Finfly

Bullet train, Japan

Give that man [lom] a big ceegar...and the helm. Parents, 1983 collection.

In response to Capes OH, here's one to be going on with...

http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr144/pugwash09/Misc7Sep07061sml.jpg

Is it Morecambe?

http://www.balmoralhotelmorecambe.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/promenade_and_sea_wall/clock_tower_morecambe_prom.jpg

It is indeed Morecambe. You have control,

That's interesting because there is a very similar clock tower somewhere else I've been (haven't been to Morecambe) and I was about to start searching, so thanks for saving me the time!

http://indianhomemaker.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/wpid-2012-01-01-15-47-56.jpg?w=584

Nice one. If that's where I think it is, I've never been that close in a commercial airliner. I'm guessing that's not a modern jet as the windows are too square.

My guess is Mumbai, India. And the mountain is Matheran.

Nepal? The approach to Kathmandu Tribhuvan?

Correct, svhar.:ok:

Thanks. Open House.

I'll have a bash as there are no takers.
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg517/TaporiBrothers/Brrrrr.jpg

Reminds me of the entrance to Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, US.

But, not exactly.

Reminds me of the entrance to Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, US.

But, not exactly.


agree ...... on a cold winter day, also reminded me of the Niagra river above the falls

You're close indeed. A bit further North.

Fort Georges, Hog Island, Casco Bay, Maine.

Correct svhar..:ok:

Thanks. Here comes another:

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/ppr4/DSC01811.jpg

would that be Cap de Bregancon ?

Sorry, not in France.

Is it Italy?

Yes, it is.

Looks a bit small to be Italy.

Hahaha!:p A Where on Earth joke?

Good one, svhar :D

Castello Angera, Lago Maggiore.

OH if correct.

In anticipation of svhar's agreement to canardly's answer, something out of the ordinary:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/threadbaron/file-16.jpg

Ferrari World, Yas Island?

(The car looks ever so pimpy).

Sorry, no.

The red glass 'pimples' really spoiled a good looking car. Too much money, not enough taste.

Canardly is correct, of course.

I didn't think that this one would last that long.

You all seem to be flagging ... or maybe not!

Therein lies a clue ...

Could it be Bahrain?

Of course it is Bahrain.:ok:

I'll declare OH then.

Seconded. :ok:

What a terrible thing to do to a good car.

Another from the Mom & Dad mystery series. I have an approximate guess because of surrounding slides which I recognized....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/mysteryparent.jpg

sleeping Buddah

here's a pic I took that looks similar to Fins

http://fromtheflightdeck.com/MEL/PPRune/Bangkok-1.jpg

Royal Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand.

Isn't it What Po?

To me it looks like Siam (sic) but it was in with a bunch from Singapore.

My 'tour' in Singapore specialized in stopping at stores where they sold knockoff rolex watches. I don't remember anything that looked like this there.

Isn't it What Po?


Depends on wat country you are from :E

Wat Pho = reclinng Buddah = Sleeping Buddah

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bangkok_Grand_Pala... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bangkok_Grand_Palace.JPG)

Isn't it What Po?

Which Po, would be correct.

Try this one for general location

city or country or building name?

http://fromtheflightdeck.com/MEL/PPRune/whreonearth-01.jpg

Ruins of St. Paul Church, Macau.

Svhar

right on:ok:

over to you

Thank you. Open House.

svhar will likely get this one (given track record) but hopefully not in ten minutes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/lovethisoneofrailroad.jpg

Finn
The trees and straight track signify Tundra and Alaska

In fairness, this photo was taken in 1968. I have no idea whether the tracks remain to this day. In fact, I tried a few google attempts to see, but the more they have improved google, the more useless it seems to have become.

It is not Alaska. If the challenge is open in 12 hours or so, I'll post another photo, taken very near this one, which will almost certainly surprise and give it away as well.

In fairness, this photo was taken in 1968. I have no idea whether the tracks remain to this day. In fact, I tried a few google attempts to see, but the more they have improved google, the more useless it seems to have become.


I'm an expert on RR tracks Right-of-Way marks, both Old & new, so after the answer is revealed I'll give it a shot

Thanks for saying 1968, as the switch box looks old. Yes, street marks mean people drive on the right. (Unless you flipped the photo.)

