"Where am I?" Game

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I'm tentatively starting with a mitteleuropean lake. And obviously not a main road, more of a driveway round something.

[ursus arctos]

The road quality is more USian than European, and those floral displays are not unknown here

[Fussbudget]

Other side

[ursus arctos]

Is that a Jet Ski?

I think of them as being primarily North American

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Ooh, we might need VA's encyclopaedic reference book of recycling bins on the left there

[S. aureus]

It seems USian to me, but I wouldn't bet my house on it.

[Fussbudget]

Have some more. Same road, same direction as the first image and we've taken a couple of steps back

[San Bernardhinault]

Everything about it looks USian to me apart from those street names which very decidedly do not.

[jdsx]

I was thinking it might be Canadian rather than USian. Does anyone know what the black hexagon which we're not allowed to do signifies?

[S. aureus]

I'm thinking somewhere in Canada.

[jdsx]

I was thinking it might be Canadian rather than USian. Does anyone know what the black hexagon* which we're not allowed to do signifies?

Could be an octagon.... ;-)

[jdsx]

Yeah...!

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@45.5092069,-73.7964645,3a,75y,75.43h,85.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s19cQfwlcLpqCbSOpIsSDFA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[S. aureus]

Nice. No stopping for the octagon? No stop signs?

[Fussbudget]

Good stuff! And I didn't even have to deploy one of those hilarious ARRÊT stop signs

[Fussbudget]

Nice. No stopping for the octagon? No stop signs?

Oh yes they do have them! One of my favourite things, Québecois out-Frenching the French



I think the octagon is more like a double yellow line

[Fussbudget]

Here's the even weirder New Brunswick version by the way



(Sorry, just went on a big stop sign adventure and then realised SA was probably talking about no stopping signs. Still)

[S. aureus]

No problem as far as I'm concerned, an entertaining diversion.

[jdsx]

Right, I fully expect someone to get this pretty quickly....:

[San Bernardhinault]

My first thought was Khyber Pass. And on the Pakistani side the first town down, Landi Kotal has Streetview. And it looks so very right. I haven't quite found the spot yet, but I feel it must be here. If it's not there's a doppelganger.

[San Bernardhinault]

Yep. Khyber Pass. You have to go a long way up the one road with Streetview in Landi Kotal to get to a point where there's enough slush on the road.

[jdsx]

Well done, SB. I thought someone would figure it out. Strictly speaking, I believe this spot may even be north of the 'Khyber Pass' itself, but it was good enough for a streetview driver, so it's good enough for me. Was going to post a couple of interesting near-by photospheres, which I may do after 'tea' (/dinner/supper). Also had me going down a Mastermind rabbit-hole which I thought would take me to a Two Ronnies sketch but actually turns out to be Morecambe and Wise!

[San Bernardhinault]

I was in fully Carry On mode rather than Two Ronnies/Morecambe and Wise. I'll use this as a reminder to everyone to read Dalrymple's Return of a King

[San Bernardhinault]

Anyhoo

[S. aureus]

Last time I said something looked USian it turned out to be Canada.

[San Bernardhinault]

I think I can help clarify whether it's Canada. Looking the other way: