Comments | ganimede: Travelling to places unknown

ganimede

Travelling to places unknown

Apr 10, 2018 19:08

There was some discussion at work today about holidays and where people were going. I've not given it much thought at all this year; although I would rather like to go somewhere, I have no idea where! It's difficult, there's so many places I would like to visit but they're not possible at the moment. As it is, I will have to stay within the UK ( Read more... )

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hobbitblue April 10 2018, 18:55:54 UTC

Edinburgh's a great city, so somewhere near there with daytrips out to various pretty locales (my old uni town of St Andrews with the beaches, ruined cathedral & castle and ice-cream shops for example) as well as places in the city itself. You could take the train across to Glasgow for the architecture, art galleries and some great restaurants also. Or somewhere in Northumberland, there's the Beamish museum there, Lindisfarne island, the Angel of the North en route to wherever you end up and some gorgeous coastlines.

Money and healh no object I'd pick Canada, visit the Canadian love interest in Quebec and sample the great cuisine and arts stuff there (as well as quality time with the person in question.. *g*) or New Zealand for all that fab scenery shown in Lord of the Rings. I always fancied a cruise round the Greek islands but if I'm thinking boats I'd love one of the Viking River Cruises in Germany, their boats are amazing and then all the stop-off points along the Rhine, mmm..

ganimede April 10 2018, 20:08:37 UTC

I've been to Edinburgh about three times, it is an excellent city. I've been to St Andrews too actually. Never fancied Glasgow for some reason though.

I've only been to Greece once, I went to Halkidiki and travelled round the peninsular on a moped which was great fun. So many great places in Canada to choose from, you'd need years to see them all!

hobbitblue April 15 2018, 20:15:29 UTC

Its a good base to explore that part of the world but not so great if you've been there done that sort of thing for the city itself.. Glasgow never used to appeal to me but I was pleasantly surprised the time I went there (20 years or more ago!) and I'm sure its even better now..

Oh very cool, what a great way to see a place! :) Yes, and Canada is impossibly large also..

rogueslayer452 April 10 2018, 23:37:59 UTC

But where would you lot like to go if you were able to go anywhere at all?

Anywhere and everywhere, honestly. I've been having a strong wanderlust for a while now, mostly because it's really expensive to even travel out of state and it makes me feel rather constricted and I want to experience life in other places, in my own country, the rest of the world, everywhere.

If I were to narrow it down to four places, it would be: Japan, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Ireland.

But really, I want to travel the world someday, see all the places, all the countries and different cultures.

ganimede April 12 2018, 20:17:44 UTC

It's a shame you're in California, I know it's fairly easy to travel round different states in New England because they're so much smaller and closer together. That makes a good start for exploring!

qwentoozla April 11 2018, 04:00:26 UTC

I really want to go to Iceland too! I'd also like to visit the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain... a lot of European countries, really. I'd also love to visit India, and Cappadocia in Turkey... If only I had more time and money for travel!

ganimede April 12 2018, 20:20:49 UTC

I've been to the airport in Iceland, that's as far as I've got! Get yourself over to Iceland and I'll join you there :) I've been to a few places in Ireland, that was a really nice place to visit. I've not been to France or Spain though!

meathiel April 11 2018, 05:18:22 UTC

For me it's (usually) not a money problem but the fact that I'd hate to be stuck in a plane for 8+ hours ... ugh. So if that wasn't the case I'd love to travel to New Zealand, Canada (British Columbia to go whale watching!), California, Mexico, Peru ...

As I don't know where in the UK you've already been it's a bit hard to tell you where to go to ... BTW - Glasgow actually is pretty cool. I'd like to go again and visit all those cool art galleries we didn't have time for.

ganimede April 12 2018, 20:27:47 UTC

It's a lot time to be so constricted. I think the longest I've had was a flight to Atlanta which was about 9 hours. It was actually a trip to California so I changed at Atlanta and then went on to San Francisco which was another 4½ hours. It was a very long day!

I've covered most of the North West area pretty much! And a lot of Sussex because I have family down there. I think there's a lot of places on the south coast that are supposed to be quite nice, like Cornwall and Devon but they're also very busy with tourists too. I'm considering going to Wales again, although I was thinking of maybe somewhere like Whitby.

meathiel April 13 2018, 07:33:27 UTC

Whitby is really nice but swarming with tourists as well. What about York - Scarborough - Whitby ... that area?
And Cornwall is really, really nice, too. But yeah ... depending on the time of year too busy. I was in St. Ives in August once and you could hardly walk around because there were so many people.

ganimede April 13 2018, 18:08:49 UTC

I have been wanting to go back to York but I was thinking more for a day trip, I hadn't considered it for a longer holiday. I would probably go somewhere in mid-September because it'll be much quieter then and the weather is usually still pretty decent. Cheaper too!

chaquir April 11 2018, 06:02:14 UTC

I would love to go back to Mexico. I left a part of my heart there when we visited it. ♥ It's so gorgeous!

But when I look at the pics that Wouter is sending us now from his travels through Asia, I must say, the countries there àre tempting. SO pretty!

ganimede April 12 2018, 20:30:10 UTC

It's difficult when you've found a home from home in a far-off country. I left a large piece of my heart in Boston.