I'm sure Andrea knows where this is. However, if anyone knows where this is I will give them a prize of getting the first read of my next story. The downside is I haven't started writing anything.
Those DiMaggio's
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Where this is.
It's on planet Earth. On land.
Snerk.
I'd guess
That it is somewhere in UK or Ireland
What is the black post to the right of the road?
Is that a hitching post?
Nope
it is simply a bollard to warn motorists that there is a turning there at night, the white rectangle is a reflective surface
Trying to Reason It Out...
...and not getting very far. I can make about a dozen inferences, but none of them get me close to an answer. If this really used to be an active street, then based on its lack of width it's pre-automobile, which would eliminate a lot of newer suburbs and neighborhoods. It clearly isn't used by cars now, since there's no curb in front of the building and there's a sign standing in front of the "Interiors" dealer that could get run over. The lack of outside wiring suggests that it's relatively upscale. (Even if it's because the wires are all in the back.) The signs are in English, but the few words we can read don't tell us whether it's the American version or UK/international. The cobblestone (or faux-cobblestone) pavement seems to go with the building; it doesn't seem to extend to the turn at the end of the block. The word that's cut off on the side of the building apparently ends in either NEWS or HEWS, based on the spacing of the obscured letter.
DiMaggio's seems to be a restaurant, if that's a menu posted on the window. (Trouble there is that the "Interiors" place next door has an identical-sized window poster.) The partly open windows suggest that the building (or at least DiMaggio's upstairs floor) isn't air-conditioned. No A/C units visible in the windows, either, though of course we're only seeing one side. That'd argue for a temperate location.
(I guess it's not completely unwired. There's something metallic above the DiMaggio's sign between the two windows -- I've seen burglar and fire alarms that size and shape -- plus what looks like a satellite dish cut off from the top of the photo above the red interiors store sign).
The hedge atop the wall across the street suggests that it's private land, as opposed to a public park or some such thing. The tree at the end of the block seems to be on public property, but I think the wall and hedge continue behind it.
That's about the best I can do. England sounds good, but the fact that Portia, from the U.S., is posting it makes me hesitate even to go that far.
Eric
DiMaggio's Where is it?
Some very good sleuthing done here; it is UK, actually Scotland. We were there 10 days ago with friends visiting their grandson who is going to the University of Glasgow. We continued on to Amsterdam for five days before returning to the US of A. Fortunately, still no nuclear war.
Portia
Di Maggio's
The place isn't very difficult to locate when you start with the web page of the restaurants.
The cut off word on the sign to the left is "MEWS". :-)
Martina
Mews
You are correct. We bought a very nice Irish porcelain sugar and creamer there.
Portia
I guess
Somewhere in New Jersey, I suppose?
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