What do we have?

[dirty boy]

The Eygptians have the Pyramids, although they're pretty st.

There's the Colosseum in Rome, the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, the Empire State building in New York and the Statue of Liberty are known world wide.

You have the Eiffel Tower....for fecks sake, even the French have one over us.

Hell, even bloody Iraq had the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

We've got st mountains, no Great Barrier Reef, no Grand Canyon, no Niagra/Angel Falls.


What's the best we can offer? Buckingham Palace?

Show me what's great about Britain. Pictures essential.

[GKP]

A moat.

[DrTre]

Stonehenge

Edited by DrTre on Thursday 9th July 11:52

[dirty boy]

DrTre said:

Stonehenge

Is it really that good?

Does it make you go 'WOW' like the Grand Canyon does?

[mat13]

the peak district

[Scotfox]

DrTre said:

Stonehenge

Edited by DrTre on Thursday 9th July 11:52

Maybe he meant the dancing dwarf monks ?

[LittleRedHead]

dirty boy said:

Does it make you go 'WOW' like the Grand Canyon does?

Some of the landscape does, yup. Cumbrian mountains/lake district and the peak district to name but a few.

[Neil_H]

We have all the stuff in the British Museum that we nicked out of Egypt and Greece.

[Fidgits]

Probably the oldest man made structure in the world...







iconic and recognised the world around:




modern:



youngest listed building, believe it or not, from the era that brought us the concrete high-rise..




Natural? How about the white cliffs of dover

[DrTre]

dirty boy said:

DrTre said:

Stonehenge

Is it really that good?

Does it make you go 'WOW' like the Grand Canyon does?

Good god, no. It's crap. It inspires about as much "Wow" as my cock.

What does it for me in the UK is the variety of landscape from N to S, E to W.

[SoapyShowerBoy]

I think we're doing OK!

[Fidgits]

dirty boy said:

DrTre said:

Stonehenge

Is it really that good?

Does it make you go 'WOW' like the Grand Canyon does?

it depends.

The grand canyon was made by nature. Its stunning, but its essentially a big hole in the ground - a larger version of Chedder Gorge.

Personally i think monument valley is much, much more impressive than the grand canyon.


However, stonehenge cant be compared to these, as it is a man-made structure.

Bearing in mind, it was believed to be constructed between something like 8000-3000 BC (The pyramids were constructed in what? 2000 BC, the Great wall not until 1400 AD)

and its perfect.

On the day of the summer solstice, the sun rises through the primary arch, and lights up the altar stone - and on the winter solstice it shines through the smallest arch onto the second altar stone - you can count the calender months through the arches with both the sun and the moon.

Its the most accurate calender machine ever made, and done with basic tools and grasp of engineering, and yet, its lasted all this time, and still is 100% accurate.

damn right its impressive.

[911motorsport]

[Asterix]

Fidgits said:

dirty boy said:

DrTre said:

Stonehenge

Is it really that good?

Does it make you go 'WOW' like the Grand Canyon does?

it depends.

The grand canyon was made by nature. Its stunning, but its essentially a big hole in the ground - a larger version of Chedder Gorge.

Personally i think monument valley is much, much more impressive than the grand canyon.


However, stonehenge cant be compared to these, as it is a man-made structure.

Bearing in mind, it was believed to be constructed between something like 8000-3000 BC (The pyramids were constructed in what? 2000 BC, the Great wall not until 1400 AD)

and its perfect.

On the day of the summer solstice, the sun rises through the primary arch, and lights up the altar stone - and on the winter solstice it shines through the smallest arch onto the second altar stone - you can count the calender months through the arches with both the sun and the moon.

Its the most accurate calender machine ever made, and done with basic tools and grasp of engineering, and yet, its lasted all this time, and still is 100% accurate.

damn right its impressive.

Yup - fully agree with you.

[Dupont666]

if you are going the frog tower and the gift the frogs gave to the US aka statue of liberty when the original is in Jardin du Luxembourg.

Then we can have this:



Or is that not good enough?

[sevros1981]

the people.


the history.

[central]

[AndrewW-G]

central said:

give it ten mins and somebody will be on complaining that's actually a german shephard

[HRG.]

Fidgits said:

dirty boy said:

DrTre said:

Stonehenge

Is it really that good?

Does it make you go 'WOW' like the Grand Canyon does?

it depends.

The grand canyon was made by nature. Its stunning, but its essentially a big hole in the ground - a larger version of Chedder Gorge.

Personally i think monument valley is much, much more impressive than the grand canyon.


However, stonehenge cant be compared to these, as it is a man-made structure.

Bearing in mind, it was believed to be constructed between something like 8000-3000 BC (The pyramids were constructed in what? 2000 BC, the Great wall not until 1400 AD)

and its perfect.

On the day of the summer solstice, the sun rises through the primary arch, and lights up the altar stone - and on the winter solstice it shines through the smallest arch onto the second altar stone - you can count the calender months through the arches with both the sun and the moon.

Its the most accurate calender machine ever made, and done with basic tools and grasp of engineering, and yet, its lasted all this time, and still is 100% accurate.

damn right its impressive.

I never knew half of that... Actually, practically all of it

[911motorsport]