InspectorJon
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One of the places I'd love to visit once this thing is over.
One of the places I'd love to visit once this thing is over.
Here's a place to which I've traveled for work a couple of times over the past year, and it's always been delightful. I had one final trip coming up this summer, and I was going to take SWMBO with me, but then that blasted COVID put a stop to that.
Looks Mediterranean and the church looks like it's of a Christian denomination. But it doesn't look Greek to me. Tricky. I'll guess Kos in the Greek Islands.
I was starting to wonder if anyone was going to play, @duncan.brown!
It is Greece, but not an island.
It is Greece, but not an island.
schmurf
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Wild guessing starts... Thessaloniki?
Volos. After perusing a Greek tourist site, the church gave it away:
https://www.discovergreece.com/thessaly-sporades/volos
https://www.discovergreece.com/thessaly-sporades/volos
***DING-DING-DING***
Volos it is! I thought the church might end up giving it away! I've traveled there for work twice over the past year, and we stayed in a hotel ~300 yards on the other side of that church (I think it's that darker building just on the edge of the picture). It sits right on the Pagasetic Gulf, and sitting on the hotel's back deck with a couple of Greek lagers after work was extremely pleasant.
The thing about drinking beer in Greece is that they bring you a snack/appetizer with each round, and the food gets progressively better the more rounds you order. The first round might come with a bowl of potato chips, the second might be nuts, the third could be a turkey sandwich, the fourth might be some sort of seafood dip. If you drink enough, you'll have dinner covered!
Alright, @duncan.brown, you're up (again)!
Volos it is! I thought the church might end up giving it away! I've traveled there for work twice over the past year, and we stayed in a hotel ~300 yards on the other side of that church (I think it's that darker building just on the edge of the picture). It sits right on the Pagasetic Gulf, and sitting on the hotel's back deck with a couple of Greek lagers after work was extremely pleasant.
The thing about drinking beer in Greece is that they bring you a snack/appetizer with each round, and the food gets progressively better the more rounds you order. The first round might come with a bowl of potato chips, the second might be nuts, the third could be a turkey sandwich, the fourth might be some sort of seafood dip. If you drink enough, you'll have dinner covered!
Alright, @duncan.brown, you're up (again)!
Another beer related city. This picture is 20 years old, so things have changed a bit since it was taken.
pvpeacock
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Newcastle?
Newcastle Upon Tyne it is. You’re up, @pvpeacock
pvpeacock
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I have a client located there and love visiting Newcastle.
If you've ever been here, you will know this one right away. If no one gets it, I will post some clues.
If you've ever been here, you will know this one right away. If no one gets it, I will post some clues.
Whoa! One minute! That must be a record!
Looks Mediterranean. Let's start the guessing with Palermo?
pvpeacock
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Not Italy.
Northern_Brewer
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It's one of those that if you know it, you know it instantly - the combination of bridges is pretty distinctive, although it's confusing to see the Metro bridge (middle) in white, it's been blue for quite a while now.
Although arguably since Heineken moved production of Dog to the Netherlands (and a completely different recipe brewed at Lagunitas for the US market), it's no longer got quite the same claim to be a beer city....
And to be pedantic, there's many other Newcastles than the one on Tyne...
michaeltrego
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Palm Springs
pvpeacock
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Right location, but wrong City.
When I lived in Castle Leazes (1994), they were still brewing at the Tyne Brewery on Corporation Street. Great smell when the wind was blowing in the right direction! That picture was taken in 1999, so before most of the new development on the quayside. I haven't been back in years, but I would love to visit again.
michaeltrego
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La Quinta?
pvpeacock
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La Quinta it is!
michaeltrego
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Next skyline....
Portland, Maine
Northern_Brewer
British - apparently some US company stole my name
Architecture looks fairly old-school USian, rocks look quite similar to the Hebrides - so maybe somewhere like Cape Cod?
Northern_Brewer
British - apparently some US company stole my name
Woah, yep, very different now!!
michaeltrego
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michaeltrego
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Good guess, it is the New England Coast, but not the Cape
Digging through a stack of images for "Maine lighthouses," I think I've identified Pemaquid Point Lighthouse. Nearest city is maybe Bristol?
michaeltrego
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Bingo! You're up.
OK, I've never been here, but my wife spent some time here during college, and she LOVED it. I'd love to visit someday!
Somewhere in Italy?
Negative.
Hmmm... yeah, the buildings don't look Italian. The small red lorry definitely makes it look like it's in Europe somewhere. I'm going to go the other side of the Adriatic and say Albania?
Albania is colder, relative to Italy.
sacromonte, I recognised the spanish building style and the hills are so familiar from family holidays 
***DING-DING-DING***
Sacromonte (Granada, Spain) it is! My wife did a Spanish foreign language immersion program there for several months before her final semester of college. She absolutely loved it! I've never been to Spain, but I'm saving up to surprise her with a trip in a few years, so ***SHHH*** keep it to yourselves!
You're up, @Kharnynb!
Sacromonte (Granada, Spain) it is! My wife did a Spanish foreign language immersion program there for several months before her final semester of college. She absolutely loved it! I've never been to Spain, but I'm saving up to surprise her with a trip in a few years, so ***SHHH*** keep it to yourselves!
You're up, @Kharnynb!
didn't have my own image, so might be easy....used to live here
vampirebeer
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Dublin?
not ireland
I know it's bit confusing, but picking the other side of the church, the bar names would have made it too easy
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