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Great Smoky Mountains
Digits Ireland - 14-Jul-24
Three generations of my family visited the Great Smoky Mountains at the beginning of June 2024, being in almost the four corners of the national park over four days out of our 10 day trip across Tennessee. This provided us the opportunity to take in the expanse of “scenic vistas of characteristic mist-shrouded mountains”, the “clear running streams” and the ancient and ecologically rich woodlands that see this site inscribed under four natural criteria.
We flew into Knoxville, rented a car (is there any other option?), entered the park through the Townsend / Wear Valley direction before embarking on a 31 mile trip along the Foothills Parkway which closely matches the boundary of the park and racks up plenty of the aforementioned scenic vistas. One of them is Look Rock Tower which is actually an air pollution monitoring station needed due to extensive coal power plants in the Tennessee Valley. Since 2023, it is now required to have an official paid parking tag matched to a license plate number to park anywhere in the national park for longer than 15 minutes
Read OnThingvellir
Digits Ireland - 23-Jul-22
We first visited a quiet, sunny Thingvellir in the summer of 2013, as a standard one-hour stop off on the aforementioned Golden Circle tour from Reykjavik, which also took in Gullfoss, Strokkur Geyser and some snowmobiling. The previous reviews are correct, in that a tour stop off didn’t bring the depth that the site otherwise could being a visitor. Yes, we got the magnificent backdrop and the importance and age of the parliament and its link with the sagas - what UNESCO terms “a unique reflection of medieval Norse/Germanic culture”. We walked the boardwalks and took in the cliff-top view from the unvisited visitor centre
Read OnVatnajökull National Park
Digits Ireland - 09-Jul-22
We visited the very edge of Vatnajökull National Park in the summer of 2013 during our lap of the Iceland ring road. We arrived at the Jökulsarlon Ice Lagoon early in the morning driving from Hofn, after accidentally flirting with danger on the infamous Road 939 in our rickety Toyota Yaris the evening before.
We had booked a 1 hour rib boat tour, but unfortunately when we arrived, a deep fog had descended. This meant we couldn’t see the glacial lake and that the tour couldn’t go up to the glacier edge, but it did add an ethereal mystical quality to floating among the multicoloured or even clear icebergs (our first such experience).
Ephesus
Digits Ireland - 02-Jul-22
We visited Ephesus in the spring of 2013 on a private guided tour from Izmir.
We first made a quick stop at the House of the Virgin Mary. A walk up a wooded path leads to a small brick building. The three memories which come to mind are pilgrims placing thin lit candles outside, the water running out of the house believed to have healing powers, but mainly the tour guide suspiciously spying on her boyfriend simultaneously giving a tour to a single woman! On the way down, there is a lovely view over the landscape, with Ephesus tucked in below the hillside.
Copán
Digits Ireland - 20-Jun-22
With my brother’s wife being from Honduras, it was a certainty we would have to visit the country during our Central America trip in the summer of 2016.
Like others, we crossed into Honduras from Guatemala at the El Florido crossing (our driver’s taking of various other border crossings between Guatemala and El Salvador raised some eyebrows elsewhere) and overnighted in Copan Ruinas at the Hotel Magdalena. A five minute drive early in the morning brought us to the wooded trail to the ruins, the colours of the macaws flashing between the trees.
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsPetra 5Joya de Ceren 4.5St. Petersburg 4.5Brugge 4Copán 4Ephesus 4Salzburg 4Blenheim Palace 3.5Budapest 3.5City of Bath 3.5Edinburgh 3.5Giant's Causeway 3.5Granada 3.5Lake District 3.5Old Havana 3.5Skocjan Caves 3.5Stonehenge 3.5Thingvellir 3.5Vienna 3.5Wadi Rum 3.5Istanbul 3Kraków 3Prague 3Troy 3Valletta 3Belfries 2.5Drottningholm 2.5Panamá 2.5Saltaire 2Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Archaeological Site and Historic Centre of Panamá City (T)
- Ayvalık Industrial Landscape (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications (T)
- Çanakkale (Dardanelles) and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Battles Zones in the First World War (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- City of York: historic urban core (T)
- Classical Karst (in Slovene language: Klasicni kras) (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- El Vedado, ciudad jardín temprana (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Hoge Kempen Rural - Industrial Transition Landscape (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le chemin de fer de Cerdagne (T)
- Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Mývatn and Laxá (T)
- Olympic Park Munich (T)
- Qawra/Dwejra (T)
- Route of the Peace and National Identity (T)
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá (Ruta Colonial Transístmica de Panamá) (T)
- The Memorial of Chatam Sófer (T)
- The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic – Heritage of the First World War (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea (T)
- Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)