Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[Northern_Brewer]

Feels like the PNW, but too pointy for Rainier or St Helens so that's about as far as I can get...

 

[bracconiere]

it is PNW...i'll try and find a different pic.

 

[bracconiere]

well, here's one....

and another...

 

[Andres Falconer]

That looks like the Peace Arch in Blaine, WA and Blaine harbor, just south of the Canadian border.

 

[bracconiere]

yes, being the only pic i could find of the 'skyline' was low res, it became a easy one.....

you're up! (i picked it because i actually stepped foot in canada once)

 

[Andres Falconer]

The mountain may be Mt. Baker, but I wouldn’t really know. I looked it up.

 

[Andres Falconer]

The part of that area that I find fascinating is nearby Point Roberts, the bizarre tiny tip of land just south of Vancouver and Richmond, Canada, held by the US for strategic reasons, that is reachable only from Canada or by water. Apparently where Canadians go to buy cheap gas.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Here’s my submission. A gray rainy day in Feb. 2019.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver photographed from Prospect Point in Stanley Park. Was there myself in 2015.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Bingo. And kudos for the extra info. I bet you took the same picture I took. Over to you, @bruce_the_loon

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Here's mine. Slightly following a theme.

 

[bracconiere]

alaska candian border? thinking of the downhill bush air strip....

 

[bruce_the_loon]

alaska candian border? thinking of the downhill bush air strip....

Further south, but the correct half of the continent.

 

[Pkrd]

Bump

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Additional clue, letting nature obscure some details.

 

[D.B.Moody]

The juncture of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, Lytton, British Columbia.
I'm thinking that the bit of theme is there is a bridge as in the Vancouver picture, but there is also the Fraser River as in the map posted about Blaine. I didn't get to the answer by following the river; I got to the answer by Googling from the clues in the second picture. I Googled "rafting with motored white boats Canada" and got this:

And Kumsheen got me to Lytton.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Yep, D.B.Moody has it correct. Had to hunt a Kumsheen raft pic that wasn't displaying the name.

Theme is dual in nature, bridges over BC rivers and places I went on my holidays.

You're up.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Well this is dual too. We were here in a vacation in 1988 and it's a place to cross a river.

 

[bracconiere]

with the amount of signage this should be an easy one

 

[bracconiere]

well the signs in the 'rose dooo' building say sale, so someplace in the uk?

 

[bracconiere]

Glasgow? just random....

 

[tracer bullet]

well the signs in the 'rose dooo' building say sale, so someplace in the uk?

Maybe Rose Dodd? Agreed with England. All I have for now.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Burford, Oxfordshire

It looks a bit different these days. R Taylor, closed. Rose Dodd, closed. But the clock and the bell are still there.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Burford it s. This is a place named for what it was, a fortified town (burgh) at a river crossing (ford).

You're up @DBhomebrew.

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Well we have deciduous trees, so we're clearly somewhere temperate, and the general vibe is quite European - the church could almost be British but the steeple isn't quite right, it's maybe more Germanic? Is that just a very dark stone or is it soot from an industrial area?

The trees don't quite match the steep pitch of the roofs, which implies either quite a lot of snow, or at least architects who are used to dealing with a lot of snow. So temperate but on the snowy side.

Don't seem to be many pre-WWII buildings aside from the church, ditto the bridge itself - bridges were often a focus of fighting in the war.

My initial thought was somewhere in the Ardennes - perhaps one of the Belgian brewery towns but I don't think Belgium has such steep roofs, so maybe deeper into the Continent - somewhere like the Harz?

 

[DBhomebrew]

Not the Harz.

 

[bracconiere]

somewhere on a border?

 

[DBhomebrew]

On a border somewhere.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Freundschaftsbrücke, Pont de l'amitié, or Friendship Bridge (ha!), linking Kleinblittersdorf, Germany with Grosbliederstroff, France.