If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be, and why?
I had another question to pose to the family, but David's pending trip brought this one up for me. I always wanted to move to Australia when I was a kid, until I learned how hot it is there, and just how many snakes live there. I love to read about Ireland and Scotland. Those are the two places I would visit if I could. I think they have been well romantasized, but I would love to see the castles. So my question is this: If you could visit any country in the world, with money as no object, where would it be and why?
posted by Jami at
11:06:00 PM
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I have always wanted to go to China and see the Great Wall adn the Forbidden City, and sail down the Yantze river. China is over 6000 years old as a nation. It is huge in land mass, and contains 1/4 of the world's population. I find it fascinating
Snakes are a problem wherever they exist, which includes where I live. That is why I love my dog, Little Bear, because she once killed one in the road.
I have always wanted to go to Switzerland. The scenery is beautiful, the architecture charming, and the customs quaint. Like Jami, I once wanted to go to Australia. When our kids were young we had this great idea that we would go homestead there, but that is one of those plans that thankfully did not ever come to fruition.
Carolyn--do you yodel?
BTW--if I had not been to England several times including one side trip to Scotland, it would have been my destination of choice.
Old Lady Who?
When I was in the 4th grade, I fell in love with Holland for the tulips, windmills, and wooden shoes and Switzerland for Heidi's home in the mountains. Well, by the time I finally got to Holland, you had to know where to go to see the few remaining windmills and the wooden shoes were in the gift shops, but the tulip fields were outrageously beautiful!
Switzerland is jammed with 'Heidi' scenery, but to really see it you must travel by car or bus. Their trains are terrific, but they have this habit of running through long tunnels that go underneath the most gorgeous mountain views. I was very lucky to see the Matterhorn one day... it is usually covered by clouds. One day in Zurich, I went to the train station to check on my train back to Prague. The lady was very efficient, very brisk. A few moments later, I realized I had made a mistake in not telling her I was leaving the following day instead of that day. So I went back and apologized for asking for the wrong information. The lady rose up, peered down her nose at me and said with a voice dripping ice, "Madam, all of our trains run at exactly the same time every day!" It's not only the watches...it's everything Swiss!
Where would I most want to go? I have always wanted to go to New Zealand, South Island, where the mountains come down to the sea,to hike the Milford Track. But I think I've missed the 'window' on that one. Some misplaced sherpas would have to lug me on their backs.
So now at the top of my list: Timbuktu, Samarkand, the London ferris wheel, Easter Island. I expect I'll travel there only in my dreams and Internet photos. More realisitc is a plan to go back to the Dolomite Mountains in northern Italy near the Swiss border...magical, jagged, dark, brooding, spooky place...some say made of coral seabed (turn pink at sunset) pushed up when the Indian subcontinent slammed into the rest of this part of the world....a few years back.
When I was in high school my friend went to Japan as a foreign exchange student. I envied her that oportunity, so I looked into a trip to France for a semester, but when I saw that the tuition rivaled that of a college semester I gave up on the idea. Here is where I would go if I could: Paris for the romantic setting; Ireland and Scotland for the castles and faeries; Italy in the wine country (not to drink, I just would like to see it all); Australia to spend a few months living in one of those dugout homes; the moon just to see what Neil Armstrong got to see; The bottom of the ocean (maybe I could find Atlantis); Spain because it also seems Romantic; okay so maybe I just want to go anywhere I have not yet been, which includes all but ten of the fifty states...
While searching for information on the blarney stone, I came up with the site http://www.blarney.com/ which allows people to purchase expensive irish gifts and pay outrageous shipping and handling to get them to the states...
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