Friday Fun: Can you guess where I am?

[Monique vdB]

For today's Friday Fun, inspired by Katie from Air B&B, we are doing a treasure hunt!

Below is a cropped photo of a famous location somewhere in the world. Can you guess where it is?

The person who guesses right gets to go next, so get your photos ready. 

Thanks to @Laura for the game idea!

[John Funk]

Trevi fountain in Rome?

[Jimmy Seddon]

I was going to say the same thing, in the limited world traveling I have done that is one place I have actually visited.

[Darline Auguste]

This is also my guess!

[Monique vdB]

@John Funk you (and Jimmy and Darline) are all correct! You get to pick the next picture though!

[John Funk]

Have only be there once and it was back in January of this year  lol

[Ivan Lima]

It's definately on my "want to go" list. Sorry, I couldn't resist that quick check... LOL

[Monique vdB]

I'm deputizing @Jimmy Seddon since @John Funk hasn't posted a pic yet... lol

[Jack Brickey]

fountain in my back yard.

[Monique vdB]

lol 

[Laura]

Trevi fountain! Love this game. It reminds me of one I played during a virtual happy hour where they show a google maps view and you guess where in the world it is. 

Here's the link in case anyone needs a new virtual happy hour game! https://www.geoguessr.com/ 

[John Funk]

Picture 2!!

[Esther Strom]

One of the smaller pyramids at Giza?

[Jimmy Seddon]

Tough one @John Funk ... I'm going to agree with @Esther Strom because I can't think of anything and and that guess seems reasonable.

[Jack Brickey]

Pyramid of Kheops

[John Funk]

Yes the Queen’s pyramid at Giza! 

[Jimmy Seddon]

Picture #3

[Esther Strom]

That's the Bellagio in Vegas, isn't it? I was supposed to stay there for Summit in March; it would have been my first trip to Vegas :(

[Jimmy Seddon]

@Esther Strom you nailed that one!  That was from the 2019 Summit (as I said I don't get out much).

Feel free to post the next one!

[Esther Strom]

Woohoo! (I don't get out much either; I only recognized it because I did so much GIS'ing back in February before things were canceled.)

[Esther Strom]

Picture #4

[Ivan Lima]

Park Guell in Barcelona?

[Jack Brickey]

Agreed

[Esther Strom]

Yeah, I figured as soon as I posted that it was going to be easy... I'm guessing at least some of you were there the same time I was! (Summit 2018.)

@Ivan Lima you're next!

[Ivan Lima]

I've never been to Barcelona, but one of my favourite songs, Maçã, which means "Apple" in Portuguese, was recorded at Park Guell by Djavan, who is also one of my favourite songwriters and musician. As soon as I saw this picture, I related it to the video.

[Ivan Lima]

Picture #5

[Jack Brickey]

Possibly San Diego, CA?

[Ivan Lima]

Correct. La Jolla in San Diego. Stunning place and I’m glad the there is no such thing as “digital smell”.

It looks like you’re the next one. 

[Jack Brickey]

From one of my travels...

 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Central Park, Manhattan!

[Jack Brickey]

Yes indeed!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Must admit the works of Charles Dodgson are a favourite of mine, so I stumble into things like this more than most.  That sculpture was not there last time I visited NY, but it's on the list for 2023.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

This one might be a challenge - where is "The house that Jack built"?

[Liam Green]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- - I feel like this is somewhere in England (or the UK if I'm wrong), but I really don't know where!

@Monique vdB - I love this game!!

[Jack Brickey]

Maybe Cherrington in Shropshire England? Just a guess based on my google investigation on the origins of the children’s rhyme.

[Monique vdB]

This is hard to Google! @Ivan Lima does your Google lens work on this one?

Otherwise we might need another clue @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

[Esther Strom]

I tried Google Lens on this and got photos of churches (the top photo) and coins (the bottom photo). Not at all helpful! Definitely need a clue, @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It is very very obscure, I admit, but that's the challenge, right?

The building is flanked by a couple of old coaching inns, one late 16th century and a larger one built in in the mid-1600's by a supporter of Sir Francis Drake and still carrying the name of "The (Golden) Hind".  The House that Jack built is, obviously, 250 years younger.

[Jack Brickey]

Well that hint did the trick! Wellingborough, England at 37 Sheep St. I think I got a full mani-pedi done there once. 😉

[Ivan Lima]

Good question, @Monique vdB. I was not even bothered to try Google Lens for this one because I figured it would be a "google-proof" type of challenge.

[Jack Brickey]

Now, assuming I am correct (Nic?) I’m going to nominate @Laura since I have already posted.

[Jack Brickey]

....or @Ivan Lima please jump in with an image!

[Laura]

You got it @Jack Brickey ! 

Here's a pic from an Atlassian business trip a few years back...

[Esther Strom]

Oh, that's beautiful! I cheated with GIS; I'll wait to see if anyone else knows the answer honestly :)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Going back to my picture - yes @Jack Brickey  it's Wellingborough.  5 minutes walk from my house.  I use it as an example of how people fail to look up - most of the locals have no idea it's there, I noticed it the day I moved here.

