Where did you turn the corner and go "Wow!"

Grianan said:
That was in a 4x4 car ... not taken the MH on the Bealach and don’t plan to. We’re heading to Applecross for lunch on Sunday but will take the coast road both directions.
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Took my Lwb lt35 up it but that would be the limit I would drive up it... Just before I took that pic there was a 15 ton scottish water lorry coming the other way😧
You are making me jealous... One of the best places I've eaten seafood.. Stayed for 3 days at the campsite just to try everything... And a few beers of course 👍
 
ambulancekidd said:
When I first clapped eye's on my Hazel Mrsambulancekidd

Scenery wise, the first time I saw my mates thatched cottage in Tarrant Hinton Dorset.
I'd never seen such a pretty lane with chocolate box houses everywhere.
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Great minds think alike.

Brownie points for a man are like Fairy Dust. Sounds good but we know they don't exist!

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violet said:
Iceland. And it wasn't just one wow. The first time we took our campervan over we thought when we were past Jokulsarlon and heading east to get to Seydisfjordur that that would be the end of the wows, but it wasn't if anything there were even more.
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Hi Violet, Iceland sounds sooooo exciting, I've had a couple of nights in Reyjkavic to see the Northern lights and would love to see more of the Island in the Summer months. I wondered about taking the van but didn't really think it would be possible, I see that you are in the UK too, can I ask what route you took to get there and how long the crossings were. Thank you! :)
 
Around that corner and "Wow"

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All that plastic!

Gordon
 
webby1 said:
We also enjoyed the El Escorial but whilst in the area we also visited the Valley of the Fallen where Franco is/was entombed and that was also a wow moment.

Now as a softy liberal lefty I don't like to admit that there is just something about the Fascist architecture..........there again they do a nice line in Rallies as well
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Yes, we thought the same about the Valley of the Fallen, the approach and then the scale of it when you see it was mindblowing. Franco was still there when we went, but I think he might have been moved now...
 
Walking around Lake Waikaramoana, it was only 13kms, but a wow around every corner.

and, "C'etait le coup de fondre!" moment Dec. 16 1973

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DBK said:
Switzerland offers lots of opportunities for a "wow". The views and the prices mostly
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Agree! Swiss prices are as vertical as the mountains :eek:
busby said:
When we hit the Duero in Portugal,,,Stunning..BUSBY.
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Thanks busby that was on my wishlist (supposed to be going this summer :() and will definitely have to go there now (y)
Spriddler said:
I think I've been there if that's the Blockhouse at Eperlecques (Gandspette).
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That does look HUGE! Will definitely take a look if we are in the area.

About Rocamadour - couple of people liked that, but we were disappointed TBH, seemed quite touristy compared with some of the other beautiful places perched on a cliff like that in the area.

Had the same feeling about Carcassonne - the view from motorway as you approach is stunning, a real Wow, and we always stop at the aire to stand and gawp. But when we went there, we were really disappointed, very commercial and nothing like the atmosphere of similar less well known castle towns.
 
When we went to New York and the taxi rounded a corner and we were suddenly on a street between these skyscrapers, just like you'd seen in the films/TV shows. Also at the top of the Empire State Building near to midnight and you could hear the sound of the city coming up from below. Very atmospheric.
Another one was watching the sun set over Ayers Rock and seeing the stone change colour.
 
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MrS also says the sight of the Taj Mahal emerging through the mist at dawn. He's right (but I didn't include it originally because we weren't on a MH trip ;)

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Fermer said:
Took my Lwb lt35 up it but that would be the limit I would drive up it... Just before I took that pic there was a 15 ton scottish water lorry coming the other way😧
You are making me jealous... One of the best places I've eaten seafood.. Stayed for 3 days at the campsite just to try everything... And a few beers of course 👍
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Sadly campsite hasn’t reopened this season which is resulting in problems with tents and rubbish on the shore.
There’s now also a sign saying MHs shouldn’t use the Bealach .. sensible advice but don’t know if attention is being paid to it.
We often take the dog to the beach by the MOD testing site then pop into the Innside Out for lunch 😉
 
SmithsInFrance said:
Had the same feeling about Carcassonne - the view from motorway as you approach is stunning, a real Wow, and we always stop at the aire to stand and gawp. But when we went there, we were really disappointed, very commercial and nothing like the atmosphere of similar less well known castle towns.
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Yes us too ... had cycled past on the Canal du Midi then returned another year and the magic had broken 😢
 
I used to spend a lot of time at our H.O. in New York. I didn't like NY at all; too brash, blingy and competitive. I'm a country boy.
I had to go to our Canadian subsidiary and when returning to the airport after a few days working solidly in Toronto I was enthusing my preference for what I'd seen of Canada and its people and in retrospect indiscreetly over-stressing my thorough dislike of NY where I constantly bored by being told that everything in America was bigger, better, faster, tastier, more beautiful etc. than anywhere else in the world.
Just then a huge tall tower came into view. "Good gracious, what's that?" I blurted out.
With a dead pan voice he replied: "I dunno, it wasn't there when I came to pick you up".
How we laughed.
 
Many times in New Zealand as witnessed by the 3,500 photographs we have! but the best without doubt was the day spent on the Doubtful Sound trip.Across Lake Manipouri,visit to the underground Hydro electric station and then a trip on Doubtful sound its self.Only a small boat with about ten of us on captained by the chairman of the local crab fishermen so he knew his way round 👍 Good job we did Milford first or we would have been dissapointed.

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SmithsInFrance said:
Agree! Swiss prices are as vertical as the mountains :eek:

Thanks busby that was on my wishlist (supposed to be going this summer :() and will definitely have to go there now (y)

That does look HUGE! Will definitely take a look if we are in the area.

About Rocamadour - couple of people liked that, but we were disappointed TBH, seemed quite touristy compared with some of the other beautiful places perched on a cliff like that in the area.

Had the same feeling about Carcassonne - the view from motorway as you approach is stunning, a real Wow, and we always stop at the aire to stand and gawp. But when we went there, we were really disappointed, very commercial and nothing like the atmosphere of similar less well known castle towns.
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Its rather a smug feeling when you have driven along The Duero enjoying the stunning scenery and park up on an aire on the riverbank and moored just down stream are the river cruise boats whos occupants have probably paid 1500 pounds plus to do the same for a week..I should not be so evil.BUSBY:giggle::giggle:
 

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