TravelTalkOnline Forums Travel and Vacation Forums World Wide Travel Game Time Part Seven

Sorry for the delay, I didn't know I'd won. Here you go...

I'm going to be out for 5-6 hours so if anyone knows the answer then carry on without me!

I'll guess France

Xrayman saw it too, in the picture! So I’m with him, France! Ha ha!

France is indeed correct. I'll post another picture shortly.

Remember any picture posted has to have been taken by you or someone in your family.
Do not want to get Carol in trouble with the copyright police...

Tom--I didn't see that until you said that. Mike--I would prefer if you take that picture down.

I'll be offline for a few hours, so if you need help with that, contact Eric at admin@traveltalkonline.com

Sorry about the photo. The location is Montech in France and is a mechanism for replacing locks by pushing a wall of water up a slope. Here's a youtube link... Montech Water Slope I was there last year but sadly it is no longer in operation. This is how it looked last year...

Does Mike post another picture (without watermark) or what? I might need another fix soon

Just done it Fred but I've already given away the location. Anyone got one ready to go?

I have one ready from a previous thread where I thought I'd nailed it. I took this picture when I got my new camera and as I was taking shots using a tripod at night a passerby asked me what I was doing, and when I explained the picture and the bothersome light in the top right corner he said "I can turn that off for you, if you want". It turned that he was the building operations manager and could actually turn off that light! I was working in that building at the time, somewhere on the 16th floor. So in which city is this building?

Without much to go on, and you have worked interesting places, I'm going Zurich.

This is not in Switzerland. But they speak 4 languages in Switzerland and one of those languages is indeed spoken here. Considering this was a new SLR camera for me and one of the first images I took with it, I like this picture. Most people living in this general area would immediately recognize the building due to its rather unique square shape.

I'm going to be offline for the next 8 hours, so I'm adding another picture I took from balcony of my rented apartment on New Year's eve, with the building in the original picture in the bottom right.

Great pic!!

Yeah, that last pic is outstanding!

No clue on the location, so just throwing out Hong Kong.

One of the languages is German and those roofs are built to last so I'll guess Germany. Don't have a clue which city.

I’m going Hamburg Germany.

Well, it is Germany, but not Hamburg. And staying with night shots, here's the next picture. This one was taken from the same location (my balcony) as the second one, but looking 90 degrees counterclockwise.

Looks like a pretty big city. I'll go Frankfurt.

It is indeed Frankfurt am Main (the only real skyline in Germany, we call it "Mainhattan"). The building in the 2 first pictures is called "The Cube" and is the home of the German Stock Exchange in a Frankfurt suburb called Eschborn. I worked as a consultant there for a while and the building is architecturally interesting. It is actually 2 buildings with the space between them enclosed completely and glass crosswalks every other floor; it was designed so that a fire could completely consume one half and wouldn't destroy the other, allowing the business to continue. Walking from one side to the other on the 20th floor is not for those with vertigo, although the crosswalks are fully enclosed, they are mainly made of glass! I had colleagues who would take the elevator down to the ground floor, walk across to the other side and take the elevator up - just to go to another office on the same floor...

Here's an inside view:

Looks like something from a Star Wars movie. Nice story and pictures.

Looking for a photo now. Wasn't prepared for having won.

Here you go...

This is probably not in the Caribbean, so I am going to guess Ischgl.

Wrong resort, wrong country.

Wow, being afraid of heights, just looking at that picture makes me a little woozy!!! Very interesting building..

Switzerland?

Whistler, BC?

Méribel, France? Somehow that picture looks european; and the ski resorts I've been to in the USA have all been in the bottom of the valley rather than up on the hill. And those hills on the other side look like the Alps.

My list of Swiss ski towns is short, so I am going Gstaad.

Zanshin closest so far. Some clues as I'll be disappearing for 24 hours or so pretty soon.

Correct country and not that far away as the crow flies. A fair distance though by the time you've gone down one mountain, along a valley floor and up the other side. Probably equates pretty much to one mountain stage of the Tour de France.

Chamonix?

Not as far as that Fred.

Have to speed this up... This place pioneered a ski tuition system whereby you started on skis 1 metre long, skiing parallel from the beginning, no snowplough turns, then you progressed after a couple of days to 1.3 m, then 1.6 after a few more days. You only went to longer skis if you were tall/heavy.

Could this be Chamonix? I've skied there before but don't recognize the buildings in the pictures.

Leaving Gstaad heading over and into a valley, Jungfrau area?

Wrong country Ellen. Zanshin's earlier guess of Meribel wasn't very far away. Head North East from Meribel, pretty much north from Val d'Isere, there is a TGV railway station in the town at the bottom of the mountain. A massive ski area when you look at it on Google maps. Google allowed.

Courmayeur by your directions, spent a ski season in Alpe d'Huez

North of Val d'isere might be Les Arcs? I haven't skied but those "hills" look like those around Mont Blanc

Alpe d'Huez would be the Tour tie in to the clue.