Guess the City

Though also rather pretty. It seems "bleak but pretty countryside surrounding" is a descriptor of many small cities and towns in the UK and everywhere else, too.

right that was my impression for sure

"it's grim up North" is a well-worn English cliche

Local boozer looks quite pretty

https://goo.gl/maps/9xFsQrXT45q9Jad67

https://i.ibb.co/Sy2tc64/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-21-45-26.png

Ha'way

https://i.ibb.co/YPHckd9/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-21-48-17.png

cold

After looking at way too many pump tracks to do me good, I am glad someone got it. at times I was near and plenty of time very far away.

I introduced this game on another board as they are a good group to play it.

Someone got this on picture 1, within an hour.

You're obviously dealing with pros. How did they get it so quickly? Through the ground?

She was as a surprised as anyone. It is a soccer board. her words were “I was only checking Tow Law because it’s the right type of town and their ground is famously on a hill”.

They are from the North East UK, so the famously can be treated with a suitable amount of salt.

Well, "right type of town" is the kind of intuition that goes a long way

https://i.ibb.co/ZHgVrTk/Screenshot-2022-08-16-at-09-19-33.png

Tuesday

The lighthouse (if that's what it is) looks pretty distinctive and could be the key. I see a couple of towers in the distance that look like cathedral steeples, and a couple of other steeple-like constructions. I'm guessing it's a coastal city somewhere in Northern Europe, on the North or Baltic Seas or something.

There are a lot of striped lighthouses out there, I'm learning

Other distinctive factors: strange fin-like thing centre-left; incredibly long (but well-trimmed) hedge; apart from a red people-carrier, all the cars seem to be white, what are the odds of that? Row of flags has me thinking we're at one of those "international" hotels, so maybe the white cars are rentals.

Man centre-right with flaming red hair - although the apartment blocks on the left don't look too Irish to me

Ostend / Oostende / Ostende? Looks like Lange Nelle the lighthouse, those stripes in particular.

Just beat me to it! Based on the flatness of the terrain I googled Ostend lighthouse and got Lange Nelle...

https://goo.gl/maps/UmiQ97i72MZnBZeV6

Just beat me too! I got it with an image search for 'thin lighthouse'!

this is more precise: view from Ankerstraat instead of Vuurtorenweg

https://goo.gl/maps/qt471SdChFMqJ1pA9

the white car thing is just a coincidence, judgng by the makeup of that parking lot on the Google Maps image

I had a trip to Ostend all planned out, we were going to see the big Van Eyck show in Ghent and it got COVIDed. :(

Ostend it is, that one went quickly!

oh wow! my neck of the woods, but hadn't recognized it.

https://i.ibb.co/N1p088q/Screenshot-2022-08-18-at-11-05-13.png

Thursday

Top right hand corner there looks to be a Belgian flag in the window. If that's right, and I'm not entirely sure it is (do Belgians put flags in their windows?), then it's too hilly to be Flanders. There appears to be a street lift, but it's not the one in Brussels.

Belgian flags can be seen on the national holiday or when there's international soccerball going on. Parts of Flanders are that hilly too.

guessing Liege maybe?

If it's Thursday this must be Belgium, again

Could also be a German flag hanging down.

black-yellow-red is Belgium. Germany has the red next to the black.

Is that a bridge or an elevator in the middle of the pic?

Looks like an elevator to me, which should make this easy... but googling Belgian street elevators is not giving me the answer

big glass roof to the left of the walking man - museum? government building?

or a train station, that could have an outside elevator too

given the suitcase i figured station

The street elevator and hairpin turn with mirror remind me of Monaco, but the trees on that hill look a bit too lush to be Mediterranean.

Apartment blocks definitely not swish enough to be Monaco. Whether this is Belgium or not, definitely getting Northern European vibes.

We don't know :(

I feel like this one should have been easy, with the Belgian flag in the window (possibly a red herring) and that very singular-looking structure which I assume is a lift/elevator down to a station. But it looks like we need another pic...

https://i.ibb.co/p3wqrVd/Screenshot-2022-08-25-at-14-21-37.png

Thursday 2.0

not a station after all!

Those two guys on the bridge look like they could be identical twins.

I think it's Wuppertal in Germany...

might be the same person photoed and composited in twice

it is wuppertal, good job!

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.2548228,7.1542549,3a,75y,355.03h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2dsNeJjMopJRZ_F4kSkrNw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D2dsNeJjMopJRZ_F4kSkrNw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D356.88638%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Phew, and thanks! I got it from the 'lyp cr' tag, then I spotted the monorail which had the right shade of green for its supports but couldn't find that bridge/elevator at all.

oh wow! good job!

The monorail looks way cool and has its own unusual detail in wikipedia article:

The Wuppertal Suspension Railway, a suspended monorail, serves the city and its surroundings. It has operated since 1901, with new cars added beginning in December 2016. In 1950, a young elephant named Tuffi was put aboard the Wuppertal Schwebebahn (monorail), as a promotion for the Althoff Circus. The swinging tram upset the elephant, and she trumpeted, charged, and plummeted 12 m (40 ft) into the river below. Tuffi suffered minor injuries; she lived until 1989. In 1999, the Schwebebahn had its thus far only fatal accident.

the glass was a station but the elevator didn't go to it, so we were both right and astray