Guess the City

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Could be Scotland - Scotrail stations have blue all over like that. Feel like the key to this would be finding the route that fits the station name lengths on the screen, but can't be bothered with that right now.

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 31 December 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link

It's destinations, I guess, not points on a route.

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 31 December 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link

I bet it's Falkirk or Coatbridge Sunnyside. Something like that. If they are cities. Which they're not.

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 31 December 2021 03:07 (two years ago) link

I has an instinct of Scotland when I first saw it. But my instincts usually, erm, stinc.

Ste, Friday, 31 December 2021 11:13 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/DYT8h3V/waru.jpg

Part II

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Saturday, 1 January 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link

Doesn't look like Scotland to me, still think Greater Manchester feels right but I've checked nearly every station

ignore the blue line (or something), Saturday, 1 January 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link

Expanding my Greater Manchester search to include non-city Stockport has come up with the goods

Davenport
https://maps.app.goo.gl/FekM5LsHLCxewRyo9

ignore the blue line (or something), Saturday, 1 January 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link

Nice

Ste, Saturday, 1 January 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link

Yay! Well done!

StanM, Saturday, 1 January 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link

Davenport it is

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Saturday, 1 January 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link

I thought it might go from the train monitor in the first image, but it's difficult to tell how clear the words are for other people (especially when you already know what they are). How things appear on my laptop screen and monitor screen is pretty different!

What made you expand to the east? The Peak District ish hill in the distance?

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Saturday, 1 January 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link

The second pic solidified my hunch that it was Greater Manchester, I'd been concentrating on Salford and Manchester itself but your recent trend towards towns and, yeah, the hills in the distance made me go back and check Stockport and the outer towns

ignore the blue line (or something), Saturday, 1 January 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link

So is this now officially the Guess the City or Town thread?

ignore the blue line (or something), Saturday, 1 January 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link

Fine by me!

two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Saturday, 1 January 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link

"City" means several related things, ONLY ONE OF WHICH is along the lines of "settlement awarded so-called city status by arbitrary convention or decree within a given jurisdiction or linguistic pocket of this wide world", ffs. To me it seems entirely obvious that cities which city purists insist on calling towns should also be allowed.

Happy new year to all! I pretty much never post in this thread, but I enjoy it a lot.

anatol_merklich, Sunday, 2 January 2022 01:20 (two years ago) link

Thanks for your input anatol_merklich

ignore the blue line (or something), Sunday, 2 January 2022 09:53 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/KhT5mqC/c.jpg

New Year, New City

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Monday, 3 January 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link

Feels like it could be anywhere from Southern Europe to Palestine/Israel maybe?

StanM, Monday, 3 January 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link

clutching at straws here:
- no satellite dishes anywhere? They're banned in Iran, Myanmar, Turkmenistan... Don't know if that's a clue?
- maybe the fencing on the bridge over the railroad it a bit excessive? did lots of people kill themselves there or are the trains important (israeli trains through palestine for instance) (don't know why I keep thinking palestine here to be honest)
- extra lights half way up the light posts? (two of them with bike tyres over them) ?
- some of the cars are French brands but they're sold all over the world, aren't they.

StanM, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link

Those garbage bins look distinctive. Perhaps designed for a particular type of fully automatic garbage truck? Not sure how to search for that though.

o. nate, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 14:19 (two years ago) link

is that a flag hanging from top floor left, partially behind the pole? or just washing?

blue white red, more? france, holland, paraguay?

koogs, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link

This seems to be the dumpster, of Chinese manufacture:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32346664174.html

Not sure what "hot sold in Middle East" means? Perhaps a mistranslation of a "hot seller in the Middle East"?

o. nate, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 14:32 (two years ago) link

the train line doesn't look like middle east to me.

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link

what's the mystery object behind the two metal dumpsters?

StanM, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link

feels like russia or a stan to me.

Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link

interior asia

Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link

Not sure what "hot sold in Middle East" means? Perhaps a mistranslation of a "hot seller in the Middle East"?

― o. nate, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 14:32 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Misprint of "not sold in middle east"?

ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link

Possibly.. it seems the bins are of an EU standard form factor.

o. nate, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link

- no satellite dishes anywhere? They're banned in Iran, Myanmar, Turkmenistan... Don't know if that's a clue?

Assuming the city is in the northern hemisphere, the shadows indicate we're looking at the north side of that block of flats, and satellite dishes would be on the southern side of the building.

Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 13:30 (two years ago) link

Just realised it doesn't matter what hemisphere it is: if this is south of the equator, we're looking at the south side of the building, and the dishes would be on the north.

Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link

Second pic?

tomorrow, Sunday, 9 January 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/L86rgj7/11a.jpg

Second pic

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 11:07 (two years ago) link

looks like a similar blue-white-red flag thing on the balcony there

koogs, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 11:28 (two years ago) link

i will nail my flag to the mask of the dominican republic

https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/d/do.gif

koogs, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 11:37 (two years ago) link

(having second thoughts having looked again at pic 1)

koogs, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 11:47 (two years ago) link

Dalmatian coast (based on nothing)

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 12:20 (two years ago) link

I have a new hunch it's Portugal but not sure wherein

tomorrow, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link

no idea. graffiti "cego!!!" "bics risk" ?

StanM, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link

are we missing something or is these two pics just too generic to even start guessing?

StanM, Sunday, 16 January 2022 08:23 (two years ago) link

is/are

StanM, Sunday, 16 January 2022 08:24 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/vYhKsTS/jayu.jpg

III

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Sunday, 16 January 2022 10:09 (two years ago) link

image is broken

micah, Sunday, 16 January 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/TrHcCVy/yay.jpg

iii vers. ii

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Sunday, 16 January 2022 10:18 (two years ago) link

i don't know why this one is so hard. TV tower? not Almaty

StanM, Sunday, 16 January 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link

I guess they look like olive trees, I suppose it'll be somewhere like Macedonia or Albania

assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 17 January 2022 05:39 (two years ago) link

I think it's Porto and that's the Villa Nova de Gaia TV tower

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 17 January 2022 09:15 (two years ago) link

Definitely feels like Portugal but that tv tower doesn't look like the Villa Nova de Gaia, which also appears to have a red and white lattice mast and a smaller tower (which does look like the one in the above pic) adjacent

ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 17 January 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link

possibly, I thought the match was good enough given the distance from the tower in the photo, but you may well be right. It was the small cobbled pavement that made me think Portugal or maybe Spain.

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 17 January 2022 10:22 (two years ago) link

I've google image searched tv tower portugal, tv tower spain, ... sardinia corsica italy sicily france switzerland austria hungary slovakia slovenia croatia montenegro kosovo macedonia bosnia albania greece romania bulgaria moldova ukraine turkey georgia

maybe it isn't a TV tower after all. Some of them look kinda like this one (sofia/vitosha, for instance) but not exactly. Or we're not in Southern Europe. I don't know. :(

StanM, Monday, 17 January 2022 12:56 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/m52s6sC/egg.jpg

Not often something reaches 4 clues but today is one such day

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Thursday, 20 January 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link


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