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GUESS THAT CITY

A NEW GAME : Can you guess what is that city :











Porthos

What city?
Benjamin [inactive]

I think it's somewhere in Spain... Madrid, perhaps?
Porthos

Sorry, the pictures didn't show up on my pc before. I am going to guess it's somewhere in the Iberian Peninsula, but I wouldn't know what city. Maybe somewhere in Central or northern Spain?
patriccke

Re: GUESS THAT CITY

fab wrote:
Can you guess what is that city :

Yes I can

The square buildings with "cut" corners on the 1st and 3rd pictures are very characteristic...
fab

hehehe !... Your location had helped you too much. I'll post a more difficult later !


PS. It was Barcelona, the biggest mediterranean city of western Europe, and actually one of my favourite cities of Europe...

Patrikke, do you live there ?
Benjamin [inactive]

Okay, my turn. Where is this?





fab

I think it may be in the country of André, I would vote for Johannesburg.
patriccke

fab wrote:
Patrikke, do you live there ?

At the moment I spend half my time in Belgium, half my time in Spain (for those who used to know me as a Bolognese: I left Italy one month ago)

I should settle in Barcelona within a few weeks (I actually lived there for a few months back in 2000 and am originally from French Catalonia, even though I was born in your "arrondissement")

By the way, nice choice of pictures, very typical but not the usual monuments or clichés
Porthos

Do you guys really think of Barcelona as a Spanish city? I find it difficult to think of it as a "Spanish" city, being that a lot of the people don't even speak Castillian. I think of it more as a Catalan city within Spain, sort of the way I think of Quebec as being a French state within Canada, but not really Canada, in that it is not Anglophone.
Benjamin [inactive]

Porthos wrote:
Do you guys really think of Barcelona as a Spanish city? I find it difficult to think of it as a "Spanish" city, being that a lot of the people don't even speak Castillian. I think of it more as a Catalan city within Spain, sort of the way I think of Quebec as being a French state within Canada, but not really Canada, in that it is not Anglophone.

Yes, I see Barcelona as a 'Spanish' city because it is in Spain. Anyway, I spoke Castillian when I was there and didn't have any difficulty.

And yes, I see Québec as Canadian. I see no reason whatsoever why 'Canada' should imply 'English language'.
André in Zuid-Afrika

fab wrote:
I think it may be in the country of André, I would vote for Johannesburg.


Johannesburg it is! The first two pictures were taken in the suburb of Hillbrow, and the last one is in Johannesburg city centre (perhaps Braamfontein or Nieu-Doornfontein).
fab

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At the moment I spend half my time in Belgium, half my time in Spain (for those who used to know me as a Bolognese: I left Italy one month ago)
I should settle in Barcelona within a few weeks (I actually lived there for a few months back in 2000 and am originally from French Catalonia, even though I was born in your "arrondissement")


ET bien... Et donc au final tu es Français, Italien, Belge ou Espagnol ? ou bien les 4 à la fois (ou aucun des 4)


Quote:
By the way, nice choice of pictures, very typical but not the usual monuments or clichés


Yes, if I had shoosen the Sagrada familia it would have been too easy!!




Quote:
Do you guys really think of Barcelona as a Spanish city? I find it difficult to think of it as a "Spanish" city, being that a lot of the people don't even speak Castillian. I think of it more as a Catalan city within Spain, sort of the way I think of Quebec as being a French state within Canada, but not really Canada, in that it is not Anglophone


Of course that Barcelona is in Spain !
You canno't say that the people don't speack castillan, actually 100% of the Barcelona people are Castillian speaker, and maybe only 60% of these are Catalan speaker. Actually the city is complety bilingual.
Not to forget that it host a lot of immigrants from latin-America who, of course speak Castillian.

It is a quite different situation than with Quebec (even if Quebec is also clearly Canadian). And Spain is a country that is unified by the use of the Castillian language and the presence of regional co-official languages in the "spanish nations" (galicia, Pais Vasco, Catalunia, etc)
Benjamin [inactive]

Well done for guessing correctly, Fab! Actually, I'm amazed that you not only realised straight away that it was in South Africa, but also that it was Johannesburg... especially considering that those three pictures could quite easily have been taken in Birmingham (UK), LOL. Have you been there?
Porthos

You know what, I would have guessed somewhere in England, but now, after taking a closer look at the picture, I realized that everyone was black! So, South Africa was a reasonable guess, but I wouldn't know which city exactly, other than to guess the major ones, which is probably what Fab did.
fab

Benjamin,

as we say in French "j'ai l'oeuil", I like to observe thinkg, especially when it concern urban things (professional deformation).
Actually I would say That at first it could looked like it was in a lot of different anglophone countries. But seeing the cars, I thought it wasn't in the USA, and all people we see are black. I know that downtown Johanesbourg is nowadays mainly black.

