lourdes, was hoping it would cure my chronic disabilitating handsomeness but left better looking than ever

Venus de Milo.

Queued for ages to see it only to find that some **** had chopped her arms off.

The Ivy...if i wanted average food surrounded by japnese tourists and russian gangsters..well i'd probs go to the Ivy again.

New Zealand..what a sh1thole,now aussies arent the most hunmourous but kiwis....!!

Edinburgh.-Yes its ok but the hidoeus tourist traps on the Royal Mile,and the horrific food on offer,the bizzare virtaul lack of nightlife despite loads of bars.Like most tourist cities has totally forgotten what it once was.

The Viking Centre at York...never has such a terrible tourist attraction had such quese this place is beyond belief in crapness.there's not ONE thing thats origigal it's just a feckin few disney mock ups and a luvvie doing soem commentary over  afew out of work actors hamming it up documentary stayle on a screen.Complete and utter turd

The Alamo - hardly anything left and with modern sprawl is now smack downtown San Antonio

Bondi Beach - Croydon with sand

Niagara Falls NAP

on viewing my immediate thought was 'Is that it?'

I had driven from Detroit and stopped off at Niagara on my way to Toronto and felt I had wasted half a day

What did you expect from Sydney if going there in the winter??!!

The Dead Sea

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St Andrews golf course.

^ For one of the most famous courses in the world it is also the most accessible,take a trip up and walk the 18th with the bridge hey take photos no one will stop you.

Walk along the beach that they shot chariots of fire on ,no problem.

I think amongst the most famous courses in the world it is also the most easiest to access,try going to Augusta and let me know how you got on,ps do they allow females there now ?


Yes, they do apparently, St. Andrews don't though, oops.

GORDON Brown has accused the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of staining the good name of Scotland by banning women.

In a blistering attack, the former prime minister said the St Andrews club’s stance was “an unacceptable blot on Scotland’s traditions of justice for all”.

The R&A, and Muirfield’s Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield, have been under fire over their all-male membership policies since Augusta National in Georgia ended their ban on women by admitting two female members.

And Brown weighed in yesterday in a speech to the Scottish Parliament, accusing the R&A of “basic discrimination”.

The Fife MP said: “We must not be blind to discrimination in Scotland, whether it is racial, religious, sexual or gender.

“We cannot uphold the ideal of Scotland as a country that prides itself on justice, and yet still see the Royal and Ancient Golf Club preventing women members.

“If the golf club in Augusta can start to admit women, shouldn’t St Andrews?

“If Augusta can change, St Andrews can now change. If a southern state can change, Scotland must change – and end a basic discrimination that is an unacceptable blot on Scotland’s traditions of justice for all.”

Earlier, Brown noted the fact that St Andrews University principal Louise Richardson, whose position would normally guarantee membership of the R&A, had received no invitation from the club.

Louise Richardson has not been invited to join the club 
Alex Salmond has also criticised the club for their stance over Richardson.

After Augusta admitted its first women, including former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, sports minister Shona Robison called on both the R&A and Muirfield to follow suit.

Bosses at Muirfield, where next year’s Open will be played, have not commented. The R&A say their all-male policy is “a matter for our members to determine”.

Doesn't take a lot to figure out why the New Zealanders are downbeat - they have to live in the place.

What summed it up for us was a stop in Greytown (well named place) on the South Island.  Got there on a Saturday afternoon and booked into the hotel (can't remember the name now) that was recommended by the local tourist office.  Hotel was probably ok in the 50's but not much had changed since then.

Come the time to eat, we asked the hotel receptionist to recommend a restaurant (we had been in NZ for a couple of weeks by now so should have known better) and headed out to find it.  Duly found it, went in the door to be greeted by the sight of what looked like a school dinner hall with piles of mush on people's plates.  In the absence of any other option, asked for a table for two, only to be told "sorry, we are closing now".  It was 8 o'clock on a Saturday evening FFS!

NZ looks beautiful from what i've seen - certainly looks nicer than the arid locations folk flock to   ,i guess that would be the south island where the scenery is though- changeable weather in the south island similar to southern to central england  so important to go at the right time i guess .

Stonehenge yes but that's because you remember it as a kid when it looked massive.
New Zealand stuck in the 1940's,ugly women and Neanderthal men.
Sistene Chapel,1000 people crammed in all looking for the touching fingers which are tiny when you do spot them.

To be fair, I didn't realise either, till I read it today.

Melbourne Cup,race that stops a Nation?...Dont believe the Hype.

Dunedin is pretty good.University town lots of pubs etc. I once had a $20 bet on the tab and the cashier said,'whoa $20?!! You must be confident'.

London...total shathole
Madame Tussards.... rooms full of wax, nothing more or less

I think it would be unfair to call London,simply because theres a million and one things to se ane and do and much of it free or fairly good value. ,its also got history to die for.

That said doing the hideous rip off tourist traps like Toussauds,London Dungeon,Leicester sq,chinatown etc,the virtual total absence of any nightlife and the feeling of being in a foreign land could make some people think its a sh1thole!

twomatchpoints mothers vagina

london
epsom on derby day.
the bullring birmingham- never saw a toreador all day


out of all the large citys i have visited barcelona was the best.

Me too. Kiwis unbelievably hospitable and generous. Try hitch-hiking around NZ and you're disappointed if the first car passing doesn't pick you up. A truly stunning and diverse country where you can see tropical rainforest tumbling onto deserted sandy beaches, mountains, fjords, glaciers, scenery similar to Ireland and Wales and caves all in a day or two. Drive for a week in the outback of Oz and you just see the same old sh1t.

Not particularly keen on Sydney having been there a few times and much prefer the more cultural Melbourne. Sydney can be very humid with gayers mincing around everwhere, you have to wear beach shoes at Bondi to protect you from the discarded junkies' needles and Circular Quay and the Rocks being particularly naff tourist traps. Some of the suburbs like Balmain are ok but like all new cities, Sydney has very few beautiful buildings and only an ozzie could find anything nice to say about the Opera House. Their idea of culture is sitting in a park watching loads of expensive fireworks being let off on New Years Eve.