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It IS just a hole in the ground. It occurs to me I might be spoiled on this point: I grew up in Utah and I've seen all sorts of cool rocks and pretty canyons all my whole life. But from my point of view, while The Grand Canyon may be enourmous, it's still just a canyon. One of many, many canyons. I'm not going to go out of my way to praise it.
~*~The biggest disappointment was the Sphinx it is really small, however the great pyramid is amazing.~*~
The Sphinx is really small? I've never been, but I have some old photographs of guys sitting on it when it was being excavated, and the head alone is at least twice their size. I wouldn't be surprised if it's bigger than the Statue of Liberty, and that's huge. I think you're only rating it as small next to the ginourmous pyramid behind it.
On a related note, what are some things you went to see that up until that point you had always figured would be "meh"? I saw the Statue of Liberty several months ago and, I admit it, it's awesome. Before then I always thought she looked kind of stern and ugly. Must be something to do with the way the photographs work.
While we're on the subject: New York City. Big city. Yiptee. It's not that it isn't good or that there's anything especially wrong with it. I just think it's been hyped out of proportion. And the subway was hot.
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Westminster Palace (parliament building in London).
I hadn't bothered until recently when t'other half made me go look as she'd never been to London.
It was quite impressive, much more so than I had expected. It's golden 
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I was impressed by the Sphinx which is only small compared to the Pyramids - I think that when visiting Egypt it is possible to get "wonder-fatigue" - it happened to me when I visited Petra having seen the Pyramids, Valley of the Kings etc. ....it all seemed rather recent (a mere 2000 years) and rather tatty, had I gone there first I'm sure I would have found it stunning.
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Parliment is an interesting bit of Victorian high kitsch, but if you ever get the chance visit the oldest part the 900 year old Westminster Hall were Richard I, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I held their coronatrion feast and William Wallace, Thomas Moore and Charles I stood trial.
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Oh I have been to that - just when I was a lad at School - I meant as an adult. The inside I recall being quite impressive. It was the outside I always thought was a bit drab until I saw it again recently.
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It's interesting that size seems to matter in respect to wonder for some people.
Surely the sheer age and the mystery of the Sphinx is what makes it a wonder not it's size.
It's not the size of the Statue of Liberty that makes it important to Americans it is the ideals it is supposed to represent - my reaction to it was to be amused that M. Eiffel had ensured the female embodiment of the USA was a lot less attractive than Marieanne
I do not think the Grand Canyon is any less awesome if one knows it is not the biggest canyon in the world - although this seems to matter to some people.
When I went to Nepal I didn't bother taking the flight to see Everest - the Annapurnas are far more beautiful - which really seemed to puzzled some people
Who or what is Marieanne?
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She is the female embodiment of French liberty and she is a babe
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Of course the french update Marieanne every so often as taste change -she was based on Bridget Bardot for a while and I think it was suggested she was based on President Sarkozy's attractive ex-model wife....
..now if the US adopted that policy and replaced the rather matronly Statue of Liberty with a 60 foot hologram of a shining example of modern American womanhood.....
If Barack wins the election the whole world will rejoice at a 20 metre holgramatic scantilty clad Michelle Obama and if the Republicans win it would be replaced with a 60 foot high naked Barbara Bush.....
...on second thoughts the teabaggers would insist on a 20 cubit high stars and stripes bikini clad Sarah Palin clutching a bible and an assualt rifle 
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"my reaction to it was to be amused that M. Eiffel had ensured the female embodiment of the USA was a lot less attractive than Marieanne"
 
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>> You guys should have celebrated your unnecessarily
bulky TV mast while you had the chance! <<
Oh, it's still a national icon and a fun place for
base jumpers and the athletically inclined.
All 1,776 steps of it.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ne...4_2012?ref=ccbox_weather_topstories
~jwf~
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