Modern Vespa

Google lens agrees with you.

Yes, you are correct.

Out on my evening stroll I met a very ugly van (which I really liked). It's a Toyota Regius Ace, but Where in the world is it?

Where In the world was torneol?

Where was jimc?

And I did not need Google Lens for it. We were visiting there 2 years ago.

Where was I this weekend?

That could be anywhere. Any clues?

I think it might be Malta

At Europes most Northernmost Cathedral in Alta, Norway.

In the "Trench of Death"

Only Jimc and God knows but I'll guess at ...... Hyde Park

That's right!

We were visiting North Cape and we drive home via Alta and E45.

Are there any stags in Hyde Park?

Not that I know of but I can't see any in jims photo either.

Well I can, right at the center! Maybe it's not a real animal. Is it a shooting range, I wonder?

There's another clue besides the stag.

Edit - this was yesterday on a long walk.

Somewhere in Fife. One of the St. Andrews courses.

Yes, the Trench of Death near Diksmuide, Belgium, on the left bank of the river Yser.

It is the very last part of the trench that ran all the way from Diksmuide in WW1 downstream towards the see as part of the defense sytem of the allied forces to stop the German army on its way to enter France along the coast.

On the picture to the right you see the Yser river, and the polder land left of the trench was deliberately and controlled flooded to make it impossible for an army to trespass.

Best food and the craziest scoot drivers in Columbia, after visiting 11 different cities it's one of my favorites.

Guatape shown

805 steps later , vertically

Way south of there. (Clue to be gained in other unrelated posts)

Indeed.

Kalkara to be precise.

A brief break from the usual form of this game.

As I mentioned in the first post of this thread, me and another well-traveled former colleague of mine have been trading photos back and forth for a while now, and I greatly enjoy the challenge of figuring out where she is and (often) where she is currently eating, as we tend to exchange a lot of food photos.

I try to avoid using google lens as much as possible. Sometimes I need it for the general location, but it is only occasionally useful for identifying a restaurant solely from one or two food pictures.

I wanted to give you all a peek at what that process looks like.

She sent this picture:



Some of you might recognize the city, and if you don't, googling "big green bridge" might turn up some image results that you can scan for a visual match. I have been to Montreal recently, so I recognized it.

The next two pictures were her meal that day:





This is where the challenging bit comes in. Looking at the picture, she's clearly having a pastrami (or actually "smoked meat") sandwich (she corrected me) and some matzo ball soup. The surroundings don't look fancy, so it's likely a deli-type setting.

Googling for "best pastrami sandwich in Montreal" got me a listing on Yelp of likely candidates.

From there, it was just a matter of going through the list and looking at pictures, looking for something I could match to the original photos. Number 6 on the list -- Snowdon Deli -- was a perfect match. The place mats, in particular, but also the granite table tops.

So my final answer was: "You're eating a pastrami sandwich and matzo ball soup at Snowdon Deli in Montreal".

I remember getting some grief for posting a picture of crushed grapes on calçadas -- some people thought that was too hard. I maintain that it was not, and that this is how the game is supposed to be played.

A Royal Park, yes, but not Hyde park (no deer there). There's a USA-related memorial within it.

Bushy Park?

Now I'm hungry.

You got it. The other clue was the aircraft descending - to Heathrow airport. Plus, if folk had read some of my other reent posts, they might be aware I was in West London.

WWII D-Day was planned in Camp Griffiss, the US Army Air Force UK base in Bushy Park.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Griffiss

The annual Rut is in full swing at the moment - very impressive!

Where is jess now?



(I just checked, and this might be fairly difficult -- google lens doesn't seem to have this in its memory)

Why are you using google, you twerp.

Indeed. I'll go back to my abacus, then.

I may have been a little harsh. Apple images said Antwerp.
More investigation shows nothing though.

Definitely not Antwerp.

Yep, could be flipping anywhere.

Some clues are required on this one Jess.

Or it might just need some local knowledge.

Which implies you know of a forum member who frequents this topic has visited the area!

Yes, someone on this forum almost certainly has been here. Whether they see this thread is a different question.

The wall seems to be insulated, so it probably gets cold there in winter. The writing on the wall is Spanish: colocado aqui 1950.
The leaves are oak and maple.

Kew Gardens, London.

I didn't even notice that made it into the picture! But the wall is stone. Does that count as insulated? And it's definitely not Spanish.

Not sure if you're responding to my picture here, but no.