Guess the City

it kind of looks like my memory of Daugavpils, but I was only there for a day or so almost 20 years ago so my memory might be serving poorly

https://finisterre.surge.sh/t3/683.png

searching for third gear

For some reason these all feel like Belarus to me.

The car was definitely designed by Elon Musk and goes well with ornamental pan with plastic bottles. Is that a Saab 900 ?
Looks like Cyrillic script on the yellow sign but I can't decipher the letters
I was thinking Estonia on first pic, but Latvia would fit these communist bricks even better

Are those yellow pipes for gas ?

That's a Lada 110

https://i.ibb.co/rsHx01x/t2.jpg

Time for lunch

Wondering why a works canteen would be a clue and given all the rest seems to point to Ukraine, and the canteen looks vaguely like I remember it, fuck it I'm going to say Chornobyl.

https://i.ibb.co/7N5XZwv/t1.jpg

something else

https://i.ibb.co/bFJrgw2/Screenshot-2024-02-05-at-17-01-16.png

and one more

Gave in and lensed the shop before you posted that, which I confirmed with picture 2. I'd never have got it.

https://i.ibb.co/MGm19yz/Screenshot-2024-03-17-at-19-48-13.png

baby

Lille, France - I've seen that metal thing on the left myself :-)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/BD1m3HG6uAUxJQo37

( still don't know what it's supposed to be though, it's in a park with other art called "Garden of the Giants" )

and the dinosaur has been filled in in the meantime, apparently: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zo8RskseWQv5LGZR9

(nevermind, the original dinosaur is more to the right)

Good one! Increasingly difficult to find suitable images that aren't going to be given up by image search straightaway

yeah I maybe shouldn't have replied, because I've seen that thing IRL :-(

I disagree, real life knowledge should be used

Doesn't seem like the one with the roundabout tram wires, or the one with the couple on the steps, were ever got? unless they were the same place and the same as the canteen and wooden shop, which aldo got but didn't reveal?

is roundabout with tall building? Thats definitely still unguessed

I can't remember couple on steps will have to check later

As I said, I lensed it and it gave me the coffee shop which is in Torzhok in Tver Oblast. Found the other structures there to confirm.

I had never even heard of it, and it seems pretty small for a city, hence me saying I would never have got it otherwise.

I had never heard of it either, it started when I saw a photo of this cat

https://i.ibb.co/thnFKhs/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-17-17-54.png

Interesting ShariVari was initially thinking Daugavpils, I thought maybe Smolensk or somewhere in that general region

After checking the Tver oblast, came across this Torzhok place, that looks like a film set and at one stage looked like it was going to be a UNESCO world heritage site

and there he was, the very same cat, in a streetview

https://i.ibb.co/hd82XxV/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-17-45-36.png

I turned the above streetview around, and they they were, the couple on the stairs

Here they are again in some kind of resort area in the reverse streetview of the Lada 110 shown above, which they seem circumspect about

https://i.ibb.co/sbd6jBb/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-17-57-46.png

Then there was a photo of their dinner

https://i.ibb.co/g4pJhyn/Screenshot-2024-03-20-at-07-35-12.png

Spring is in the air

The roofs and chimneys look UK to me, and there's a BeeSafe security company with that logo in the UK. My guess is a northern or a Midlands town.

I'm confused, is this the same place as the photos of the couple?

Definitely not.

Agree it's Britain, not sure Ive seen that form of cigarette bin anywhere else either.

Beesafe cover Grimsby/Hull/Bridlington type areas so quite narrow.

another clue?

https://whentaken.com/

nice. You were SPOT ON WITH THE YEAR and 152 km away <<< my best from one play