Memorable Places

[rabet]

Are there places that have amazed or moved you, unexpectedly perhaps?

Some of mine:

Culloden: haunting

The new Coventry Cathedral: having lived from birth amid mediaeval churches and a wonderful Norman cathedral I thought I would hate it. It moved me to tears.

Venice: on my first visit, coming out of a narrow waterway (in a water taxi from the airport) into the Grand Canal just by the Rialto ~ magical!

[Baldric]

"Chipping Sodbury"

[rabet]

Baldric, I usually enjoy your contributions: but not this time.

[Buenchico]

The Pinnacles. Nambung National Park, Western Australia:
http://www.australia.com/content/australia/en/places/wa/wa-pinnacles-nambung-national-park/jcr:content/hero/image.adapt.1663.medium.jpg

Tynemouth Priory:
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/remote/www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/properties/tynemouth-priory-and-castle/gallery-for-tynemouth-priory-and-castle/galleryj9207691.jpg?w=1144&mode=none&scale=downscale&quality=60&anchor=

[wolf63]

Years ago my mum took us around the Blackwatch museum in Perth. I am not an emotional person but there was something about all the photographs of the young guys who died in the first world war. It was thought provoking.

[Buenchico]

Surprise View, on the edge of Sheffield:
http://www8.clikpic.com/andychubb/images/surprise_view.jpg

[rabet]

Thanks for those links, Baldric; apologies if I seemed unduly abrasive.

[Captain2]

It took six different modes of transport to get there from Tokyo but boy was it worth it.

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/mt-fuji?sort=mostpopular&excludenudity=true&mediatype=photography&phrase=mt%20fuji

[EcclesCake]

Oh I don't know, Baldrics post reminded me of a good friend who lived in *** Chipbury.

[rabet]

Know it well. I live near Sheffield.

[Baldric]

///Thanks for those links, Baldric///

Er, I haven't posted a link.

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[rabet]

Those are wonderful, Captain; I love those with the swans.

[Georgiesmum]

The Grand Canyon
Views from the top of the Eiffel tower,
Views from the top of the Empire State Building
Niagara Falls..
The Leaning Tower of Pisa..

[vulcan42]

Stepping off the plane in Hawaii and smelling the scent of flowers wafting in the breeze, totally unexpected at a busy airport.

[rabet]

Bloody Portuguese red! Sorry, Baldric. I should have been thanking Buenchico.

[rockyracoon]

Sagrada Familia. I didn't anticipate how beautiful it would be inside, it took my breath away.

[Jackdaw33]

Did you know that some of the most highly paid workers in France are the lift boys in the Eiffel Tower? Last I heard it was £30,000 p.a. and that was over twenty years ago!

[bhg481]

Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria; one of the Nazi death camps. Still an unbelievably strange atmosphere about the place 70 years on.

[rabet]

Wow! Where do I apply?

[Georgiesmum]

Go and see the Venetian Hotel in Vegas and have a gondola ride. It will make your jaw drop. You will think you are in Venice. It even has a false but realistic sky!

[rabet]

Woops! Not for Mauthausen, obviously!