Actually I've been to south Africa with my parents when younger, but not in Jo-Burg and quite long time ago.
Benjamin [inactive]

Okay then, what about this one?



fab

another Guess (easy one) :









fab

Benjamin,

At first sight I would think of the United Kingdom, although I didn't noticed any sign that could give me a clue.

I think it could be also maybe in Germany, or maybe Denmark or Scandinavia, or in any former Birtish colony.


And this one ?



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Benjamin [inactive]

Fab — are your pictures of Verona in Italy?

Edit: I said that before waiting for all the pictures to load... I now see bullfighting... so maybe it's not Verona.
fab

It's more southern than Verona.
Elaine

Hmm... The Maison Carrée, the Arènes, the Cathédrale de Notre-Dame et St-Castors, tauromachie... My guess would be Nîmes.
Fredrik

Benjamin:
My guess is Wellington, New Zealand. (The church is typically "colonial Anglican, similar to the Anglican church in Copenhagen, and I think the modern building in the next picture is the parliament), right?

fab:
My guess for the last picture (of the avenue) is Berlin, showing Unter den Linden, with the Russian "cake style" embassy in the background, right?
Benjamin [inactive]

Fredrik wrote:
Benjamin:
My guess is Wellington, New Zealand. (The church is typically "colonial Anglican, similar to the Anglican church in Copenhagen, and I think the modern building in the next picture is the parliament), right?

Right country but wrong city!
fab

Elaine,

GOOD ANSWER !! Do you know Nîmes, have you been there ? Is it famous in the USA ?



Benjamin,

I would have said also Australia.
But if it is New-zealand, I'll say Aukland.



Frederik,

No, it's not Berlin.
Benjamin [inactive]

fab wrote:
I would have said also Australia.
But if it is New-zealand, I'll say Aukland.

Nope! Well, there's basically only one other place left now, lol.
fab

Chirstchurch or Dunedin ?


What are your thoughts for my last city guess ?
Elaine

fab wrote:
Elaine,

GOOD ANSWER !! Do you know Nîmes, have you been there ? Is it famous in the USA ?




Alas, I only know Nîmes through pictures. Is Nîmes famous in the USA? I would venture to guess that not a whole lot of Americans have ever heard of it, but maybe I'm wrong. I first heard of it in elementary school when a teacher told me that that's where the word "denim" comes from.
Benjamin [inactive]

fab wrote:
Chirstchurch or Dunedin ?

Yes.
greg in noord-frankrijk

Do you "recognise" this one ?


fab

I think only a totalitary stalinist state can produce this kind of places : I'll bet for pyongyong.




What about this one ?

Porthos

That's not supposed to be Phoneix is it?
greg in noord-frankrijk

fab wrote:
I think only a totalitary stalinist state can produce this kind of places : I'll bet for pyongyong.


Gagné ! Enfin, Pyongyang.
fab

Quote:
Gagné ! Enfin, Pyongyang.


!!!!




Quote:
That's not supposed to be Phoneix is it?


No, phoenix it is not. Find another city (and country), you must.
fab

Quote:
Gagné ! Enfin, Pyongyang.


!!!!




Quote:
That's not supposed to be Phoneix is it?


No, phoenix it is not. Find another city (and country), you must.
Benjamin [inactive]

Quito, Ecuador?
Joanne

I know which continent it's in. But there are a lot of major cities around that mountain range, and I'm quite sure I've never been to that city in particular.

Oh dear, this is going to bother me for a while. Thanks, fab!
Fredrik

fab wrote:

Frederik,

No, it's not Berlin.


Hmm, when you say that I recognize that the traffic signs look rather French and the car in the front does too. I'll just randomly guess Lille then, because of the northern ambience.
fab

Quote:
Hmm, when you say that I recognize that the traffic signs look rather French and the car in the front does too. I'll just randomly guess Lille then, because of the northern ambience.


Lille, it is not. France it is not either. A "northern" ambiance I don't see.



Quote:
Quito, Ecuador?


Benjamin, the good continent you have found. Now the right capital city, to guess, you have to.
Benjamin [inactive]

fab wrote:
Quote:
Quito, Ecuador?


Benjamin, the good continent you have found. Now the right capital city, to guess, you have to.

