The most jaw-dropping place you've ever seen...

[Brigadier]

Following on from the "Post any old song...." thread, I thought this might bring some pleasant content to GD.

For me, Sagrada Familia......





Visited Barcelona three or so years ago with the family.
Did the Nou Camp / Camp Nou tour (kids are keen footballers), then missus said, "Where next?"

Completely winging it, we went back into the Metro, where I said that I'd always fancied seeing SF. So, we found the line, and went.

Emerging from the Metro station steps, I saw the park first. For a second, I thought we were in the wrong place. Then, the missus said "Is that it?"

I turned around, and looked upwards in wonder.

My 9 yr-old just said, "That is the most spectacular thing I've ever seen in my life" (I'll never forget his words, as I thought they were perfect, and also very adult!)
In contrast, I couldn't reply, as my eyes welled up at the sheer beauty of it all.

 

[conny]

Certainly beats the concrete and glass edifices that seem to be springing up everywhere.

 

[Mottie]

It does look spectacular. We've got visit to Barcelona booked in early July for our wedding anniversary. I've seen the SF once before but that was just a quick drive past on a tourist bus as we stopped in Barcelona for the day on a Med cruise. My wife has been up it with her friends many years ago. Going to have a proper look at it this time and hopefully we will be going up to the top or as near as dammit!

 

[crystal ball]

Maybe not the most spectacular, but because I had not heard much about it is Great Zimbabwe, and we were the only visitors at the time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe

 

[Brigadier]

It does look spectacular. We've got visit to Barcelona booked in early July for our wedding anniversary. I've seen the SF once before but that was just a quick drive past on a tourist bus as we stopped in Barcelona for the day on a Med cruise. My wife has been up it with her friends many years ago. Going to have a proper look at it this time and hopefully we will be going up to the top or as near as dammit!

My recommendation Mottie, is to go via the Metro; emerging (almost) at the foot of the church and being overwhelmed by its magnificence will stay with me for the rest of my days........

 

[motorbiking]

For me you can't beat a bit of summer night sailing when the sun has just gone down and everything has a glow to it. Or surrounded by mountains and islands, or a little bay.

 

[durhamplumber]

For me.no contest.The Grand Canyon.

 

[Ian H]

I think Rome and Venice are the best places I’ve been for amazing buildings but I also like a bit of natural beauty like the Lake District.

 

[Furniture Restorer]

Of the places I’ve been then I’d have to go with this...

Man made: the Taj Mahal (closely followed by the pyramids at Giza)
Natural: the Grand Canyon

 

[Notch7]

Saranda Albania just a few years after communism ended.

It was jaw dropping, but on a slightly different level to the above posts.

 

[crystal ball]

Of the places I’ve been then I’d have to go with this...

Man made: the Taj Mahal (closely followed by the pyramids at Giza)
Natural: the Grand Canyon

I remember my first sight of a pyramid, we arrived at our hotel at night, I knew it was close to the pyramids, walking across the grounds to breakfast my wife said ooh look a pyramid, I said where, we were that close it filled the sky

 

[Dangee]

Rome is amazing but for me it's the pyramids. The sheer scale of them is jaw dropping.

 

[conny]

I think Rome and Venice are the best places I’ve been for amazing buildings but I also like a bit of natural beauty like the Lake District.

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The Lake District, and many other natural scenes, win it for me.

 

[Dangee]

The road through Glencoe in the highlands ain't bad either.

 

[Mottie]

@Ian H, is that your wife following you up with the tea and sarnies?