What's The City

[Boksida]

Boksida, They did have film cameras when you traveled didn't they, or are you that old of a fossil? Of all my filmed photos I have digitized them onto my 'photo' hard drive with the aide of what we today call a 'scanner'.... Great to post on my blog or share with friends.

I did have a camera sometimes but the flash powder and plates were bulky to carry. Quite humid in the tropics and I often had trouble getting it to work, to say nothing of pesky bearers selling the plates for the silver content.

Leung Ken has come closest on the guesses so far as the photo was taken in a country contiguous with Thailand.

Wow, you're much younger than I expected. I was thinking that maybe you used pewter plates with bitumen....

For your information, I do have a 'scanner', as you call it. She has been most helpful sorting through my snaps and selecting the best ones for my album.

[russianrobert]

Here's a picture i took myself. Best of luck!

[Boksida]

Can see some ferries and lots of radio masts which could be anywhere. Montenegro?

[LeungKen]

Is the stretch of water the Bosporus ?

[Old Croc]

I think you're right Ken, I found a pic taken there of those ferries with the gold trim.

Call it.

[russianrobert]

Ken, name the city and it's yours.

Funny because i thought that would run and run.

Well done

[LeungKen]

Well with either Istanbul or Uskudar to choose from I will decline the choice as I am still in a mild case of shock. You see I cannot explain what it was that when I first saw that image, I said to myself "that's the Bosporus" I have never been there and no little more about the area apart from what little I learnt about the it's strategic position (certainly in the "Great War"). So I'm off to buy a "Ticket in Tatts" (that's a lottery ticket for unenlightened) as I reckon I'm hot at the moment.

Somebody satisfy the poster and take my turn please.

[kayo]

That's facing the asian side of Istanbul, I believe.

[russianrobert]

Kayo, your right.

Your go.

[Old Croc]

Well done Kayo!

[kayo]

:D

IGOTONE! I GOTONE!

Right-o, ol' chaps....

This one should challenge.

Stayin on the watery theme... taken by myself in the summer of 2004 (the summer I left Thailand.

[Old Croc]

Bonifacio?

[LeungKen]

Are you going to own up Crocs ? Or would you like me to dob you in ??

[Old Croc]

What? I posted the same place a few months ago?

Well he didn't really find the last one!

Edited September 5, 2008 by Old Croc

[kayo]

Bonifacio?

Are you going to own up Crocs ? Or would you like me to dob you in ??

What? I posted the same place a few months ago?

Well he didn't really find the last one!

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Could somebody fill me in please... There's more going on here than meets the eye.

[Old Croc]

Kayo - apparently you left the name of the town on the file and Ken is suggesting that's how I found it.

However, I actually recognised the place because I had posted the same place in the past.

Have another go and take the name off it this time.

[LeungKen]

Hey Kayo

Don't believe a word he says (Check out the tears he's crying on his avatar) and would you swim in a creek with a creature that has a smile like that ?.. . . .

and if he hadn't of guessed it I would have done the sneaky thing and checked out why your picture had the title post-a64027-view-bonif.jpg

Cheers mate, better do like the large thick skinned amphibious tropical saurian says and post again.

P.S Thank God I wont be swimming in any W.A. waters for a while....

[Old Croc]

Hey Kayo

Don't believe a word he says (Check out the tears he's crying on his avatar) and would you swim in a creek with a creature that has a smile like that ?.. . . .

and if he hadn't of guessed it I would have done the sneaky thing and checked out why your picture had the title post-a64027-view-bonif.jpg

Cheers mate, better do like the large thick skinned amphibious tropical saurian says and post again.

P.S Thank God I wont be swimming in any W.A. waters for a while....

Crocs have been known to leave the water Ken! Beware.

[LeungKen]

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Crikey ! .. I thought you were plurry joking for a while.

P.S I think your "City" is Beerwah nr the Glasshouse Mountains , Qld..

[kayo]

<deleted>! Silly me... I haven't been here (farang Pub) for ages - must be a year since I last posted on these threads.

I forfeit my go (for now). Crockers, all yours mate.

edit: Ooh!

Wait.. here's a challenger: (technically a village - but quite famous)

Edited September 6, 2008 by kayo

[Old Croc]

Not much to go on Kayo, one building.

At a guess, somewhere in the south of France near the Maritime Alps?

I think I've seen that area in Le Tour de France

Edited September 6, 2008 by Old Croc

[russianrobert]

I thought it might be somewhere in the Balkans. Croatia, Montenegro etc.

Give us a bit more to go on!

[LeungKen]

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Pass

[kayo]

Alright, Crocks, you're closest so far ( i posted this pic in 47 also, but conveniently didn't mention where it was.

Having done some research, the nation it is in - ITALY - considers the place a City (though it is effectively a village)

a further clue: it is in the valley that leads to a major mountain pass in the Alps, though it is not the epynonymous city of that valley.

I'll get some more (self taken) photos this afternoon, if my GF can figure out how to send photos.

[Old Croc]

Carcare, Cairo montenotte??

[kayo]

there is a great WHITE at the top of this MOUNTainous valley....

[Old Croc]

Torino?

[kayo]

Go Norf and smaller

[russianrobert]

Aosta in the Valle d'Aosta?

A mountainous Region in north-western Italy.

[Boksida]

Sarre?