Favourite holiday experience?

What's your favourtie holiday/touristy thing you have done?

Apart from london in general, my favourtie thing is seeing a camera obscura I went to the one in Edinburgh. I had read about it before I went but it was different to what I expected.

I suggest going if you ever get the chance. I think there are only about 10 in the world. For those who haven't heard of it before it is kind of like the orginal cctv. Basically in the middle of a room there is what looks like a large wooden table. Hanging slightly above the centre of the "table" is what looks like a large pole that goes through the roof. The pole consists of a series of mirros and lenses, which projects a live image of where you are onto the table.

So what is everyones favourite holiday/touristy thing?

Quote: reds @ April 27 2013, 12:27 PM BST

my favourtie thing is seeing a camera obscura I went to the one in Edinburgh. I had read about it before I went but it was different to what I expected.

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I've been in there too! It was excellent.

I've only been to Londonshire a handful of times but the one thing that stands out in my mind is standing on Westminster Bridge looking out over the Thames in the middle of summer. I didn't know it would be as awe inspiring as it was.

Did a couple of narrow boat holidays. Lovely gentle float from pub to pub !

I was in Prague just after the velvet revolution and I got on the pitch and scored pen during a visit to at Sparta's ground.

I am now off to watch us murder Fulham for no reason!

Quote: Lee @ April 27 2013, 12:55 PM BST

I've only been to Londonshire a handful of times but the one thing that stands out in my mind is standing on Westminster Bridge looking out over the Thames in the middle of summer. I didn't know it would be as awe inspiring as it was.

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I recently stood on one the bridges a little further up (not sure which) in the pouring rain, looking back toward Big Ben and taking photos. I could have stood there all night. I was cold and hungry though so went back to where I was staying.

Childhood / teens holidays in a tiny caravan in Co. Kerry, looking out at the rain mainly, but worth the wait for the smell of the grass afterwards. I've lived I have.

Touristy thing has got to be boat trips down the Thames, like Lee says, that view is awesome. Though I took my dad once when he was over and we had some young buck as guide, his talk somehow involved naming different types of diving, he slipped in muff diving probably thinking all us foreign touristy types wouldn't notice...I did though

Croatia was fascinating.

Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ April 27 2013, 1:05 PM BST

I am now off to watch us murder Fulham for no reason!

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You'll definitely win today. I don't think we've ever got so much as a point at Goodison.

I remember going down to Cornwall with my parents when I was 13 for a two week stay and it's always stood out as an idyllic experience. Good food, the occasional beer and a laid back time.

I remember camping in the lake district with my mum dad and sister

And in the middle of the night a sheep tried to gain entrance to our canvas abode

I thought it was hilarious

My mother on the other hand nearly died of a cardiac arrest

If you're getting the Thames boat might I reccomend adding the cable car

My favourite holiday was in south-east Asia: Thailand, Cambodia etc. So beautiful and different from other countries like US,Europe, Australia etc! I had a life-changing experience there.

This life changing caper in Thailand?
Is it an amazing holiday anecdote that you could expand on for us the readers?.
Or is it related to ladyboys/ sex changes if so more power to your elbow miss.

Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ April 29 2013, 10:09 AM BST

This life changing caper in Thailand?
Is it an amazing holiday anecdote that you could expand on for us the readers?.
Or is it related to ladyboys/ sex changes if so more power to your elbow miss.

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Ah...ladyboys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC_YYND1TKc