Overrated? Well, OK, Maybe

Harajuku. Mary and I did get a chance to see it at its height and it was something. If it's overpriced, commercialized blandness now then that's too bad. I'll miss you, Little Bo Peeps!

Little Italy. It was pretty much gone by the time I first visited New York. Not sure if anyone is really looking for it nowadays anyhow.

Restaurant Weeks. Well this one I'll disagree with a little. We've been to a couple of nice places during these events and got food we wanted and at a price that was considerably lower than we would have normally. Of course this type of thing almost certainly varies by city, so what do we know?

Carnegie Deli. Never been. The author thinks Katz's is better and I've been there and would go again. Of course on the day I went, the famously curt countermen were all apparently taking a vacation, as I was given a free sample and treated with great courtesy and refinement. I feel like I was gypped.

The Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. I'd probably been to London six or seven times before I finally went to the Changing of the Guard and we really only did that because we were staying at the Goring and it's just around the corner. I think this is more the kind of thing you always do just to say you did it and not because it's something so wonderful and amazing that your life will be incomplete without it.

The Sears Tower. Never understood why people are so entranced with the highest building in wherever. Climb a mountain, you plonkers!

The Wynn hotel in Vegas. Gots to agree with the author here. For a supposedly five star hotel it's remarkably pedestrian. And - it's Vegas! It should be over the top and cheesy and show off incredibly bad taste. The Wynn could be a nice hotel in Des Moines, if Des Moines were ever in a position where it needs a couple of thousand more hotel rooms.

Vancouver. Really only been through the airport there. Don't know anything about it. Rains a lot, doesn't it?

Venice. Oh, I agree wholeheartedly with this one. Glad I went, don't want to go again. It's overpriced, cramped, overrun with tourists, and really if you want Italian art treasures - go to Florence. I think it's something like Buckingham Palace you have to do sometime so you can say you did, but it's not worth a repeat visit. Only a lot more expensive.