Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[Andres Falconer]

Ugh... That's disappointing.

I probably wouldn't have guessed theater. I was thinking fancy restaurant in resort town or something like that.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Damn. Yes, The Festival Theatre.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Until I hovered the mouse over the image and the name of the picture came up

I left "Dublin" on a post back in January (post #9242) and @3 Dawg Night noticed it. Oops! When I next posted a picture (at #9255), I labeled the picture "Not Dublin," and, of course, "Not Dublin" was the first response. (Thank you @InspectorJon. )

 

[Andres Falconer]

So it’s me?

If you find something that looks like this on the internets, you have a 50% chance of getting it right.

(Bad picture, but it’s mine)

 

[DBhomebrew]

That looks super familiar to me. Italy?

 

[dirkomatic]

Casa de los Picos, Segovia, Spain

 

[Andres Falconer]

Casa de los Picos, Segovia, Spain

Yes, the “House of Peaks” in Segovia. We’re still in Spain. Different trip. This was 2018.

Not to be confused with the “House of Beaks” (Casa dos Bicos), in Lisbon, below, which houses the Saramago Foundation. It’s all connected. Always.

Over to @dirkomatic

 

[Andres Falconer]

That looks super familiar to me. Italy?

What I didn’t know is that both the Spanish and Portuguese houses were indeed inspired by an Italian one, the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara. You were on to something, @DBhomebrew

 

[dirkomatic]

I anticipate this one going quickly.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Are we still very near Spain? Or in disputed territory, for that matter?

 

[dirkomatic]

Yes, near Spain and I do believe there is some dispute over the border Might as well state the guess and claim the win!

 

[Andres Falconer]

I’ve never been to Gibraltar and I couldn’t match your photo with any image from the web of the view from the “Rock”, but I thought everything seemed to fit. So I say Gibraltar.

 

[dirkomatic]

It is Gibraltar. Taken from the "Pillars of Hercules" overlook
https://www.google.com/maps/place/P...722749b0861a0c4!8m2!3d36.1206346!4d-5.3458197
Go for it @Andres Falconer

 

[Andres Falconer]

For a change. Sort of.

 

[dirkomatic]

Well... The canopy says Feng Shang Chinese Restaurant, so.....

https://www.fengshang.co.uk/
Feng Shang Princess, London

 

[Andres Falconer]

Well spotted! I can barely make out the lettering so… Serves me right for gloating.

Indeed, this is Regents Canal, just off Regents Park, London.

The connection I wanted to highlight was that this picture was taken in the same country as the previous one. Although the UK has some pretty particular views as to what is a “country” and what parts are in it or not.

 

[dirkomatic]

Thanks, to @Andres Falconer for the idea... This is related to my previous entry:

 

[DBhomebrew]

This Patrick O'Brian fanatic has the answer rattling around in his brain. I guess I need to read them again.

 

[dirkomatic]

Looks like it was mentioned in one of his books... At least that's what a quick search tells me.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Looks like it was mentioned in one of his books... At least that's what a quick search tells me.

Oh, most definitely. Just can't remember all his references!

 

[michaeltrego]

Rockall - an uninhabitable granite islet situated in the North Atlantic Ocean

 

[dirkomatic]

@michaeltrego has it.

Related to Gibraltar in that it is a UK possession that is disputed.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Ah! Mentioned in The Surgeon's Mate during one of my favorite voyages.

 

[michaeltrego]

OK here you go...

 

[dirkomatic]

Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, Bourne, Massachusetts
Also know as Buzzards Bay Railroad Bridge

 

[michaeltrego]

You got it Dirk

 

[dirkomatic]

Evidently, I've found a theme:

 

[Northern_Brewer]

The connection I wanted to highlight was that this picture was taken in the same country as the previous one. Although the UK has some pretty particular views as to what is a “country” and what parts are in it or not.

Well, if you go by the Frank Zappa definition "you can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need A BEER" then I offer you :


OK, some of those are no longer current, but in general the UK has a far more distant relationship with its Overseas Territories than France does with its equivalents, which in US terms are closer to full "states" whereas the BOTs are more like Guam or the Marshall Islands.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Evidently, I've found a theme:

Well if that theme is odd islands claimed by Britain then the iceberg implies we're down south, but perhaps not so far down south as to be in the British Antarctic Territory proper. Clearly these are not the main islands of the Falklands or South Georgia (where as an aside we have various family links), so I'm guessing it's the South Sandwich Isles?

 

[dirkomatic]

Actually one of the places you listed as NOT is actually correct. These rocks are considered part of one of those places....