Single track is odd for something in active use, so I'm betting not US.

The markings between the tracks do not look familiar.

Alaska is a good guess.

i hope that is a minor bit of debris on the rail in the middle of the road crossing, not a crack.

Very nice photo.

I presume the photographer got out of the way before the next train passed by.

To keep things moving, here is the hint of which I wrote earlier.....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/VERYupperHudsonRiver.jpg

Surprising, no?

New York State, USA? Can't pin point the actual place but will guess at somewhere near Albany?

Yes. The first one was taken in the large Adirondack Park in upstate NY. Again, from memory, I believe that it was taken within an hour or so drive of the photo of the headwaters of the Hudson. If Lom is able to pinpoint the rr tracks location, it would pin it down still further. I think this is the day we visited Tupper Lake, so it is possible the first photo was fairly close to that.

Open House.

http://static3.travelandleisure.com/images/media/0000/3819/201103-b-guess-36.jpg

Fin

Yes. The first one was taken in the large Adirondack Park in upstate NY. Again, from memory, I believe that it was taken within an hour or so drive of the photo of the headwaters of the Hudson. If Lom is able to pinpoint the rr tracks location, it would pin it down still further. I think this is the day we visited Tupper Lake, so it is possible the first photo was fairly close to that.



Adirondack Pk is a very big area and of course it's impossible to locate both a river-stream, a parallel auto road and a RR crossing in the same area within a mile of each other. But considering your vague location and year it was taken, I would put it at the intersection with Mt Arab Road and the still extant RR line going into Tupper Lake Village.

These scenic RR lines are being reactivated today out of Rochester and especiually Saratoga Springs NY. In fact the passenger dome cars and equipment down here in Florida just moved up to Saratoga to expand that line deeper into the Adirondack Park.

Thankee kindly there, Lom. I keep thinking of you (erroneously) as a New Yorker. Many non-New Yorkers (again not you particularly) have a very inaccurate concept of the size and beauty of upstate NY, where people can still get lost in the woods for days, together with wild bears. [not that the bears are lost, necessarily].

And that is wonderful news about the resurgence of rail travel (if it is ok to say so on an aviation platform).

Not quite aviation related....

Loma... might point out that the Florida East Coast Railway is still (mostly??) single track ... running from Jacksonville to Miami. Mr Flagler built the FEC starting in the late 19th century and also was the prime developer of the resorts along the east coast of Florida. The FEC Railway reached Key West in 1912, a very major privately-funded venture. The railway to Key West was severely damaged by a hurricane in 1935. The state of Florida then bought the remains and the highway to Key West used many of the bridges built by the railway.

Ting Ting, is that The Cloisters in Christ Church College, Oxford? Looks familiar, visited there 3 years ago....


And having just looked at Go ogle Images, I know it's not! :(

My guess is a hallway in Princeton University, New Jersey.

Remiinds me of the movie version of The Davinci Code, and also parts of the church at Canterbury.

Correct, svhar.

Thanks. Open House.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/whereonearth8.jpg

from the usual source

from the usual source

Adirondacks in the year 2099 or Bangkok in 1965

Snicker. And thanks again for the info on the Adirondack Park RR.

I am waiting for a 2nd opinion here, as I do not BELIEVE it is Bangkok. Not too far away I think.

Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island?

I'm with Hatington; it is indeed the Aberdeen Channel, Hong Kong.

Correctamundo. The slide is indeed so labeled. Nice work.

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff378/qqharg1/027_10A.jpg

Those of you with connections to the UK will probably have recognised Ken Livingston one time MP for Brent East and later Mayor of London. This was taken when he was Mayor but the location might be said to be more relevant to his time as an MP.

Is that the steps leading down from Westminster Bridge to Westminster Pier?

Is he talking to Ed Milliband? (OK I know it's supposed to be where, not who on earth).

Well done Duckbutt, your turn.

And thinking about it the camera probably has the old County Hall in the background so although the location is close to the Houses of Parliament it probably has as much relevance to his Mayoral role.

