Guess the City

That's a docked cruise ship back there, right?

Fading resort town with palm trees, but guys in first photo look more East European than Mediterranean, and guys in last photo are well wrapped up as if it's pretty cold. Was initially thinking Argentina, but the buildings don't look that South American. Maybe somewhere on the Black Sea? Sochi or somewhere like that? Don't think it's a docked cruise ship btw, I think it's a building.

Hmm: "While it is well known to many that lots of palms grow in Sochi, Russia, it is not the only place in the country where palms are found."

Sadly, time does not permit my checking out every resort town on the Black Sea...

Black Sea feels good as a guess - buildings shaped like ships on concrete piers are certainly a thing there: for instance https://www.google.be/maps/@42.9962529,41.0214901,3a,75y,356.33h,89.14t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMv4dL-ZVQX7xicMc03OWV1PnHhdr53JIIS5cso!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMv4dL-ZVQX7xicMc03OWV1PnHhdr53JIIS5cso%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya129.18877-ro-0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096

SO many resorts on that coast though! I feel like I've seen 200 piers and I'm only like 5% of the way

um...

I think you found it, StanM. Just a bit further up the beach.

https://goo.gl/maps/bgEHhJtz31dQgRwCA

god f* damnit! How did I miss that?

I only clicked on piers, I think :(

ooooooh - view III isn't google earth, is it? ok ok ok

I, III, and IV are all on streetview

Reading about Sukhumi, apparently the destination for Soviet leaders dachas, now capital of Abkhazia, how much more "abandoned Eastern block resort" can you get than that? Nice choice.

All of our Guess The Citys from now on should be in "frozen conflict" zones. Next up, guess where in Transnistria!

I want to visit the Sokhumi Monkey Nursery.

I see where view III is supposed to be but I don't think the blue dot is where it should be.

View I: https://www.google.be/maps/@42.9957559,41.0095129,3a,75y,319.26h,113.27t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPAMTucdL_kZWcRRR17kI6wgWdmnD4E5CvtWA4f!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPAMTucdL_kZWcRRR17kI6wgWdmnD4E5CvtWA4f%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-10-ya0-ro-0-fo100!7i7200!8i3600

xpost : it looks depressing https://www.google.be/maps/place/Sokhumi+Monkey+Nursery/@43.0074951,41.0211576,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipM9tBa1zdoNuFuR0Z5daa2AoqLZfyQtt6FRQaWs!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipM9tBa1zdoNuFuR0Z5daa2AoqLZfyQtt6FRQaWs%3Dw224-h298-k-no!7i3456!8i4608!4m7!3m6!1s0x405f21f4ad9b01f3:0xf89d9c9447a7e1cf!8m2!3d43.0081831!4d41.0215336!14m1!1BCgIgAQ

Well, that looks less nice than I hoped. Sorry, monkeys.

monkey gulags

https://i.postimg.cc/k4t9Nkxx/suk4.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/yN2CNvwW/suk5.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/pL2WNcHH/suk7.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/j5N0nybc/u4.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/28kMrsV2/u6.jpg

looks like havana but with techno

confusing - it's like every image is from another part of the world. Love this!

Yeah it looks awesome.

Lack of black and brown people, I think we're in the Eastern bloc again.

Sebastopol/Sevastopol?

Sokhumi!

No! really? LOL

Yeah I was assuming it was more pictures of the same place!

The second-to-last one it's hard to believe isn't actually somebody's album cover, I feel like the Fixx had a reunion this is the cover they'd pick

I don't know if it's all that faded really, seems pretty lively on Instagram

Didn't expect it to be particularly big, but it's a fair bit smaller than Asheville or Kamloops

https://i.postimg.cc/mZQhxBnz/20210902-070012.jpg

lunch

Looks like it could be the back of a major city train station. Building on the right looks kind of Middle European. Ashtrays on tables are a bit of a rarity these days, maybe somewhere East European?

the chimneys though... factory in a city?

are those chimneys though? thought it may be a tower of some sort behind, hard to judge the scale.

Blue sign seems to hint at LHD?!

It's the train station in Basel

https://maps.app.goo.gl/JetRdHKhK6kXn31R7

nice one!

Sokhumi!

It's the train station in Basel

How did you get to it? Already knew or something else give it away?

I saw the file names you gave the photos and thought it was a red herring

No red herrings! Clues are only ever in the photos!

I've been to Switzerland a couple of times, not to Basel but it felt Swiss and Zelda Zonk mentioning middle European solidified that thought so I got to image searching Swiss cities' railway stations

https://i.postimg.cc/3NGsVn86/20210903-092828.jpg

Friday

Mediterranean vibe. Some walled city in Andalusia?

Getting a Napoli vibe from the wall but idk.

word on the metal grate bottom left - UNIECO ?

REK (?) graffiti tag

graffiti has a distinctive e/E it it is an E

iF it is

Shape of the tall doorway on left looks distinctive but not sure how to search for that shape.

https://www.homestratosphere.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/30-types-of-architectural-arches-diagram-chart-aug16.jpg

it's not exactly in there - still looking