"Where am I?" Game

[Levin]

Pentecost Drive?
Assumption Avenue?
Michaelmas Street?

[jdsx]

Film related!

[Sits]

Film related!

Not snubbing you, I just haven't got a clue!

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Is it Arleta, CA? I have a hunch but can't find the precise location.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

9363 Roslyndale Ave
https://maps.app.goo.gl/RXBeaKtZ7FWBxFXx9

I'm pretty sure this is close to it. It's Marty McFly's house from Back to the Future?

[jdsx]

Heh, yes well done. Should be 9303 I think!

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I'm beginning to lose track of where we've been and haven't been, but try this one

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Other way

[S. aureus]

9363 Roslyndale Ave
https://maps.app.goo.gl/RXBeaKtZ7FWBxFXx9

I'm pretty sure this is close to it. It's Marty McFly's house from Back to the Future?

It's so obvious AFTER you point it out!

[ursus arctos]

So it turns out that pedestrian precincts rob us of many of our usual urban clues

Temperate climate, reasonably affluent, not USian

[ad hoc]

It looks a bit like Timisoara but the mountains aren't that close I don't think. The kind of scruffy and generic apartment buildings could be somewhere like Romania though.

[Fussbudget]

I was thinking the apartment blocks looked sort of Spanish but you're right about the slight scruffiness of them. The style of the people on the street doesn't read 'affluent Spanish people' to me either (or indeed French) so it could indeed be further east

[S. aureus]

I think we're in Sofia

[Fussbudget]

Also I had assumed those covered terraces/extensions (?) were all cafes or restaurants, but at least some of them appear to be shops which strikes me as more unusual

[S. aureus]

Yes, here:
https://goo.gl/maps/rYimzUCNHj7Ewobh8

[S. aureus]

That appears to be William Gladstone as the cross street in view 1.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Well done! Yes, it's Sofia's main pedestrian shopping precinct, Vitosha boulevard. There was a sidestreet I was going to post a picture of on that corner (well, here it is) which is called, rather oddly, "William Gladstone". I haven't actually yet looked up what part Gladstone played in Bulgarian history. He was too early for WW1.

[S. aureus]

If anyone has one ready, feel free. I have something in mind, but it's going to take a little while to put it together.

[S. aureus]

Never mind, here we go.

[S. aureus]

And looking back at the first location (same rock in the middle of the view):

[S. aureus]

Not religious holiday, or famous birthplace related, but returning to an earlier theme.

[S. aureus]

Oh, and the reason we're here isn't actually marked on Google maps.

[S. aureus]

This is not the closest village, but it is the one relevant to our original location:

[ursus arctos]

Is that a menhir in the first field?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I was going Eire but now there are AA hotel signs and telegraph poles I'm back to British or Norn Irish.