"Where am I?" Game

[Fussbudget]

Old French cars, blue number plates and a "cédez le passage" road sign so Senegal seems a good bet. Both the streets and the coast actually look very much like when we've had Dakar before

[Fussbudget]

Haven't we done the African Renaissance Monument before....???

Oh is that where we are again? Yes we have, that's what I was thinking of

[jdsx]

So we're at the top of the hill:
https://www.google.com/maps/@14.7218...7i13312!8i6656

[jdsx]

Will try to post one later this eve, but if anyone fancies a go, please do

[S. aureus]

I knew it seemed familiar.

[Sits]

Sorry about that, it’s been a long thread.

[Fussbudget]

Tut tut tut. Imagine not keeping an up-to-date index of the 300 pages of past locations and thinking that's acceptable!

[jdsx]

Apologies if someone just read my recent post(s) - I must have had a senior moment! Will post shortly!!

[jdsx]

OK how about this mildly interesting place:

[jdsx]

And looking the other way:

[ad hoc]

I was going to say London, possibly somewhere near the British museum, but that hotel was a bit of a giveaway so I was right with the London bit, but Bayswater rather than British museum area

24 Leinster Gardens https://maps.app.goo.gl/jGDNAgtLqpmVwQLM7

[Fussbudget]

Looks very West London. Queensway/Notting Hill Gate kind of area with all the tourist hotels and the coaches parked just out sight down the side of Hyde Park

[Fussbudget]

Oh! That was quick

[jdsx]

Ah blimey that was quicker than I expected. Yes, it's outside the 'blanked-out' 23 & 24 Leinster Gardens, which I thought was a fairly niche bit of knowledge until the other day when I was watching an old episode of Sherlock with my daughter to find that it featured heavily...!

[jdsx]

Hadn't realised I'd left the hotel name in. I need to look more closely next time!

[Fussbudget]

Ah blimey that was quicker than I expected. Yes, it's outside the 'blanked-out' 23 & 24 Leinster Gardens, which I thought was a fairly niche bit of knowledge until the other day when I was watching an old episode of Sherlock with my daughter to find that it featured heavily...!

I hadn't heard of them (even though I've been on that street dozens of times), it's quite something from above!

[Sam]

Because my girlfriend's dad loves little bits of urban history like that, when we had a few minutes to kill before taking our train back to my parents' village at the end of our few days in London in 2018 I took them (him, my girlfriend and her brother) to see that, complete with a walk round the back to look at the tracks. It's a nice little one to have up your sleeve if you're showing London to foreigners and have reason to be in the Paddington area.

[ad hoc]

I've deleted that one, because reasons. Will try and think of another, but of someone else has one ready to go, please be my guest

[ad hoc]

Ok here we go
waig5.jpg

[ad hoc]

And one bend further up the road
waig6.jpg

[Fussbudget]

That's... not a whole lot of clues. Given how small and bashed the cars look we can probably discount North America and Australia. No French cars that I can see so if we're in Europe (which I'm really not sure we are) we're more likely to be in Eastern Europe than, say, Italy or Portugal

[ursus arctos]

What she said.

My guess is that the water is the Med or Aegean.

I would also add Turkey to the mix.

[ad hoc]

Here's another, slightly down the hill from the previous two.
waig7.jpg

[Balderdasha]

Again, not much to go on. Looks like a hairpin bend?

[ad hoc]

Here's one more, from more or less the same place as the first one. On this picture you can actually see why we're here, and I will assure you it's a place you all know

waig8.jpg