Whats your favourite places... on earth...ever!?

[caninesapien]

Hi all

I love hearing about people's favourite places.This could be somewhere with a huge personal significance for you, an area of outstanding beauty, a memorable location/building - anything!

I'll get things started (hope that's ok!) with two of mine:

1) Hay-on-Wye, Wales, UK
A "town of books" on the Wales/England border. This has been one of my favourite places (if not my most favourite) ever... The town is just full of bookshops and I'm lucky enough to live a short drive away. My father started taking me there since I was about 5 or 6 and I got at least three times a year since then. I just get an incredible sense of calm and contentment there. One of my favourite ways to spend a day is to get up there early in the morning (driving through the misty Brecon Beacons on the way), and spending as long or as little walking around the town, relaxing, reading and generally getting my head together.

2) A boulder's edge at Grand View Point, Grand Canyon.
This sounds like a pretty typical one but hear me out! A couple of years ago my gf and I took a trip of a lifetime and I have the most clear, vivid memory of standing on the very edge of a jutting rock at Grand View Point and feeling my body fill with energy and excitement. It felt almost like an out of body experience... my muscles felt like they were "new" and I couldn't stop smiling - my head was spinning! It was obviously the adrenaline from standing so close to such a huge drop, but to stand on the edge of that famous canyon, as a working class Welsh lad whose family couldn't really ever afford expensive holidays in my youth, with my beloved next to me, was such a fantastic experience for me that this place in particular has become one of my favourite places on earth.

Now, your turn(s)!

[captain spaulding]

I would like to say I have a single favorite place on this earth but I cannot think of one location. I love exploring new places and enjoying sights I have never layed eyes on before. I enjoy just being able to walk this earth every single day and am so grateful everyday to be here. I may one day find that place but until then I am content searching.

[Smashie]

Where I was born and still have a lot of family - North Wales
Best in the summer - Hardangervidda National Park, Norway (NOT under any circumstances in the winter!)
Best in the Winter - Gunung Batukau Area, Indonesia. Just watch out for the snakes, 100 different types there, 99 are poisonous and the other one just eats you whole (just kidding).


Anywhere else as long as my son is with me.

[dks]

the right woman can make any place heaven. the wrong one, hell

[Mechanickal]

the right woman can make any place heaven. the wrong one, hell

In your case men can do the same things...

[dks]

...or dogs in your case?

[Kev D]

Cornwall, UK - I've been there so many times over the years. When I retire I'd like to move there, a lottery win will make that a lot sooner, I live in hope.

Worthy of an honorable mention is Oklahoma, US - I spent a lot of time there in 1999 to 2001 around the Muskogee/Fort Gibson area and loved the place. I'd like to go back sometime to see how much it has changed.

[Ron Who]

I like to sit down in the grass, on a sunny day, in the shade of a large tree, with some water running near by. It doesn't matter much where exactly.

[glenfiddich1983]

Places like this are among my favorite.



I can look at waves like this crashing into the shore for hours.

Here's another one:

[magentus]

Great thread idea.

I'll second Hay on Wye - amazing place.
Also:

Glastonbury (town, not festival) Something very magical about it.
Avebury - Same
Haresfield Beacon, Gloucestershire - beautiful quiet hillside with great views, caves and forest.
Uffington White Horse.
The Ridgeway - 5000 year old trading route stretching 87 miles and connecting many of the places mentioned above
Victoria Park in Bath - Squirrels, Jays, trees, peace, quiet.

[glenfiddich1983]

Freedom Tower observation deck. Such an impressive overview!



Picture can't capture the whole overwhelming feeling of the first look out of the window at this height.

[glenfiddich1983]

And of course this is one of my favorite places

[Steinar]

This was a good question, and it got me thinking. No, I can't say I really have a favorite place. But still, I want to play. Sitting by the river in Klosterbräu Bamberg's beer garden in summer... Schwärzla (their excellent schwarzbier (a style of dark lager)), pork, crackling... I have worse memories.

