Post by: caninesapien on June 15, 2017, 04:20:14 PM
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)!
Post by: captain spaulding on June 15, 2017, 04:39:56 PM
Post by: Smashie on June 15, 2017, 05:02:13 PM
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.
Post by: dks on June 15, 2017, 05:09:04 PM
Post by: Mechanickal on June 15, 2017, 05:15:41 PM
the right woman can make any place heaven. the wrong one, hellIn your case men can do the same things... :ahhh
Post by: dks on June 15, 2017, 05:21:43 PM
Post by: Kev D on June 15, 2017, 05:22:08 PM
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.
Post by: Ron Who on June 15, 2017, 06:45:17 PM
Post by: glenfiddich1983 on June 15, 2017, 08:24:23 PM
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I can look at waves like this crashing into the shore for hours.
Here's another one:
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Post by: magentus on June 15, 2017, 09:37:10 PM
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.
Post by: glenfiddich1983 on June 15, 2017, 09:56:07 PM
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Picture can't capture the whole overwhelming feeling of the first look out of the window at this height.
Post by: glenfiddich1983 on June 15, 2017, 10:05:16 PM
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Post by: Steinar on June 15, 2017, 10:37:35 PM
Post by: kirk13 on June 15, 2017, 11:26:28 PM
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.
Post by: ColoSwiss on June 16, 2017, 12:50:49 AM
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.
Post by: ColoSwiss on June 16, 2017, 01:25:46 AM
And of course this is one of my favorite places :D
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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.
Post by: Aloha on June 16, 2017, 01:32:31 AM
Post by: AimlessWanderer on June 16, 2017, 01:39:07 AM
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.
Post by: carboncopy101 on June 16, 2017, 03:25:38 AM
Post by: kkokkolis on June 16, 2017, 05:41:21 AM
Post by: PTRSAK on June 16, 2017, 09:07:35 AM
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Post by: caninesapien on June 16, 2017, 10:23:16 AM
Post by: Mechanickal on June 18, 2017, 08:42:10 PM
...or dogs in your case?Just seen this one just now...
You're walking the lines here buddy :D :cheers:
Post by: sLaughterMed on June 18, 2017, 09:00:20 PM
Post by: Grant Lamontagne on June 18, 2017, 09:21:14 PM
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.
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Post by: JP on June 18, 2017, 11:15:34 PM
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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Post by: kkokkolis on June 19, 2017, 07:15:08 AM
Post by: JP on June 19, 2017, 01:04:36 PM
She doesn't, but she knows. I tell her everyday.You Sir, are a smooth operator.