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| Clawdia |
on Fri 9 Apr 10, 11:49 PM to Clawdia's blog.
I was browsing the web in a bored moment and came across these 100 Wonders to see before you die and thought it would be interesting to see how many of these folks have seen.
I've seen/visited 22, so lots of room for improvement and plenty more travel... will start booking my next holiday I think 
So how many have you seen? Which would you recommend as mind-blowingly amazing? Any on here to avoid? Reasons?
Edited Fri 9 Apr 10, 11:59 PM by Clawdia
| 10 Apr 10, 12:22 AM clare 11 yrs |
All of them. Where is the wonder in a heaving packaged hotspot. Regards curmudgeon corner | |
| 10 Apr 10, 12:32 AM Grownup_Frankie UK, 4 yrs |
The list is not only banal but its also plain wrong! Laughable! Where's my wife? Eh? She should be top of the list. ...*mutters*...Calls itself a list... | |
| 10 Apr 10, 3:15 AM Jinxxy UK, 4 yrs |
I'm disappointed in myself...a mere 17 is my count. I love looking at these kind of lists and thinking about all the wonderful places I've still to visit. J Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away. | |
| 10 Apr 10, 3:19 AM Conan_The_Librarian UK(S), 3 yrs |
How much of the Sahara do you have to see before you can tick it off the list? I understand that although it is pretty big it is also quite 'samey'. If you've been to see the pyramids of Egypt then surely you have also seen the Sahara unless you have to see lots of the Sahara in order to qualify as having seen the Sahara and thus entitling you to cross no. 73 off the list. Also the pyramids are rubbish as they are nothing more than very big piles of stones and none of them had any rooms in them where the roof comes down and crushes you or pits filled with spikes that you fall in or holes in the walls that fire darts at you. It's all a bloody swizz. I also note that Wigan Pier appears nowhere on the list despite me once getting a blow job there whilst eating a pie, watching a duck in the canal and wondering what George Orwell would have made of the scene. Dum-diddy-dum-diddy-dum-diddy-VEGETABLE GARDEN! Dum-diddy-dum-diddy-dumdumdum-dum-diddy-dumdum-CORN ! | |
| 10 Apr 10, 9:51 AM passion8 UK(SW), 3 yrs |
Interestingly I seem to have visited more of the unusual ones than the more obvious European tourist hotpsots listed. I count 24 that I've visited. I tend to measure these things by the Wow factor. That sense of jaw dropping beauty that remains a memory for life. One of the highest on my list - but not on the linked one - would be the stunningly beautiful icefield parkway in Canadian British Columbia through the glacial Rockies. The context also helps; I was driving a Ford Mustang with the roof down and the snowy peaks towered above as each bend brought a new Wow. Snowy peaks seem to do it for me; Mount Cook in New Zealand isn't listed but I would endorse Yellowstone NP which was stunning and fortunately not obsessed with Yogi bear - the show was bigger here than in the States. Edited to correct peculiar typo: "draw dropping beauty" oops. This is not just any scene, This is an S&M scene xx Edited 11 Apr 10, 4:25 PM by passion8 | |
| 10 Apr 10, 1:59 PM Plein_Soleil UK(NP), 2 yrs |
I found Bali a disappointment . All hype . Not exactly a slum in the tropics but getting that way . Try the view of Vienna from the Belvedere Palace . And then nip inside the palace and see all the Klimts . " Yeah . Well I love my cigar but I take it out once in a while " Groucho Marx | |
| 12 Apr 10, 5:28 PM DancesWithPussycats UK(TW), 7 yrs |
International man of mystery | |
| 12 Apr 10, 6:22 PM Plein_Soleil UK(NP), 2 yrs |
According to the Belvedere website they are still there , together with works by Schiele and Kokoschka . After the Belvedere I would advise going to one of the great cafes of Vienna for some coffee , cake and people watching . The Sahara Desert ? Do me a favour ! " Yeah . Well I love my cigar but I take it out once in a while " Groucho Marx | |
| 13 Apr 10, 2:18 PM DancesWithPussycats UK(TW), 7 yrs |
Also go to the park (Stadtpark?) where people waltz under the trees to the orchestra playing outside the adjacent hotel, while peacocks walk among them. International man of mystery | |
| 14 Apr 10, 12:46 AM Plein_Soleil UK(NP), 2 yrs |
Oh yes . Thanks for the tip . Change of cities . Paris . I'm ambivalent about Paris BUT I would recommend Le Train Bleu restaurant at Gare de Lyon . A jewel of the Belle Epoque . " Yeah . Well I love my cigar but I take it out once in a while " Groucho Marx |
