We based ourselves in Milazzo off the Coast of Sicily and the closest port to the Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands) for Day trips. Our visit to the islands consisted of …
Twobaconsandaboston
Australia \ Member since May 2024
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A WHS book for my birthday in 2013 commenced my journey and exploration of WHS sites. Work has interfered with much of my passion to date, however this is about to change in 2025 as we retire and embark on a 6-year overseas journey.
We are travelling with our 7-year-old Boston Terrier Dog, Yoki, which will bring about its own challenges, limitations and above all excitement. It is for this reason we will not be visiting South America, Africa or much of Asia on this initial trip. They will be for another day. We will be doing a combination of fast and slow travel as we coordinate our WHS itinerary.
Finding this website, is like finding my tribe and I hope to contribute regularly with reviews for fellow enthusiasts.
I feel very blessed already in my life to having visited 165 WHS sites at the time of registering, so the remaining 1000+ will just be icing on the cake on this journey called life.
We have created a website, where we will be tracking our journey of our trials and tribulations of travelling with a dog and visiting WHS sites. I am not sure who is more excited, my wife, Yoki or me.
We have just started to create our Social Media platform for social followers - Two Bacons and a Boston - YouTube. We will also be running a website, Facebook and Instagram however this will be a mixture of dog travel and general travel not specific to WHS.
My most impressive site: Skellig Michael
My proposal for a new site: Nitmiluk National Park
Check out my website: https://www.twobaconsandaboston.com/
Recent Visits
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01Nov. 12, 2025A huge footprint with amazing ruins: Archaeological site of Ancient Messene
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20Nov. 11, 2025Greece Completed: Mystras, Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
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12Oct. 29, 2025Exploring Crete: Ancient Greek Theatres, Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece, Minoan Palatial Centres
Top 10 Missing
Completed Countries
- Albania
- Bosnia Herzegovina
- Greece
- Holy See
- Ireland
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Montenegro
- North Macedonia
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Vanuatu
- Zambia
About Twobaconsandaboston
- Member since
- May 2024
- Country of Origin
- Australia
Visits
- Rank
- #220
- WHS
- 238
- Tentative Sites
- 52
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 30
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Tasmanian Wilderness 5.0
- Sceilg Mhichíl 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 5.0
- Great Wall 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Dubrovnik 4.5
- Victoria Falls 4.5
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.5
- Wulingyuan 4.5
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Sydney Opera House 4.5
- Olympia 4.5
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
- Kakadu National Park 4.5
- Great Barrier Reef 4.5
- Plitvice Lakes 4.5
- Epidaurus 4.5
- Sigiriya 4.5
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.5
- Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing 4.5
- Taj Mahal 4.5
- Meteora 4.5
- Cesky Krumlov 4.5
- Uluru 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Durmitor National Park 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Istanbul 4.0
- Te Wahipounamu 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Chitwan National Park 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Zagori Cultural Landscape 4.0
- Agra Fort 4.0
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 4.0
- Kotor 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 4.0
- Rhaetian Railway 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 4.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.0
- Red Fort 4.0
- Ohrid Region 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 4.0
- Purnululu National Park 4.0
- Pompei 4.0
- Gondwana Rainforests 4.0
- Shark Bay 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 4.0
- Prague 4.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 4.0
- Borobudur 4.0
- Brú na Bóinne 4.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Villa d'Este 4.0
- Thingvellir 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Hawaii Volcanoes 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Komodo National Park 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.0
- Sighisoara 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Okavango Delta 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Pergamon 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Ningaloo Coast 4.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 3.5
- Australian Convict Sites 3.5
- Lord Howe Island 3.5
- Isole Eolie 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5
- Churches of Moldavia 3.5
- Dacian Fortresses 3.5
- Kathmandu Valley 3.5
- Polonnaruva 3.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5
- Kandy 3.5
- Old Town of Galle 3.5
- Prambanan 3.5
- Cologne Cathedral 3.5
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3.5
- Fatehpur Sikri 3.5
- Ancient Thebes 3.5
- Nubian Monuments 3.5
- Keoladeo National Park 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 3.5
- Lake District 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.5
- Villa Romana del Casale 3.5
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Vienna 3.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5
- Guimarães 3.5
- City of Luxembourg 3.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.5
- Bamberg 3.5
- Toledo 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Qutb Minar 3.5
- Val d'Orcia 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 3.5
- Imperial Tombs 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 3.5