Thanks. I'll freely admit this one is a bit obscure but let's give it a go and see if anyone can track it down with a bit of detective work. Throughout its life it has always been a small, unremarkable hotel in a city suburb. What makes it stand apart is the fact that a gentleman who I am pretty confident you will have all heard of and who's picture is easily recognisible used to wash dishes in the kitchens here for a while in the first quarter of the 20th Century. He went on to lead the movement which eventually gained independence for his own country.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/WoE3.jpg

If the challenge stalls I will reveal all.

If the challenge stalls I will reveal all.

Well from the parking I can't even tell if they drive on the right or the left

Perhaps the words 'British Gas' on the van might help.

ok duckbutt, this is a complete punt, but is the reference person Mohandas Ghandi ? Who happened to train as a barrister in London befor heading off to SA.

the building looks typical of those in the london 'burbs of the wandsworth/herne hill distance from londonium.

Hotel Drayton Court, The Avenue, West London.

The Drayton Court Hotel is one of the oldest pubs in Ealing, and probably the only establishment in London to have one of their cleaners go on to become a world leader. The Former Vietnamese leader, Ho Chi Minh, toiled in the kitchens of the Drayton Court Hotel in 1914, before going on to change his country's history, driving out forces from Japan, France and the United States.


I would never have guessed Ho Chi Minh !

How DOES he do it???!!!!

Exactly so, Drayton Court Hotel in West Ealing, London.

While we're waiting for svhar to post, or declare Open House, I haven't submitted in a while. Here's one to consider.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/Challange13a-1.jpg

used to wash dishes in the kitchens here for a while

And after some bad fish, he was hit with a explosive bout of diarrhea and was responsible for the long stain in the hallway leading to the water closet, which they they still haven't been able to get out. They've affectionately named it the Ho Chi Minh Trail

11Fan

Not sure what you're after

Looks like sunny Calif around Torrance and a reconstituted oil derrik

lomapaseo

Reasonably close and as I'm going off-line, you can have it as you were only a few miles off. This establishment is called Oil Patch Liquor and Deli. Looking North from this point of view, Long Beach Airport (LGB) is just a few blocks away.

Oil Patch Liquor & Deli - Signal Hill, CA (http://www.yelp.com/biz/oil-patch-liquor-and-deli-signal-hill)

She's yours.

Sorry about the time difference. I was going to declare Open House, so lomapaseo has control then.

Sorry, just got back from golf

anybody up to it?

I'll have a go. Was here yesterday...

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/imnotfromuranus/P1020235.jpg

Hmmm, Restricted space above the fly wheel and lots below

My guess a public open display of a drive system for an underground or steam ship

Engine room of Tower Bridge?

wings folded, you have control Sir! :ok:

I was inspired to visit after reading the thread started by Loose Rivets, so thanks LR! :ok:

A bit late but I found a photo to put up

http://fromtheflightdeck.com/MEL/PPRune/Whereonearth-02.jpg

Thanks Mr Uranus. A superb chunk of proper engineering.

I don't have a picture ready but lom has popped in with his in the meantime - which I think could be Versailles.

which I think could be Versailles.

Nope, prolly same time period though

Tsar’s Palace (aka "Catherine Palace") St. Pietersburg, Russia?

Amber Room in the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, which is just outside of St Petersburg

Canardly has control if correct

Canardly and Tawhiri

Both spot on, but since I didn't specify the exactness of the room (too much of a hint) the winner goes to the first post naming the city and building, Canardly :ok:

welcome to our thread

Thanks lomapaseo. :O

Here's an easy one - which City will do.

http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab136/Chrisduck/pic0259.jpg

Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya Oblast, Russia.

Correct again, svhar :D

You're in control.

Thank you, Canardly.

Here comes the next one:

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/DSC02148.jpg

Tivoli Gardens CPH

Correct, lomapaseo. Your controls, Sir.

Name of the building or contents

http://fromtheflightdeck.com/MEL/PPRune/Whereionearth-03.jpg

Liberation Hall, Michelsberg, Mount Kelheim, Bayern, Germany.

If correct, Open House, as it's bedtime in this part of the world.

Am gonna jump the gun on the premise that svhar hasn't been wrong yet.

