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.
