What’s the most famous place you’ve been to?

I never had much inclination to go to Oz either, until I went there, and wondered why I’d left it so long

 

My travel plans include...
The kitchen, the spare bedroom and if I get time the downstairs toilet.

 

Lots of sightseeing near places near where I have worked. Mount Rainier, Gateway Arch, Golden Gate Bridge, some fabulous little towns and villages where the real folk lived in the US; I enjoyed the people more than the sights. Here's the Arch, a lesser known but very interesting US landmark, it's quite scary at the top, knowing there's nothing underneath you. Chicago University is very impressive as in the nearby Museum of Science and Industry; it houses a real life U-Boat, that's something to see.




Personal trips include, Lisbon and Toledo, the later is just amazing. Oh, I spent sometime in the telecoms deregulation boom working in Madrid, but didn't see much apart from some nice hotels! Same goes for Barcelona, Vienna, Leuven and Paris. Work used to be a lot of fun, till airports took their toll.

 

New York
Boston
New Orleans
Vienna
Stone henge
PO Tower when it was open to the public

 

Seen Angkor What,
Himalayas, Indian jungle.
World trade center
(went to viewing gallery 118th floor) statue liberty.
Leaning tower Pisa, rome(it's old buildings)
Sacra Familia, Barcelona.
Stonehenge.

 

A list of places is not that interesting to me, more about the experiences in each and who you were with. Been to a few countries and the Isle of Wight.

 

We have "done" many of those places already mentioned - Eiffel Tower , World Trade centre, Tower of Pisa etc - but the place that we were most excited about was Ushuaia in S. America - the most southern city in the world.

 

How do you get to the top of that, I imagine it’s a lift of some description?

 

Opposite James Browns rehearsal rooms eating fried okra in Macon, Georgia and a very eery unintentional trip to the Twin Towers a couple of weeks after 9/11, it was still smouldering.

 

Just watched the video on YouTube.
Impressive

 

Petronos Towers Kuala Lumpur. Leaning tower Pisa etc etc etc. But highlights were :

Driving through desert in the dark to meet sunrise at Abu Simbel in Egypt. Plus sunset in Argyl in Scotland in Crinan - looking over to Jura, red sky and reflected red sea- felt further away than other side of the world

 

More like the inside of a large washing machine drum than a lift.

 

Been to Pompeii and Heraclium . Rome Pisa, Panama Canal . .
Xian for the terra-cotta soldiers . It’s a 34 hour or so train ride from Beijing. Horrible coal producing town and that was 25 years ago. Can’t imagine what it is like now,,,You get sick just walking around. At least in Pompeii the rocks were once people.! One of the coolest things is mt bromo in Java .Indonesia. , ciudad de pedida . Colombia . I’ll stop here

I’m so happy that I traveled in my mid-20s and early 30s in the 90s , The Internet was just a baby , you needed a guidebook. When you said goodbye to somebody normally it was goodbye, beach huts in Thailand We’re still beach Huts not huge hotels in the same place.10 years before. And the road ahead was more of a mystery. Not a destination.

 

Exploring the Philippines in 1992 with just a copy of Lonely Planet........

Mrs P managed one expensive satellite phone call to her parents - waking them up in the middle of the night was bad enough, but they also had no idea we were going there......

Most famous location being Smokey Mountain on the way back to Manila to try to find a KFC as I had food poisoning and was desperate for some fuel. Had to walk away as some poor sod was working in an open sewage chamber directly in front of the main entrance.

 

I’ve been to Greggs.

And Bognor Regis.

 

Yep, WTC pretty boting. Just...tall.

 

Have you been to Thetford?