Have discovered an unsettling number of new slide transparencies in one of those drawers we all have, wiith buttons, matches, pennies, dimes and 35mm unlabeled slides.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/whereinrussia.jpg

Am gonna jump the gun on the premise that svhar hasn't been wrong yet.

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your $$ investments must be doing well as well :)

You mean 'past performance is no guarantee blah blah' etc?

The attrition rate on this thread, for one reason or another, is extremely depressing.

Having unearthed an entire new strata of mystery photos, I wonder whether to start a parallel thread or just try to adjust to the current pace at which this one is moving.

My mystery photo was quite obviously somewhere in Russia, but I hoped someone could provide some greater specificity.

just try to adjust to the current pace at which this one is moving.


Don't take a chance with jumping ship and still get no responses :) There is no greater shame than starting a thread in JB and having no replies BTDT

I figured that your building was just boring and only of interest if one knew what the sign read.

I'm guessing that the interest in the sign was that it had something to do with the KGB

It is an interesting picture. The sign says: "Leninskim Kursom - K Kommunizmu". It is probably not significant, could be a slogan that they used to put all over the place.

It could also be a title of a book by Oleg Savastiuk, published in 1963.

Then it could also be in other former Soviet countries as they use this alphabet too. Bulgarian letters are a little different and this is not there.

It's the Australian Prime Minister's office in Canberra. No??

It is at Rastrelli Square, in front of Smolny Cathedreal, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Building is now yellow.

Thank you again. SO labeled. MOST grateful.

My pleasure again, but this one was not easy at all. I had to use all available sources.

Here comes the next one:

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/DSC00192nn.jpg

Having unearthed an entire new strata of mystery photos, I wonder whether to start a parallel thread or just try to adjust to the current pace at which this one is moving.

Finfly, hang in there until I have a chance to scan some pictures and open a photo bucket account!

Although I admit to having drifted over to the flower alphabet thread, and things have been somewhat busy around here.

P.S., Somebody ought to recognize those license plates, that and their driving on the right has Europe stamped all over it.

I think they are Luxembourg plates.

Indeed it is Luxembourg, Avenue de la Liberte.

Your controls, Rule3.

Thanks Open House.:)

Open house?

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/imnotfromuranus/IMG_0156.jpg

Ok, I know it's quite random, so it's within reach of a day visit from E.Sussex.

I'm going to have a guess at Brighton... maybe in "The Lanes"?

The 'Creperie' shop sign + the green cross ('Pharmacie' perhaps?) I would guess France but which Town or City? They tend to look the same after a while.

ETA: St. Omer perhaps? Architecture looks similar..

Dieppe?

Message too short?

France yes, St. Omer and Dieppe no! It is a coastal town though....

The grand building is l'Hôtel Desandrouin, Boulogne sur Mer.

Correct Canardly, over to you Sir!

Thanks, ifu.
Another easy one...

http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab136/Chrisduck/DSCF2937.jpg

Looks as if the drained pond of Montady, southern France.

Correct sir!! Also known as "l'Oppidum d'Enserune" :D

You have control.

An easy one to keep things moving .....

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/2436822.jpg

Bigger picture here (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/2436822.jpg)

Chateau St. Sabine, Burgundy, France.

Correct. :ok:


Location here (http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=47.193285&ln=4.624536&z=1&k=2&a=1&tab=1&pl=all)

Thanks. So we wait for jet_noseover.

Unless anyone else wants to keep things moving.

sorry to hold things up.. nothing picturesque at the moment so OH

From "the collection"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/anotherwhereonearth.jpg

A good one again. It is the Paris Opera House, France.

The Palais Garnier, also known as the Opéra de Paris as well as the Opéra Garnier in Paris.

Thank you both very much.

This is one I got on my own by zooming in on the blue object, but pretty enough to share here, not so much as a challenge, but a thank you.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/whereonearthfolkseurope.jpg

svhar was first....

This is the harbour in Dubrovnik, Croatia. A beautiful place.

Here comes the next one:

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/DSC02164.jpg

View from the spiral stairs at Church of Our Saviour (Vor Frelsers Kirke), Copenhagen.
(BTDT)

Correct, Sir. You have control.

