Your First Wow! Factor

[coccinelle]

When was the first time you said WOW! I'm here in.......
Mine was in Sydney. I just couldn't believe it! I'd seen the Opera house and bridge as well as lots of things to see in Australia in photos but when I saw for myself the Opera House in front of me I cried just cos they were there in front of me.

[jakep]

Actually did stand outside on the roof of world trade centre. One Wow. Also first sight of steam coming thru road in NY. Wow we're here.

[vodkancoke]

The steam got me too jakep....I took so many pics on my first trip of these smoking man-hole covers! Lol

[coccinelle]

hey Daisy that's true; that's what I find hard now being on my own. It's that every day; hey can you see that? look at that! do you know what I saw today today? etc then the sitting at the table on a nightime and going over the day... we don't appreciate it until the day we don't have it anymore.... Hope you get to see it as I hope to one day too.

[Eve]

Weirdly I never seemed to notice them in New York though I was in a permanent state of giddiness throughout the trip.

[coccinelle]

Sharingan; I'm going to sound ignrant but there again my memory might have failed me but what's New Grange???!! Sorry ;-)

[vulcan42]

coccinelle, sorry have only just returned to this thread. Yes I saw the bombs explode, I was in the RAF and was sent to the middle of the Pacific, 1000 miles south of Hawaii [that was another wow factor] to what was then Christmas Island. The American wanted to carry out their tests and "borrowed" C I for 8 months, the first bomb was quite small by atomic bomb standards but each one got bigger and the final few were huge. The first one was quite scary as we didn't know what to expect but we gradually got used to them, they were an awesome sight.

[craft1948]

Cruising to the Bosphorus and seeing Istanbul in all it's glory from the top deck of the ship........

[Jeza]

At age 28, Mic walked in to the pub. I didn't know him but new I would marry him one day. I was married at the time, fortunately he felt the same way. I have often asked my self, was it love or lust at first sight. I think it was both.

[Sharingan]

New Grange is as Stone Age Tomb in Ireland. My father and I visited it on Yule and waited for the sun to come up which it actually did so we were lucky, and it lights up the interior of the tomb via a sort of skylight it has. It's actually a very clever and very accurate clock and it predates Stonehenge by a couple of thousand years. It really blew me away. It's quite commercial sadly, they have as visitors centre and so on but it's still a really strong place to visit.

[coccinelle]

Crikey vulcan; that's some WOW!
Like the other posts too.

[coccinelle]

Sharingan, I'll look into that...

[EvianBaby]

You don't need to fly anywhere extravagant to get that wow feeling. I feel like that every year when I scale some stupidly high cliffs (they're high for me) on the Cornish coast and look out, in peace, at the sea and world below you.

[grasscarp]

On flight deck of Concorde watching Eclipse of the sun in 1999

[naomi24]

Chichen Itza has featured heavily in my studies. When I actually saw it for the first time, I cried.

[coccinelle]

Will have to google that, naomi!

[naomi24]

coccinelle, sorry.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/483

[coccinelle]

thanks for the link, naomi. I visited a pyramid in Mexico City many years ago, but I know what you mean when you've seen pictures of something and then WOW! it's standing in front of you.

[naomi24]

Yes, indeed! I can't say it was my first 'Wow' factor, but it's certainly up there with the best of them.