Overrated landmarks.

[doctordb]

what places in the world left you thinking 'is that it?'

For me it was Stonehenge and Edinburgh.

[doctordb]

Annie, Edinburgh doesn't come close to most english towns and villages. ;-)

[bookbinder]

Vienna. All the buildings were black! Just like Bradford was just after the war. Vienna could do with a good wash.

[jd_here]

Second visit to Las Vegas.

The first wowed us so much we just had to go back.....big mistake, we should have lived with our memories.

[zebo]

The White House, we walked past it twice before we realised that was it, used the Buck House scale. The East Room even caused Americans to comment on the smallness back in the days you could queue for tickets to visit.
Also, the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, very, very small.

[annie0000]

Errrm doctorb, I have been to englandshire, it ain't all that! seriously, what are you putting up in competition? Stoke, Derby, Brum, Manchester??? lol

[DaisyNonna]

London

[Ann]

Barbados - one big over-rated disappointment - thought it was going to be Paradise ....... but the Greek Islands are far better.

[deggers316]

for me "DONCASTER"

[spudqueen]

Aberdeen on Hong Kong island. One of our guide books even put it number one of their top ten places to see in Hong Kong. It was a stinking sh*t hole.

[HowardKennitby]

//The Acropolis.............it was all scaffolding and the site was full of hawkers selling cheap tat. //

Sounds like Edinburgh!

[Eve]

I quite liked Vienna. I wasn't quite as wow'd at the top of the Empire State Building as I thought I'd be. Wall Street was a lot smaller than I thought it'd too too.

Similarly as amazing as Niagara Falls are I imagined to be different somehow (and bigger), always imagined them as in the middle of nowhere but it's a bit Blackpool :)

[annie0000]

Oi Howard, don't you start!!!

[excelsior-1]

went to brussells on a worls outing thirty years ago. the atomium was impressive, then i went to see le mannekin-p*ss.

imagine my dismay when i saw that it was only about two feet tall - standing on a five foot pedestal

[rosyposy]

Niagra Falls, don't know why but I expected to be looking UP at them and was quite disappointed when you had to look down. The town was disgusting too. Try watching 'An Idiot Abroad' for a different (honest?) slant on the Wonders of the World - hilarious - rosy

[Pears]

The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. It is an old cracked bell that can't even be rung. From its name I had imagined it being rung to save the city when the enemy were coming (like the sacred geese saving the besieged Romans). Apparently it was rung to summon people to hear the Declaration of Independence (or was it the constitution). Sorry, I'm sure every American school child knows about it. I seem to remember also that the bell was cast in Whitechapel, London.

[237SJ]

The lion-mermaid thingy in Singapore harbour. It`s tiny.

[MarkRae]

I'm not sure I'd call Seahouses a "landmark"... :-)

[MarkRae]

Didn't you go into the hillside behind the falls, rosyposy? That was amazing. You're literally two metres away from the water with just an iron rail for "protection".

[dsimiller]

Stratford-upon-Avon.Nice enough town,but so,so,boring.I dont dislike Shakespeare,but my interest flagged after about half an hour.Complete waste of a day.

[nabob]

The Little Mermaid Copenhagen but I suppose the clue was in the title!!!