Thanks again, svhar :O

Don't have anything to hand so OH.

What and Where?

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/65251866.jpg

HMS Illustrous, Oslo, Norway.

svhar

Yes & Yes.
You have control.

Just out of curiosity (not part of the game), where is this?
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/66044862.jpg

Thanks. Open House. Looks like France, to me.

How about this:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/WoE6.jpg

Plague Monument in Vienna?

If so, OH.

It is. Open house then.

Name the islands .....


http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/65449012.jpg

Tank and Wisteria, Key West. Florida.

And the ship is most likely the Carnival Ecstasy.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/Ecstasy.jpg

Here's one I snapped of the Ecstasy docked in Aruba, shot from my only ride in a Robinson R-44. We had just done a Panama Canal transit.

It was later used to house Katrina workers.

Not a challenge, just fluff. Please carry on.

It's strange to see a photo of a cruise ship upright.

Correct. :ok:
Looks like you're also right about the ship.

The photo was taken on base leg for 09 at Key West International.


Downwind
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/65449147.jpg

You have control.

Thank you. Here comes the next:

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/DSC00028-1.jpg

Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand. OH if correct.

Correct, im from uranus. Open House then.

Try this:

http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab176/vikingphoto/P1000692-1-1.jpg

Menec group at Carnac? OH if so.

Indeed, Carnac in Brittany.

So Open House it is.

First timer:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/Wholigan/WhereThe.jpg

Cadbury Hill, OH if so.

'Tis indeeed Cadbury Castle, supposed site of Camelot.

Another one:


http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/WoE7a.jpg

L'Aquila? ..........

St Francis Cathedral, Assisi.

Yes, St Francis Basilica, Assisi caught during the earthquake in September 1997.

Over to Sitigeltfel.

Just to keep the thread running, an easy one. If sitigeltfel wishes I shall withdraw the pic.. Anyway, yet another bridge..

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/imnotfromuranus/IMG_0108.jpg

Bridge over the river Severn between England and Wales?

That'll be the one! On my way home after the Wales v New Zealand game in Nov 2010, over to you, or sitigeltfel.... :ok:

I'd say go sitigeltfel..:ok:

Duckbutt i hope you didn't take that photo! Be a good time to run!

(Plus a lot of work to repair.)

Duckbutt i hope you didn't take that photo! Be a good time to run!


Thank the Lord I wasn't there. It was a still from:

Church Collapses - Igreja Desaba - YouTube

Some didn't make it.

Keeping it going .....


http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/65868288.jpg

The Cathedral in Pella, South Africa.

Correct. :ok:

The cathedral was built two priests in the 19th century - in an oasis in the desert about 100 miles from Springbok.

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/65435045.jpg




(Edit)
This thread has just gone through 200,000 views.

Thanks. I think I'll pass on this one. Sitigeltfel seems be holding the ball but does neither seem to want to post a challenge nor declare Open House. What do we do then?

Why don't you post one of your "mystery pictures", finfly1? They're always interesting.

I'm with you svhar, let's go Open House to keep the thread moving :)

I Concur.................

Okay, just to keep things going,,,

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c246/con-pilot/ORD5-1.jpg

Should be easy, sorry for the aviation content. :p

Looks like Chicago O'Hare.

Said it was easy. You got it. I do have another one, aviation related that is not an airport. If no action in a bit, I'll post it.

Post it, by all means, if it's aviation related it is more interesting, at least to me.

Okay, a bit harder, what is the 737 sitting on, where and why.

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c246/con-pilot/1.jpg

New Orleans, May 24th 1988, sat on a grass strip after losing power while flying through heavy precipitation at 16,200 ft?

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c246/con-pilot/1.jpg

A 737 traveling from Cincinnati to Salt Lake City was canceled on Monday when cash-strapped Velcro Airlines, the aircraft's operator, canceled Flight 1060 en route. The aircraft was forced to land in an Indiana cornfield after being canceled mid-flight.

According to a statement from Velcro, the midair cancellation was made as part of the company's plan to cut continental service by 25 percent and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with an economically viable business strategy.

