Overrated landmarks.

[doctordb]

what places in the world left you thinking 'is that it?'

For me it was Stonehenge and Edinburgh.

[ladybirder]

You don't like Wales flip? But it's beautiful, Snowdonia, Brecon Beacons, spectacular views from the coast road north to south. What's not to like?

[rowanwitch]

Cheddar gorge...even way back in the 1970s too commercial can't see it being better now

[shoota]

'Le Nombril du Monde' - The navel of the world. Signposted from all over Deux Sevres in France with tourist attraction signs.
Allegedly the spot on earth to which all the stories told that day return at nightfall ready to be told again the next day.
Its a stone - not very big and totally unremarkable - the grand tour takes 2 seconds and the chapel it is in front of is near derelict.

[annie0000]

lol - not a landmark, but the current most overrated thing is the bleedin olympic torch!! a, it isn't the olympic torth, it's one of thousands and b, i'd be more impressed if it was the actual original fire that was kept burning from way back.

[shoota]

Sithee....
http://www.nombril.com/Pougne-Herisson

[ladybirder]

Leaning Tower of Pisa. Used to hate the Eiffel Tower but it's grown on me.

[Baldric]

Dover Castle,
superb location,
mismanaged!!

[annie0000]

ladybirder, I didn't go up the tower but i thought it was actually better than what I expected - much bigger than it is on tv ;o)

[annie0000]

the leaning tower I mean not the eiffel

[Frank97]

Cheddar gorge...even way back in the 1970s too commercial can't see it being better now

Have to agree with that one, it's just up the road from me and still as dull as ever, good strawberries to be had in Cheddar though!

[rowanwitch]

shame because I love caves...

[murraymints]

rome

[Wharton]

Trevi Fountain Rome
At the foot of The Spanish Steps there's a pub with a sign in the window saying 'Forget the Trevi, huv a bevy'
I couldn't agree more.

[flip_flop]

Ladybirder - I was being mischievous. I go to Haverfordwest a lot because my sister in law and her husband live there and I think its a lovely town, as is the surrounding area.

But I have to say, I do find it a little grating that the people I meet are, for want of a better expression, 'professional' Welsh people, my brother in law included.

I find their overt xenophobia, particularly of anything English, a bit, well, odd.

[craft1948]

The Acropolis.............it was all scaffolding and the site was full of hawkers selling cheap tat.

[mccfluff]

i've been to wales loads, always had a great time and never experienced any xenophobia

You remind me of wardy he had an irrational hatred of the welsh as well :-)

[rowanwitch]

bit iffy in Carnarfon but otherwise I find The Welsh pretty friendly

[redman41]

Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset
Thought he was better endowed than that ! :-)

[Fitzer]

Giant's Causeway, every time we see it on the visit Ireland TV ads we have a laugh, I don't know if we were there at high tide but it was tiny :-)

[craft1948]

You've been lucky fluff. My aunt and uncle when holidaying in Wales went into a lovely little pub where, after discovering my uncle was English everyone proceeded to take the p!ss out of them in Welsh.
My aunt, who happened to be from Senghenydd gave them a piece of her mind.