Jaw Dropping Site
Jul 14th, 2001, 01:55 PM
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1. When I saw my bill after three nights in a nice Venice hotel! <BR> <BR>2. When I saw THE David in Florence. <BR> <BR>3. When I saw Newschwanstein Castle lit up at night as we were driving back to Munich. <BR> <BR>4. When I saw the Sistine Chapel and realized the ceiling was flat even though it looked arched. <BR> <BR>5. When I saw Rembrandt's "Nightwatch"...absolutely awesome! <BR> <BR>6. When I saw the coliseum, walked down to the Roman Senate and relized the incredible history that had taken place there. <BR> <BR>7. When I walked through Dachau and asked myself how in the world any man could do this to their fellow man. <BR> <BR>8. When I sat for 30 minutes staring at the impressionist works in the Musee D'Orsay. <BR> <BR>9. When I saw my first Gothic cathedral in Freiburg and was amazed at the time and effort put into that structure during the so called "dark ages".
Jul 14th, 2001, 04:17 PM
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The most - The Giant Redwoods. <BR>2ed - the Grand Canyon <BR>Runners up (although not to shabby) <BR>First view of Venice <BR>The Coliseum <BR>First view of Budapest from the Citadel <BR>First view of Neuschwanstein. <BR>The interior of Linderhof <BR>
Jul 15th, 2001, 08:52 AM
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Having our flight from Honolulu to New Zealand need to make an unscheduled (not scary) landing in Samoa in a storm in the middle of the night: after hours and hours over empty ocean, a full moon intermittently lighting the towering thunderheads all around us and the tiny speck of land that appeared below, with blowing palm trees and whitecaps along the shore, just visible through rain-streaked windows. It was partly the unexpectedness of the situation, but it truly evoked a jaw-dropping response to the proverbial mystery and romance of the "South Seas". <BR> <BR>
Jul 15th, 2001, 09:38 AM
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Jaw dropping - <BR>anywhere in Venice (especially the bridge of sighs) <BR>surprisingly, Tiananmen Square (thought it would be the Great Wall, but the history in Tiananmen Square is overpowering) <BR>Pikes Place Market in Seattle <BR>Looking out my hotel window across the Bay of Naples to Mt. Vesuvious <BR>Everytime I get on a plane and know I'm going somewhere new and will always be awed.
Apr 5th, 2003, 12:30 PM
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Seeing El Greco's painting "El Enterramiento del Conde de Orgaz" in person in Toledo, Spain, after all those years of seeing black and white pictures of it in textbooks literally took my breath away.
Apr 5th, 2003, 01:07 PM
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maitaitom, you sound like my husband! We were in Munich a few years ago when we happened upon at least a dozen beautiful, statuesque, scantily-clad women. Turns out they were doing some sort of photo shoot, and they were models. I don't know about jaw-dropping, but I think my husband would call it an eye-popping sight.
Apr 5th, 2003, 01:16 PM
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"maitaitom, you sound like my husband!"<BR><BR>If that is true, then my utmost condolences to you. As you can see by my above post (the " and nothing else) once you mention "scantily-clad women" I lose it completely. If you are like my wife, you must have a good sense of humor and know that we're only looking at those eye-popping models, but thinking of you. OK, my wife doesn't buy that one either. Take care.
