The "guess the place" thread

[Deano]

I hope phanta doesn't mind me chucking this one in:

[phantasmagoriana]

Somewhere that's not Durham. (Unless it's changed quite substantially in the last decade or so...)

[Deano]

If there was that much water in Durham, we'd all be underwater.

[Dinamo]

Tewkesbury 2011 

[Peter]

Is it on the Danube?  Or even in Turkey?

[Deano]

Turkey, no. Danube, yes.

[Peter]

Looks a bit rolly rather than spiky, so Hungary?

[Deano]

Not Hungary - nearly all the bits I saw of Hungary were incredibly flat.

[Peter]

This bit isn't!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DonauknieVisegrad_2.jpg

However, I've seen a lot of the Danube but I'd just be guessing, really.  It doesn't look too broad in your picture so are you at the German or west Austrian end?

[Deano]

I skipped across country there!

I reckon the colour of the water should give a clue about the country.

[Steph]

That is Stift Melk

[Steph]

Some of my shots:

[Steph]

One from me...

[Deano]

That is Stift Melk

Just to complete this, it is indeed Melk Abbey, in Austria.

[Steph]

That is Stift Melk

Just to complete this, it is indeed Melk Abbey, in Austria.

It was an unusal angle. I saw it appear across the river very slowly, from the West. Most 'tourist' pics seem to be from the sort of angle I took my first one from. HUGE place!

[Deano]

I was on the wrong side of the river to visit (and pressing on, rather than doing tourist stuff), but I spotted it, and recognised it, as someone had mentioned it in passing.

The Wachau was utterly gorgeous, too.

[Tim Hall]

One from me...

Newdigate Church. I used the Croix de Guerre on the memorial as a clue in a treasure hunt last year.

[Deano]

I skipped across country there!

I reckon the colour of the water should give a clue about the country.

In case that clue was too obscure, I was referring to the milky blueness of the water, which the Danube only picks up where it meets the Inn at Passau, full of Alpine sediment, on the Austria-Germany border. In Germany it's distinctly brown.

[Steph]

One from me...

Newdigate Church. I used the Croix de Guerre on the memorial as a clue in a treasure hunt last year.

A nice and quick answer. I noted the repetition of surnames on that monument....and I had a small bet with myself that you would be the one to get it.

[hellymedic]

I'll never forget the irony of the info control that asked for a common name on a war memorial.
The answer was 'Stiff'...

[clarion]

Here's a quick one, if I may:

[PaulR]

Here's a quick one, if I may:

Looks very much like the nodules near your work - corner of Harper Rd and New Kent Road.  Looking positively mediterranean there.

[Jaded]

Here's a quick one, if I may:

Is it a hyperspatial express route?

[clarion]

Paul, that was quick.  I hoped it was sneaky enough.  But yes, amazingly, it is the A201 New Kent Road looking all green and leafy and not very inner cityish at all.

[clarion]

The next photo I took (from about 10m down that path) shows the top of the condemned Heygate block (as featured in Harry Brown, Attack The Block, Shank, The Bill and many other films, as a backdrop of urban decay) peeping over the trees.