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Or look left! The shark's reflection is in the window

Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Friday, 22 October 2021 11:15 (two years ago) link

Very solid work upthread at getting Oxford without even needing that though!

Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Friday, 22 October 2021 11:18 (two years ago) link

I did grow up there, curious that it's so distinctive though - here's the street that it first reminded me of, a couple of miles over the other side of town, obv the OAP looking accommodation and gated driveway on the left is a coincidence but v similar two storey terraces: https://goo.gl/maps/qzt5Vso68Kt1vH5NA

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Friday, 22 October 2021 11:24 (two years ago) link

my folks live up the road in Littlemore

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Friday, 22 October 2021 11:26 (two years ago) link

OMG the reflection in the window! damn

StanM, Friday, 22 October 2021 12:29 (two years ago) link

oh no i did look at that briefly but didn't think 'hmm maybe it's a shark'... if i'd been thinking of north instead of south oxford i might have done!

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Friday, 22 October 2021 12:42 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/0F97scp/uz.jpg

Monday Morning

Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 08:13 (two years ago) link

Close but no cigar at Guess the Day of the Week it seems

Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 09:30 (two years ago) link

ha!

Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 10:47 (two years ago) link

Not a lot to work on here. Body of water far left could be a lake, river or harbour - I'm thinking the latter as there's some industrial type construction that could be part of a port facility. White building far left and building with light green facade centre left look European to me. Wild guess with not much to back it up would be somewhere in Italy

Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 10:49 (two years ago) link

Strange tower far right is pretty mystifying

Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 10:51 (two years ago) link

Reminds me of the road up from Peschiera del Garda up the east coast of Lake Garda

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link

looks like a shipping control tower, for the port at left maybe?

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 11:39 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/RppWSzp/ka.jpg

View II

Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Thursday, 28 October 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link

Lighthouse, harbour, got nothing.

StanM, Thursday, 28 October 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link

feels too flat for Norway & not flat enough for the rest of Scandinavia (although... maybe)

StanM, Thursday, 28 October 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link

why the fuck does google maps suddenly move back to my location whenever I search anything - GRRRRRRRRRRR

StanM, Thursday, 28 October 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link

lol otm

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Thursday, 28 October 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link

Are we back in Russia? Defo northern hemisphere and don't think it's anywhere in North America

ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 28 October 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link

Googled striped black and white road barrier and got a bunch of stock pics that look pretty similar but frustratingly no location mentioned, although they're copyrighted to a photographer with a Russian name

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 October 2021 08:38 (two years ago) link

that guard rail is pretty distinctive - not a sideways W shape like most

StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 08:53 (two years ago) link

the first pic has a yellow/black striped tower/chimney thing - oil refinery?

StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 09:03 (two years ago) link

jeez - https://www.google.com/search?q=power+pylon+types&source=lnms&tbm=isch

StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 09:13 (two years ago) link

although that particular type with the widest at the top and then narrower and narrower below that isn't something I can find in many of those pylon overviews, apparently

StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 09:16 (two years ago) link

I'm guessing this may be somewhere on the Baltic Sea. That type of lighthouse seems to exist there.

o. nate, Monday, 1 November 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link

that road barrier with stripes is common in ukraine

micah, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 09:37 (two years ago) link

hint please

A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link

I mean, it was clear from your link that that was THE lighthouse :-)

StanM, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link

Murmansk it is

https://i.ibb.co/KGxhVwH/Screenshot-2021-11-02-at-16-59-32.png

Quite a fan of this, one step back from ShariVari's link

Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link

That's very Murmansk

I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link

Quintessential!

Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Friday, 5 November 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/M8MfYwJ/cmas.jpg

Tis (almost) the season

Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Friday, 5 November 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link

colonial feel and all the pictures are of white people dressed warmly, guessing either Canada or New Zealand

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 November 2021 12:05 (two years ago) link

isn't that rotating wooden candle thing German? (iirc it's called a pyramid?)

StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link

... doesn't place this picture in Germany, obv

StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 13:10 (two years ago) link

Card is in English "Christmas Pyramid."

nickn, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link

And I'm always amused at the thought of the Google photo-car rumbling through museums, offices, etc.

nickn, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link

The electrical outlet is infuriatingly blurry. Can't tell if its US, UK or Euro style.

o. nate, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link

This is some kind of museum, right?

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link

that's a US outlet imo, because the sockets are one above each other, which doesn't work for UK plugs.

also those vestments look popish.

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link

A cursory google suggests there aren't loads of churches or cathedrals with that single-spire-and-two-tower structure but so far checking museums in the two UK cities which seem to have such a cathedral (Lichfield and Truro) has turned up nothing

ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link

the black and white photo of santa also looks very mid-century US.

anyone recognize those churches as ... boston?

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link

If it's the US I'd guess its some museum display about Christmas as celebrated by German immigrants, so most likely somewhere in the upper Midwest. Puzzled by the photo on the right, looks like a Santa standing next to some pianos out on the street? The caption seems to read "(Illegible) Music Store Santa"

o. nate, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link

i don't get a german american vibe fwiw (i get that this is a museum or whatever, but those pink vestments do feel v catholic)

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 November 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link

That Santa photo on the right, taken outside next to a large sign. Lifts? Litts? Maybe an old deparment store?

a (waterface), Friday, 5 November 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link

There's another set of letters in the background, KUM, could be a radio station? There's a WKUM in Puerto Rico

a (waterface), Friday, 5 November 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link

this all feels like some "here's how pope X celebrated christmas when he was a child" display to me - and those three tower pictures... Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Italy?

I don't think it's Ratzinger, this is in his childhood house in Marktl, Bavaria (where they have a couple of free standing square towers but nothing 100% like on those pics): https://www.papsthaus.eu/index.php?page=biografie-raeume

StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link


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