Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[Northern_Brewer]

So certianly a ferry port, looks like cruise liners as well?

Cars drive on right, not sure that helps much.

Lots of newbuild but some pretty grim 60s/70s housing - behind the Iron Curtain? So Poland, Baltic states or Baltic Russia?

 

[D.B.Moody]

Yes to "a Baltic state" that was once behind the Iron Curtain.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Googling "Viru" brings a lot of hits in Estonia. I don't really know much about Estonia, so let's just go with the largest coastal city: Tallinn.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Tallin, Estonia, it is. (I reread that twice to make sure I hadn't gone off track again.) You're up @3 Dawg Night.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Keeping with the coastal theme:

I've never been here (so this is obviously not my picture).

 

[Newsman]

Looks like a warm weather area.. I'm going to throw out a guess with no real idea... San Diego, California

 

[3 Dawg Night]

It's not San Diego.

 

[Newsman]

Is it in the Caribbean?

 

[3 Dawg Night]

It is not in the Caribbean.

 

[Andres Falconer]

The combination of the medieval German old town, cruise ships, modern skyscrapers and the old Soviet stack-a-proles are a giveaway for Tallinn, Estonia ;-)

 

[Andres Falconer]

And, BTW, I was born in Buenos Aires and lived in Brazil. We hear “Buenos Aires, Brazil” all the time…

 

[Andres Falconer]

But I just noticed I was late with my guess on Tallinn. Could we be talking about Santo Domingo, DR, now?

 

[3 Dawg Night]

But I just noticed I was late with my guess on Tallinn. Could we be talking about Santo Domingo, DR, now?

Per @Newsman's guess, it's not in the Caribbean.

We're coming up on 24 hours, so let me think of a good hint.

 

[GrogNerd]

our ship visited Tallinn in '92 (also Klaipeda, Lithuania & Riga, Latvia), the first US warship to visit those towns since the 1920s

not sure why, but we anchored out in the bay; the guys had to take liberty boats to town

I had duty that day, standing POOW & THOUSANDS of people came to visit the ship. some were in tears. I still have Estonian Rubles they gave us.

I would have ALMOST reenlisted to go on another cruise like that (we also visited Sweden, Denmark, Norway & Finland)

picture from that cruise. Lithuania. I'd imagine the pier in Tallinn looked the same

 

[3 Dawg Night]

OK, here's the hint. This city is home to a statue that is taller than both the Statue of Liberty and Christ the Redeemer.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Ok, I got this… we’re talking about Dakar, Senegal. I was there once, for a conference. In a swanky conference center built by the Saudis.

The picture looked vaguely familiar. And guessing Caribbean was not too far off.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Dakar it is! I've never visited Africa, but it's on my list.

@Andres Falconer is up!

 

[Andres Falconer]

Ok, some in this group might know right away. Some may be confused by the deceptively rural-looking landscape. The picture is mine. Many have made similar images. No more giveaways for now...

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

A river somewhere

 

[D.B.Moody]

Near Washington, DC

 

[Newsman]

Antietem?

 

[pvpeacock]

Mount Vernon

 

[Andres Falconer]

Good guesses. And, as it happens, I am in Washington, DC right now. But no. Not the US capital, neither a famed battlefield nor a presidential farm. Not in the US, actually. This is a protected urban heritage landscape, famous for having been painted by one or more famous painters. What city is this? Extra credit points for the name of the neighborhood.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Could easily be the Thames in west London - Richmond Park, Hampton Court, somewhere round there although it's not an area I know well.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Bingo! I had expected one of the Brits in the group to recognize it right off the bat. Yes. London is the town. The view is of Richmond Hill, overlooking Richmond, the Thames, Twickenham and beyond. In the background (in a less grainy photo) you’d be able to recognize Heathrow airport. This is a densely populated area, despite appearances. The landscape is an English Heritage protected site, all the way to the dozen or so cows grazing on Petersham Meadows.

It was a favorite topic of the painter William Turner, in the 19th century, and the view has been preserved much like the way he registered it.

More on-topic for this group, the Thames Path, which runs across the river, is lined with lovely but rather gentrified pubs that serve the old-school CAMRA-approved brews and, increasingly, other rather interesting beers. I miss this place!

Over to you @Northern_Brewer!

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Bingo! I had expected one of the Brits in the group to recognize it right off the bat. Yes. London is the town. The view is of Richmond Hill, overlooking Richmond, the Thames, Twickenham and beyond.

Heh - the only times I've been near there have been walking into Richmond after the rugby, to avoid the crowds at Twickenham station. I had a feeling that I should have brought SWMBO in on this as she knows that area much better, when we first met she didn't drink beer and her idea of fun on a Saturday was running 3 laps of Richmond Park (~20 miles) including up this very hill. Now she's a fan of porter in particular and hasn't done 20 miles in a while. OK, not being in London is part of it, but I like to think I've not so much led her astray, as brought her to the True Path...

Since it's allegedly high summer (except we seem to have given our summer to Greece, to fan their wildfires), it's time to go to the beach :

[Edit to replace photo, I just noticed that the photo-stitcher I used hadn't aligned things properly, so some buildings were duplicated... It's one way to defeat image searches!]

 

[Andres Falconer]

Ugh, Greece, summer and the “beautiful” beaches of Blighty in a single sentence! As far as I can remember, this is what every beach town in England looks like. Except in Cornwall.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Back to Richmond Hill… I was surprised that the three guesses I got were all on the Potomac - Mt. Vernon, Antietam and Washington, DC. Also, apparently, Richmond VA (not on the Potomac but in the same ballpark area, on the “James” River) was named after its English counterpart for its supposed resemblance. There must be something to it…

I, too, ran many times on Richmond Park (in fact that photo was taken during a run) and on nearby Wimbledon Common, but 3 laps is serious running. In my case, it was the drinking that got me into running, so it works both ways, I guess.

 

[dirkomatic]

Is that Margate?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

It is indeed Margate, a classic seaside resort on the southeastern tip of England now trying to reinvent itself since the tourist trade was lost to cheap flights to Spain.

Taken from near the newish Turner Contemporary gallery - Turner spent his early teens here and I think the idea is that the gallery (the double wedges to the right of the flagpole in this reverse-angle photo) are meant to recall the shapes of the cliffs (round the corner from Dover) in the distance of his paintings of Margate. His appreciation of light obviously comes from Margate - it's a bit unusual in being on the sea but north-facing and the light there does have a unique quality, even if my photos don't really capture it!

@dirkomatic, you're up