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Looked (searched) through this thread. Was surprised to not find such a thread. So I'll start:

Here's a couple pictures. Guess where I am.

(No fair looking any of these things up on the internet.)

More pictures tomorrow.

Do we get a prize if we're right?

Hey, that's my hood!

I PMed IronMike so more people have a chance to guess. I'm reasonably confident in my answer

Edit: awesome thread

OK, so Rhian won with an immediately correct guess. Congrats Rhian! (Henkkles kinda gave it away!)

So here's the next one. N.B., that these pictures aren't necessarily recent.

IronMike wrote:OK, so Rhian won with an immediately correct guess. Congrats Rhian! (Henkkles kinda gave it away!)

What was the answer?

I guess it is: Выборг (I don't sure how it spells in English - Viborg?)

There's a tip on the board:
....
освящен 13 октября 1868 года
Преосвященным Павлом
Епископом Выборгским

In fact, these lines are written with 'ъ' in the end of each words which ends with a consonant letter, but we don't write like this now.

Sorry everyone! I had my nose to the grindstone the last week prepping for my Esperanto test.

Ok, so the first location that Rhian got correct: Helsinki, Finland.

The second location, with the picture above of the inside cover of a book, is still available for guessing! Here's another few pictures for you:

aaleks wrote:I guess it is: Выборг (I don't sure how it spells in English - Viborg?)

There's a tip on the board:
....
освящен 13 октября 1868 года
Преосвященным Павлом
Епископом Выборгским

In fact, these lines are written with 'ъ' in the end of each words which ends with a consonant letter, but we don't write like this now.

Normally spelt as Vyborg in English (Viipuri in Finnish)
At the time both Helsinki and Vyborg were part of the Finnish autonomy in the Russian empire.