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Over the years I have visited many exhibitons in different countries and places 

below are some of the ones that I can remember

 

France 

Bayeux Tapestry 

The Louvre 

Giverny Monets Home 

Eiffel Tour

Notre Dame

Chartre Catherdral

Pont Aven Brittany,home of many French Artists

Nimes

Orange Collusieums

Aigue Mort

Carcassonne

Avignon   Papes Palace

Avignon The Bridge (pont)

Millau Bridge 

Palace of Versailles 

Hennessey distillery Cognac

Australia

Titanic Exhibition in Melbourne

Eureka Skydeck

The Lanes for Graffiti  artists

Phillip Island to see the Penquins and visit the visitor centre there

Healsville Animal Centre

Great Ocean Road  visitor centre  plus hellicopter ride over the 12 Apostles 

Cape Otway Lighthouse dividing point of the Bass Strait from the Southern Ocean 

MCG to see Collinwood V Geelong in the final of Aussie Rules

MCG on a private tour paid for by Visit Melbourne.

 

Sydney

 

Sydney Tower

Marine Mueseum

Fish Market

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Sydney Opera House

Aquarium x 2 

Queensland

Great Barrier Reef

Brisbane various 

Crocodile Farm

Tropical Rain Forest

Glass bottom boat on the Barrier Reef

 

Samoa 

Rudyard Kipling's House

Singapore 2020

 

Visited the Gardens by the Bay and Cloud Forest  project. Largest "greenhouse in the world "

The Botanical Gardens  Singapore

China Town  with the largest Prayer Wheel in the World situated  in  the Tooth Temple

 

Visited Raffles Hotel Beach Road

 

The Merlion  

 

Marina Bay Sands

 

 

Italy

 

Milan Duomo 

Cremona Cathedral with private visit to parts not normally viewed by the public

Ferrari Museum Modena

Private museum and Cheese factory outside Modena, where I met Jeremy Clarkson and James May

Olive oil producer at Modena

St Marks in Venice 

Romeo and Juliet Balcony in Verona 

Numerous churches and Cathedrals 

New Zealand 

 

Sky Tower Auckland 

Rotorua to see the earth bubbling

Napier Art Deco Town

South Island

Sailed across the Cook Strait on a car ferry meant to be the most dangerous ferry crossing any where  when the wind is in the wrong direction. With the winds coming up from the Antarctic.

Franz Josef Glacier 

Mt Cook with flight over 

Queenstown

Kawarau Bridge Original home of Bungy Jumping

Canterbury Cathedral 6 weeks before the big earthquake which brought it down.

 

America

Washington DC 

The Capital Building 

Smithsonian Museums

FBI Building

National Geographic

Abraham Lincoln Memorial

The Needle

Arlington Cemetary

Mount Vernon

Maryland

Naval College at Annapolis 

Virginia

Monticello

NASA at Langley

Tour of the dockyards at Norfolk

Williamsberg

James Town

Yorktown

 

NC

Kitty Hawk

Lost Colony

Outer Banks

State Fair at Raleigh 

MA

Plymouth

Mayflower replica which we saw launched in Brixham 

CA

San Francisco 

Alcatraz

Golden Gate Bridge

Cable car trolley riding on the back platform

Washington State

 

Space Needle overlooked Chihuly Gardens

Aquarium

Boeing Factory

Museum of Flight  https://www.museumofflight.org/

 

Montana 

Butte, The Berkley Pit poisonous lake 

Old Mining Village museum https://miningmuseum.org/  

The Lady of the Rockies Statue of the Virgin Mary

Virginia City wild west  museum with old exhibits  https://virginiacitymt.com/

Wheat Montana

 https://www.wheatmontana.com/

Colorado

The Denver Mint Denver

The above videos are from Singapore the first 3 of the huge domes at the Gardens on the Bay which are based on the Eden Project and the last in China Town which is the largest prayer wheel in the world. This was on the top floor of the Temple , up qute a few flights of stairs which being Singapore they had installed a chair lift for people who could not make it to the top.

There was also a small garden here and plaques for families who loved ones had died.

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