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Agreed about Alcatraz. I went there on the first trip of the day in November years ago, it was an overcast and dull day and there were only about 15 of us on the trip. Depressing but very atmospheric and a bit of a shock to this Southern softie. Looked like an easy swim back to the mainland but...

I need to get myself to New Orleans, nearly went two years ago but ended up in Cascais instead :shrug:

I know that there are some real high flyers on NSC, but I never realised we had an actual astronaut who had been to the moon :bowdown:

Going against the grain of virtually everyone I know who has been there I was seriously underwhelmed by New York Pick any one of a multitude of songs about there

Worthing, Clapham, Margate? What sort of life do you live to have thought those places were ever vaguely romantic? :lolol:

Stay on the seafront and all is good, go back literally just one street and it’s a complete shithole was my impression on a short visit

Indeed, another disappointment for me :down:

Right on three counts, yes it is a bit niche and yes Nashville is much nicer than Memphis which I was shocked to find had beggars, the music connections make both must visit if at all possible though :thumbsup: Gracelands, apart from the OTT entrance is a really nice place and not at all...

I really liked San Francisco, especially the gay area with some wonderfully coloured houses and interesting shops (Does Your Mother Know) and restaurants. In contrast I thought LA was an absolute shite hole :shrug:

True, I love Barcelona but like all big cities it does have some very shit areas. Valencia is somewhere that improved dramatically around the time they hosted the Americas Cup.

Route 66 I made a (very short!) detour to drive the road of my dreams when I was in Amarillo. The road quality was more third world than the roads in Worthing, although not that obvious in this photo

The New Jersey Turnpike I should have known better but at the time I had no idea what a turnpike was "Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping I'm empty and aching and I don't know why Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They've all come to look for America All come...