Guess the City

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getting Eastern Europe vibes, but I don't know why exactly (could be the South of France just as easily)

StanM, Sunday, 29 January 2023 08:20 (one year ago) link

Great t-shirt game from the dad there

nxd, Sunday, 29 January 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

https://i.ibb.co/kcKNVg6/aba.jpg

three

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 19 February 2023 11:59 (one year ago) link

I guess the second pic may have had buildings that one could recognise if they already knew them but this is going back to "not a single thing to go on" territory I'm afraid :(

StanM, Monday, 20 February 2023 10:08 (one year ago) link

How common are 5/6-lamp light poles? Also, the bus shelter on the left has an ad for something featuring a man, and on the right there is some kind of sign, if those particular graphics ring any bells.

nickn, Monday, 20 February 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link

could the sign be a coat of arms? hard to be sure in this resolution.

btw, what do you mean by 5/6-lamp poles? am I missing something?

let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Monday, 20 February 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link

The "spider"-looking light left of center, one post but 5 or 6 arms with lights on it.

nickn, Monday, 20 February 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link

oh, you’re right - was focusing on the ones on either side of the picture. might be a lead.

let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Monday, 20 February 2023 22:54 (one year ago) link

I'm pretty sure that's a sculpture in the middle of the roundabout but I've had no luck searching

assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 00:04 (one year ago) link

I've been to Tallinn 3 times for work and I felt like this looked almost too Soviet to be Estonian but I think I found it, and I think it's Narva.

I_Got_Loaded, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link

https://goo.gl/maps/jXR3zpzB4GsKH8vF6

I_Got_Loaded, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 01:08 (one year ago) link

very good!

found the first view too, it’s the local fortress, Hermann Castle

let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 06:04 (one year ago) link

wow!

StanM, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 07:26 (one year ago) link

'twas a long walk along the river, but here's the second view

let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link

I had never heard of Narva before - I am not proud of this fact - but the Today Programme on Radio 4 had a feature from there this morning. IS that a weird coincidence or is Cherry Blossom making the news as well as the GTC thread?

Tim, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link

I've been to Tallinn 3 times for work and I felt like this looked almost too Soviet to be Estonian but I think I found it, and I think it's Narva.

Good work, Narva it is!

Pretty desolate looking place, aside from the main tourist attraction of the castle. And Russia on the other side of the river

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 02:08 (one year ago) link

Narva feels like a city for cars, but without many cars

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 08:46 (one year ago) link

I’ve been there and it’s pretty bleak.

ShariVari, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 09:48 (one year ago) link

Its majority Russian there, I believe? Does it feel distinct from rest of Estonia? I read that Daugavpils in Latvia is pretty integrated despite being majority Russian speaking, but not sure on Narva

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 10:20 (one year ago) link

Yeah, it’s almost entirely Russian-speaking, though signs, shop labelling, etc, legally have to be in Estonian. It feels very different culturally, architecturally and financially from Tallinn and Tartu.

ShariVari, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 10:45 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/5F3P68J/aseda2.jpg

Guess Tne City

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 23 February 2023 11:41 (one year ago) link

I believe the parked car is a late-2000s Fiat Punto.

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link

that polygonal horse & rider logo on the van looks distinctive.

ledge, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link

haha, ledge, yes, but that is my contribution

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link

https://i.redd.it/c33b4kskznk61.png

horizontal, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link

game changer. now do one for lamp posts

koogs, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link

Similarly...

https://i.redd.it/0c3ez4qmvdf81.jpg

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/DSC04000-768x512.jpg

^ Portugeuse post van

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link

Porto

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link

incredible job

ledge, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link

I literally was googling Porto earlier haha

Those sidewalks looked decisively Portuguese but not lime enough to be Lisbon

pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link

you don’t say!

let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link

xp

let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link

very impressive!

StanM, Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link

That went quicker than expected! Good work on the postal van, but how did you get from there to finding the correct spot so quickly?

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link

Thanks guys! Never in a million years did I think I would get one of these. Once I had the right country, it didn't take too long to scoot through high-level, split-lane motorways looking for an adjacent roundabout - I started off with less-obvious cities first in fact.

How does it work? Do I get to do one now?

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link

Good work!

How does it work? Do I get to do one now?

Yes! (I think it works that anyone can do one as long as there's not one already in play)

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link

Cool! OK, guess the city!

https://i.imgur.com/BnHK5eu.png

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:20 (one year ago) link

buildings, foliage, road condition looks like eastern US or canada. dont see any SUVs/trucks though

ciderpress, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link

#2 I know several people buried here (moving backward on the same road)

https://i.imgur.com/hGrVR9i.png

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link

#3 Again, following the road backwards. That's all for today.

https://i.imgur.com/nmJvmYq.png

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link

oh huh that first one really faked me out lol

ciderpress, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link

you’re spoiling us !

can anyway make out what it says on that snack bar on the right in the first picture? is it PARK or (much more intriguingly) PANN- ?

let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Thursday, 23 February 2023 21:43 (one year ago) link

It's definitely Sweden, I think... too prominent a "-vägen" is visible on that sign. Looks like it could be Eriksvägen but there is no roadway by that name that resembles this neighbourhood

pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:01 (one year ago) link

I gotta get back to work so I'm just going to guess Landskrona and hope I'm right

pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:06 (one year ago) link

I also thought Sweden but god knows where

kinder, Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link

yeah i assumed denmark or sweden once i saw the signage though i couldnt read the actual text on the street sign. doesnt look like a major city to me with those road conditions unless its pretty far out of the city center

ciderpress, Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link

3 images!

I saw the first just before I went out and was thinking Northern Germany or Denmark, but I now concur on Sweden

I found something similar to the house on the left in the first photo but it didn't lead anywhere fruitful

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 24 February 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link


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