Author Topic: The "guess the place" thread (Read 903178 times)

αdαmsκι · « **Reply #3725 on:** 19 March, 2011, 05:31:03 pm »

Quote from: Maidenhead Phil on 19 March, 2011, 04:27:37 pm

Quote from: αdαmsκι on 19 March, 2011, 04:22:19 pm
Marrakesh?

Yes, the main square in Marrakesh. Obviously too easy

Clearly considering I've never even been to Marrakesh! However, the minaret made me think of that part of the world; plus there are clearly tourists wondering around in shorts, so not Syria / Iran etc. and also seeing teleboutique in the photo suggested somewhere with a French influence.

Jaded · « **Reply #3726 on:** 19 March, 2011, 07:12:37 pm »

Simonb · « **Reply #3727 on:** 19 March, 2011, 07:15:07 pm »

Edinburgh Castle?

Cyclops · « **Reply #3728 on:** 19 March, 2011, 07:33:57 pm »

It's in Edinburgh looking east from George IV bridge. Parliament House ahead, Signet Library to the left and Advocates' Library to the right. I'm not sure if the grass square in the middle has a name though.

I walked past this spot for 5 years when I was a student.

Jaded · « **Reply #3729 on:** 19 March, 2011, 07:36:10 pm »

Cyclops has it.

Simonb was quite close.

Jaded · « **Reply #3730 on:** 19 March, 2011, 07:39:20 pm »

I'm going to jump in with another one, because I am rude.

Simonb · « **Reply #3731 on:** 19 March, 2011, 09:07:20 pm »

Stonehenge

Simonb · « **Reply #3732 on:** 19 March, 2011, 09:20:16 pm »

Pretty certain we got that one correct (actually it was Mrs B). So:

Jaded · « **Reply #3733 on:** 20 March, 2011, 12:51:05 am »

Yes, correct!

David Martin · « **Reply #3734 on:** 20 March, 2011, 08:52:02 pm »

Institut Nobel (or whatever it is called) in Oslo?

Simonb · « **Reply #3735 on:** 20 March, 2011, 11:24:55 pm »

Quote from: David Martin on 20 March, 2011, 08:52:02 pm

Institut Nobel (or whatever it is called) in Oslo?

Nope.

Simonb · « **Reply #3736 on:** 24 March, 2011, 05:25:00 pm »

A clue: it's in Moscow.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3737 on:** 25 March, 2011, 12:16:20 pm »

Part of the Kremlin complex?

fuzzy · « **Reply #3738 on:** 26 March, 2011, 04:07:29 pm »

While we are waiting, try this one-

Who lived there and where is it?

delthebike · « **Reply #3739 on:** 26 March, 2011, 05:30:21 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy on 26 March, 2011, 04:07:29 pm

While we are waiting, try this one-

Who lived there and where is it?

Queen Amidala (sp) on the planet Naboo.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3740 on:** 26 March, 2011, 05:38:40 pm »

I'll guess Lake Como and Mussolini.

Jaded · « **Reply #3741 on:** 26 March, 2011, 10:51:32 pm »

Aswan?

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #3742 on:** 27 March, 2011, 09:27:08 am »

Quote from: Simonb on 24 March, 2011, 05:25:00 pm

A clue: it's in Moscow.

Is it the Lubyanka (sp)?

PeteB99 · « **Reply #3743 on:** 27 March, 2011, 03:35:45 pm »

Fuzzy

Is that one of the Durrell family villas on Corfu?

Salvatore · « **Reply #3744 on:** 27 March, 2011, 03:41:33 pm »

South of France. Ms Bardot.

fuzzy · « **Reply #3745 on:** 27 March, 2011, 04:58:06 pm »

Salvatore is closest.

It is South of France. Where in the South though?

Not Bardot.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3746 on:** 29 March, 2011, 03:39:51 am »

Seeing how pink it is, I'm going to say Barbara Cartland. No idea if she even lived in the South of France, but it seems plausible to me...

Simonb · « **Reply #3747 on:** 29 March, 2011, 03:53:22 am »

Not the Lubyanka, not the Kremlin. Home of an author.

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #3748 on:** 29 March, 2011, 07:06:59 am »

Picks an author at random...Graham Greene ?

Ian H · « **Reply #3749 on:** 29 March, 2011, 08:34:55 am »

Quote from: Simonb on 29 March, 2011, 03:53:22 am

Not the Lubyanka, not the Kremlin. Home of an author.

Maugham?