Can anyone locate where this picture was taken?

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1. Posted by Ray Bell (Budding Member 594 posts) 2y Star this if you like it!

This photo has baffled me for six years now...

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The memory card it was on glitched, I had to recover all the pictures on it and when you do that it seems that they like coming back to life out of numerical/chronological order. It seems to me that it's in the Moselle Valley somewhere and it's probably between Limburg and Luxembourg.

I know I went through (or past) Longuich on the way and the topography there seems similar. But I can't locate anything like this on Google Earth in that area, unless I'm looking at it upside down or something.

I did a blow-up of the central part and it shows some detail which might help:

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The other (remote) possibility is that it was taken as I drove up from Mulhous in France to Stuttgart, across to the Nurburgring and then via Spa-Francorchamps into Holland and to Nederweert before swinging across towards Limburg. Or could it have been somewhere across Switzerland?

And after the problem with not knowing what the order of the pics was it got worse. Somehow or other the original full-resolution pic has disappeared!

Any help identifying the location is appreciated. Just one thing, by the way, and I should have noticed before, the pics I could identify of the Moselle near Longuich show that the water is muddy. It had been flooding in the days before I got there, yet the picture about which I'm asking doesn't look as muddy. Here's a Longuich shot:

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2. Posted by leics2 (Travel Guru 6710 posts) 2y Star this if you like it!

You mentioned that no-one had identified your photo.

The enlarged photo shows Brauerei Felsenau, which is located on the banks of the Aare in the Felsenau district of Bern, Switzerland.

3. Posted by Ray Bell (Budding Member 594 posts) 2y Star this if you like it!

Well that is just fantastic, leics2...

I obviously went to Bern as I was seeking out the old roads on which they ran the Swiss Grand Prix up until 1954. but I was totally unsuccessful in that quest as the area has changed so much since then.

The freeway in the background of my pic actually runs right through the area where the circuit was but I don't know how I came to take the photo. Obviously I am always looking for scenes worth the pixels and I felt this was.

Thank you very much for your help.

I just checked through my Switzerland photos and it's not there... it must be lost forever.

4. Posted by leics2 (Travel Guru 6710 posts) 2y Star this if you like it!

You're welcome.

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6. Posted by Ray Bell (Budding Member 594 posts) 2y Star this if you like it!

Sorry, folks, but going through another memory stick for my trip pics I found this:

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I hope that comes up, I uploaded it to this site and it wouldn't post properly. Hence the ugly 'this has been edited'

Anyway, I did a Google image search and found one like this in Croatia, and it's a place I went through, but not at night.

There's another somewhere in France but I can't get any further with trying to find that. Places I'd reckon it might be are Arras, France, Dunkirk, Spa/Stavelot/Malmedy in Belgium or between Rouen and Amiens in France. I can't think of anywhere else I did any driving or looking around in French-speaking areas at night.

[ Edit: Edited on 25 Sep 2022, 01:01 GMT by Ray Bell ]

7. Posted by Ray Bell (Budding Member 594 posts) 2y Star this if you like it!

Whoops...

No, I did drive at night South of Paris en-route to Auch.

8. Posted by Ray Bell (Budding Member 594 posts) 1y Star this if you like it!

Just putting the comment over from the other thread, because I am hoping someone will identify this:

".....the shop sign in the background are in French ('nettoyage')....."

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