[kirk13]

There's a few for me...

Looking down on the Valley of Desolation,outside Graff Reinet in SA

Looking down stream along the Thames from Petersham Field toward Richmond.

Mickleham Down in Surrey.

[ColoSwiss]

Good memories about a lot of places. Hard to choose just one. Colorado, Utah, Norway, Switzerland, many others. One of the reasons I keep traveling.

Worst place is easier. Nevada. Its bad enough at 70mph. The idea of doing it at 12 miles a day like the pioneers is scary.

Norway fjords yes!

Nevada desert no.

[ColoSwiss]

And of course this is one of my favorite places

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Attractive looking place. Where is it?

Never mind. Just realized it says Glen Fiddich on the building. Sometimes the eyes and/or brains aren't up to speed.

[Aloha]

The coastline in California.   

[AimlessWanderer]

Santorini. Sat in one of the tavernas clinging to the edge of the rocks in Fira, watching the sunset over what's left of the volcano and the island of volcanic rock that has bubbled up out of the sea.

Castleton, Derbyshire. The caverns, Winnats Pass and Mam Tor

Robin Hoods Bay for a quiet getaway weekend, or if that's not quiet enough and you want to evade people altogether, the bothy on the isle of Taransay.

At sea, drinking gin and tonic, and staring off at a far away land that you haven't set foot on yet.

[carboncopy101]

We have this rice field in the province and in the middle of it it a small house a "kubo" theres a hammock there and the wind is so great that it's the best place to sleep.

[kkokkolis]

Many. Any Greek island, particularly Santorini. Or any seashore. In contrast, Manhattan. And a clearing on a mountain, 4:00am, under the light of a moonless night. Above all, on the bed my wife lies.

[PTRSAK]

Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand.

[caninesapien]

Great responses all, thanks! Some of these places look/sound amazing.

[Mechanickal]

...or dogs in your case?

Just seen this one just now...
You're walking the lines here buddy

[sLaughterMed]

This one is easy. Any place in the Hill Country area of Texas. Rolling hills, short oak trees , small streams and oppressive heat bring back fond memories, and overall my favorite sort of environment to be in

[Grant Lamontagne]

Blind River, Ontario.

There's not much in the way of shopping there, and even the closest cities (one an hour away, two more two hours away) aren't that impressive, but if you like a peaceful, outdoor lifestyle it's hard to beat.  There are lakes the size of oceans there, rivers, smaller lakes, trees, moose, bears, porcupines and many other animals, lots of woods to ATV and hunt in, snow for snowmobiling, snowshoeing or skiing in.

Plus it is the place of the closest thing I have to a familial home.  The Lamontagne family has always been blue collar laborers, whether it was farming, logging or mining, with occasional forays into building the railways.  I am sure my ancestors will shipped over in cargo class with the rest of the livestock- if they were lucky.  Some of them settled in Blind River and the surrounding areas because, well, they had to be somewhere and that was as good as any.

My father left when he was a young man because he didn't want to work in the mines or the railway, so he joined the military.  I never grew up there, but every time we moved we stopped there on our way by and I met relatives that I never knew before.

Then when my father retired he went back there, and I have grown to think of it as the home we never really had growing up, and I love it.  I love going there not just because that's where my parents are, but also because it is a fascinating place to be in it's own right- unless you are into the urban trappings of shows and shopping and so on.

Def

[JP]

Many. Any Greek island, particularly Santorini. Or any seashore. In contrast, Manhattan. And a clearing on a mountain, 4:00am, under the light of a moonless night. Above all, on the bed my wife lies.

Hmmm....does your wife have an account here? How will you cash those words in for brownie points?



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[kkokkolis]

She doesn't, but she knows. I tell her everyday.

[JP]

She doesn't, but she knows. I tell her everyday.

You Sir, are a smooth operator.