Amazing things I've seen.

[Roger Kettle]

I've been very fortunate in life and have seen some amazing and memorable things. I'm going to list a few and hope that some of you contribute your own memories.
The Eiffel Tower.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa.
The Statue of Liberty.
Mount Rushmore.
The Copenhagen Mermaid.
Stonehenge.
The Devil's Tower, Wyoming.
Whales breaching off New England.
Salmon leaping in the Highlands.
The Peepmaster buying a drink.
Take it away, folks....

[Mince]

Are you allowed to include things from your dreams?

[Vulture]

The only thing from your list that I've seen is Stonehenge.
I have seen (and been up/under/on):
The CN Tower.
Niagra Falls.
Ferry Across the Mersey.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

We did the Mersey Ferry a couple of weeks ago, Vult, on a damp and cloudy Saturday afternoon. It was perfect! I swear I could hear Gerry Marsden's haunting tones singing along with me...then I realised they were playing it through the tannoy.

I've not yet seen Stonehenge, but I've often taken friends to see the ancient stone circle in Aviemore. It's a collection of very small rocks in the middle of a tiny housing estate. You need to drive to the end of a cul-de-sac to see it - the locals laugh out of their windows as you turn your car around to escape the disappointment. It's quite humiliating the first time, but I make a point of always looking totally gob-smacked and delighted, as if I'd just seen Stonehenge.

I've seen dolphins in the Moray Firth, and Peepsie bought me a drink too. It was coffee, but he definitely paid!

[Malc]

I've seen Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge, and of the two, the Bridge is the real standout, especially at night when it is fully lit and seagulls still swarm around it, the light reflecting off them. The Opera House is a lot smaller than you expect.

I've seen whales breaching as they migrate to their breeding grounds past Wellington Point, I've watched my kids feed wild dolphins by hand, I've seen kangaroos (umpteen times),  bounding across the road as I drive, I've seen koalas running like dogs across a playing field, I've seen my driveway infested by a hundred cane toads (the next door neighbour used them as golf balls), I've been up the Eiffel Tower.
When I was a kid in Larkhill, Wiltshire when you could walk to Stonehenge and around it, unhindered and unsupervised, sitting on the stones or kicking a football, with no-one else there.

I've seen AC-DC live, and met them backstage, er....I'll think of some more later.

[Vulture]

If were talking about people as well...

I've seen The Beatles when they were at the Cavern.
Billy Joel        )
Neil Diamond  )  at Wembley.
Rod Stewart  )
Roy Rogers and Trigger.

 

[Elizabeth]

I saw Eleanor Rigby's grave in Liverpool last Sunday, and on the same day read that the song wasn't actually based on her at all.   :'(

[Vulture]

I saw Eleanor Rigby's grave in Liverpool last Sunday, and on the same day read that the song wasn't actually based on her at all.   :'(

In modern parlance - what a bummer!

[The Peepmaster]

I bought drinks? When? How dare you tarnish my reputation.

I've seen otters on this island about 4 times. I frequently see seals from my front window. We have circles on this island too - mainly round my eyes on a Sunday morning.

I've see dolphins swimming with the ferry to the Hebrides.

I saw Wolves play a friendly with Dundee once.

I've seen roof tops sticking out of the ground near Mount Pinatubo on Luzon in The Philippines, and traveled on a road in the ground that used to be a flyover before the eruption in 1991.

I saw Wolves win the play-off final at the Millennium Stadium.

[Colin]

I've also seen Niagara Falls.
The Berlin Wall.
Checkpoint Charlie.
Spandau Prison (where Hess was).
A scud missile being launched.
James McFadden & Stephen Hendry.

[peter]

I have met Barbara Windsor
Nora Battey's husband
Mersey beats
Billy Fury
The Shadows
Helen Shapiro
Frank Ifield
Alma Cogan
Avebruy
Stonehenge
Lulworth cove
The needles
Lands end befor you had to pay
John a Groats
Cheder Gorge
the Butter Tubs
Glen Coe

and hundreds more I forget through age
I have not seen Wolves win anything

[Calypso]

The Grand Canyon

Chichen Itza (before the jungle was scaled way back and the place became a sideshow attraction)

New Orleans (before it was devastated)

The White House (before the current idiot-in-residence)

The US Capitol

The Washington Monument

The Lincoln Memorial

The Smithsonian

Pearl Harbor

Alcatraz

Las Vegas (it was a sideshow, but when has it not been?)

The Sears Tower

The St. Louis Arch

SouthFork (from the old "Dallas" TV show -- ah, the guests of mine who wanted to see that place and were disappointed.)

The "Wild West"

The Petrified Forest

The Painted Desert

Pueblo Villages

The Rocky Mountains

The Smoky Mountains

[Malc]

Not the Big Rock Candy Mountains?

[Calypso]

No, I must put that one on my list.   

[Roger Kettle]

Calypso, it sounds like you've had some wonderful trips around The States. I'm envious. I've only seen the Rockies from a distance---must get in among them one day.