"Where am I?" Game

[Balderdasha]

I find this interesting from a couple of streets away.

Here is a building with lots of graffiti with a Streetview photo taken two years ago.

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[Balderdasha]

But if you move one step closer to the same building, you get a Streetview photo from six years ago showing it to be almost graffiti free.

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[Balderdasha]

Right. I actually need to go to sleep soon and I've given you lots of different photos, so happy hunting and I'll see if you've found it by morning time.

[Balderdasha]

I think I know where we are but I can't find any of the exact spot(s), so maybe I'm wrong! I expect Fussbudget to pop up with the correct answer any minute....

Where do you think we are?

[jdsx]

Heh, finally. You weren't going out with a Mormon were you, by any chance? It was that icon which finally gave it away!

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@16.74...7i13312!8i6656

[Balderdasha]

Well done. And what's the red and yellow building?

I was not dating a Mormon. I was dating a soon-to-be Oxford physicist at the time and travelling round Mexico with him.

[Balderdasha]

It was that icon which finally gave it away!

Which icon?

[jdsx]

The icon above the VW van of someone playing a trumpet!

[Balderdasha]

The icon above the VW van of someone playing a trumpet!

Darn. I had wondered if I should blur that. What does the icon actually mean? And how did you find it from that?

[Balderdasha]

Oh, I see, it's a Mormon church. That wasn't what I was aiming for though. The red and yellow building is the interesting place I've visited.

[jdsx]

Hmm, Casa Na Bolom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Na_Bolom

Never heard of it, I must admit, but looks interesting.

Yes I had to look up google maps icons to discover what it was. There aren't that many mormon temples to choose from!

[Balderdasha]

It's here, Casa Na Bolom, House of the Jaguar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Na_Bolom

[jdsx]

Anyway I have to go to bed now, so happy to hand it over to someone in a different time zone!

[Balderdasha]

Yeah, it's not very famous, but it was the home of Frans Blom, the archaeologist / anthropologist who first excavated Palenque. It's a very cool place. I really enjoyed visiting it and in another life where I didn't have kids I'd happily go and spend a year there cataloguing their library for them.

[ursus arctos]

LDS temples usually feature a golden statue of the Angel Moroni



Here's the one by us



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Moroni

[Fussbudget]

I think I know where we are but I can't find any of the exact spot(s), so maybe I'm wrong! I expect Fussbudget to pop up with the correct answer any minute....

I'm touched by your faith but even if I hadn't been busy making food I'm confident I would still have been nowhere near on that one!

[Fussbudget]

Staggered to find out that there are more than 16 million Mormons worldwide, and 6.5 million in the US alone. I wouldn't have been confident it was over 100k

[ursus arctos]

And those are just the ones who are alive.

If you add all the people they "converted" after their death, the numbers get really impressive.

[Fussbudget]

Ha, yeah I'll bet.

Strictly speaking I'm not in a different time zone to jdsx but I've got one ready so here goes:

[Fussbudget]

...and the other side while we're at it:



I've got a bit of a type don't I. I promise I'll try not to have a bunch of post-war blocks on the next one

[Sits]

I thought this had an Italian vibe and dropped onto Perugia at random. It looks quite promising. I could of course be on completely the wrong track: https://www.instantstreetview.com/@4...D9tfwDaqQWRjxA

[Sits]

Bolzano also looks promising in places too, but I can’t really get away from generic hilly European blocks.

[Sits]

Hang on. There’s an escalator. Outdoor escalators must narrow the field a bit.

I’m getting a lot about Calpe coming up when I search for outdoor escalators in Europe, and parts of Calpe look promising.

[caja-dglh]

***intermission***

Has Various Artist watched Free Solo yet? I can find a way to share it if he cannot find it. Hell, I watched it again to certainly be my most deliberately viewed motion picture of all time (US TV means I have seen Beetlejuice a LOT and I am not mad)

anyway - again, I am super happy how this thread has taken off and how much we have learned from each other about crossings, signs, road markings, where has trams… I get a lot of joy out of this silly game and I am glad you all do to.

[Sits]

Yes indeed dglh, thanks. I very rarely get close to a correct answer, and often get a few pages behind. But it’s always an education as well as challenging and fun. Would that more of life could be so.