Can you identify where this public transport is?

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[grahame]

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[bradshaw]

9 Athens?

[paul7575]

9 Athens?

I’m going to say it’s also 8 that’s Athens, the tram.

[grahame]

9 Athens?

I’m going to say it’s also 8 that’s Athens, the tram.

Correct - both 8 and 9 are in Athens.

The other pictures (as I suspect is obvious!) are not.

[stuving]

For 7, I suggest Santorini (Fira). 10 and 11 have a quality - flatness - that I think Santorini lacks (excepting only the airport), but 12 looks like the leg-based alternative to the cable car.

[paul7575]

If we don’t know where, can we suggest captions?

7.  “I waited all afternoon for the cable car, then six came along at once”…. 

[stuving]

If we don’t know where, can we suggest captions?

7.  “I waited all afternoon for the cable car, then six came along at once”…. 

And those things have their worrying aspect too. The "bubbles" in Grenoble are scary enough anyway, being glass globes with a small floor allowing you to look straight down at Grenoble. And then, going up in one of five of them, I saw that the string coming down only had four ...

[grahame]

For 7, I suggest Santorini (Fira). 10 and 11 have a quality - flatness - that I think Santorini lacks (excepting only the airport), but 12 looks like the leg-based alternative to the cable car.

7 and 12 are indeed both Santorini.  583 steps up from the pier to the town, or a couple of minutes in that cable car.

If we don’t know where, can we suggest captions?

7.  “I waited all afternoon for the cable car, then six came along at once”…. 

Indeed ... it's an unusual but not unique arrangement.  I recall clusters of cars at Matlock Bath up to the Heights of Abraham but think they're on a continuous wire.  The Santorini ones are "balanced" - just the two sets of six, one set going up while the other set goes down.

And those things have their worrying aspect too. The "bubbles" in Grenoble are scary enough anyway, being glass globes with a small floor allowing you to look straight down at Grenoble. And then, going up in one of five of them, I saw that the string coming down only had four ...

Don't know which system Grenoble uses. 

Personal choice was shank's pony up the hill in Santorini.  Plenty of chance to stop along the way and take pictures, and take in the aroma of the seaside, the flowers , and the donkey poo.

[stuving]

Indeed ... it's an unusual but not unique arrangement.  I recall clusters of cars at Matlock Bath up to the Heights of Abraham but think they're on a continuous wire.  The Santorini ones are "balanced" - just the two sets of six, one set going up while the other set goes down.

And those things have their worrying aspect too. The "bubbles" in Grenoble are scary enough anyway, being glass globes with a small floor allowing you to look straight down at Grenoble. And then, going up in one of five of them, I saw that the string coming down only had four ...

Don't know which system Grenoble uses. 

Grenoble had two single cabins to balance each other, until Poma (a local company) came up with this string of bubbles idea. According to Wikipedia, they run three-five in a string depending on the season, and the drive is now a continuous one side up and one down one. So presumably the cabins only run as two strings to make the stopping at each end easier to manage.

[stuving]

In the absence of any other bids, 10 is Katakolo(n), with the railway to Olympia. Pity the call wasn't the week after next, when the Railtex/Infrarail exhibition is on there.

11 is most likely the same port.

[grahame]

In the absence of any other bids, 10 is Katakolo(n), with the railway to Olympia. Pity the call wasn't the week after next, when the Railtex/Infrarail exhibition is on there.

11 is most likely the same port.

Indeed.  The station was a sad sight.