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

Occurred to me I’ve not really been anywhere really famous, other than mooching around UK city centers for work.

Anyone been to the top of the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, Empire State Building, Sydney Harbour Bridge etc?

These are examples that spring to mind - not an exhaustive list.

Where did you visit, when, what was it like?

 

What about the Equator does that count.. yes I'm driving a defender but my T shirt has a Bus

 

Done the Empire State at dusk in pre-911 days. Brilliant, great view of Manhatten and the Hudson and East rivers. Best thing was the art-deco-ness of it. Love 30s stuff. Did the Statue of Liberty as well, when you could go up into her crown.

Done the Eiffel tower - boring. It’s just a big lump of iron. I’ll sell it for scrap.

 

Did you check out the Chrysler building - that's supposed to be a marvel of Art Deco?

 

It is - it’s a gorgeous piece of art deco-ness. Couldn’t go up it when we were there, as it’s a working building.

Been to Neuschwanstein a couple of times. And (slightly less positive) in the eighties used to drive past Dachau concentration camp on the way to work every morning

 

All of those . Plus anchor whot . Pyramids. Acropolis. Knosis , sophia , Fjords of Norway . Gran canyon . Volcanos etc . Your Stonehenge . Michu pichu. Himalaya .Mt Fuji Etc.
What I learned was the people where more interesting than a bunch of rocks.
Here’s me the wall .95.... rocks

 

I have to agree with you @dubsurftones I've been many interesing and some not so interesting places but I mostly miss sitting in a field taking rubbish with friends

 

Does inside Buckingham Palace count? Or maybe Anne Frank’s house Amsterdam? Or Stonehenge? Or Camp Nou Barcelona?
Mrs ST has been to a fancy do at the foreign & commonwealth office in Whitehall

 

I’ve never been to Barnsley

 

When I was a postman back in the 70s at Victoria Street office SW1, I can still remember my delivery which I did every day, for 4 years

Foreign and commonwealth office
11 Downing St
10 Downing ( in those days we used to park outside and many a time I could be seen going in on the BBC /itv news when they filmed outside)
Cabinet office
War office
Welsh office
Scotch office
Horse guards
Ministry of defence
Admiralty Arch
1 spring gardens
10 spring gardens
Ive also been to the house of commons post office
Buckingham palace post office
Chequers
Windsor castle post office
So yes I've been to a few

 

Hi Rich can't you sleep either

 

I’m an insomniac, mate. Should nod off by about 4am...

 

I've worked at 1 and 10 Victoria Street and a couple of others near there - was the PO on the actual road?

I once worked with the company that stored all the Coal Mining paper records for the Government. In the office near Stafford, they kept some ledgers and books that were too big to be scanned to digital, we've talking things like the ledger of who was down the pit at a particular time, so these huge books, decades old weighing a good 8 or 9 stone each, each handwritten.

They also had a couple of books on pit accidents and the inquests. One was written in 1876 (I think, it was the same year as Custers Last Stand) from an accident in a Welsh pit - the inquest was heard at 1 Victoria Street, where I was working 133 years later. It was extremely well written, and had a gravitas deserving of the accident that claimed lives.

I was hoping they might have had my families records - my grandad and his brothers were miners and Bevin boys - but apparently in many Welsh pits all those sort of docs were simply thrown down the shaft before it was sealed, I assume 100's of years of information at some pits


I thought the Welsh Office was in Cardiff - was there one in London too then?

 

Po was in Howick place behind the army and navy store
Welsh office was on Whitehall which is now the cabinet office

 

How did you used to travel in to work Baz?

I can imagine you with a mop of flaxen hair, Elvis chops and flairs on the tube.....

 

Started there in 1976 used to drive my old cortina and park on Francis st, our po vans were on horseferry road near the magistrate court

 

Walked across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Went to Buckingham Palace with my mother for her to receive my fathers posthumous OBE for services to disabled sailing.

 

I've camped in Eddies field, I'm told that legends are made there.........................

 

Did the Empire State and World Trade Centre back in the late 80s, much preferred the Empire State, the Twin Towers were just ridiculously tall and fairly unattractive tbh.

 

Empire State, evening. Top of the Rock, daytime. Ground Zero, quite moving. Las Vegas, dinner in the Belagio. Grand Canyon, with helicopter flight. Valley of the Kings, inside Tutankhamen’s tomb. Valley of the Queens. Cairo Museum, King Tut’s treasure room. Paid the guard baksheesh to allow taking pictures. Pyramids, went inside two of them. The Sphinx. Abu Simbel. Karnak Temple. Luxor Temple. Houses of Parliament, including both chambers. Buckingham Palace Garden Party and the Jubilee Concert. Phuket.

Places I’d like to go include, Rome, the Colosseum. Pisa, the leaning Tower. Pompeii. Herculaneum. Paris. China, Terracotta Army, Great Wall.

Places I’ve never wanted to go. Australia. India.

Edit. Kissed the Blarney Stone