(International) Guess the Location 2 a.k.a. Part Deux (see rules post 1)

Ficheall · 21-11-2020 11:39AM

Every time I check this thread, I'm hoping someone will have posted somewhere I've been, but I've driven through Mo i Rana (en route to the glacier just north; not sure where we stayed), but recognised neither the train station nor the church. Smh.

KevRossi · 21-11-2020 01:44PM

The octagonal train station is unusual alright. It's a nod to a lot of older churches in the area, most of them 300 years old and more, they were traditionally built in an octagonal shape.

Reason being they were almost exclusively built out of wood logs, and it's structurally sounder to build large buildings from logs in an octagonal rather than a rectangular shape. Once you go over a certain length per side it loses stability. If they were any bigger they would be 12 sided and so on.

Incidentally, you can find a lot of stone 12 sided churches in central Spain for the same reason.

21-11-2020 03:05PM

ok, try this so!

martyos121 · 21-11-2020 04:04PM

Istanbul?

21-11-2020 04:10PM

Not Istanbul

26-11-2020 05:41PM

Any guesses guys?
Been a few days

KevRossi · 26-11-2020 05:53PM

Is it Spain? Looks a bit Spanish.

26-11-2020 06:00PM

No, not Spain

M.T. Cranium · 27-11-2020 11:18PM

Skopje? (not a confident guess by any means)

28-11-2020 09:28AM

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Skopje? (not a confident guess by any means)

No, but not far off!

KevRossi · 28-11-2020 10:17AM

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Skopje? (not a confident guess by any means)

Might be time to throw up a second clue?

Be right back · 28-11-2020 10:38AM

Tirana, Albania?

Barna77 · 28-11-2020 10:52AM

bubblypop wrote: »

No, but not far off!

Bulgaria?
I've been looking at the Balkans all week

28-11-2020 11:19AM

It is in the Balkans, but none of the countries mentioned so far.
I'm at work today & on the phone, but I'll try to post another view later

29-11-2020 08:40AM

This is from further back in the same street, should give it away!
On My phone....

Barna77 · 29-11-2020 09:32AM

Pristina,

https://maps.app.goo.gl/r2tRr9F4GkaKDLy37

29-11-2020 09:37AM

Yep! Well done.

The building is the Cathedral of Mother Theresa, for a Muslim country they are very proud of their Catholic cathedral

And the statue is obviously Bill Clinton, who they love as they see him as their saviour from the war.

Barna77 · 29-11-2020 11:40PM

30-11-2020 08:26PM

Tough one.
Is it in Eastern Europe?

KevRossi · 30-11-2020 09:48PM

Looks very German, possibly a taxi in there as well.

Ficheall · 01-12-2020 03:07AM

Amsterdam?

Barna77 · 01-12-2020 10:09AM

bubblypop wrote: »

Tough one.
Is it in Eastern Europe?

Ficheall wrote: »

Amsterdam?

Nope

KevRossi wrote: »

Looks very German, possibly a taxi in there as well.

Yes

Andrea B. · 03-12-2020 07:10AM

Kaliningrad?

Barna77 · 03-12-2020 10:30AM

Andrea B. wrote: »

Kaliningrad?

Nein

Andrea B. · 05-12-2020 11:27AM

Austria?

Barna77 · 05-12-2020 07:48PM

Andrea B. wrote: »

Austria?

Nope

M.T. Cranium · 06-12-2020 08:55AM

I will say Bonn with the idea that maybe Beethoven lived in that house with the plaque on the wall.

Barna77 · 06-12-2020 07:13PM

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

I will say Bonn with the idea that maybe Beethoven lived in that house with the plaque on the wall.

Not Bonn, but a bit further south

View from the square on the far end of the first photo

M.T. Cranium · 06-12-2020 08:08PM

Stuttgart? Anywhere in Bavaria?

Barna77 · 06-12-2020 08:17PM

No to both

(International) Guess the Location 2 a.k.a. Part Deux (see rules post 1)

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