[Jack Brickey]

Looks like a wonderful area @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- . Hopefully one day I will get to visit and we can meet a the local pub.

[Esther Strom]

OK, it's been a week and I haven't seen an answer, so here's mine. It's one part of the National Maritime Museum in Gdansk, Poland.

[Monique vdB]

Oh wow! looks like you got it @Esther Strom, stump us!

[Phil Vitale]

Is it Rome or Vegas?

[Monique vdB]

@Phil Vitale yes the original post was the Trevi Fountain! Esther's gonna try and stump us next. 

[Esther Strom]

(Original one was unfair since it wasn't a permanent part of the location; if anyone saw it before I changed it, it was a yarn-bombed window at Blarney Castle.)

[Jack Brickey]

Somewhere in the Crochet Islands? ;-)

this is going to be tough!!!

[Esther Strom]

You're too fast, @Jack Brickey ! I changed it; I figured it wasn't fair since the photo was one I took last year and might not have been part of the site for more than a week.

[Jack Brickey]

that was my second guess!

maybe Epcot but there are a number of geo-domes around so...

[Monique vdB]

My guess is Epcot too!

[Esther Strom]

I'm really bad at this! Yes, it's Epcot. @Jack Brickey you're up.

[Jack Brickey]

Ok so hopefully this is hard but someone can still figure it out. I visited here during a business trip many years ago and hope to return. If no one gets it within a couple days I can expose a bit more of the photo.

[Liam Green]

@Jack Brickey is that the Guinness factory in Dublin?

[Jack Brickey]

Ah another lover of Guinness possibly? Indeed it is!!

stump us Liam.

[Esther Strom]

I was just there last summer! Can't believe I didn't recognize it.

[Liam Green]

I do enjoy a Guinness Jack, yes.

@Esther Strom I was there last year (early summer) too - it had been about 12 years since my previous visit, but the tour was as good as ever

[Liam Green]

I think my photo will be far too easy - but it's very special to me as it was the first time my fianceé and I left our home continent together.  I've cropped to make it a bit harder but I'm sure someone will be getting it very quickly!

[John Funk]

Brooklyn Bridge?

[Liam Green]

Correct @John Funk - I did say it was easy!

I know you've done this already John but do you want another go?

[John Funk]

This one is likely easy also.

[Monique vdB]

Um... it's.... the.... yeah, no idea. Is it one of those tall buildings in Dubai?

[John Funk]

Nope

[Jack Brickey]

Is that Finn the Human from Adventure Time? 

[John Funk]

haha  nope

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Oh! Oh! I think I have that t-shirt!

Is it the Batthulu building in Arkham? ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H

Is it the Batman building in Nashville?   (Not a clue of the real name, only the nickname)

[John Funk]

Yes it is Nic! AT&T building in my home town 😊

[Monique vdB]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- you're up again! 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

So, as @Monique vdB says I get another go, here's one from a holiday (yes, please do ignore Chrissy's hair at the left, the other photos from this walk were fuzzier, less green or had even more of my family in them). 

I thought a landscape would be a change from the buildings we've seen so far.  But I know that landscapes are much harder to place, especially when there is nothing peculiarly distinctive in them, like a unique building.  So a small clue is that if you can work out what nuclear reactors are in the photo, we're around 20 miles from them...

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Oh, and I'm looking for the name of the hill / park we're in before I'll admit you've found us.

[Jack Brickey]

I’m thinking this is Collard Hill. I saw a BBC bit on the blue butterfly 🦋 several years back on BBC and this looks like that area.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I like the thinking, I was ambling around there a few years back (I'm one of those people who bought a lifetime National Trust membership and probably used it so much, I made it worth it within half a decade)  

But no, Street doesn't have that view of the Atlantic or that many nukes.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Just noticed that I never answered this one.

We're looking South, over the river Kent (which is nowhere near Kent) to the Heysham nuclear reactors, while standing on Scout Scar in the Lake District.

[Soumyadeep Mandal]

It was Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Trevi from Rome, Italy

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Wow!

I have not known like this game maybe better to have time to like this game during zoom call. 

[Soumyadeep Mandal - SaM]

Hey,

It was a pretty nice place.

It was Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Trevi from Rome, Italy

Regards,

Soumyadeep

[Suvradip Paul]

Love this game. I was checking some old Friday-Fun Posts and came to this thread.

Can you guess this place?

[Monique vdB]

Aw yes, thank you for bringing it back up @Suvradip Paul! I am going to randomly guess the British library. It looks like an old-timey European library to me!

[Suvradip Paul]

No sorry @Monique vdB  it's not library. But thanks for guessing. 

[Suvradip Paul]

@Monique vdB   - I can give a hint. A movie set was created in studios with references and photos from this place.

[Monique vdB]

@Suvradip Paul the Da Vinci Code? Harry Potter? I keep thinking Europe! I'm going to call in reinforcements....

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Oh, I think I know, I've had dinner with old school friends there a couple of times, if I'm recognising the right one.

[Esther Strom]

I've also eaten there, many years ago.

[Suvradip Paul]

@Monique vdB - You are on right way ! It's based in UK. I am giving another clue.

@Esther Strom , @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-  - Your guess please. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Christ Church College dining hall, at Oxford university.