Gumbo is not sure about this one! It might be pretty puzzling and last a while…or someone may snatch it up right away.
On the one hand, it has some unique features. On the other hand, what major city doesn’t have a big plaza with a monument and some classically-styled buildings? Only time…and the gang of guessers…will tell. ‘Cause Gumbo won’t…until he’s forced to.
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So, exactly where is Gumbo today?
I think that it is Europe, but not London or Paris.
There’s a kid roller blading, with knee and elbow pads but no helmet. Has to be an American kid.
Not sure I can recall kids that young on Rollerblades in Europe. Europeans, help me out with this!
But I favor USA, likely east of the Mississippi.
JonathanL is right—it is Europe, and not London or Paris.
I’ve seen lots of European skaters with no helmet (bikers, too, for that matter) so don’t draw too many conclusions from that.
Concentrate on the details of the scene…that’s all you get for now!
Definitely Europe, rollerblading is still very popular
Took me awhile but all I can add for a clue is that it has one of the oldest metro stops in the world.
Huuum, a sneaky one… I think I see a statue to Gengis Khan on the bottom of the statue column… But why would he be celebrated in a Euopean city? MAD is this geographic Europe or politically-defined Europe? I’m wondering if we are talking old Communist bloc here…. Is this any warmer? It’s beautiful either way!
Warmer with the Communist Bloc Comment. Statues are Freedom Fighters Not Gengis Khan
It’s at the end of a famous avenue that’s also a world heritage site? Helps?
Yes I was saving my answer for later, only knew it as I just visited Budapest! PH one historical record I read called them freedom fighters, it just stuck. Good going Lynn!
Hmmm. Genghis Khan. I thought the headgear spoke Spain or Portugal. (My first thought was South America – but Europe clue threw that out.) Sign(?) on pillar looks odd. How about Hungary – Hero’s Square in Budapest. Not sure which hero or why.
Huuum, a sneaky one… I think I see a statue to Gengis Khan on the bottom of the statue column… But why would he be celebrated in a Euopean city? MAD is this geographic Europe or politically-defined Europe? I’m wondering if we are talking old Communist bloc here…. Is this any warmer? It’s beautiful either way!
I strongly suspect that MAD Travel Diaries knows exactly where this is…although the statues are closer in period to Genghis Khan than to the Freedom Fighters she mentions…
MAD, if you know, share with everyone! It’s time to put this WITW to rest!
Once this started going, it went fast!
It is, indeed, Heroes’ Square in Budapest, and tomorrow morning you’ll know all about which heroes—but I will say that it is not Genghis Khan, nor the 1956 rebels…
Congratulations to Lynn for the answer, and to MAD Travel Diaries who obviously knew it, too, from her reference to the station on Budapest’s 1896 Metro Line 1.
The last five niches at the left of the colonnade were originally filled with Habsburg Emperors; just after World War II, when damage was repaired, they were replaced by freedom fighters of an older generation (Louis Kossuth from 1848, etc.) not the 1956 ones.