Guess the City

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

another clue?

I can't remember where it is, I'll have to do some guessing myself to find it and post another clue

Can try this one in the meantime though

https://i.ibb.co/XLkrmf3/Screenshot-2024-05-30-at-19-50-07.png

Interesting depression.
Looks pretty dry.
Large vacation houses, not really affluent.
Middle East maybe ?

Pretty sure it's New Zealand for no particular reason.

Sausalito, CA

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8759249,-122.5163919,3a,75y,129.16h,89.28t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipO3ArhVjsMMJd-B9Vp2ruvzqanrwGh5RXyZiFYP!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipO3ArhVjsMMJd-B9Vp2ruvzqanrwGh5RXyZiFYP%3Dw900-h600-k-no-pi0.7181411620363036-ya56.23383006201965-ro0.2967529296875-fo90!7i8192!8i4096?coh=205410&entry=ttu

Grew up around there : ) Knew instantly.

Very good!

Google has it as Marin City rather than Sausalito, whats the difference (if there is one)?

Ha, clearly I never went past the Golden Gate Bridge, glad someone said NZ to save me from my lonely shame :)

and I must say that Sausalito, Strawberry, and Tiburon is quite the trio of names

(Strawberry being next to Manzanita too)

Ouch sorry I missed this!

That apartment complex is technically Sausalito but adjacent to Marin City (a block away down the hill) and the view is of Strawberry (Harbor Point)/Belvedere and a little bit of Angel Island.

Anyone who rides a bike from SF->Marin knows these roads/views intimately.

not really affluent

https://www.zillow.com/belvedere-ca/

ok, let's do a quickie

https://i.postimg.cc/d1KjpB4n/Street.jpg

First thought is Wales but nothing jumping out about yet about how to narrow it down

There's one of those ship steering wheels on the red house, which suggest on the coast. I know inland people might do that too but lets say its less likely for now

I think not Wales because they've moved to recycling bags for different types of material instead of all-in bins.

Other than that I don't see a way to narrow it down much further.

It's not a ship's wheel I don't think, could be a cart wheel maybe?

Oh, hmm, I was about to say I found some semi-similar streets in Milford Haven but very easily a false positive as houses like this could be all over.

Is that recycling thing Wales-wide?

I think it depends on the council but I've just checked Pembrokeshire and they're bags and boxes so not Milford Haven.

are the TV aerials still a thing everywhere in the UK or does this mean we're looking at a smaller island maybe?

Not every county has blue bins, looks like the houses are ex-council as people have painted them / attached random shit to them etc. I'm taking a punt at a post-war estate in somewhere like Oxford. Cutteslowe?

The last time Camaraderie at Arms Length did one of these Britain ones it was in China so there might be a curveball in there

dont think I'm giving anything away by saying no, it's not in Cutteslow or in China