Toronto, Canada - visiting cousins age 5, getting lost at Niagara Falls.
St Petersburg & Moscow, Russia - school trip - being freezing/hot/freezing/hot as we went in and out of buildings, (and being caught in a weird love triangle situation with Steven Angeli and Dimitra Kosta.)
Paris, France - art history trip with the sixth form. Vague memories of the Rodin Museum, much clearer memories of sitting around
Rome, Italy - walking all the way from Termini station to the Vatican, kind of like walking from Victoria Station to St Paul's, because we were too clueless to get a taxi.
Berlin, Germany - camping right in the middle of the Potsdammer Platz during a Roger Waters concert, shortly after the Wall came down (he was playing The Wall, profound hey?) Being handed a tab by a mad-eyed American and having our consciousness re-arranged.
New York, USA - visiting friends living on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, and feeling like you'd stepped into a Woody Allen movie. Saw Richard Dreyfus walking along the sidewalk, being trailed by his chauffeur-driven car, in case he should get tired.
Hanoi & Saigon, Vietnam - first (and last) time visiting the East, it was mind-blowing. Just getting out of the airport, sitting in the taxi weaving all over the road, and seeing waterbuffalo in the fields blew my mind. Arriving in Hanoi nearly made me pass out with excitement.
We liked Hanoi...
And various tripettes to Greek Islands, Amsterdam and Dublin, and a little sojourn in Barcelona.
After 35 years, this is a very poor show. Must get out more.
If you could go anywhere your heart desired, where would you go?
travelling
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sorry if this came up a million times in your feeds - I kept remembering people in different places.
North Korea. Before Bush rearranges their consciousnesses.
San Francisco. And never come back. Sadly I can't actually see this ever happening.
At this point, I'd go just about anywhere...but I'd really like to go to these places :
Ireland
Scotland - been once before and would like to go again
Sweden
Switzerland
Germany
Italy
Pretty much anywhere in Europe :-)
The Arctic Circle to see the northern lights.
I've probably travelled more in the last few years than at any previous time in my life. And oddly, I've been going to all the places that people who are 15 years younger than me go to on the backypacky jaunts.
But still, I've never been to South America. Quite fancy Rio, Machu Picchu, all the obvious bits.
In no particular order; Nova Scotia, Uruguay, Northern Finland and Shanghai.
I've not done any long-haul travel. Don't know if I could stand it actually!
So that could get in the way of my desire to visit New Zealand and Tokyo then.
A can't add anything special here as I visited just a couple of places: UK (London, Leicester), Germany (Berlin) and Czech Republic: (Prague, Brno)...
Home
Jack, there to have a merry singalong to "They Were Always Together on the Road to Bring about the People's Well-being" and "Great Leadership over the Drive to Successfully Build a Great Prosperous Powerful Nation"...
Patroclus - I'm guessing you've already been and liked it. I'd like to go, especially after seeing Tales of the City.
Hey Calista! I'm sure you'll get there. Matt is a very good host you know...
Mangonel, me too. I liked your post on Northern Lights, by the way.
Tim, your trip to Angkor Wat (sp?) looked amazing- pesky backpackers, they get everywhere.
The Curve, your choices made me laugh, I don't know why. Only you would choose Nova Scotia.
Betty, 'Ain't going on no damn airplane, fool' - maybe you could be heavily sedated a la Mr T. I bet NZ would be worth it.
Anywhere you want to go and haven't, Shyha?
Lucky you, Realdoc.
Anywhere my heart desired? Anywhere in the world?
Antarctica. Don't ask me why, I just want to go.
Matt, have I introduced you to Mangonel...?
I like staying at home a lot, but, if it's pure fantasy, then I want to go to Machu Picchu. (See you there, Tim. I'll be the one with the inhaler.) Fantasised ever since seeing pictures of it as a youngster. Perhaps a tad more realistic, because closer, is Jerusalem, which would still be exotic. India. Africa. China. And Finland, Finland, Finland (which I've been to, a gazillion times, and loved every second of).
Words 'anywhere' and 'everywhere' describe it pretty well :)
But from 'the most' list is Japan (especially rural parts), Oceania (Australia, NZ, Tahiti), Carribean Islands... all of the most obvious places :)
BiB, Finland, me too. And I could also get to meet Taiga the Fox. Berlin still seems exotic to me, if I'm ever there, I'll drop you a line.
Shyha - Japan - me too, very much. Everyone's favourite fantasy place is different though.
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