Modena was a daytrip visit from our base in Bologna. A 30-minute train trip. The previous review by Michael in 2023 is spot on and there is little I can …
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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20Jan. 1, 2026Last site visited for 2025 and first site for 2026: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal , …
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10Dec. 21, 2025Last UNESCO visit before Christmas.: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
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100Dec. 19, 2025Scooting across the top of France before returning to the UK: Amiens Cathedral, Belfries, Champagne …
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
- #191
- WHS
- 266
- Tentative Sites
- 54
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 30
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Tasmanian Wilderness 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Sceilg Mhichíl 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Great Wall 5.0
- Sydney Opera House 4.5
- Taj Mahal 4.5
- Wulingyuan 4.5
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
- Kakadu National Park 4.5
- Great Barrier Reef 4.5
- Plitvice Lakes 4.5
- Durmitor National Park 4.5
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.5
- Victoria Falls 4.5
- Olympia 4.5
- Epidaurus 4.5
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.5
- Uluru 4.5
- Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing 4.5
- Sigiriya 4.5
- Margravial Opera House 4.5
- Meteora 4.5
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Cesky Krumlov 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Dubrovnik 4.5
- Istanbul 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- Te Wahipounamu 4.0
- Chitwan National Park 4.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 4.0
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 4.0
- Agra Fort 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Zollverein 4.0
- Ningaloo Coast 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- Ohrid Region 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Purnululu National Park 4.0
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Gondwana Rainforests 4.0
- Pompei 4.0
- Shark Bay 4.0
- Borobudur 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 4.0
- Kotor 4.0
- Rhaetian Railway 4.0
- Prague 4.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 4.0
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 4.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.0
- Ferrara 4.0
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 4.0
- Red Fort 4.0
- Villa d'Este 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Hawaii Volcanoes 4.0
- Komodo National Park 4.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Würzburg Residence 4.0
- Brú na Bóinne 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Sighisoara 4.0
- Thingvellir 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Okavango Delta 4.0
- Zagori Cultural Landscape 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Pergamon 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 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
- Gorham's Cave Complex 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
- 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
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
- Amiens Cathedral 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Modena 3.5
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.5
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 3.0
- Trier 3.0
- ShUM Sites 3.0
- Monastery of Horezu 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Genoa 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Centennial Hall 3.0
- South China Karst 3.0
- Vilnius 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Rideau Canal 3.0
- Via Appia 3.0
- Beijing Central Axis 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 3.0
- Yogyakarta 3.0
- Québec 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Dacian Limes 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.0
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3.0
- Chief Roi Mata's Domain 3.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos 3.0
- Siena 3.0
- San Gimignano 3.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.0
- Provins 3.0
- Royal Palace at Caserta 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.0
- Sinharaja Forest 3.0
- Mostar 3.0
- Seville 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Historic Cairo 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Champagne 3.0
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Stecci 3.0
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge 3.0
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Studenica Monastery 3.0
- Florence 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Messel Pit 3.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.0
- Evora 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Corfu 3.0
- Gulf of Porto 3.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Nice 3.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.5
- Vjetrenica Cave 2.5
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana 2.5
- Le Havre 2.5
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.5
- Belem 2.5
- Troy 2.5
- Lyon 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.5
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 2.5
- Minoan Palatial Centres 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- Stari Grad Plain 2.5
- Bauhaus Sites 2.5
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 2.5
- Archaeological site of Philippi 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 2.0
- Roșia Montană 2.0
- Nancy 2.0
- Sangiran Early Man Site 2.0
- Royal Exhibition Building 2.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 1.5
Tentative Sites
- The Television Tower Stuttgart
- 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
- 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
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Archaeological site of Ancient Messene
- European Paper Mills
- 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
- City of York
- Parramatta Female Factory
- Central Park
- 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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Reviews by Twobaconsandaboston
Archaeological site of Ancien… (On tentative list)
I'm amazed it's still only a Tentative site
The Peloponnese Region of Greece is an archaeologists dream location. Already inscribed with 5 locations of great importance, this location equals those. On the tentative list since 2014 it still …
Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea… (Inscribed)
Finally visited the Trifecta
We visited the Monastery of Daphni in a tour back in 2017, which felt like we only touched the site at the time, so it was good to go back …
Archaeological site of Philip… (Inscribed)
A great little site with a nice museum
The last time this site was reviewed was over 6 years ago, so it needed a refresh. We visited this site in early October 2025. We had a hire car …
Mount Athos (Inscribed)
An interesting location that needs to change.
