OK, what the hell

[the_siobhan]

Travel uh, "thing" stolen from all over the place. (If it's not called a "meme", what is it called?)

The BBC Holiday programme did a top 50 of places to visit before dying.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/50/destinations/places/

Visited marked in bold, no intention or interest to visit in italics.


1 The Grand Canyon
2 Great Barrier Reef
3 Florida
4 South Island
5 Cape Town
6 Golden Temple
7 Las Vegas
8 Sydney
9 New York
10 Taj Mahal
11 Canadian Rockies
12 Uluru
13 Chichen Itza
14 Machu Picchu
15 Niagara Falls
16 Petra
17 The Pyramids
18 Venice
19 Maldives
20 Great Wall of China
21 Victoria Falls
22 Hong Kong
23 Yosemite National Park
24 Hawaii
25 Auckland
26 Iguassu Falls
27 Paris
28 Alaska
29 Angkor Wat
30 Himalayas
31 Rio de Janeiro
32 Masai Mara
33 Galapagos Islands
34 Luxor
35 Rome
36 San Francisco
37 Barcelona
38 Dubai
39 Singapore
40 La Digue
41 Sri Lanka
42 Bangkok
43 Barbados
44 Iceland
45 Terracotta Army
46 Zermatt
47 Angel Falls
48 Abu Simbel
49 Bali
50 French Polynesia

Hrm. I should have left off the bit about the italics -- there aren't very many places I wouldn't go, unless I've already been there and know that I hate it.

Places I would add to the list:

IPM Studios
The Painted Desert
Nunavut
The Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky
The Dead Sea
The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo Texas
Graceland
New Orleans

I'm sure I'll think of more.

Comments

[lucybond.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Howabout somewhere in the UK, so we can all have a drink together?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I'm game.

So where do you suggest as the place that Has To Be Seen in the UK?

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Callanish.

Yeah, it's only barely in the UK. But it's great. And the last time I missed a lot of the other neolithic features in the landscape, so I need to go again.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I actually saw the show when it was on. Unfortunately, no. 3 wasn't Florida, it was Walt Disney World and I think was the only one that made me go "eww. Why?".

can't believe you haven't been to the Canadian Rockies! Which is probably a function of having had family out there and enforced visits every year growing up.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

It's on the whole other side of the continent!

It's actually something I'd love to see. There will be a cross-Canada road trip in my future.

(Probably the year after we go to Mexico to see the donkey show.)

[lisiblac.livejournal.com]

We went to the Big Texan on my way up here from L.A.. We got to watch a rapper from Connecticut down the giant steak, and our waitress was the spitting image of Geena Davis. Surreal.

[bar-bar-ella.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I'll think of more.

Well, there's this nice temperate zone at the bottom of mainland Australia...

;)