Fangirl Three wrote:

Oh, it's that Wetherby. When I get to there on the A1(M) I know that I am about to enter the north beyond the north.

That's funny because Wetherby (racecourse for an agricultural show in the early 90s) was the furthest north east in that direction I'd ever been until 8 or 9 years ago when I finally went past Wetherby and onward to Northumberland. So I too sort of think anywhere past Wetherby is the north north.

And there's Roger Watson's Animacs's album as well! (Roger Waters, Animals album)

The Heights of Abraham cable cars in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.

Oh, so most of Germany is now on Google Street View. For years it has been one of the only countries in Europe to not be covered, other than a handful of German places in more recent times. It seems most of this first footage is from 2022.

Apparently this street in Bristol is the steepest street in England.

All of Bristol is like that. I spent most of my time there in taxis because I don’t like hills. After first year we were doing a favour for the man who owned the restaurant downstairs, so he let us expense account cabs to him as payment.

Butterfield wrote:

Apparently this street in Bristol is the steepest street in England.

A few months ago, I posted a video of someone trying to ride a bike up it. The attempt went spectacularly wrong.

The tallest statue in the world, in India.

Oh, it's a prison.

I knew that maison = house, but it seems Maison D'Arret is a category of prisons in the French-speaking world.

If you were given a Google Street View image of anywhere on Earth, could you identify the location?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/23/geoguessr-world-championships-2023-inside-story

I do quizzes online like this more-or-less every day.

Back on ***, when they still had the 'Guess the Skyline' quiz, I was in the top all-time 10 out of countless '000s.

Doing it blind is pretty durn difficult though.

Still, I reckon I can or could get in the right country most times (or at least an adjacent country).

Incidentally, the A5 on the map is the Watling Street Roman road.

I wonder why the Romans gave it a roundabout?

It must've been really weird for them to suddenly have to march round in a circle when they got to that bit.