Sunday 27 February 2011

The List of Things to See According to Jayne

Singapore
Some animal night thing
10 story technology building that sells things
University of Art (or Architecture)
Malaysia
Dunno
Thailand
The floating night market
Horseshoe Point
Cambodia
(taken care of by tour)
Laos
(taken care of by tour)
China
(taken care of by tour)
Kyrgyzstan
(taken care of by tour)
Kazakhstan
(taken care of by tour)
Uzbekistan
(taken care of by tour)
Turkmenistan
(taken care of by tour)
Iran
(taken care of by tour)
Turkey
Istanbul
Hagia Sophia
The Basilica Cistern
The Blue Mosque
Topkapi Palace - look at the stables
Ferry from Europe side of Istanbul to the Asian side - food better there
Two big markets - the Spice market
stay at the Angel Hotel
Other
Selcuk
Ephesus
Greece (Crete)
That one that Kevin McLeod went to that's up a hill.
Croatia
Dunno
Italy
Rome
Forum
Coliseum
Pantheon
food
Trevi fountain
Spanish steps
(get Roman Holiday before you leave and watch it)
(get the card that gets you into the major sites)
Vatican City
St Peter's Basilica
Sistine Chapel
Various Chapels (sounds awful, but the DaVinci Code tours are kind of interesting)
Tempietto
Column of Marcus Aurelius
Don't stay in the M&J Palace
Other
Don't forget if you buy drinks at some bars you get free food
Orvieto - stay in the monastery
Florence - everything (Santa Croce - tombs of Galileo, Michelangelo)
gelati every where you go
Venice - stay with the nuns out on the island
Germany
Baden-Baden
France
Paris
Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries - Musee de Cluny
crepes from the creperies
Notre Dame
Other
Loire Vally - Chateau de Chambord, Chateau de Chenonceau
Versailles - Mary Antoinette's fake peasant village - stables (Bartabas)
England
Catch P&O from Calais to Dover
London - Cambridge - Peterborough (cathedral - Catherine of Aragon) - Sheffield - York (York Minster) - Harrowgate (Bettys Tea Rooms) - Richmond - (Hadrian's wall) - Keswick/Windermere (Beatrix Potter) - Pitlochry - Oban (really good sea food place up stairs somewhere near a night club) - Luss - Original Loch Fyne at top/left of Loch Lomond
Orkney - standing stones
Scotland
see above
General
Appassionata

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