Is it just me, or do others find that, however many dozens, or even hundreds, of pictures one might have seen, the actuality is so often more impressive than one expects? I have experienced this phenomenon in everything from Stonehenge, via the Wailing Wall and Botticelli's Primavera and Gaudi's Sagrada Famiglia and the St Petersburg & Moscow Metro stations and the facades of St Pancras & Antwerp & Milan stations and the Hollywood sign and the Euston Arch, to the Cambridge History Faculty building....

Do you find this ever?

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