"Velcro Airlines regrets any inconvenience to our valued customers," the statement read in part. "Unfortunately, in today's uncertain economy, service interruptions and cancellations are inevitable."

Air-traffic-control personnel reported that Flight 1060 was at cruising altitude when Velcro cancelled the flight. According to the aircraft's black-box flight recorder, the crew announced the cancellation over the intercom, instructed passengers to gather their luggage from overhead bins for disembarking, then shut down all aircraft systems.

At 9:46 a.m. Central time, Flight 1060's tracking designation vanished from air-traffic-control radar screens.

Approximately 15 minutes later, the aircraft landed in a cornfield outside Tipton, IN. The passengers were forced to trudge across the cornfield to the nearest road and hitchhike back to Cincinnati.

Close enough, except it landed on top of a levee on the Mississippi River, not a grass runway.

Well it was not a grass runway until it was landed on and became one. :p

All yours. :ok:

Open house..

This one will not be easy unless you know the city. So I'll leave it here for
the night.

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/DSC07599.jpg

There are some clues though. Underneath me is a tunnel. The yellow cars are taxis and the red sign on the big building on the right, is a sign of a telephone company.

Big street not much traffic. Could it be a coastal city in South America?

That is a good guess, but in fact it is in Europe.

This city has an excellent aviation museum and is a former capital.

Thanks. I think I'll pass on this one. Sitigeltfel seems be holding the ball but does neither seem to want to post a challenge nor declare
Apologies. Had to attend to frozen water pipes :(

The Trimontium Princess Hotel, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Former capital of Eastern Rumelia.

OH if correct.

That is correct, BHX-SKG. Open House then.

svhar


That is a good guess, but in fact it is in Europe.

This city has an excellent aviation museum and is a former capital.


Ah, I had failed to consider the traffic on Old Europe avenues :)

BTW what does that vantage point the picture was taken from look like from the street level. I was struck by the appearance of hanging wires and the concrete embedded in the rocks

Here are two pictures of the hill from where it was taken. The old part of
the town is up there, including a roman theater.

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/002-1.jpg



http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/001-1.jpg

bulgaria. first part of answer

This was really not a challenge, it was a request from the previous page.
It is indeed Plovdiv in Bulgaria. Still Open House.

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/65800833.jpg

Reminds me of looking down Barnard Way in Santa Monica CA across the Bay towards Malibu.

Reminds me of looking down Barnard Way in Santa Monica CA across the Bay towards Malibu.


certainly agree that its So Cal, but I'm happy to learn otherwise

Thing is, you can get a similar view from Laguna Beach and you are actually looking a different direction. Hell, it could almost be Santa Barbara as well. Gotta break down and check out Google Earth.

I stumbled across the actual picture while validating my guess so I am self-disqualifying and withdrawing.

It's not where I thought so it's still up for grabs.

Funny thing. I've been there so that's why it looked familiar. :ugh:

Fancy a round of golf Flying Lawyer?

So it's near a golf course then. In that case I would guess La Jolla, north of San Diego.

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/lajolla.jpg

Looks similar.

Go ahead and play through. I think Flying Lawyer is back at the Clubhouse playing the 19 hole.

svhar
So it's near a golf course then. In that case I would guess La Jolla, north of San Diego.

Of course you would. ;);)
It is La Jolla - jewel of SoCal and close to paradise on earth - but the green area is a public park not a golf course, and nowhere near a golf course. In fact, given the size of the city, San Diego has relatively few golf courses. (Hundreds of tennis courts.)




11Fan
Thanks for the invitation, but I'm not a golfer - yet.
I'd intended to learn when I grew up but it doesn't look like that's going to happen (growing up) so it's now part of my retirement plan. :)


FL

So I'll leave this here for the night:

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/DSC06793.jpg

FL,

If you ever take it up, just remember that a ball in the pocket is worth two in the brush. The Golf Course I was hinting at is Torrey Pines and it is at the Upper Left edge of this picture.

