Author Topic: The "guess the place" thread (Read 903512 times)

billplumtree · « **Reply #6475 on:** 16 February, 2016, 07:34:32 pm »

Quote from: Vince on 16 February, 2016, 01:00:01 pm

Vardø, Norway?

You saw through my cunning double bluff then?

Vince · « **Reply #6476 on:** 16 February, 2016, 07:59:58 pm »

It was tricky

My turn?

hellymedic · « **Reply #6477 on:** 16 February, 2016, 10:17:23 pm »

Quote from: billplumtree on 16 February, 2016, 07:34:32 pm

Quote from: Vince on 16 February, 2016, 01:00:01 pm
Vardø, Norway?

You saw through my cunning double bluff then?

Town insignia features in both your photo and Wiki entry.
Snow and very low sun indicate probable extreme northern latitude and we know you've been northing it...

Steph · « **Reply #6478 on:** 17 February, 2016, 12:18:47 am »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 15 February, 2016, 01:20:55 pm

Aye, two continents in that picture. Standing at Europa Point Gibraltar (adjacent to Hardings Battery) looking across the straits towards Morocco.

Stop putting up ones I know when I am out!

fuzzy · « **Reply #6479 on:** 17 February, 2016, 01:40:29 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 17 February, 2016, 12:18:47 am

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 15 February, 2016, 01:20:55 pm
Aye, two continents in that picture. Standing at Europa Point Gibraltar (adjacent to Hardings Battery) looking across the straits towards Morocco.
Stop putting up ones I know when I am out!

mike · « **Reply #6480 on:** 20 February, 2016, 10:14:28 pm »

I missed a go...

I need a place and an event for this one:

Ruthie · « **Reply #6481 on:** 20 February, 2016, 10:39:01 pm »

Putney Bridge, the Boat Race?

Peter · « **Reply #6482 on:** 20 February, 2016, 11:46:39 pm »

That's a huge gap, so maybe one of the Head Of The River Races - Women's Eights?

mike · « **Reply #6483 on:** 21 February, 2016, 05:54:32 am »

yes it's a head of the river race, but you've got the wrong river.

Peter · « **Reply #6484 on:** 21 February, 2016, 09:08:24 am »

I haven't got ANY river, yet!

Jaded · « **Reply #6485 on:** 21 February, 2016, 09:53:54 am »

Boston.

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #6486 on:** 21 February, 2016, 10:57:06 am »

Eliot Bridge, Cambridge, Mass. Head of Charles.

(starts in Boston though)

David Martin · « **Reply #6487 on:** 22 February, 2016, 09:17:24 pm »

You could tell it's foreign because they're paddling down the wrong side of the river...

mike · « **Reply #6488 on:** 23 February, 2016, 08:45:07 am »

Quote from: Flaatuus on 21 February, 2016, 10:57:06 am

Eliot Bridge, Cambridge, Mass. Head of Charles.

(starts in Boston though)

yup! Here's another view of the same, with a bit of a giveaway..

Feanor · « **Reply #6489 on:** 08 March, 2016, 07:02:13 pm »

Right, it's stalled in here, so here's one from my current travels:

( It's just a phone camera pic, but if you click through you will get the full-size image which lets you see the detail better. )

Ah, the phone has uploaded exif location data.
~~I can't see how to turn it off.~~
I think I've hidden it.
No cheating!

IMG_20160308_172330 by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #6490 on:** 08 March, 2016, 07:06:22 pm »

Has an Eastern European look to it but at the same time something Latinate... I think it could be Romania or possibly Moldova. Or thereabouts.

Ruthie · « **Reply #6491 on:** 08 March, 2016, 08:14:41 pm »

Croatia?

Peter · « **Reply #6492 on:** 09 March, 2016, 10:07:01 am »

Fascinating - somewhere they haven't got a plumb-line?

Feanor · « **Reply #6493 on:** 09 March, 2016, 02:39:22 pm »

Good work so far; it is indeed in one of the countries mentioned.

It is obviously an old medieval city, and the tower in question is most way up to the top of the hill.
It has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

There is a church at the very top, and bizarrely enough, a school.
Access to the school is via a very long wooden covered staircase.
This picture is looking down, from about 2/3 of the way up:

IMG_20160308_174156 by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

Any lack of verticality is probably the photographer's fault, not the builders!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6494 on:** 09 March, 2016, 04:30:24 pm »

UNESCO World Heritage Sites seem to be ten a penny in that general part of the world. I know this coz it came up on "University Challenge" the other week!

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #6495 on:** 09 March, 2016, 04:40:38 pm »

I know where it is, but have no wish to stake a claim.

Peter · « **Reply #6496 on:** 09 March, 2016, 04:55:24 pm »

I, too, know where it is. ".............. and The Spiders From Mars" might have been a great album title but they were beaten to it - by a Helsinger-songwriter?

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #6497 on:** 10 March, 2016, 10:48:05 pm »

A lack of a follow-on photo leaves me impaled on the horns of a dilemma.

Feanor · « **Reply #6498 on:** 12 March, 2016, 12:00:02 am »

<Paxman>
Come on, I need an answer.

The previous answers contain strong hints, which are correct.

Providing the correct answer does not require you to supply the next photo; you can let the thread lie dormant for a bit until someone has an interesting photo.

I'm going to leave the paxman tag un-closed just to spoil people's day.

andrew_s · « **Reply #6499 on:** 12 March, 2016, 12:07:04 am »

having googled, it's the birthplace of Dracula: Sighișoara