Guess this photo - June 2017

[PatrickLondon]

Award yourself bonus points if you know the locals' nickname for this statue, which I took about 20 years ago (apologies for the wobbliness, I snatched the moment because of the child, as you can see)

 

[JustTravel]

Thank you, Mindy. We enjoyed walking around Haarlem last month.

 

[chachalaca]

The Nieuwe Kirk photo is gorgeous!!

 

[Tim W]

Is this a photo of "The Floozy in the Jacuzzi" that used to be in O'Connell street in Dublin. (I think its official name had something to do with being a representation of the River Liffy)

I've never seen it , but we went looking for it on a trip to the Irish capital, only to be told it had been removed to make way for a spire. I believe it has since been relocated to a park.

 

[PatrickLondon]

Yes, that's what it is, or was. I see from Google that it does now appear to be in a park. This was an attempt to raise the tone with a figure of Joyce's Anna Livia Plurabelle, the spirit of the Liffey.

My understanding is that it got its nickname because an earlier icon of Dublin, a statue of Molly Malone wheeling her barrow through streets broad and narrow, had been affectionately known as "The Tart With The Cart".

Your turn!

 

[Tim W]

I don't seem to be able to resist taking photos of statues of Lions.

 

[JustTravel]

The cone-shaped top reminds me of Budapest - the Fisherman's Bastion? We were there a dozen years ago.

The particular lion, however, I don't remember. I have seen too many lions since then.

 

[Tim W]

Correct, your turn.

 

[JustTravel]

How about this one?

 

[Ian Sutton]

Keukenhof Gardens?

 

[JustTravel]

Keukenhof Gardens?

Correct, Ian. Your turn.

 

[Ian Sutton]

Ok, some good clues in here, scene of the weekly market.

 

[PatrickLondon]

Pure guess work, but to judge by the number of young people standing around and on bicycles, it's a university town and in Italy - Bologna?

 

[Ian Sutton]

Hi Patrick
Not Bologna. However yes there is a University here, founded in 1391 so t'internet says, with 16,000 students. I wouldn't be so sure they are all students though.
regards
Ian

p.s. Italy is correct

 

[Amy]

From the architecture, I'd venture Northern Italy, somewhere in E-R or the Veneto? Padua? I haven't been to the areas enough to venture further.

 

[Ian Sutton]

Another very good guess, and you are correct it is in one of those regions, but not Padua/Padova.

 

[joe]

From the "drabness" I'd guess somewhere in Lombardy?
Mantova maybe?

 

[Ian Sutton]

Not Lombardy or Mantova

 

[Tim W]

I think this may be the side view of the cathedral in Ferrara

 

[Ian Sutton]

Hi Tim
Yes indeed it is. I was hoping the cyclists in shot would be a big clue, though that row of old shops is also quite distinctive, ditto the bell tower. Your go
Regards
Ian