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keep your eye on the abandoned green and white building and go round the roundabout - instant time travel!

ledge, Thursday, 16 March 2023 09:59 (one year ago) link

instant time travel!

I wish I could find it again but there's an amazing time travel sequence from 2009 onwards where there is a row of derelict houses, that then get knocked down, becomes a building site, is replaced with a new row of houses, and finally at least one of the houses starts to become derelict again

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 16 March 2023 10:55 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/d0qkL0P/eee.jpg

Wednesday

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/wJ49QkC/eef.png

Wednesday

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link

a town called Groundhog?

at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link

italia?

ciderpress, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link

Not a lot to go there but it looks kind of dry and Mediterranean. Maybe southern Italy or southern Spain.

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 23 March 2023 08:43 (one year ago) link

Would love a close-up of that crushed red can/cup but otherwise not much to go on.

The chevrons fit Italy/Spain.

Trying to work out what the tall structures on the right are.

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:07 (one year ago) link

Ankara?

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:40 (one year ago) link

Trees look as though they might be olive trees. Assuming the elevated thoroughfare is a train line, I'm wondering why it has to be elevated in what looks like a flat terrain. In any case an expensive piece of infrastructure so I'm guessing we're looking at a relatively poor region but in a relatively rich country, so still checking out for southern Italy or Spain

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:56 (one year ago) link

turkish chevrons are red and white

could be italy, greece, or spain

looks like a recently built rail viaduct. probably unelectrified and single track. cant be too many of those

micah, Sunday, 26 March 2023 12:03 (one year ago) link

squinting at the grafitti but other than 5 FMT (maybe) and some weird symbols I don't recognize at all... nothing

StanM, Monday, 27 March 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/0sjxP5C/abc.png

Wednesday II

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 3 April 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link

italian tow-away sign

ꙮ (map), Monday, 3 April 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link

i'm guessing it's northern italy based on the evergreens?

ꙮ (map), Monday, 3 April 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link

maybe not tho idk

ꙮ (map), Monday, 3 April 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link

Yes looking a lot less southern in this pic. It looks like a new-build train station somewhere rural, presumably just outside a city. I don't know about Italy, but in France, the newer TGV lines often have their stations somewhere rural, a short drive from the town/city it's associated with. Maybe Italy has something similar so we'd be looking at a relatively recently built high-speed rail station.

Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 00:28 (one year ago) link

I may be wrong but the structure on the right (second pic) looks like a passageway for people and bikes to jump over a main road or highway, with the separators in the middle. Autostrada signs are green in Italy though.
Climate looks too dry for Northern Italy on first pic (olive trees and cacti, dry river). Pretty derelict infrastructure too.

Nabozo, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 07:10 (one year ago) link

Doesn't southern Spain have a lot of those unfinished type "oops, we went bankrupt before we could finish building your holiday villa" type regions?

StanM, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 12:48 (one year ago) link

Oh man, I have BEEN in the roundabout in Oroville— I lived in Chico for a while, I immediately recognized it.

Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, 6 April 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/njL9SQd/as3.jpg

III

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 14 April 2023 06:48 (one year ago) link

I still don't know what I'm looking at here I'm afraid - a raised railway viaduct over maybe flood plains? (but the houses and this road are on this level too) & the Harm Chef graffiti doesn't ring a bell either :(

StanM, Friday, 14 April 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/LZSCWmG/halo.jpg

IV

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 24 April 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link

Looks like a stadium in the distance from the view under the bridge (white curved spires). Photo above possibly at same stadium.

nashwan, Monday, 24 April 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link

We're in Bari

nashwan, Monday, 24 April 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link

Streetview of III

That tow sign really helped here - I initially thought Zaragoza or similar but watching too much GeoWizard has got me inspecting motorway furniture and whatnot these days and that seemed to indicate Italy also. Had to check various stadio and it's not such an obvious one as the club's no Serie A mainstay.

nashwan, Monday, 24 April 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link

Take II

nashwan, Monday, 24 April 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link

I kept looking at Bari but obviously not hard enough. Well done!

Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 09:29 (one year ago) link

Looks like a stadium in the distance from the view under the bridge

The stadium was in all four pics!

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 06:48 (one year ago) link

kick ass! I was still clueless

StanM, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 09:33 (one year ago) link

two months pass...

https://i.ibb.co/XWGFKGZ/abcde.jpg

Around the way

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 11:35 (nine months ago) link

Germany somewhere?

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 14:04 (nine months ago) link

without googling street signs it looks a little like zagreb or belgrade

ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:40 (nine months ago) link

photo looks too recent to be germany

micah, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 16:12 (nine months ago) link

xp also italy but those apartment blocks look post-soviet to me? scrub and trees in the far left bg feel north mediterranean. but also far enough south for non-sloped roofs.

ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 16:13 (nine months ago) link

the chevrons are wrong for italy as well

micah, Thursday, 20 July 2023 02:42 (nine months ago) link

I think the hills in the background look a bit too dry and scrubby to be Germany. I'm wondering about the south of France? Several towns in that region have tram/light rail networks, and I think that's a tram station to the left of the roundabout. France also has red chevron signs. The apartment blocks do look a bit Soviet, but I've seen similar in Marseille.

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 20 July 2023 03:18 (nine months ago) link

Peugeot and a Citröen in the traffic, the sign at the left says something like "emergence" if I squint.

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 20 July 2023 03:49 (nine months ago) link

Yep I thought I made out a "ce" ending there as well which is obviously common in French.

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 20 July 2023 03:54 (nine months ago) link

I tried a free online ai ocr site for the text on the left:

DUGULONICE REVOCty

a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Thursday, 20 July 2023 08:46 (nine months ago) link

> photo looks too recent to be germany

did germany disappear?

koogs, Thursday, 20 July 2023 10:26 (nine months ago) link

yes it disappeared from street view. there is not much coverage of germany and what does exist dates from 2011 or earlier.

micah, Thursday, 20 July 2023 12:35 (nine months ago) link

french roundabouts seem to have white arrows on a round blue sign instead of chevrons

micah, Thursday, 20 July 2023 13:49 (nine months ago) link

croatia definitely has (some) trams and red arrows on their roundabouts.

a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Thursday, 20 July 2023 15:02 (nine months ago) link

I want to say Poland because that roundabout's construction is similar to this one that got memed when a car flew over it, but drawing blanks rn.

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 20 July 2023 23:09 (nine months ago) link

good pick up

micah, Thursday, 20 July 2023 23:58 (nine months ago) link

also what the car had

ꙮ (map), Friday, 21 July 2023 00:00 (nine months ago) link

indeed

micah, Friday, 21 July 2023 01:01 (nine months ago) link

i want to drive round and round that thing for hours while Daft Punk 'Around the World' plays on repeat

all this time I thought you were British (Deflatormouse), Friday, 21 July 2023 15:06 (nine months ago) link

or minutes, at the very least.

all this time I thought you were British (Deflatormouse), Friday, 21 July 2023 15:09 (nine months ago) link


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