"Where am I?" Game

[Balderdasha]

I made a guess at Haverhill and then just looked at all the churches. While also getting distracted by a shop called Transylvania and another called "Grout of this world" which is one of those places where you suspect the owner thought of the pun first before they decided to open a tile shop

Yes. Was a little bit obvious for anyone who remembers where I grew up.

[Balderdasha]

Anne of Cleves' house (it says here). She should have been called Anne of Haverhill

Yes. She wasn't originally from Haverhill. It was one of various properties given to her in a divorce settlement from Henry VIII. It's the only wooden Tudor house in the town that didn't burn to the ground in a fire in Great fire of Haverhill in the 1660s: https://www.haverhillwhitings.com/overview

[Balderdasha]

Would have been a much prettier town if it wasn't for that fire.

[Balderdasha]

This is the view I was deliberately not showing you. I used to walk past it every day on my way home from the bus stop from age 11-19.

[Balderdasha]

It's now used as a private nursing home, which I think is a bit of a missed opportunity. Doing it up and making it into a museum about Anne of Cleves / a Tudor house for kids to walk around and try on Tudor clothing or whatever could be a great tourist-luring idea for the town.

[Balderdasha]

I made a guess at Haverhill and then just looked at all the churches. While also getting distracted by a shop called Transylvania and another called "Grout of this world" which is one of those places where you suspect the owner thought of the pun first before they decided to open a tile shop

Every small British town needs some good puns. I also found "Fish 4 Financial Advice" while roaming around nostalgically. Not sure I'd trust a firm with that name.

[jdsx]

Here's the photosphere pic I mentioned yesterday. From the Michni Fort looking down the road into Afghanistan. Not sure what was happening on the Khyber Pass in February 2018, but that's one hell of a traffic jam in both directions...



Original (ridiculously long!) link here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@34.10...!7i8704!8i4352

[Balderdasha]

ad hoc are you going to put up a picture or shall I have another go?

[ad hoc]

You can go again. I'm on my phone and I can't usually generate a reasonable quality photo.

[Balderdasha]

Ok, try this.

[Balderdasha]

And our friend peering over the edge from another angle.

[S. aureus]

Here's the photosphere pic I mentioned yesterday. From the Michni Fort looking down the road into Afghanistan. Not sure what was happening on the Khyber Pass in February 2018, but that's one hell of a traffic jam in both directions...



Original (ridiculously long!) link here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@34.10...!7i8704!8i4352

That's a great photosphere.

[S. aureus]

I don't really have anything intelligent to say about Balders' at this point, except I'm pretty sure we're not in Suffolk anymore. I keep thinking her street-name blockings are women in burqas at first glance.

[Fussbudget]

Balders' new one looks generally Mediterranean to me, possibly Italian but not Alpine. Not sure what those tall trees are but they suggest somewhere some way south to me, maybe even Montenegro or Greece

The city/villages (?) in that valley look pretty substantial

[Fussbudget]

Street lighting and utility poles strike me as unusual on this type of mountain road

[Balderdasha]

Ok, a few more photos then.

If we follow the road in the first picture, we get to this hairpin bend.

[Balderdasha]

And then if we go down the other side of the hairpin bend we reach this rather fetching peach building.

[Balderdasha]

If I carry on further past the peach building it will become much more obvious where we are.

[Fussbudget]

Hmm, unconvinced we're in Europe now. Central or South America maybe

[Balderdasha]

Two more shots further up the road, both skipping the extremely obvious bit. (Gimme a sec, got to get my photo posting ability back).

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Hmm, unconvinced we're in Europe now. Central or South America maybe

Yes.

[Balderdasha]

And here's the back of that bus. I have no idea how good you guys are at identifying number plates used in different countries so I don't know if it'll be a massive help or not.

[Balderdasha]

Continuing along the road in the same direction, I just found this very snazzily dressed horse.