The "Where Am I?" Game

[LaFoto]

You've been to Paris!
Wonderful town.
(There must be some photos from my one and only trip to Paris for the change of the year 1983 to 1984 somewhere, but where????)

 

[mad_malteaser]

Heehee, that was quick. I know, too easy.

Well done Santino. And yes, LaFoto, I went to Paris in March. Beautiful city.

 

[2Stupid2Duck]

I think Santino is up? Yeah?

 

[mad_malteaser]

I think Santino is up? Yeah?

Yeah.

 

[santino]

 

[thomasjfletcher]

I LOVE that Stalinist tower!!! Problem is, it could be anywhere over the old eastern block. I know that there are 7 almost identical ones around Moscow (known as the "Seven Sisters", and that similar towers exist in Warsaw and Peking.

Did you know that this whole genre of building was base on New York's MUNICIPAL BUILDING of 1914. The Municipal Building in downtown New York impressed Josef Stalin so much that the Moscow University main building (1949-1953) and its accompanying "Seven Sisters" was later based on it -- as well as, in general, the whole grandiose public building style in the Soviet Union and its worldwide empire.

I wrote a webpage about it-
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC030.htm

and its effect on Stalinist architecture.
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC030a.htm

And my apologies in advance to you all for being such a boring old sod.
Tom

 

[santino]

boring? you are great dude, you know way too much about architecture. You're def. on the right track, just guess a town.

 

[thomasjfletcher]

Is it somewhere in the Baltic? That church in the first picture looks Hanseatic (definitely showing off now....!!)

 

[santino]

yeah it is

 

[LaFoto]

Hey, that is getting me on the right track. First thought (yesterday) had, indeed, been "Moscow" with the middle picture. Only the bottom picture made me hesitate and tell myself, no. Not that one!

But then I found a thread in which you, santino, say to mentos007 that Polish is your mother-tongue, although you live in Austria now.

That makes me guess that this could be in

POLAND.

Right?

 

[santino]

Off course you're right, it's Warsaw in Poland!!!!!!

 

[LaFoto]

Hey, if Anua and Mentos were with us in this game, they'd have won by lengths, I think.
It's a pity that it's actually only you, santino, then Tom Fletcher, the mad Malteaser (;-)) and myself who keep going on...
Or is that "stupid duck" () still in the game (the instigator, actually)?

But ok. I take it that I won again?
Where was I?
(This is really easy, I'm giving you all the necessary give-aways - actually I think, this one's sooo easy, we could even narrow it down to the name of the TOWN.)

 

[LaFoto]

Too difficult?
Or has the game become boring?
Or is everyone out partying?

 

[thomasjfletcher]

Edinburgh.

 

[2Stupid2Duck]

Aww man. I actually knew that one. Damn my wife for making me work like a dog for the last 3 days so her stoopid family could come over for a bbq. Look what you done woman! I woulda won!

(LMAO - just kidding in case you hadn't realised - no not about knowing Edinburough about the wife's family)