Where am I?

Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.

Although Roman, THC’s chief puzzlewright, would be interested to know how long it takes you to solve this solo foxer, he’d rather you didn’t put spoilers or solutions in the comments.

Today you’ll find me close to a zebra crossing in a country that has horizontal stripes on its flag and a photograph incorporating Joe Cool on its Wikipedia page. Said country’s two-letter ISO 3166 code is a word you’d find in an English dictionary, and its current President has been in office for around eight years. The province you’re searching for is one letter away from being a country in the Middle East. If I wanted to crow-fly to the home of the closest top tier football club, I’d need to flap southward for around 38 km. The club in question are riding high at the moment and have a Scot in their squad. A short stroll from a mine that produces a useful white mineral, I’m closer to a fire station than a police station, and closer to a cemetery than a school.

You are probably in the right place if you can see…

  • Lumber
  • Mirrors
  • A map
  • A stop sign
  • A snow guard
  • An onion dome
  • A blue fire hydrant
  • A narrow-gauge railway locomotive
  • Pine cones
  • Lilac flowers
  • The words ‘OPEN-AIR’
  • The word ‘Kinder’
  • No litter

(Last week I was here)

4 Comments

  3. A snow guard ahoy! Distracted this week, but pretty quick.

    After Defoxing, I tried DeepSeek by literally pasting the large paragraph of text, and which astonishingly pinpointed the location within 12 kilometers. It was both impressive and scary.

    ChatGPT, on the other hand, was a dullard—its initial guess was roughly 10,000 km off. However, after I hinted at the correct continent, it managed to identify the right province. This was tested using whatever reasoning model powers ChatGPT’s free tier at the moment; other models might deliver better results.

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