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

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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.

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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!
 
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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........
 
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.
 

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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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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
 
Saranda Albania just a few years after communism ended.

It was jaw dropping, but on a slightly different level to the above posts.
 
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
 
Rome is amazing but for me it's the pyramids. The sheer scale of them is jaw dropping.
 
The road through Glencoe in the highlands ain't bad either.
 
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