Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi all,
Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.

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

1…9899101103104…129

Comments

  • #3002
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,375 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Is that a Union Jack* on a flagpole in the background?

    If so, Gibraltar or Cyprus?


    *Or a butchers apron, depending on your persuasion.


  • #3003
    Three More Big Sleeps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Three More Big Sleeps


    One of the twelve (out of fourteen) British Overseas Territories where one drives on the left?

    Edit: Kev, Gibraltar (and one other (non-military) BOT as far as I can remember) is RHD. Mind you, dogs, trees, barking and all that :)


  • #3004
    niley
    Registered Users Posts: 584 ✭✭✭niley


    Not a Union Jack, but it is part of an art installation, and as such a very important part of the image.

    Not a BOT either :)


  • #3005
    niley
    Registered Users Posts: 584 ✭✭✭niley


    Another view...


    514963.jpg


  • #3006
    martyos121
    Registered Users Posts: 21,332 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    Somewhere in Pretoria maybe? That’s just loosely based on those signs and dates, couldn’t get anywhere going down the architectural route.


  • Advertisement
  • #3007
    niley
    Registered Users Posts: 584 ✭✭✭niley


    martyos121 wrote: »
    Somewhere in Pretoria maybe? That’s just loosely based on those signs and dates, couldn’t get anywhere going down the architectural route.


    Getting there, not Pretoria, but correct country.


  • #3008
    martyos121
    Registered Users Posts: 21,332 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    Finally got there, never would have without that second picture.

    514977.jpeg

    It’s the Cathedral Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Port Elizabeth. I spent way too long on that one! :D


  • #3009
    niley
    Registered Users Posts: 584 ✭✭✭niley


    martyos121 wrote: »
    Finally got there, never would have without that second picture.

    It’s the Cathedral Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Port Elizabeth. I spent way too long on that one! :D


    Spot on :)


    The arty-type stuff is part of Route 67, which represents Mandela's 67 years of work dedicated to the freedom of South Africa. https://www.nmbt.co.za/listing/route_67.html



    You're up now!


  • #3010
    Three More Big Sleeps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Three More Big Sleeps


    martyos121 wrote: »
    Finally got there...

    Aah, high five, Marty, outstanding work altogether :)

    *takes some solace that SA is a LHD country*


  • #3011
    martyos121
    Registered Users Posts: 21,332 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    I’ll have one up shortly, don’t think it can live up to the challenge of that last one though.


  • Advertisement
  • #3012
    martyos121
    Registered Users Posts: 21,332 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    I can post another angle if this proves difficult, but I think there’s enough to work with here:

    514981.jpeg


  • #3013
    Credit Checker Moose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Credit Checker Moose


    Basilique Saint-Michel-Archange


  • #3014
    martyos121
    Registered Users Posts: 21,332 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    Well that didn’t last long at all. You’re up Moose.


  • #3015
    Credit Checker Moose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Credit Checker Moose


    mKwZRtY.jpg


  • #3016
    niley
    Registered Users Posts: 584 ✭✭✭niley


    Reminds me of Pripyat.


  • #3017
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,375 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Hmmm... same type of Ferris Wheel baskets as Pripyat, but they are yellow.

    Either Russia or a former USSR state?


  • #3018
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,375 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Or else it's the one in Pyongyang at the Ole Kaeson Park.


  • #3019
    Credit Checker Moose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Credit Checker Moose


    niley wrote: »
    Reminds me of Pripyat.
    They are similar.

    KevRossi wrote: »
    Hmmm... same type of Ferris Wheel baskets as Pripyat, but they are yellow.

    Either Russia or a former USSR state?
    Could be. :)

    KevRossi wrote: »
    Or else it's the one in Pyongyang at the Ole Kaeson Park.
    Nope.


  • #3020
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭1huge1


    Its quite annoying, I've found the ferris wheel on shutterstock but there is no caption so I've no idea where it was taken :D

    I'm going to say St Petersburg


  • #3021
    Three More Big Sleeps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Three More Big Sleeps


    1huge1 wrote: »
    ... I've found the ferris wheel on shutterstock...

    Likewise, Huge.

    I found a very similar looking ferris wheel somewhere or other which I eventually tracked down to Prydniprovsʹkyy Park in Kremenchuk, Ukraine... but it looks - at least according to Google Maps - that it's since been torn down.

    'Tis a tricky one alright.


  • Advertisement
  • #3022
    Credit Checker Moose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Credit Checker Moose


    Ukraine is the closest guess so far. Correct country not guessed.


  • #3023
    VG31
    Registered Users Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭VG31


    Tiraspol, Moldova (Transnistria)

    https://goo.gl/maps/YcaMeFomu9iK92Ke6

    That was tricky!


  • #3024
    Credit Checker Moose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Credit Checker Moose


    Well done. :)


  • #3025
    VG31
    Registered Users Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭VG31


    Annotation-2020-06-03-200232.png


  • #3026
    Three More Big Sleeps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Three More Big Sleeps


    Schloß Wernigerode [Castle] above the town of Wernigerode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

    Edit: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BUFrTmePjz2YLaeA7


  • #3027
    VG31
    Registered Users Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭VG31


    Three More Big Sleeps wrote: »
    Schloß Wernigerode [Castle] above the town of Wernigerode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

    Edit: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BUFrTmePjz2YLaeA7

    Yes, well done.


  • #3028
    Three More Big Sleeps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Three More Big Sleeps


    VG31 wrote: »
    Yes, well done.

    Crap. I hate it when it's my go :( Maybe I'll choose from my extensive knowledge of former Soviet-bloc ferris wheels... standby.


  • #3029
    Three More Big Sleeps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Three More Big Sleeps


    I'm watching Brosnan and Hamilton in Dante's Peak on the Netflix yoke atm, but I couldn't find a decent shot of Mount St. Helens that wasn't blindingly obvious. But that's neither here nor there...

    515165.jpg


  • #3030
    martyos121
    Registered Users Posts: 21,332 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    Going purely based on your (possible) clue here, Hammerfest?


  • Advertisement
  • #3031
    Three More Big Sleeps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Three More Big Sleeps


    martyos121 wrote: »
    Going purely based on your (possible) clue here, Hammerfest?

    Fellow Bryson fan, Marty? You're up :)


Advertisement