Is it La Paz, Bolivia?
fab

It's a bit too clean to be La Paz. But your getting closer... nOw its easy !
Benjamin [inactive]

Lima, Peru?
fab

Next one...
Fredrik

fab wrote:

Lille, it is not. France it is not either. A "northern" ambiance I don't see.


Hmmm, Dublin, then? Irish traffic signs look a lot like the French ones.
Elaine

My guess would be Asunción, Paraguay.
fab

Quote:
Hmmm, Dublin, then? Irish traffic signs look a lot like the French ones.


Not at all Ireland.



Quote:
My guess would be Asunción, Paraguay.


More in the mountains...
Fredrik

fab wrote:
Quote:
Hmmm, Dublin, then? Irish traffic signs look a lot like the French ones.


Not at all Ireland.


Hmm, Wide boulevards, massive stone buildings, a Latin-style trees on the pavement and a certain fringe-atmosphere...Buenos Aires, then?

If that's wrong, please give us another picture! I'm getting over-excited here.... " alt="" border="0" />
Elaine

fab wrote:
More in the mountains...


Oh for crying out loud. Cochabamba? Santiago?
fab

Two point for Elaine !!!


Yes, Santiago, Chile !



fab

OK Frederik, another clue :


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Fredrik

Hmmm....lots of Art Nouveau, Europcar, a sign that seems to Dutch (Loewe) and a sign with something like Gabriele Felitico de Madrid. Is it Madrid?
Elaine

What beautiful buildings! While you've got that going, Fab, where's this:













fab

Here we are !!! Madrid !



Elaine,

I won't say it, since I know very well that city, wher I lived and worked for 8 month Three years ago !!! Yes, nice picture, that remind me some souvenirs ... And nice city to live.


You seem to have a great knowledge of southern France, could you recognise those different cities ?

1.


2.


3.


3.


4.


5.


6.


7.
Fredrik

fab wrote:
Quote:
Here we are !!! Madrid !

Good, finally!





And where do you guys think this is:









Elaine

fab wrote:
Elaine,

I won't say it, since I know very well that city, wher I lived and worked for 8 month Three years ago !!! Yes, nice picture, that remind me some souvenirs ... And nice city to live.


How wonderful! I'd love to know more since that's one of the areas that I'd love to buy property.

Quote:
You seem to have a great knowledge of southern France.


Well, I wouldn't exactly say that since I've never been to France, but I wouldn't pass up an invitation.

1. That could be any coastal town in southern France, but since I see hills in the background I'd say somewhere in the French Riviera.
2. Can't see the picture.
3. Don't know.
4. Pink bricks! Toulouse.
5. That's the pretty church in Nice.
6. Carcasonne
7. Again, that can be any coastal town in Southern France, but unlike picture #1, the buildings look dirty... Marseille?
Porthos

fab wrote:




Quote:
That's not supposed to be Phoneix is it?


No, phoenix it is not. Find another city (and country), you must.


LOL. You sounded like Yoda right now!
Porthos

Fredrik,
Let's see. Sort of Nordic architecture, lot's blond girls, and a statue of what I think is supposed to be Leif Ericson, am I right? So, I'll throw some capitals from the region out there. Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen? Perhaps Reykjavic? Or maybe Bergen, Goteborg, or Arhus? There, I guessed all of the Nordic cities I know of!
Benjamin [inactive]

Fab, is number 4 actually in France? It looks more like somewhere in England or the Netherlands.

Fredrik — I'm going to guess Reykjavik, Iceland, because I know that there's a rather weird-looking church there.
patriccke

Elaine wrote:
3. Don't know.

It isn't esay with those pictures!

I'm gonna help you. The most famous monuments of that city are:


and...
Benjamin [inactive]

So, where is this?





fab

Quote:
1. That could be any coastal town in southern France, but since I see hills in the background I'd say somewhere in the French Riviera.
2. Can't see the picture.
3. Don't know.
4. Pink bricks! Toulouse.
5. That's the pretty church in Nice.
6. Carcasonne
7. Again, that can be any coastal town in Southern France, but unlike picture #1, the buildings look dirty... Marseille?



1. It is on the "French riviera" (its real name is "côte d'azur"). In fact it is the old town of Cannes.

2. Marseille harbour

3. Quite hard, even with the help of patrikke. Perpignan, in French Catalonia.

4. Toulouse, in the south west. very tipical with its red-brick architecture.
benjamin, red birck is not always English or Dutch. A red-briks architeture does exist in southern Europe, but look very different. You find of it in the Po plain in Italy (venezia has a lot of it).

