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well done cherry blossom!

I started looking at Port Louis via this list - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatowns_in_Africa

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 15 August 2021 08:23 (three years ago) link

blimey, well done!

kinder, Sunday, 15 August 2021 08:51 (three years ago) link

Well it did take 5 photos to get there, and I was nowhere near on the first four. The last shot made me think Africa, and Mauritius the closest part of Africa to Indonesia

Pretty small city so the Chinatown easy to find and the pink/yellow thing popped up after a minute or so going down the main street

The second pic took longer, but I was curious what on earth it was. Didn't look for the others

cherry blossom, Sunday, 15 August 2021 09:02 (three years ago) link

I had an inkling, early on, that this might by a Chinatown in Africa, but have been too busy this week to spend much time on my hunches

heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Sunday, 15 August 2021 10:26 (three years ago) link

Nice job, cherry blossom! I thought Africa too after seeing that last photo, but had no idea where in Africa it could be, and never even remembered the existence of Mauritius. It's interesting how Asian that city looks, in terms of type of construction, vehicles, etc., at least to my eyes.

o. nate, Monday, 16 August 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link

https://i.postimg.cc/ZqKwTypJ/hello.jpg

Good Morning

cherry blossom, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link

my instinct is to go look around the LA-San Diego kind of area?

StanM, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link

bridge-finding team activate!

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link

could def be California, though I also get a New Orleans/ Savannah feeling from the look of that highway

rob, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link

guided path, wheelchair accessible - botanical garden/arboretum sorta thing?

StanM, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link

looks like a college campus to me. possibly a fairly old one (by US standards) given that brick wall. maybe pre-war.

background looks coastal? maybe even a port?

the planting looks too green for los angeles and i can't think of anywhere that nice close to a freeway in LA (mayybe USC, but that brick wall is too old for USC).

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link

I get a convalescent home vibe, woman on left has a nametag, the two guys in the distance have identical shirt/pants color as that woman.

nickn, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link

I wonder if they're visiting though. It would seem kind of odd for a staff person to be taking a photo of her own workplace...?

rob, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link

the two guys are a google image stitching clone of the same guy

StanM, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link

yes though there is a third, more distant guy who might be wearing the same shirt/pants colors

rob, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link

ghost! disembodied head between photographer's arms

StanM, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link

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I'm thinking maybe she's taking pictures to send to the older woman's family.

Art gallery also occurred to me, as there is a modern sculpture to the left of the woman in shorts.

nickn, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link

Yeah plus the woman in the wheelchair is possibly holding some kind of brochure or map

on closer look, that "third guy" is not a human, could be a sculpture or I could be hallucinating

rob, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link

I was assuming they were taking a picture of the sunrise/sunset??? Or an airplane?

a (waterface), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link

yeah those are all possible, or it could be the tree that's in the image we already have

rob, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link

am I crazy for thinking that glassy building in the background is the John Hancock in Boston? I know all skyscrapers look like that lol

a (waterface), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link

I think it's SoCal or a similar climate, but I can't think of any elevated roadway that looks like that around here.

nickn, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link

US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC?

Dinsdale, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link

Google Lens'ing the pathway led toward Cal State uni and Liberty Island NYC, but no sign of this pic at either

(the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link

looks like spanish moss in the tree on upper right above the head of the woman taking a picture.

that's not my post, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link

upper left that is...

that's not my post, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 23:05 (three years ago) link

Jacksonville, FL!

https://goo.gl/maps/EeonkLT3PQgJLX8z6

The Spanish moss hint was helpful. I was thinking either Southeast or California, but the Spanish moss led me to focus more on the southeast.

o. nate, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 02:49 (three years ago) link

nice!

StanM, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 02:58 (three years ago) link

my instinct was wrong.

StanM, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link

nice work

a (waterface), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 11:53 (three years ago) link

ah cool. I got fixated on looking at New Orleans yesterday, and now I really want to go back

rob, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 12:57 (three years ago) link

excellent, i looked at Charleston, Savannah and Norfolk. Easy to find old brick walls and big oak trees. Couldn't find the bridge in the background.

that's not my post, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link

The bridge was the biggest clue. I tried searching for highway overpass pictures from different cities. The pillars on that one are fairly distinctive. When I saw a picture of that bridge in Jacksonville I knew I was close.

o. nate, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link

https://i.postimg.cc/pXZWGsVB/lvg2.jpg

Weekend City

cherry blossom, Sunday, 22 August 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link

🖼

Weekend City


Is that a bus on the left? Very Mitteleuropean and sparkling clean to boot. Maybe a Baltic nation?

Bach on harmonica! (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 22 August 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link

Tram surely?

Believe me, grow a lemon tree. (ledge), Sunday, 22 August 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link

looks really familiar, tempted to say Wroclaw but don't think they would have those trams.

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 22 August 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link

Lublin has trams, looks a bit like Lublin but having a hard time finding good street views.

heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Sunday, 22 August 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link

I guess Lublin has trolleycars, actually, but it does look like track on those cobblestones.

heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Sunday, 22 August 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link

Color may be off in the picture but it looks like the tram has a green section of near street level. And a red and green stripe above window level.

that's not my post, Sunday, 22 August 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link

overall that looks like austria to me. too nice for classically eastern europe.

a couple of roofs seem wrong to me for austria though: the green mansard (?) roof and the stepped gable on the yellow building, which i associate with the low countries, but wikipedia tells me can be found elsewhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepped_gable.

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 22 August 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link

Yeah I thought Netherlands maybe but now you mention Austria is possible but I’m struck by the lack of commercial signage or any signs at all.

Bach on harmonica! (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 22 August 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link

All white people I'm still thinking former Eastern Bloc.

Bach on harmonica! (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 22 August 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link

The colors on the tram suggest Hungary.

Bach on harmonica! (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 22 August 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link

The colour of the trams reminds me of Augsburg in Bavaria.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Strassenbahn_Augsburg_18-08-2007.jpg

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 22 August 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link

Got it - it's the cathedral in Augsburg (Frauentorstraße)

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 22 August 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link

https://goo.gl/maps/dFXxx2NwS3SUJ5Ym7

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 22 August 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link

Nice one! I was still looking in Poland :-)

StanM, Sunday, 22 August 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link


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