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for me it was Uluru, or Ayres Rock. just didn't get that "wow" feeling when i saw it.
perhaps it aws the 2 hour drive from the main highway. or the fact that you drive past other big rocks and you go "is that it". or it was the fact that i had seen pictures of it every single day since i arrived in Oz.
I must admit, I thought Kata Tjuta was more impressive - I think the billions of other people buzzing round took some of the magic from it for me though. Having said that, we did the base walk and it was great.
Mini Jaffa Cakes
A most disappointing experience
Grand Canyon's pretty darn impressive.
And I remember climbing a huuuuge (250m+) sand dune in Namibia to see what looked like a mountain range of sand on the other side, that was pretty cool.
Chocolate hob knobs. I lIke digestives but like chocolate digestives even more. Thought it would be the same with chocolate hob nobs but sadly not.
alpin & pook + 1.
I much preferred Kata Tjuta as well. Kings Canyon was also good.
On the other hand I was really impressed by Sydney Harbour Bridge. Far larger than I thought.
The Pussycat bar on Patpong road.
Taj Mahal didn't really do it for me, but the Manikarnika Ghats on the banks of the Ganges at Varanasi where they cremate their dead made me go WOW!, Likewise in Himachal Pradesh, through Buntar and up the Parvati valley an entire hillside blanketed by Cannabis plants made me go WOW!, and led me to spending a happy week living wi the locals in a shack whilst hand rubbing my own charas till i had a solid lump the size of a golfball - WOW!. 😀
Time Square, seemed really small to me.....
^ Taj was the biggest let down ever, i was more impressed by the shanti town next to the Mumbai airport.
We were all canyoned out by the time we reached the grand canyon so it didn't quite have the wow factor (plus we arrived at night and overnight temps were -10 at the campsite which meant we were a bit grumpy in the morning.)
Vegas. A dump.
godzilla - that shanti town seemed to stretch right into the middle of mumbai, a very strange airport & place to fly into for your first ever time in india, and i thought the stench when you left the airport would stay with me forever, funnily enough i wasn't aware of it when i flew out 6 months later.
Arm and Hammer toothpaste
Miami &
The fairy tail castle at The Magic Kingdom, Florida; I expected an amazing labyrinth and Rapunzel throwing her hair extensions down and all I got was a shop and no way to go beyond that. V.poor.
Ps Alpin there's 11 of us for the segways... 8)
ah... ok. will ask.
Sydney Bridge, just like the quayside in Newcastle..
errmmm ... long time ago(no internet then) I was told Salford was like New York of UK until I visited that place ... it was (is) a dump.
I think my mates must be referring to its neighbour Madchester ... errmm ... or they were winding me up big time.
Fuel EX and Stumpy
New York, Miami
Finals - complete anticlimax
Thing, rather than a place: The Great North Run.
Thoroughly rubbish waste of an entry fee.
Santa Cruz Heckler!
Big Ben it's very small!!
Turkey (the festive foodstuff).....it's just crap isn't it really!!!
The Sphynx #meh!
But the Pyramids were just awesome!!! Couldn't believe how huge they were!
ir_bandito - MemberThing, rather than a place: The Great North Run.
Yes! Agree. That is one most over hyped pile of cat poo. Try listen to the over hyped local commentator ... I mean ffs ... talking about trying to hype up his job and profile.
Pyramids - meh
Venice - meh
London (any of it) - meh
Los Angeles - glamorous my ar*e!
Daily Mail articles - don't believe a word of 'em
Jordan's t*ts....
Ayers Rock & Vegas were my 2 biggest dissapointments on a recent wow trip.
The rock is just that & Vegas was a larger, brasher version of Wind St in Swansea with gaudier bars, over the top architecture & people on the street handing out flyers for t!tty shows & ladies of ill repute.
Having kids.
Getting married.
Google Nexus 7.
Squeezy Marmite.
SRAM drivetrains.
Venice is awful. Smells terrible in summer, cramped, tatty.
Paris. It's noisy, smelly, full, massive and simply the most unromantic place I could think of. The outskirts are much nicer than the centre.
I don't much like cities to be honest so London, Rome (which is OK) and New York (which is quite interesting) don't feature high on my list. I'm glad I've been to all these places though.
Nice city? Florence (when there's no dustbin men strike on), absolutely stunning.
Although Hong Kong was very, very interesting. I quite liked it there.
Statue Of Liberty... its not that big
Times Square, small and surprisingly, not square
Disney World Florida, too many fat people on disability scooters who are too lazy to walk.
Just reviewed the above... there may be a theme....
Ti456
An inbred.
New York.
Times Square - A road junction
Argentine Military Musuem, Buenes Aires - Two wars, is that it
Dubai - Vegas without the gambling
Oh, Stringfellows. Expensive and not particularly entertaining although a lady did appear to be strangely interested in me. Now while I'm obviously like, well sexy, I still find it a point of note when a lady who is apparently excessively keen on me, suggests we go back to my place right now. Alarm bells and that.
Sailing cross Atlantic - the sailing is incredibly boring although the nightsky was unreal.
Caramel Digestives.
I say wow to those that say NYC didn't make them go wow.
Keeping to the US theme; LA had its moments (e.g. the beaches and Beverly Hills) but I seem to have missed whatever people like about Boston.
Picasso's Guernica, didn't make go wow. It made me go WOW WOW WOW.
Central Iceland just blew my socks off. WOOOOOOOOOWWWWWYYYYYYY!!!!!
The Mona Lisa. It's chuffin' tiny! It's a dark, gloomy picture kept in a dark, gloomy room, and if you want to see it up close you have to slowly elbow your way through a crowd of sweaty tourists (yeah, yeah, I know, I [i]am[/i] the problem). Rubbish.
Old Boy. Weak.
The bill at The Plateau Restaurant in That Lundun..
The Millenium.
I drove rode past Grand Canyon, after several months of other beautiful rocks (delicate arch etc) I just couldn't muster the enthusiasm.
Chinese food in England.
29ers (runs away).
Paris - don't like it. It is disfunctional and the people are a PITA
French food - it's a bit over rated really
Vienna - the outskirts are like a 18th Century version of Bladerunner.
Anfield - small , cramped and rubbish seats. And full of scousers
San Fransico - slightly threatening to say the least
Las Vegas - probably just about everything that is wrong with the US rolled into one.
Cadwell Park - maybe because it spat me off !
Lobster - sweet , chewy and full of nothingness
Rose cooked duck
The Life of Pi
Full suspension mountain bikes
Riding with flat pedals
Vancouver - voted best place to live in the world they said.
Dull, full of Winos and Weirdos
Vancouver was a bit dull. Whistler was a huge improvement 🙂 Nicer fast food in Van though, Fritz Fry House for poutine!
LA
Miami
the usual stuff
But I've also seen Mount Rushmore which is massively underwhelming, and extremely expensive to get in too.