BTW, My San Diego office is just a couple of miles or so from that spot. Yours was taken (I believe) just to the left of my note from the shore of that bay. That is Miramar Marine Corps Air Station is just to the right (South) of my office.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/SanDiegoOffice.jpg

Cheers,

11Fan

Yes, I took the picture near the corner of Coast Blvd and Girard Avenue - the green area is Ellen Scripps Browning Park. Torrey Pines is in the distance, about 5-6 miles up the coast.

It's also just about visible in this picture I took near the Easter Cross on Mt Soledad: Link (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/65802055.jpg) (Too big to post)

Mt Soledad also gives a good view of Miramar Air Station. The view was even better (for aviation enthusiasts) when Miramar was the USN Fighter Weapons School, then home of the Topgun school of movie fame, and known as 'Fightertown USA'.


FL

Svhar

So I'll leave this here for the night.

With well manicured water boundaries it's gotta be new Europe

You are right about that.

Maybe there are not enough clues in this picture. So to speed it up, it is in Germany.

is that the river Rhine, by any chance ?

No, it is the Mosel river. And it is a town, that in my opinion, is one of the most beautiful towns in Germany.

And the town bears the name of the place where the picture is taken from.

you would have been at the castle of Bernkastel-Kues.....

http://www.geo-reisecommunity.de/bild/regular/186865/Mosel.jpg

offline for a while now, so OH if this were correct

That is correct. So Open House it is.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/threadbaron/file-17.jpg

Name the obvious landmark.

Pilot Mountain, North Carolina?

Nah, too flat on top.

http://www.careyspostcards.com/9082-12212-large/pilot-mountain-nc-postcard.jpg

Tafelberg close by CPT from "the other side" ??

Fan: Wrong continent and hemishpere.

Hailstone: Wrong continent and right hemisphere.

Uluru in an ususual light ?

Montségur, Ariege-Pyrenees?

hailstone.
Should have gone to Specsavers! ;)

Canardly. Negative.

southern hemisphere, but not Africa and not in America - how about "flat Mountain" in New Zealand?

maybe still in the Americas, but the southern part - how about the Table Mountains in Venezuela ?

Nope and nope. Wrong hemisphere once.

hmmm - your 8224 said

Hailstone: Wrong continent and right hemisphere when I suggested the Tafelberg in ZA and 11Fan's N Carolina was also in the wrong hemisphere :confused::confused::confused:

Sir, there are 4 hemispheres, remember.;)

I would have guessed it was El Castillo Tepui, in the Amazonas region of Venezuela.

But that is not in the right hemisphere.

:ugh::ugh::ugh

too long a day - better to get some sleep sometimes than "chasing places......."....

Remember to say your prayers!

Big Rock Candy Mountain?

Close, not, but no lollipop!:ok:

Mr Baron

Hemi- means half, thus there cannot be four (4) hemispheres.

There can be Northern & Southern hemispheres,

There can be eastern and western hemispheres.

There cannot be northeastern, northwestern, southeastern and southwestern hemispheres. Maybe they have another name.

So there.

Then it is the Batalegala Mountain (Bible Rock), Sri Lanka.

Prayers, a good hint.

http://images.travelpod.com/users/henderson/maldives-2006.1160837520.sri_lanka_061.jpg
Colombo Kandy

Silent all this time, svhar, and then you snipe it!

Correct, of course. Viewed from the Kandy-Colombo train last month.

OH.

seacue

Mea culpa. I thought I might be making it too difficult for myself. The words 'petard', 'own', 'by', 'hoist' and 'my' spring to mind.

So there! :p

Here comes an easy one:

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/DSC07543.jpg

nemo Museum, Amsterdam?

That is correct. Your controls, jet noseover.

Thank you.

should be easy. What city and the view is from where? (Landmark)

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/jetmarg/Vacation%202011/FIL214.jpg

The Vatican, taken from the Spanish Steps, Rome, Italy.

That's correct. Fabulous city!

It is, indeed. Open House.

Name the Church...

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/imnotfromuranus/225191_1792561728256_1066035858_1566412_4810720_n.jpg

San Lorenzo Church, Florence, Italy.

Yup, another fantastic place to visit, hopefully going Rome this year. Over to you svhar...

Thank you, im from uranus. Yes, Italy is nice.

Also a nice place:

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i457/svhar/ppr%205/IMGP3113.jpg