by Joel Aufrecht 07:57 AM, 19 Aug 2010

This is a tricky one, of course, since it's a night shot and the flag is almost completely invisible. So, a few hints: It's a big embassy. It's the biggest foreign embassy of the country, although that's probably true for most DC embassies. The building in view is the ambassador's residence; before that, it was the chancery for the half of the 20th century. This country is a NATO member. After taking the picture, I continued down the sidewalk with Kona, and we were nearly run over by a big black Lincoln or Cadillac pulling into the driveway, with diplomatic license plate DDJ0001 and a driver who was not looking for any pedestrians.
by Joel Aufrecht 01:04 PM, 14 Aug 2010
I've updated the master map showing where Kona and I have walked. Obviously there are some streets we'll need to attend to.

Much progress on the embassy front:

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This one took four tries over many months.

This one is a bonus challenge, although it doesn't count towards the KCC.

by Joel Aufrecht 01:16 PM, 11 Jul 2010
by Joel Aufrecht 10:39 PM, 07 Jun 2010
The gPhone doesn't take great night photos. This is what the Syrian embassy looks like at night, after image processing:

But you should be able to guess this one:

the answer. Update: This was a repeat. Kona's Country Club holds steady at 23 members (plus the US and Singapore).
by Joel Aufrecht 01:45 PM, 09 May 2010

All of the EU embassies in DC had an open house yesterday. The flier had room for seven embassy stamps, which I took as a challenge. The first nine embassies I went to were all a few miles from my apartment, further than Kona and I normally roam. It was nice to see the interiors of these places, but not terribly revealing since they all have intentionally public spaces where they host parties and whatnot. The lines started getting out of hand, especially for the shuttle buses, but the weather was decent. After finishing two distant legs, I came home around 3, got Kona, and went for the local embassies with time running out. Stamps only, this time, didn't want to leave Kona outside for too long.

Alas, Estonia wasn't doing any stamping, and the person doing stamping at Bulgaria had already packed up. The lines at Ireland and Greece were prohibitive. Luxembourg and Cyprus were quick operations, in and stamp and out. Portugal had already stopped admitting visitors, but the nice man went in and got me my twelfth and final stamp.

The final tally was Denmark, Italy, the UK, Finland (nicest embassy), Belgium (awful crowd control), Slovakia, Austria, Czech, Hungary, Cyprus, Luxembourg, and Portugal.

This morning Kona and I went out and visited Bulgaria again to express our dismay about the stamping situation. (We did Estonia months ago.) Below are flags from several countries Kona has visited recently, including this morning's walk. Can you guess the countries?

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by Joel Aufrecht 04:44 PM, 21 Mar 2010

Which country?

Which country?

Which country?

Which country? This one's pretty tough with the nighttime lighting, so here's a hint: the picture was taken at 38° 54' 45.78" N latitude.

Which country?

by Joel Aufrecht 03:02 PM, 01 Feb 2010
Whose flag is this?

Answer

by Joel Aufrecht 04:43 PM, 29 Dec 2009
What country is this?

The answer is here.

And this one?

Answer is here.

by Joel Aufrecht 05:01 PM, 17 Dec 2009
Which embassy is this?

The answer is here.
by Joel Aufrecht 03:41 PM, 08 Nov 2009

What country is this?
by Joel Aufrecht 09:39 PM, 03 Oct 2009

The flag belongs to this country.

by Joel Aufrecht 07:08 PM, 02 Oct 2009
We visited the embassy with this symbol (the flag is basically the same):

http://aufrecht.org/pictures/photo?photo_id=1338135

which belonged to this country. And we visited an embassy under this flag:

which was this country.
by Joel Aufrecht 08:51 AM, 19 Sep 2009

Kona hit a trifecta on our walk this morning. I've included a map to help you.

Here's the flag of the first country she went on.

The second:

And the third.

by Joel Aufrecht 10:50 PM, 12 Sep 2009

We went for our night walk.

There were too many embassies to visit them all; maybe fifteen or more in a mile plus. At one point we passed Myanmar, Lao, and Ireland in 4 buildings. We conducted some business at this one. Which country is it?

The answer is here.

by Joel Aufrecht 07:19 PM, 12 Sep 2009

Our neighbor in Half Moon Bay tended to put up a different flag every few days, anything from India to Arizona to the Subcarpathian Voivodship.

Here in the heart of DC, there are so many embassies that I can't take a picture of every flag I pass. Instead, I'll be photographing only the flags of countries that Kona has been on, if you catch my meaning. For our purposes of pooch piddling, the front lawn of each embassy will be treated as national territory. So far in her life, Kona has been on the US, Singapore, and possibly Japan—we don't know if they walked her during her two stops as luggage. Today, she was on the country with this flag:

Can you guess the country? It's not so easy as Half Moon Bay; the embassy flagpoles don't face the Pacific Ocean and its gentle breezes. The answer is here.

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