Guess the City

and the river hotel

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.0114831,82.9072389,3a,75y,331.21h,83.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAF1QipNPwX2RJge1EbmWcVmPsqfj4qzDRtvIwh66g9ZQ!2e10!7i9472!8i4736

I was actually looking at this photo on Saturday but three clicks away so close!

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.022724,82.9315974,3a,75y,142.72h,86.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3vLgImP9pfuocSWhFW_GPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

and the first shot

Well done, was it the bridge? Turns out it is on nashwan's list at number 32, the bugrinsky bridge

well done.

there's something really eerie about that deck on the hotel.

kind of dying to know what the ski jump is all about

Well done, was it the bridge? Turns out it is on nashwan's list at number 32, the bugrinsky bridge

― ignore the blue line (or something),

No, I just went back to my hunch cities (Omsk, Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk, Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg) to look for the new view. I was already pretty set on it being Russia, and most likely east of the Urals. Landed on an aerial in Novosibirsk and became more convinced that was the river, span around and saw the ski jump thing

I'd already looked at the dot next to the river hotel on Friday, but was looking at the main building not the weird cabin.

I was about to start mooching around Novosibirsk based on the bridge having initially thought it looked too picturesque. Interesting that there's only one bridge like that (at least that scale) in the entire country.

kind of dying to know what the ski jump is all about

looks like it might actually be a ski jump just waiting for some snow:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipOmgLfbSl8ij9VzBy9id096NPpxtQv0KE81IGMD=w408-h306-k-no

(it's labelled Snoubord-Park / Сноуборд-Парк)

very impressive guesswork, cherry blossom.

yeah kudos, called Russia very quickly

It was a good one! Though slightly annoyed that I had it from the second view but didn't realize!

https://i.postimg.cc/cHDTCnLH/Screenshot-2021-09-29-at-08-52-31.png

Midweek Madness

French/english calender, plug socket looks european, could be a burgundy/eu passport behind the juice cup with a distinctive logo (though burgundy is not eu exclusive), (A?)TM sign in the background.

Just to speculate wildly and contradict the above, the calendar says July, the clock on one of the computers says 12 something, the sunlight is coming straight through the window so the sun is low - somewhere in the southern temperate zone?

I keep thinking that's a bottle of vodka on the desk behind the mousemat.

I think the sun is just reflected in an opposite window, not low in the sky.

Nobody loves a stamp like the former Soviet Union. The poster in the back right might say Ев. I can’t tell whether the partially blocked sign says TM or ГМ.

It looks like there are a couple of purple passports on the desk, perhaps suggesting Russia, Mongolia or Uzbekistan, if the signs are in Cyrillic.

The books are either round an unusual way or possibly for a language that reads right to left. If it was just one, I’d think it might be a Quran.

I’m leaning towards Baku, for no justifiable reason.

I think the sun is just reflected in an opposite window, not low in the sky.

possible, if the window is at an angle.

Does the partially blocked sign say ATM? Otherwise I've got nothing here, think I'll be sitting back and watching this one develop

Is that an oil refinery or a port on the calendar?

Pretty sure it's a port with those cranes

ATM seems probable, the small sign beneath could be a hand holding a debet/credit card.

The most visible monitor is ThinkCentre brand, which hardly helps much. Was wondering whether the keyboard looked more QWERTY or AZERTY, but can't really tell.

Is that fan outside ?

is it a fan?

Looks like a wall-mounted fan. I don't think that space beyond glass door is outside, looks like a hallway. The ATM sign there makes me think its in an airport or someplace like that, and we are inside some kind of server room/store room.

Well they need to uninstall that Adobe software anyway

I feel like the logo on the smoothie might be a clue.

Wall-mounted fan makes me think this might be a cool northern climate where air-conditioning is not common in public buildings.

The logo looks like every generic smoothie/juice bar I've ever seen

I've tried my mockup logo image search trick, no joy.

Ft. Lauderdale

Or perhaps its a very hot climate, where combination of fan and AC is required (suggested by presence of AC wall unit).

I think I found the smoothie cup. On a Nigerian shopping site, but apparently made in UAE. Not sure that helps:

https://www.jumia.com.ng/generic-100-fruits-design-disposable-smoothie-cups-with-dome-lid-51859398.html

I dunno with the Islamic looking book we could be in francophone and Islamic Africa.

Any chance of a second photo clue?

I'm wondering if that light/dark blue logo on the mousepad is something I've seen before but I really don't know

next to that ATM sign there's something with a regular E and a fancy B but that can be anything? Exchange Bank?

holy crap! Exim Bank, Uganda?

Tanzania, too

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/EbsXnhpfHECEatYNIskjvQZkES97hp4Aj_RCKmVRVYEeq8ix7yNLdr1eyIwJnlB9ln9DZwTEPLfN9Mv667ld3GFaNMUl-07EB_XhnlxkY82o6P4AZXgqjXeJIVgVOQHjDx2InwOJUo0uRxOciyRPmn7j50b-Qg

Djibouti too but I think that's all of them with this logo?

there can't be that many container ports in those three countries I would think?

I would guess the calendar is some global corporate thing not related to the city in question.

that Exim Bank logo isn't showing up anymore - here's another one just in case
https://is3-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/36/64/79/36647904-a60d-9aff-f0a6-003601187f4f/source/256x256bb.jpg

exim bank operates in Tanzania, Comoros, Djibouti and Uganda. the passports on the desk (if thats what they are) don't match any of these countries.

the calendar being in french/english also doesnt match with the official languages of any of the four countries.

there are atm location maps for a couple of the countries but the lack of street view or any photos at all really makes it hard to pin down the exact one. you can cross reference the atm map against container port locations but none seem to match the calendar.

i would guess dar es salaam.

Djibouti International Airport.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@11.5521941,43.149659,3a,75y,340.09h,98.42t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPSBCCnZJGwjJQIM1qARlFsUOCb1O8aUGtGH3Zq!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPSBCCnZJGwjJQIM1qARlFsUOCb1O8aUGtGH3Zq%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-10-ya63-ro-0-fo100!7i12288!8i4130?hl=en-gb

woohoo! nice find!

What an assist what a finish.