Find this thread please (Identify location in photo)

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I’m looking for an old thread. I think it was about a year old, or so.

Somebody posted an aerial photo of a coastal town, somewhere in the world, and asked Dopers to identify the location. The Dopers did an amazing job, by spotting clues such as:

  • road markings written in English
  • a police car with markings in a foreign language
  • traffic driving on the left
  • bunting in specific (national?) colours

and thus narrowed down the possible locations, until one specific place was identified.

Can anyone identify this thread?

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Do you know what forum the thread was in?

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Is it this thread?

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That’s the one I was going to offer, but he said it was a year or so ago.

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That’s the one I thought of, too.

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Yeah, it’s only been four months, but on a relatively fast moving message board, where we cover a lot of ground, it could have seemed like a year. Besides Peter Morris did participate in that thread, so it seemed like a good bet.

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You probably did the same thing I did-searched for all threads with the word “photo” in the title that he posted in.

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That’s the thread. Thanks all.

That recent? I thought it was older.

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Nope. I searched for “Malta.” I remembered the thread, and its resolution, and I figured that Malta was not such a common word that it would return an unmanageable number of results. When I reread it and discovered that PM had posted in it, I figured that was a bonus.