The while-we-wait-for-river-cruises photo quiz

[texasstar]

Name the town and the river.  (hopefully this has not been posted before),

[texasstar]

Name the town and the river.  (hopefully this has not been posted before),

[texasstar]

Well, not sure why there are 4 pictures there, but Coral you are correct.  It is supposed to be good luck to rub his head.  You're up.

[Coral]

Wildcard!

[notamermaid]

Thanks Coral.

 

What a busy thread this has been. When I started the quiz on 9 October my intention was to distract us a little, have fun reminiscing about past travels and I wanted to cheer us up during river cruise lacking winter months. Little could I know how much fun we would all have and how popular this thread would be. So, again I thank you all for participating.

 

Little could I know also that sadly we would still be in the same position - and worse - nearly six months later. Still no river cruises on a large scale anywhere, hardly any at all that I have heard of. Egyptians on the Nile perhaps? Those few Swiss in Basel having a round trip...

 

We have travelled the whole world of river cruising in photos and participation has gone down a bit lately, we regulars do not want to be a "club of ten"! Join us again if you have not been around for a while and come on new readers, show us where you have been on a river cruise on river or canal. You think you have not been to such a place? You may be surprised. And we have actually not travelled in photos to all rivers and canals yet!

 

Still waiting for the Loire, the Kiel Canal, the Göta Canal, the Oder, the Guadalquivir to appear in photos.

 

Get the atlas out and check, have fun stumping the regular guessers!

 ☺️

 

notamermaid

 

[Coral]

6 minutes ago, notamermaid said:

 

 

Still waiting for the Loire, the Kiel Canal, the Göta Canal, the Oder, the Guadalquivir to appear in photos.

 

I tried the Columbia River - it lasted all of 2 seconds. I think the previous Columbia River went quickly also.

 

Thanks for starting the quiz! It has saved some sanity of mine the past few months.

Edited April 3, 2021 by Coral

[jpalbny]

44 minutes ago, Coral said:

I tried the Columbia River - it lasted all of 2 seconds. I think the previous Columbia River went quickly also.

 

Yes, I posted Multnomah Falls which didn't last long either. 

[Canal archive]

I’ve enjoyed this thread it’s made me sort my photos and helped with naming what’s in them so help with this one please.
 

Country, river and city please, a word to the wise careful.

[notamermaid]

It is fascinating to learn that so often we go to the same places - that funny sculpture in Bratislava for example. But we often also differ in our experiences depending on where we live and where we can easily get to. @vada_9  shows us places that for her are not too far away in global terms but for me they are far-flung exotic lands. The Columbia River to you in the US is so familiar but I still have problems placing it on a map. A typical type of architecture and stone gives me an advantage guessing places that are along the Rhine. And I have the feeling that @Renmar would recognize 90 percent of all photos taken along a canal in the Netherlands.

 

Us travellers have assuringly a lot in common but we differ in experience and home country so much as to keep coming up with something fun new to learn for everyone.

 

Lovely. 

 

Talking of lovely: anybody want to post some cute lambs or Easter decorations for us to guess after we have helped Canal archive?

 

notamermaid

 

[notamermaid]

With this photo you are in a Spanish or Portuguese speaking country - the farmacia in the background. No further idea so over to our Portugal experts...

 

notamermaid

 

[jpalbny]

Caja Rural is a Spanish bank so probably the Guadilquivir.

 

Whether Seville, Granada, Cordoba, or somewhere else entirely? There are too many Caja Rural branches in each of those cities to check each one for a Farmacia nearby, and I can't read the name of the pharmacy well enough to search for it...

[dogs4fun]

I believe that CA's photo was captured in Salamanca. Check out Plaza del Mercado - I see Farmacia Escudero next to the bank. I also see the sculpture. 😉

 

[jpalbny]

That's it!

 

Thanks for solving it. Now we can go out hiking, as was our original plan this morning before I got sidetracked searching for this...

 

It's called "Monumento a las turroneras de La Alberca" which Google translate says means a monument to the nougat of La Alberca. Apparently that's a nougat maker with the traditional tools with which they split the product.

 

Here's a link (in Spanish) if anyone wants to have a go at translating it.

 

https://www.tribunasalamanca.com/noticias/una-estatua-de-bronce-rinde-homenaje-a-la-centenaria-tradicion-de-las-turroneras-de-la-alberca/

[jpalbny]

Salamanca has a bunch of these sculptures apparently. Here's one we passed which is memorializing some writer. Very similar style.

 

[Canal archive]

Thanks all, all I could remember was where I took the photo and the nougat connection there are various places in Spain that make superb nougat. As with all Spanish plaza a wonderful place to people watch.These sculptors are spread around the plaza. So over to Jalbny. Here is the first Peacock of spring.

Isn’t he / she beautiful. CA

[jpalbny]

No, it's @dogs4fun who got it.

[dogs4fun]

I am not interested in posting a photo - too labor intensive to open files on old computer & transfer. I was just trying to help CA identify the location of her photo - didn’t realize it was actually part of the game. 

[Canal archive]

Sorry dogs4fun will do some sorting for another photo. CA

[dogs4fun]

No problem @Canal archive  - if I had read the full text provided with your photo I might have surmised that you were actually submitting a wildcard. Alas, I am an expert at reading only a few sentences rather than the full text. 🤭

I had no idea what the statue portrayed - it was JP who provided that info. 

Edited April 3, 2021 by dogs4fun

[Canal archive]

Okay.

[Canal archive]

Who is this and where is he.

[dogs4fun]

Ah, the famous impressionist - he painted the cathedral in this city many times.

[capriccio]

Monet.  Rouen.  Seine River.

[Coral]

Just now, capriccio said:

Monet.  Rouen.  Seine River.

I knew it was Monet. I didn't know where the sculpture was.

[capriccio]

1 minute ago, Coral said:

I knew it was Monet. I didn't know where the sculpture was.

Dogs4fun gives excellent clues 😁