- Summer Palace 3.5
- Central Highlands 3.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 3.5
- Jantar Mantar 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Tower of London 3.5
- Thang Long 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Bali Subak system 3.5
- Delos 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.5
- Stari Ras and Sopocani 3.5
- Butrint 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Mount Athos 3.5
- Rhodes 3.5
- Island of Patmos 3.5
- Mystras 3.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Rideau Canal 3.0
- Via Appia 3.0
- Beijing Central Axis 3.0
- Siena 3.0
- San Gimignano 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge 3.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 3.0
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- Nice 3.0
- Québec 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.0
- Studenica Monastery 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Gulf of Porto 3.0
- Genoa 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Centennial Hall 3.0
- South China Karst 3.0
- Yogyakarta 3.0
- Royal Palace at Caserta 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Dacian Limes 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.0
- Sinharaja Forest 3.0
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3.0
- Chief Roi Mata's Domain 3.0
- Seville 3.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Historic Cairo 3.0
- Corfu 3.0
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Stecci 3.0
- Florence 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.0
- Evora 3.0
- Mostar 3.0
- Monastery of Horezu 3.0
- Vilnius 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Trier 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.0
- Minoan Palatial Centres 2.5
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- Le Havre 2.5
- Stari Grad Plain 2.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5
- Archaeological site of Philippi 2.5
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 2.5
- Vjetrenica Cave 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- Belem 2.5
- Troy 2.5
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 2.5
- Lyon 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Bauhaus Sites 2.5
- Royal Exhibition Building 2.0
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 2.0
- Sangiran Early Man Site 2.0
- Roșia Montană 2.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 1.5
Tentative Sites
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Biogradska gora National Park
- Dardanelles and Gallipoli Battle Zones
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- The Danube Limes (Romania)
- Great Sandy World Heritage Area
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- City of York
- Parramatta Female Factory
- Central Park
- Danube Limes (Serbia)
- Smederevo Fortress
- Djavolja Varos
- Sri Lanka’s Tea Cultural Landscape
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- The Danube Limes (Croatia)
- Chiang Mai
- Ankara
- The wider area of Mount Olympus
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia
- Thingvellir National Park
- Rouen
- Bouches de Bonifacio
- Nuruosmaniye Complex
- Old Town of Bar
- St. Nicholas Church
- Via Francigena
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Flinders Ranges
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- The Lijiang River Scenic Zone at Guilin
- Royal Residences of Sinaia
- Fenghuang Ancient City
- Curtea de Arges Churches
- Egyptian Museum
- Primosten Vineyards
- Negotinske Pivnice
- Ulcinj Old town
- Blagaj
- Olympic Park Munich
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Doclea
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
- L'amphitheatre de Durres
- Victorian Goldfields
- Australian Cornish Mining Sites: Burra and Moonta
- Ellis Island
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- Locations
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- Zones
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Reviews by Twobaconsandaboston
Mount Etna (Inscribed)
Mount Etna
We based ourselves in Taormina for 4 days in early April 2025 to immerse ourselves in this location, as it is a beautiful coastal town (up in the hills) with …
Blenheim Palace (Inscribed)
Blenheim Palace
Our first UNESCO site visit since commencing our www.twobaconsandaboston.com journey. I was not going to do a review until I noticed that the last review was 2 years ago. Prices …
Vjetrenica Cave (Inscribed)
Vjetrenica Cave
We visited Vjetrenica Cave in early October 2024. You can only visit the cave system with a guide from the site. It opened at 10.00am and we undertook the first …
Mostar (Inscribed)
Mostar
Whilst Mostar appears to have been traditionally been a day trip to visit from either Dubrovnik or Split in many posts, we choose to stay overnight in a visit in …
Plitvice Lakes (Inscribed)
Plitvice Lakes
I was not going to do a review on this well-known World Heritage Site, however I noticed that the last review was undertaken in 2018, so thought an update would …
Purnululu National Park (Inscribed)
Purnululu National Park
Some Sites it is the Destination itself, however the Purnululu National Park is a combination of the journey and the destination. There are a number of ways to get to …
Lord Howe Island (Inscribed)
Lord Howe Island
We were lucky with a Lord Howe Island visit in 2021, at the height of the COVID restrictions across Australia as travel was limited and this location and UNESCO site …
Australian Convict Sites (Inscribed)
Australian Convict Sites
In April 2022, we finally ticked off all the 11 Individual Convict sites that make up the 1 UNESCO site across Australia with a number of individual trips over the …
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Inscribed)
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
Most visitors to this site only visit the Naracoorte site, which is at the southern end of Australia with the Riversleigh Site up in North. I visited the Naracoorte site …