When researching visiting Mt Athos as part of my UNESCO Journey, I thought this was going to be one of my more difficult ones to achieve. I am not religious …
Corfu (Inscribed)
Corfu - A day visit location, but try to give it more.
Yes, like others, we did a day trip to Corfu. We wish we could have given it more though, but logistics did not allow it. Based in Saranda, you are …
Ohrid Region (Inscribed)
A week stay in Ohrid town
We based ourselves in Ohrid old town for 1 week in September 2025 to explore the town as well as the eastern coast of Lake Ohrid. We did not get …
Butrint (Inscribed)
Don't Visit during the Tourist Season
I was not going to do a review on this site as Frederik Dawson had only just completed one not more than 2 months ago, which I read prior to …
Medieval Monuments in Kosovo (Inscribed)
An Update on all four sites
We visited all 4 inscribed sites of the Medieval Monuments in Kosovo in August 2025. An update is provided on each of the sites for any visitors. I won't go …
Kotor (Inscribed)
Gulf of Kotor is more than just Kotor
The last review of this UNESCO site was nearly 5 years ago, so thought I would provide an update. We visited in October 2024 and stayed in Perast for 2 …
Gamzigrad-Romuliana (Inscribed)
A Palace named after his Mother
Our first inscribed site that we visited in Serbia. We visited on the 31 July 2025. Hiring a car from Belgrade we drove to Zajecar where we based ourselves to …
Negotinske Pivnice (On tentative list)
A sad site with potential
My expectations weren't high in visiting this site and sadly this came to fruition. Reading the previous comments, I was still expecting that some of the site would be 'open' …
Djavolja Varos (On tentative list)
Devil's Town
Devil's Town is the common name for this site located in Southern Serbia. We drove there on our way between Novi Pazar and Nis. It is bitumen roads all the …
Early Christian Necropolis of… (Inscribed)
Hidden Underground Gems in Pecs
This little gem of a place is tucked away in the southwestern corner of Hungary, a bit of a lonely island away from other UNESCO sites so a dedicated day …
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge (Inscribed)
Mehmed Paša Sokolovic Bridge
We were staying in Uzice in Serbia and caught a bus to visit this site located in Visegrad, Bosnia & Herzegovina. It was a 2hour bus trip that left at …
Su Nuraxi di Barumini (Inscribed)
Su Nuraxi di Barumini - The Nuraghi of Sardinia
Hiring a car to visit this site is your best option for a number of reasons. Public Transport is sporadic, organised tours are restrictive with times and there are numerous …
Biogradska gora National Park (On tentative list)
Biogradska gora National Park
What a wonderful National Park. We hired a car to visit this Tentative site at the same time of visiting Old Bar and the extension of the Tentative Primeval Beech …
Gulf of Porto (Inscribed)
Gulf of Porto
We visited the Gulf of Porto between 4 - 6 June 2025. We had a hire car and drove up from Bonifacio. We decided to drive along the Stradi di …
L'amphitheatre de Durres (On tentative list)
L'amphitheatre de Durres
We stayed in Duress for a week in early June 2025 and took the opportunity to visit this TWHS site. I have noted the other reviews and sadly the site …
Val di Noto (Inscribed)
Val di Noto
This WHS was last reviewed in 2021, so I thought I would provide an update in 2025. We have been based in Syracuse (another UNESCO site) for the last 3 …