The Friday Afternoon Challenge Question...on Thursday this week!

[CTyankee]

Back to Fridays next week but I'm away tomorrow...

Here's your oblique challenge:

"Well, I guess I'd rather be here than in a park somewhere..." What's going on?

[CrownPrinceBandar]

1. Wild guess.........

Ernest Hemingway.

[CTyankee]

4. Not who, but what is going on...sorry, unclear I know...

[Ken Burch]

2. John Muir?

n/t.

[mdmc]

3. Papa and Muir are good guesses

I like Muir cause of the whole park part of the OP..
:kick:R

[CTyankee]

5. Sorry, I left off part of the question here. I have restored it to the Question.

The added part is: what's going on here?

[Robb]

6. Bronze

...an older one getting cleaned anywhere? :shrug:

[CTyankee]

9. Could be bronze. Not sure.

You COULD see it...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Georges Seurat?

[CTyankee]

10. Don't think that quite fits here...this is a photo...

[RagAss]

8. The Aristocrats !

[CTyankee]

11. Doing what?

[RagAss]

12. Birds on a statue?

[foxfeet]

13. Georges Seurat painting?

[CTyankee]

14. No, not a Seurat painting. It is a photograph...looking for what is going on in the photo. nt

[CTyankee]

15. Well, here is the enlarged photo. What's going on here?

[CrownPrinceBandar]

17. delete..........

don't want to give it away. I've already had a guess.

[CTyankee]

23. PM me about what you think it is...

[CrownPrinceBandar]

36. Done.

[EFerrari]

19. Yosemite Sam? Maxim Gorky? John Muir trailing off?

lol

[CTyankee]

22. It is in a rather famous place actually...

[EFerrari]

45. I knew it wasn't Gorky because this is the back of Gorky.

Even if I never guess the answer, these are great threads!

lol

[WinkyDink]

16. It's a real person, a "living statue."

[CTyankee]

18. It really looks like it when you see it...

[WinkyDink]

20. That was my best shot!

[CTyankee]

21. Think about what it "could" be...

[Dr Morbius]

24. It's nice of you to enlarge the photo, but I wish I could have a closer look at the face.

From the long view, this statue looks a little bit familiar. I don't know why. But in the original post, a profile, it doesn't.

Does the identity of the statue have anything to do with the answer?

[CTyankee]

25. Oh, absolutely yes!

[pinboy3niner]

26. Hemingway in El Floridita bar, Havana?

[CTyankee]

27. Good guess, but no!

[TriMera]

28. It is Hemingway.

But it's the one at "his" Pamplona bar, right?

[CTyankee]

29. Can you name the bar? nt

[pinboy3niner]

30. La Closerie des Lilas?

[CTyankee]

31. Ah, no...

[TriMera]

34. "Hemingway bar"

of Café Iruña Plaza del castillo Pamplona Navarra Spain.

[CTyankee]

38. Brava, TriMera! You have won the Challenge this week!

Did you know it or Google it? I'm amazed it took so long...

A sculpture of Ernest Hemingway in the Hemingway Bar of the Cafe Iruna in Pamplona, Spain. The bar is in an old, sedate hotel on the main plaza in Pamplona. When I visited there, I was expecting a little backwater town but found it to be very affluent, the people well dressed. Not at all what I expected, but then all I had ever seen of Pamplona was that street that the bulls run down on their way to the bullring (and their deaths). I didn’t go to any bullfights when I was in Spain...

[TriMera]

39. I admit it...Google is my friend. n/t

[CTyankee]

42. I kinda figured this would happen since once you got the idea that it was Hemingway and

a statue, there were only so many so all you had to do is eliminate them one by one...

It's such a funny feeling, going into the bar and seeing this lifesize statue of Hemingway standing there...

No wonder he loved Pamplona...what a great town...

[Dr Morbius]

44. I knew he looked familiar. (nt)

[WinkyDink]

46. I, too, have been to Pamplona. And it was good. It was good, though there was death in the afternoon

[TheCentepedeShoes]

32. Looks like a European bistro

with an image of Hemingway running with the bulls

[CTyankee]

33. Well, it is actually...in a way...

[lpbk2713]

35. Another view ...

:thumbsup:

[CTyankee]

37. And this is....?

[pinboy3niner]

40. Café Iruna

[CTyankee]

41. Oh yes, but TriMera won...see above...

you were very perceptive, pinboy...great thinking and I love it...

Congrats to all...

[CTyankee]

43. CrownPrinceBandar also pm'd the correct answer to me so congrats to him

for his correct answer as well...don't know who got it first, but he deserves credit!

thanks, everybody...what a good job...

[mdmc]

47. kick

thanks for the OP

[CTyankee]

48. Thanks. I'll be back next week on the usual Friday....hope you can join the fun!