5. BINGO !! Old town of Nice.

6. BINGO !! Carcasonne, one of the most famous walled-cities.

7. It's not Marseille, but Bastia harbour, in Corsica.
fab

Frederik,

Is it Bergen ?



benjamin,

I think it is still in south Africa, maybe Pretoria ?
Benjamin [inactive]

fab wrote:
benjamin,

I think it is still in south Africa, maybe Pretoria ?

No, it's not in South Africa. Keep guessing!
Julian

patriccke wrote:
I'm gonna help you. The most famous monuments of that city are:
.
.
and...



Sens cap dubte, l'atracció turística més popular a Perpinyà.
André in Zuid-Afrika

fab wrote:

benjamin,

I think it is still in south Africa, maybe Pretoria ?


Good guess, actually. That looks remarkably like Pretoria.
fab

Benjamin,


I think it is in Africa, since most people are black, and the Peugeot 504 area old model that still exist today almost only in Africa. Maybe Harare, Zimbabwe ?
Benjamin [inactive]

fab wrote:
Benjamin,


I think it is in Africa, since most people are black, and the Peugeot 504 area old model that still exist today almost only in Africa. Maybe Harare, Zimbabwe ?

Yes! It's Harare, Zimbabwe (formerly Salisbury, Rhodesia). I've known quite a few white people who used to live there, actually (and they have rather interesting accents).
Julian

Benjamin wrote:
Fredrik — I'm going to guess Reykjavik, Iceland, because I know that there's a rather weird-looking church there.


I think you're right.

Okay, can I play? Any idea where this is at?













Fredrik

fab, no it wasn't Bergen. Porthos, you mentioned it, and Benjamin guessed correctly: Reykjavík (= Smoky Bay)! That church, Hallgrímskirkja, rather stands out. And Porthos: yes, that was a statue of Leifr Eiríksson.

Julian:
I suggest Ciudad de México.
Benjamin [inactive]

Julian — I'll guess that yours is somewhere either in the United States, Mexico or Brazil, as the number of skyscrapers rules out anywhere in Europe. I'll say São Paulo, even though it probably isn't.
Porthos

It could be the capital, but there's a lack of smog, which the D.F. is famous for. I know a lot of natives of the D.F. who never take a mask off when outside.
fab

I'll say Melbourne, Australia.
Deborah

The only Mormon temples I've found that resemble the one in Julian's mystery city are in Lima, Guatemala City and Buenos Aires. I could't find any good pictures of Lima to compare to the rest of the Julian's pictures. There were some nice ones of the skyline of Guatemala City, but that city looks too small. I'm inclined to say it's Buenos Aires because of the size of the skyscraper area, but I wasn't aware of mountainous (or very hilly) areas near the city. Also, I didn't see palm trees in the picture I found of the LDS temple in BA.

But I'm going to guess Buenos Aires anyway.
Joanne

I feel like I'm cheating, Julian.

That's Manila.

===========
Edit: Actually, I'm going to correct myself. That's not Manila. It's Metro Manila, which includes the city of Manila and several other surrounding cities.

The second pic is Makati City, the third is Alabang in Muntinlupa City(I think), the fourth and (I think) the fifth pictures are in Manila City, I'm not sure where the sixth one is (I just know I went to Mass there, once ), and the Mormon Temple is in Quezon City.
Deborah

Well, that explains the palm trees! (I tend to forget about the Spanish colonial influence in that part of the world.)
Julian

Joanne wrote:
I feel like I'm cheating, Julian.

That's Manila.

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Edit: Actually, I'm going to correct myself. That's not Manila. It's Metro Manila, which includes the city of Manila and several other surrounding cities.

The second pic is Makati City, the third is Alabang in Muntinlupa City(I think), the fourth and (I think) the fifth pictures are in Manila City, I'm not sure where the sixth one is (I just know I went to Mass there, once ), and the Mormon Temple is in Quezon City.


Hey, no fair! Yes, it's Metro Manila where I plan to visit sometime next year.

If anyone's interested in seeing more photos of Metro Manila, this site has eight pages of awesome shots: SkyscraperCity
Joanne

Julian wrote:
Joanne wrote:
I feel like I'm cheating, Julian.

That's Manila.

===========
Edit: Actually, I'm going to correct myself. That's not Manila. It's Metro Manila, which includes the city of Manila and several other surrounding cities.

The second pic is Makati City, the third is Alabang in Muntinlupa City(I think), the fourth and (I think) the fifth pictures are in Manila City, I'm not sure where the sixth one is (I just know I went to Mass there, once ), and the Mormon Temple is in Quezon City.


Hey, no fair! Yes, it's Metro Manila where I plan to visit sometime next year.

