Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[Northern_Brewer]

@Northern_Brewer Is Europe the correct continent? Hoping for a clue.

I think I've been pretty generous with Lairg in northern Scotland being "pretty hot" but even other parts of Scotland are cooler - so I think we can safely say that it's in Scotland. But not Mull.

And all I can see is water and hills, but I've said the water is not the famous bit, so it's probably the hills that are famous (at least famous in Scotland). But I'll take the name of the area.

 

[Gulo_gulo]

I reckon it's the North West Highlands, is Stac Pollaidh in the photo?

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

But Torridon was colder than Skye so Stac Polly would be cold, too? Was going to suggest Rhum but that's out now.

I reckon it's the North West Highlands, is Stac Pollaidh in the photo?

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Are any Munros in the photo?

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Or is it Assynt and Coigach that are in the photo?

... Wait, it's the view from Stac Pollaidh.

Looks like a pretty cool place! I've been to quite a few places, but it looks like this game makes you do a bit more exploring about what else is out there, so that's pretty cool. I'd be inclined to only use my own photos though.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

@Gulo_gulo It is indeed the view over Assynt from Stac Pollaidh, with Loch Sionasgaig in the foreground and from left to right Quinag, Suilven, Canisp and Cul Mor.

Arguably the most beautiful part of the UK but one that very few people know, they're trying to make a bit more of it with the North Coast 500 route. Not often the weather is that good, OTOH this photo isn't the best at showing how Suilven in particular just rises out of the landscape. You're up.

https://binged.it/2rBeZYy

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Yeah what led to finally see something similar on the web was a tourist website about the North Coast 500. Looks pretty awesome.

Next:

 

[BruceH]

Paris

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Not Paris

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Feels poorer, after past wealth - Budapest?

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Looking toward the Buda side of Budapest over the Danube it is. Fisherman's Bastion on the far right side of the photo.

You're up again!

edit: though I don't really know about or agree with the past wealth vs. current wealth thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Budapest

There is a monument with shoes on the side of the Danube where the photo was taken (the Pest side) where many people were made to drown themselves during or before WWII. And in general this town doesn't scream general "wealth" anytime in its past. Maybe just for some. But regarding Fisherman's Bastion "It was built between 1895 and 1902..." so maybe that was apparently a 'good' time??

My great grandparents fled the general region before WWI since it was apparently horrible already by then... guess if the U.S. had an anti-immigrant stance maybe things would have been different for me...

edit again: for instance this, after the horrid history of WWII: "The revolutions of 1989 brought with them the end of Soviet occupation of Hungary, which meant the end of Communism in Hungary. Budapest succeeded in taking advantage of new economic possibilities and pursuing development more efficiently than the other parts of the country. Upon the shutdown of Socialist industrial plants, plenty of new workplaces were generated, especially on the fields of service and trade industries. In the Budapest area, unemployment is the lowest, and average income per capita is the highest."

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Wow - another of my complete guesses of a place I've not been to, comes off! I just thought that the castle looked somewhat like the ones around Vienna, but in a country that had not done so well economically recently.

I'd suggest you are taking a typically USian short-term view of history - yes Hungary had a pretty terrible 20th century - but the bastion was built before WWI, and the Austro-Hungarian empire had been one of the dominant European powers for much of the previous millennium before it all went horribly wrong in 1914-18. Those castles did not come cheap.

So, mine :

 

[epidemaiis]

Probably from Belgium (or Netherlands). Brasserie Dupont ? Leuze-en-Hainaut

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Samuel Smith brewery?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

No to both, but I sort of like the way you're thinking.

 

[BruceH]

The right hand drive car would suggest the British Isles to me. It's laid out like a distillery but which one out of hundreds? Somewhere in Speyside?

 

[Hanglow]

some breweries are like that too for letting steam out the roof. Also some maltings

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Fuller's maybe?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Ach, I should have noticed that steering wheel and cropped it, it is indeed a ("non-trick") RHD car. But Speyside is pretty cold.

Fuller's is much more urban than this.

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Unknown brewery somewhere in rural England?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Rural England yes.
Brewery no.

 

[pvpeacock]

Prison?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

No.

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Warminster Maltings it has to be.

(It might look like a prison but I bet it surely smells better than it looks!)

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Warminster it is - surely one of the most scenic of brewing suppliers. You're up.

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Alright, here goes another:

 

[BruceH]

Juno, Alaska

Edit: Juneau. Thanks pvpeacock.

 

[pvpeacock]

I'm sure BruceH is correct except for the spelling. Juneau, AK. Been there many times.

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Juno, Alaska

Edit: Juneau. Thanks pvpeacock.

Right you are! Downtown Juneau.

 

[BruceH]

There are a few clues in this one.

 

[JB_Brewing2]

Zell, Germany?

 

[Rodent]

Zell, west of Frankfurt

 

[Rodent]

Zell, Germany?

beat me to it

 

[BruceH]

Zell, Germany?

It is Zell. At one time I lived about 9km away. Your turn.

 

[JB_Brewing2]

It is Zell. At one time I lived about 9km away. Your turn.

The sign gave it away with a google search. Here's one:

 

[BruceH]

Victoria, Canada

 

[JB_Brewing2]

Victoria, Canada

100% correct! Your turn.

 

[BruceH]

Hyack terminal sealed the deal.

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Vienna

edit: on third thought, I say Munich

 

[BruceH]

Vienna

edit: on third thought, I say Munich

None of the three. Two are on the correct continent though.