as where we are in this wave. https://t.co/bNeCmpEwBk

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 23, 2021

Fort Lauderdale?

Hope this works...

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Haha sorry about the covid content. Wrong thread.

https://i.postimg.cc/GhXxX8M6/qqr.jpg

New

I've been on a street in Copenhagen that looked just like that

the drain pipes all end on the pavement bit there's no street gutters = not much rain here?

but little rain + quite British feeling terraced housing (van on the left side of the street?) = ?

if the van's sun flap is on the driver's side, then the steering wheel is on the right side = UK

satellite dish looks to be pointing at a very shallow angle. does that imply more Northern? i'd've said cornwall otherwise, based on general feel.

Tartu, Estonia

No real evidence. I just feel that this is what I am looking at.

Otherwise, Aarhus, Denmark

Someday I will go to Aarhus

It’s a great city. I loved my brief time there.

is there a treasure buried under this X?

I've heard Aarhus is a very, very nice hus.

TEC on that red box (lightbulb on top?) should be a clue. Some kind of alarm system?

Edinburgh, Scotland?

Trying to make out the TO LET agent but it's broken my eyes