Guess the City

minsk

actually we could do this much more easily by working out which eastern european country's dictator-controlled national media outlets have orange as their signature colour

Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer, you are all way off.

doubt it's in the midwest, since there's appears to be a hill off to the right.

Actually, I think I'm wrong. Never mind.

ah got it,

(by doing the ailsa thing)

I googled "green cantilever bridge" and then got bored of this approach after one fruitless page

No, I was right after all. Hurrah! Shall let the rest of you guess away though. Am assuming Ste got the same result as me. Not Europe.

is that the pole from one of those rotating observation "rides" there? Are those specific to Six Flags?

birmingham, al?

google is for cheaters

canada?

Pretty sure you are

#2 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/38531341_eeef3142ac.jpg?v=0

ok montreal alisa wins next city

istanbul?

oh boooooring xp to lol canada

my error was to GIS rather than GS

ankara

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Vampire_laronde.jpg/350px-Vampire_laronde.jpg

I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)

Baghdad?

actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?

Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.

Granny Dainger's is Montreal

lol

haaaaaaaa

Ed - Lahore, right?

^win

#3. http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles18126.jpg

THATS MONTREAL???

many xps obv

http://www.staronetickets.com/images/Montreal.jpg

google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings

haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.

#3 url gives it away though

#3 is not very easy for Europeans

I'm guessing somewhere in the north east of the US - Massachussets or somesuch? Might be way off though. Any clues?

This is based on trees and scenery looking like it would be somewhere geographically similar to Northern Europe, but that one building and the grid layout of the roads looking American. Am I on the right lines?

I was thinking upstate NY.

Damn I thought it was Legoland...

If it had a highway cutting through it it would look like Concord, NH.

Ithaca?

Casper?

it's in the Western US

Vegas

it's about the size of Pittsfield, MA

or Casper, WY (which it isn't)

i cant even tell what country that is. the pointy orange thing and two church steeples make me think europe somewhere but that bridge and some of those apartment buildings seem america? wait. is that an amusement park?

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Haha, you just described Canada without knowing it.

Yakima, WA!
I give up.

closer

rapid city?

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