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Shaker

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World famous sights not see
« on: September 26, 2018, 08:57:59 AM »
Somebody had to say it: https://tinyurl.com/yb4lfvoy
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2018, 09:54:58 AM »
I'll add to it. KV 62 - Tutankhamun's tomb. It never ceases to amaze me that thousands que to see this tiny, badly painted tomb. All there is is a space with four rooms, one of which has three walls covered in ancient mould encrusted images, with a plain sarcophagus and the badly mummified body of the king. Les than thirty feet away is the tomb of  Ramesses VI - every wall and cieling jam packed with superb colour. Umpteen other tombs, some with twenty or more image-covered rooms, are available and virtually tourist free.
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2018, 10:12:23 AM »
I got as far as Versailles. A lot of them are fantastic and worth seeing, the only problem being all the other people, but if they're worth seeing, then obviouslt people will flock to them. I'd love to see Versailles, the Taj Mahal, etc., other people or not.
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2018, 10:14:32 AM »
Quote from: Anchorman on September 26, 2018, 09:54:58 AM
I'll add to it. KV 62 - Tutankhamun's tomb. It never ceases to amaze me that thousands que to see this tiny, badly painted tomb. All there is is a space with four rooms, one of which has three walls covered in ancient mould encrusted images, with a plain sarcophagus and the badly mummified body of the king. Les than thirty feet away is the tomb of  Ramesses VI - every wall and cieling jam packed with superb colour. Umpteen other tombs, some with twenty or more image-covered rooms, are available and virtually tourist free.

I can vouch for that, Anchs. My wife and I were completely underwhelmed when we saw it. However we spent enough time in the Valley of the Kings to visit several other tombs which were very impressive.
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2018, 10:18:08 AM »
The Statue of Liberty. Stood at the bottom of it and thought, it’s not very big, is it? Queued up for hours for the bloody ferry too.
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2018, 10:22:58 AM »
I've always said that if they were still alive I'd track down and set fire to the feet of the brain donors who decided to put the A303 next to Stonehenge  >:(
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2018, 10:26:54 AM »
Quote from: Shaker on September 26, 2018, 10:22:58 AM
I've always said that if they were still alive I'd track down and set fire to the feet of the brain donors who decided to put the A303 next to Stonehenge  >:(
Isn't that how they transported the stones to the site?
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2018, 10:28:01 AM »
No, that was done by magic.
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2018, 10:40:11 AM »
Quote from: Shaker on September 26, 2018, 10:28:01 AM
No, that was done by magic.
   



Couldn't Amazon have used Hermes?
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2018, 10:42:55 AM »
Quote from: Shaker on September 26, 2018, 10:22:58 AM
I've always said that if they were still alive I'd track down and set fire to the feet of the brain donors who decided to put the A303 next to Stonehenge  >:(

The Bartlow Hills are incredible Roman burial mounds in South Cambs. Three can be visited (and climbed); the remains of a fourth is on private land. The rest (there were once seven) were destroyed by the Victorians  to make way for a railway cutting, long since disused and reclaimed by nature. The site also has a very interesting Saxon church with some of the finest medieval wall paintings I’ve ever seen, suggesting that it was a sacred place for centuries. That the Victorians just ploughed their railway through the middle of it to me says something about the disconnection that industrialisation brings.
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2018, 10:54:48 AM »
Quote from: Anchorman on September 26, 2018, 10:40:11 AM
   



Couldn't Amazon have used Hermes?


They use Hermes occasionally, in fact I am expecting his arrival by 2pm. :D
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2018, 11:01:18 AM »
Judge Roy Bean's courthouse in West Texas. Six hours bike ride into the desert, the most memorable thing is the sore arf you suffer.
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2018, 02:21:02 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on September 26, 2018, 10:54:48 AM

They use Hermes occasionally, in fact I am expecting his arrival by 2pm. :D

I wouldn't want to have Hermes.

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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2018, 02:51:28 PM »
Hermes came as promised and delivered my latest acquisition a Tyrannosaurus Rex skull, with which I am thrilled. :)
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2018, 02:56:18 PM »
Quote from: ippy on September 26, 2018, 02:21:02 PM
I wouldn't want to have Hermes.

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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2018, 03:33:09 PM »
I see that on the list is the Mona Lisa. This is quite possibly the dullest painting in the Louvre. The nearby  Virgin and child with St Anne is far superior and the Virgin on the Rocks in the National Gallery is better than either.

Thanks to uncultured Americans (and especially a certain third rate novel writer) people imagine that Leonardo's surname was "da Vinci".
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2018, 03:44:38 PM »
Quote from: Harrowby Hall on September 26, 2018, 03:33:09 PM
I see that on the list is the Mona Lisa. This is quite possibly the dullest painting in the Louvre. The nearby  Virgin and child with St Anne is far superior and the Virgin on the Rocks in the National Gallery is better than either.

Thanks to uncultured Americans (and especially a certain third rate novel writer) people imagine that Leonardo's surname was "da Vinci".


I must admit I was very disappointed when we visited the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa.
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2018, 05:41:51 PM »
Quote from: ekim on September 26, 2018, 02:56:18 PM
Almost as bad as being stung by the hepatitis bee.

Or food contaminated with salamander.

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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #18 on: September 26, 2018, 06:22:32 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on September 26, 2018, 03:44:38 PM

I must admit I was very disappointed when we visited the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa.


Been a few times. The Louvre, the MMA Turin and the BM have the BM have the best Egyptian collections outside Cairo.
The Mons Lisa wasn't my favourite pic by any means.
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #19 on: September 26, 2018, 06:32:20 PM »
Leonardo is hugely over-rated, if you ask me.
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Re: World famous sights not see
« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2018, 06:48:38 PM »
Quote from: Steve H on September 26, 2018, 06:32:20 PM
Leonardo is hugely over-rated, if you ask me.
   

Yep.
If you want a half decent image of a woman's face, then this has got to be it.

https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/nefertiti-bust.html

(Even if it's unfinished)
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