Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[SteveH aka shetc]

Torridon

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Cooler

 

[JB_Brewing2]

Lairg also has a lot more trees (and as an aside, a billion-year old impact crater) but you're getting pretty hot there. Not Iceland.

@Gulo_gulo - see the first post in the thread but in short - no, no image searches.

Directly from the stated rules:
"This is an honor system here so let's keep it fair and fun for everyone. No cheating by using SEARCH GOOGLE FOR IMAGE or looking at the IMAGE URL, or any other method."

It's the "any other method" that seems ambiguous. I took that to mean no searching related to the specific image but allowed using Google for specific features searches such as a search for, i.e., "lake in a dessert". In the spirit of full disclosure, I've used google search most of the time and, coupled with google earth, have found correct answers. Have I cheated?

 

[BruceH]

Directly from the stated rules:
"This is an honor system here so let's keep it fair and fun for everyone. No cheating by using SEARCH GOOGLE FOR IMAGE or looking at the IMAGE URL, or any other method."

It's the "any other method" that seems ambiguous. I took that to mean no searching related to the specific image but allowed using Google for specific features searches such as a search for, i.e., "lake in a dessert". In the spirit of full disclosure, I've used google search most of the time and, coupled with google earth, have found correct answers. Have I cheated?

I take it to mean no image searches, same as you do. I will search an idea. For instance: I think the image might be Berlin but I've never seen that view before. I will put "Berlin skyline" or something similar into a search engine to see if I can find a similar view.

What I won't do is copy the image and put it into the search engine, that wouldn't be fun and IMO would be cheating.

 

[Rodent]

@BruceH - just noticed we're practically neighbors up here in the north end

based on my one time there, I was thinking Scotland might be the general location. sadly, my lone tourist day on that business trip was immediately after getting off a 10 hour flight from the US. I failed miserably at keeping my eyes open past the "I've been awake for +30 hours now" mark

 

[BruceH]

@Rodent We have met. In fact we talked for about 2 hours while your wife kept wheeling wheelbarrows full of gardening stuff past us, lol. You gave me some 22oz bottles almost a year ago. You also showed me how easy kegging was so I promptly started to keg and have only bottled a few times since.

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

 

[Rodent]

@Rodent We have met. In fact we talked for about 2 hours while your wife kept wheeling wheelbarrows full of gardening stuff past us, lol. You gave me some 22oz bottles almost a year ago. You also showed me how easy kegging was so I promptly started to keg and have only bottled a few times since.

yes we did! my brain is very slow today (can I use this an an excuse for brain-farting like that? )

 

[Bilsch]

I take it to mean no image searches, same as you do. I will search an idea. For instance: I think the image might be Berlin but I've never seen that view before. I will put "Berlin skyline" or something similar into a search engine to see if I can find a similar view.

That is the way I understand it as well. No searching the actual image but if you have an idea and want to confirm it by looking at images on Google, then fine.

 

[Bilsch]

How about lake Baikal ?

 

[Gulo_gulo]

I will guess isle of mull.

 

[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?