Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[D.B.Moody]

What can I say? Whoops!
I think the capital M threw me.

Also, I wasn't thinking in terms of the tower's name, just Cliffs of Moher.

 

[DuncB]

Thought that would be too subtle.

 

[DuncB]

Just so everyone isn't in the dark, it's O'Briens tower on the Moher cliffs, County Clare.
I will pick a venue.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Just so everyone isn't in the dark, it's O'Briens tower on the Moher cliffs, County Clare.
I will pick a venue.

@DuncB, why haven't you posted a skyline?

 

[DuncB]

Completely forgot, sorry team.

Skyline aerial from 2000.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Wild guess, The Forest of Skund?

Ten demerit points if I have to explain it further...

 

[DuncB]

Wild guess, The Forest of Skund?

Ten demerit points if I have to explain it further...

Go to the back of the class and don't be such a prat.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Go to the back of the class and don't be such a prat.

I offer as my defense the ludicrous fact that while I can spend the Easter weekend at a pub getting as drunk as I want, I cannot go and buy a single bottle of wine to savour over the weekend. Not that the house isn't well stocked up, but it is silliness.

 

[DuncB]

Isn't my collection of the demerit points because it a diskworld related detail?

Do agree the world has gone mad, they have 450000 doses of vaccine here and have managed to dispense about 30000 doses in 6 weeks.
That's a group of people who couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery and our pubs, bars and off licences, sports stadiums are all open!!

 

[DuncB]

Offering clues southern hemisphere, from a tall building.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Brisbane, Australia?

 

[DuncB]

No sorry Bruce. You're too warm there!

 

[Pkrd]

Castle point?
Whoops Realised that's in New Zealand.

And it doesn’t have a castle.

 

[DuncB]

Well I heard there was a place called the Castle North of it.

 

[InspectorJon]

There seems to be several locations known as The Castle in New Zealand. Is New Zealant the right country?

 

[DuncB]

No, North of New Zealand

 

[3 Dawg Night]

How about Melbourne?

 

[DuncB]

Well done @3DawgNight, it's a view from the Rialto tower. Taken in 2000.

You are up.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

This one is maybe a little more obscure. I'm presently visiting here for the weekend.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Montgomery County Courthouse, Clarksville,TN
I believe the ribbon and POW/MIA flag reflect the proximity of Ft. Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Not too obscure for @D.B.Moody! Clarksville is correct! It's a great little town less than an hour from Nashville. Check out Black Horse Brewery for beer and pizza if ever you're in town.

 

[D.B.Moody]

from 2014

 

[Northern_Brewer]

The modern housing feels Mediterranean and mid-20th century - but probably not former Warsaw Pact?
So one of the PIGS countries or France?

Bridge is weird - those Gothic arches can't possibly be Roman, and you'd expect a rail bridge to have signs of pylons, but seems the wrong era to have been built for road traffic - so is it a canal bridge or aqueduct? Feels wrong to have Gothic arches in Greece or Italy, so further west?

 

[D.B.Moody]

Good thinking, @Northern_Brewer.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Well all I can say is that I've spent a fair bit of time in southern France and SW Spain and I think I'd remember a bridge like that, so it's either in the Perpignan-Murcia bit or west of Seville. Beyond that, I've not got a clue.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Walking around this city could be challenging at times:

 

[3 Dawg Night]

I'm going to guess Warsaw, Poland, based on the "P" on the back of that Smart car.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Nah, Poland is PL, Portugal is P. And recepCAO (on the bar sign on the above the Smart car) with a ~ is a very Portuguese word-ending.

Never been to Portugal, but I'd assume there's too much "old town" for it to be anywhere on the Algarve, and we've already seen the famous bridges of Porto, so I guess that leaves Lisbon?

 

[D.B.Moody]

Yes, it is Lisbon. The aqueduct in the first picture is from the 18th century, and it is impressive.. You're up @Northern_Brewer.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I've kinda got my hands full at the moment, if someone who hasn't posted any/many skylines before wants a go - otherwise I can do one in 2-3 days.