(International) Guess the Location (see rules post 1)

jack01986

I'll throw this up to keep things rolling.

GBX

Rekjavik

jack01986

Nope

GBX

jack01986 wrote: »

Nope

Salzburg ?

jack01986

GBX wrote: »

Salzburg ?

Not Salzburg, there is a pretty big clue in the photo if you look towards the right hand side of the picture. 🔥

GBX

jack01986 wrote: »

Not Salzburg, there is a pretty big clue in the photo if you look towards the right hand side of the picture. 🔥

... still lost

jack01986

GBX wrote: »

... still lost

Its to do with winter sports and its in Europe.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Is it Innsbruck and that weird satellite thing is one of the Olympic flames?

jack01986

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Is it Innsbruck and that weird satellite thing is one of the Olympic flames?

It's not Innsbruck but you're on the right track. Mainland Europe.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

jack01986 wrote: »

It's not Innsbruck but you're on the right track. Mainland Europe.

Torino?

jmayo

jack01986 wrote: »

Not Salzburg, there is a pretty big clue in the photo if you look towards the right hand side of the picture. 🔥

Snakey...

jack01986 wrote: »

Its to do with winter sports and its in Europe.

Personally I think the architect and more so the ones who paid for it should have been shot.

I think it is Albertville skating centre and over on right is Olympic torch thingy me bobs used in 1992.

Me thinks that Olympics didn't cost as much as the Russia one or if so they left it all with steel fabricator.

jack01986

Not quite but its surprisingly close to there across the border.

jack01986

Good man jmayo. Not exactly the prettiest building out there!

jmayo

Ok here goes.

Arsemageddon

Grenoble?

jmayo

Arsemageddon wrote: »

Grenoble?

Nope.

GBX

Lusanne

jmayo

Nope.

It is in Europe alright.

M.T. Cranium

Here is seen the bobslej trac of Latvia in Sigulda.

My only clue was the discussion of winter Olympics sites and then I started to ask myself, why would they build a monorail out of the top of a grain elevator?

Luckily the wikipedia list of European bobsled tracks included this one and from the scenery it was the most likely of the lot (flat land).

Will post something in a few minutes, anyway it's 0400 there so the two posts can be combined I suppose.

M.T. Cranium

The new picture ... as I am only around briefly, anyone who is sure could post one up. I'll try to check in towards end of Friday to see if this was solved.

The view is towards the west southwest.

jmayo

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Here is seen the bobslej trac of Latvia in Sigulda.

My only clue was the discussion of winter Olympics sites and then I started to ask myself, why would they build a monorail out of the top of a grain elevator?

Luckily the wikipedia list of European bobsled tracks included this one and from the scenery it was the most likely of the lot (flat land).

Will post something in a few minutes, anyway it's 0400 there so the two posts can be combined I suppose.

Excellent.
Yep the previous summer pic of winter sport location put me in mind of this bobsleigh track in Latvia.
I thought someone would have guessed it was bobsleigh and then it is just case of narrowing them down.

And you are right there are no mountains anywhere near, just a few hills and lots of forests.
I can see where you are coming from about the grain elevator.
Just remember the soviet architecture was substance and funciton over style.

retalivity

Chalcis?

M.T. Cranium

not Chalcis.

Kat1170

Antalya ???

jmayo

Rhodes ?

Fred Swanson

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jack01986

Sochi?

M.T. Cranium

No one has the right country yet although you are all in the right region, I believe.

Fred Swanson

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M.T. Cranium

No, generally speaking guesses have been too far east.

black_frosch

Spain?

M.T. Cranium

Not Spain (or Greece, Turkey, Black Sea).

josip

Straits of Messina? Is that Etna?
Regio Calabria? ish?

black_frosch

Mediterranean Sea?

Kat1170

Egypt ???

K.Flyer

josip wrote: »

Straits of Messina? Is that Etna?
Regio Calabria? ish?

It's been nearly 24 Hours since the most recent guesses, so I hope it's safe for me to jump in and say that JOSIP has guessed correctly with Reggio Calabria...

Well done Josip, you're up next...

Reggio Calabria

josip

K.Flyer

Pristina in Kosovo.
Statue of George Skenderbeg.

josip

four and a half hours is longer than most of my posts. Over to you.

K.Flyer

josip

Paris, Invalides Church?

K.Flyer

josip wrote: »

Paris, Invalides Church?

Close enough, the church building to the right is Hôtel National des Invalides, Paris, which is the [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] final resting place of Napoleon Bonaparte. [/FONT]

josip

donegal.

st. helena island

josip

"Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes"

donegal.

Fred Swanson

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TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Loch Lagan?

donegal.

no + no

jack01986

Lake Windermere?