Thursday, June 26, 2008

Five Places I'd Like to Visit


Here are the top five places I would like to visit. In no particular order...

* Portsmouth, England - In Portsmouth you can visit and take a tour of the HMS Victory. This is one of the grandest sailing ships of all time. It was Lord Nelson’s flagship and is famous from the battle of Trafalgar. It is a first rate, 100 gun ship, that was completed in 1765.

* Los Angels, USA – Although I have already been to Disney Land, I’d love to go again and take Lisa, Annamari and the rest of the family. I know they would love it. While there it would also be a grand opportunity to travel a bit further, at least around California.

* Great Wall, China – I have always been fascinated by the Great Wall of China. I think China would be a pretty fantastic place to visit as well. I’d also be interested in seeing the Forbidden Temple, Shaolin Temple, the Terra-cotta Warriors, Chengde Mountain Resort, Shangri-la and the Mogao Grottoes.

* Pearl Harbour, Hawaii - I'd love to vist the USS Missouri, it is a United States Battleship on which you can take guided tours. You'd also be able to visit the USS Arizona Memorial and check out all the other cool things Hawaii has to offer, like the Pipeline.

* Machu Picchu, Peru – Home of the ‘Lost City of Machu Picchu’ there would be plenty to see and do here. The Andes would be awesome to visit as well, especially having already been to the Himalayas. And, if you are going that far you may as well whip across to Brazil and journey up the Amazon.

4 comments:

Tinks said...

Awesome sermon tonight Joseph.
Went to Portsmouth in October last year and saw that ship - didn't have the time to go on and have a look around but wish I did now, it was spectacular!
Have a great week.

Joseph McAuley said...

Thanks. Yeah pity you didn't take the tour. Did it look massive?

Tinks said...

Massive is a good word for it...
Heres my picture of it...the people look so tiny next to it!
http://www.claireandbrendan.com/photo.php?id=993

Joseph McAuley said...

That's cool. I look forward to getting there one day.