Where did you turn the corner and go "Wow!"

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SmithsInFrance

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In the MH, there have been two occasions when we drove round a corner and just went "Wow" - last week when we saw the chateau at Chambord, and last year at the palace at El Escorial in Spain. Both sights just took our breath away.
What about your "Wow!" moments?
 
When we were bringing the motorhome home after we bought it and seeing the Millau Bridge.
And every time I walked out the gate and saw the Pyrenees in the distance. Most beautiful place I‘ve ever lived.
 
We also enjoyed the El Escorial but whilst in the area we also visited the Valley of the Fallen where Franco is/was entombed and that was also a wow moment.

Now as a softy liberal lefty I don't like to admit that there is just something about the Fascist architecture..........there again they do a nice line in Rallies as well
 
going past the local sewage works on pump out day with the sun beating down. Now that did take my breath away, I was choking so bad

WOW! that made my eyes stream like a whole year of dog farts in one go

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Switzerland offers lots of opportunities for a "wow". The views and the prices mostly. 😊

But a good sunset takes some beating.

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Iceland. And it wasn't just one wow. The first time we took our campervan over we thought when we were past Jokulsarlon and heading east to get to Seydisfjordur that that would be the end of the wows, but it wasn't if anything there were even more.

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Up on the west coast of Scotlandshire just short of gruinard bay, I can't remember exactly but I nearly crashed the van. Came round a hairpin bend on the coast road and there it was, my beautiful scotland at its best, absolutely stunning sandy bay. I stopped there and tried a spot of fishing, cast out, stuck the rod in a sand spike and watched the gulls etc motionless on the water way out in front of me. Within an hour all was sand, gulls standing up, plonker!, the water was about 6" deep and the tide had gone out. I've never forgotten that day, very special and a precious memory.
 
When we were in the Pyrenees, towing a trailer, and realised that the single track mountain road had become impassable. A cliff on the one side, a 40ft drop on the other and a hairpin pin bend immediately behind us and no room to turn.

Actually the word wasn’t “Wow”, but I won’t repeat it here.

To be serious, the last time was on a Campsite near Chamonix. Sitting outside the motorhome looking up at the Alps when a snow avalanche happened. Even at the distance we were from it the sheer noise and spectacle had both of us saying “Wow”.
 
Chris said:
Where is that? Is it German built?
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Built by Belgian and French Jews and concentration camp internees, website here.

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Le plus gros blockhaus du nord de la France, témoin de cette sombre période que fut 1939-1945. Visitez et découvrez le blockhaus pour connaitre son histoire lors de la deuxième guerre mondiale
www.leblockhaus.com www.leblockhaus.com

Literally it appears from nowhere and is bloody huge!!!
 
big map said:
The coast of Croatia
The coast of Denmark.
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Always wanted to go to Croatia. Went to Denmark, never want to go back. I can only presume I went to the wrong place in Denmark. Just driving from Esjberg to Skive was up there with the most dull things I have ever done.

Croatia though, is on my must do list!
 

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