If anyone's interested in seeing more photos of Metro Manila, this site has eight pages of awesome shots: SkyscraperCity

Pssshh...serves you right for trying to be all slick and shit... Like we wouldn't notice 14 different cities...
Julian

Joanne wrote:
Pssshh...serves you right for trying to be all slick and shit... Like we wouldn't notice 14 different cities...


14 different cities that make up 1 National Capital Region (NCR) -- that's like one BIG metropolis!
Elaine

Julian wrote:
Hey, no fair! Yes, it's Metro Manila where I plan to visit sometime next year.


Oh, well I'll be jiggered! Like others here, I kept thinking it was some city in Latin America, but I wasn't sure if there were any cities in Latin America with such an expansive skyline of skyscrapers (high-rises yes, but skyscrapers, no.), so I didn't have a clue

Now, isn't anyone going to guess my mystery city? (Besides Fab)



Look in the page 4 for the rest of the pictures.
Porthos

I am absolutely positive that it is LYONS!!!!! LYONS! Josh got it baby yeah! Notre Dame and the palms trees excluded Paris, and by the fall winter weather, I knew it wasn't that far south. So it's Lyons.
Elaine

Porthos wrote:
I am absolutely positive that it is LYONS!!!!! LYONS! Josh got it baby yeah! Notre Dame and the palms trees excluded Paris, and by the fall winter weather, I knew it wasn't that far south. So it's Lyons.


Uh, sorry to burst your bubble, but it ain't Lyon. I don't think this city is as big as Lyon, and it's further south. But nice guess.
Porthos

Wow, I feel like an ass now. lol
Porthos

Hey Elaine, respond to my thread about the origins of the English in the history section.
Porthos

Marseilles? Or perhaps Nice?
fab

Elain, your picture is very difficult to guess. It is in the central place of the city, maybe the most famous, but it is where are standing two very parisian-style 19th century buidings, which are quite unusual to find in the south of France. Actually the rest of the city is different.
It is a very young city and a lot of it is quite new, excepted the narrow old center, with very narrow streets and little marketplaces. Some of the other photos you showed are a new quartier made by a famous (but quite bad) Catalan arquitect in the 80's, with a very megalomaniac urban composition.
Porthos

Yeah, the last photo looks incredibly Parisian, but some of the other photos look like they're in the extreme south of France.
fab

Where is that ?






Porthos

Fab, just tell us if it's in France or not.
Deborah

Elaine, is it the French Quarter of Encino?
fab

Fab, just tell us if it's in France or not

Quote:
Fab, just tell us if it's in France or not


No, it is to you to guess... the goal is not to find the good answer but to say what do you think.

All that I can say is that it is on earth.
Benjamin [inactive]

It looks a bit 'colonial' to me, so I'm going to guess maybe Algiers, in Algeria.
Elaine

Deborah wrote:
Elaine, is it the French Quarter of Encino?


Haha! Are you referring to the Encino in Tehrangeles? I once dated a boy who lived in Encino-- very nice, affluent community, but a little too sterile and conservative for my tastes.

Alright, here's the answer:



Porthos

Elaine, is that picture of you! You're beautiful chica! Representing Chicanas everywhere. Boo yah! Chicano pride.
Elaine

Porthos wrote:
Elaine, is that picture of you! You're beautiful chica! Representing Chicanas everywhere. Boo yah! Chicano pride.


Down boy. It's my annual holiday avatar. I only bring it out this time of year.
Porthos

Lol. Why do you only bring it out during the holiday season?
fab

Elaine,

Tu es la plus belle "mère noel" que je connaisse !...

Mais n'est-ce pas un peu prématuré ?




Benjamin,

Bravo !!! Tu as bien reconnu Alger !!!
Deborah

fab wrote:
Elaine,

Tu es la plus belle "mère noel" que je connaisse !...

Mais n'est-ce pas un peu prématuré ?

Would you rather see her dressed as a turkey??
(I'm referring to the next big holiday in the US, of course.)
fab

where is that






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Benjamin [inactive]

Lol, it looks like a model village! Actually, the last one looks like something out of my Sylvanian Families collection.
Elaine

Porthos wrote:
Lol. Why do you only bring it out during the holiday season?


Cuz I'm shy.

fab wrote:
Elaine,

Tu es la plus belle "mère noel" que je connaisse !...

Mais n'est-ce pas un peu prématuré ?


Merci beaucoup, monsieur. If Macy's can drag out the holiday decor in the middle of October, why can't I?

Deborah wrote:
Would you rather see her dressed as a turkey??


You're so funny, Deborah.

But what beautiful pictures, Fab! I'm dying to know where that is so I can put that on my list of places to visit.

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