10-day meme: Day 5
6 places you want to go
+ Paris
I've never been to Paris (or any other European city, for that matter) in my life, and I have only an inkling of what it's really like, but I want to go there and see if it's as wonderful as I hope it is. One thing that's recently reminded me of how much I want to go there is the Paris scenes in An Education, the Polaroid shots on their trip, even though it was such a little part of the movie, it was lovely. I want to be surrounded with so much cultural history, stay in an old hotel, go into cathedrals, walk down streets lined on each side with stained white facades, visit the Louvre, read in cafes, and do whatever it is you do when you're a tourist in Paris.
+ Alaska
I'd like to go on a whale-watching cruise up in Alaska. I think whales are so majestic and gentle and beautiful/strange, it would be great to see them up close. I remember in fifth grade I wrote this story about a humpback whale migrating and getting caught by hunters, from the perspective of the whale, sort of like Tolstoy's story about horses (can't recall the title), if you know what I mean, anyway it was kind of silly but my teacher really liked it and had me read it in front of the class. Anyway, I love Alaska’s glacial landscape, the icy-blue, untouched, pure look of it.
+ Tokyo
This is pretty much self-explanatory. I want to stay overnight in a themed sex hotel and buy underwear from a vending machine, and go shopping for Lolita clothes and people-watch and eat a lot of various kinds of delicious and delightful junk food. Basically just have good old-fashioned urban fun in Tokyo, the first place I think of when I think of "urban."
+ Irish seashore
It seems so beautiful, impossibly green, the natural landscape entirely peculiar to the place. I'd like to stay in a cottage near the sea or something and just relax.
+ Caribbean islands
Because of those stunning-blue-water beaches, of course.
+ Rome
Again, because of all the cultural history. And because it seems so warm and sunny and well-worn. Because I’d like to lose myself there, amidst ruins and relics and in nighttime streets.
A disturbance in mirrors,
The sea shattering its grey one
+ Paris
I've never been to Paris (or any other European city, for that matter) in my life, and I have only an inkling of what it's really like, but I want to go there and see if it's as wonderful as I hope it is. One thing that's recently reminded me of how much I want to go there is the Paris scenes in An Education, the Polaroid shots on their trip, even though it was such a little part of the movie, it was lovely. I want to be surrounded with so much cultural history, stay in an old hotel, go into cathedrals, walk down streets lined on each side with stained white facades, visit the Louvre, read in cafes, and do whatever it is you do when you're a tourist in Paris.
+ Alaska
I'd like to go on a whale-watching cruise up in Alaska. I think whales are so majestic and gentle and beautiful/strange, it would be great to see them up close. I remember in fifth grade I wrote this story about a humpback whale migrating and getting caught by hunters, from the perspective of the whale, sort of like Tolstoy's story about horses (can't recall the title), if you know what I mean, anyway it was kind of silly but my teacher really liked it and had me read it in front of the class. Anyway, I love Alaska’s glacial landscape, the icy-blue, untouched, pure look of it.
+ Tokyo
This is pretty much self-explanatory. I want to stay overnight in a themed sex hotel and buy underwear from a vending machine, and go shopping for Lolita clothes and people-watch and eat a lot of various kinds of delicious and delightful junk food. Basically just have good old-fashioned urban fun in Tokyo, the first place I think of when I think of "urban."
+ Irish seashore
It seems so beautiful, impossibly green, the natural landscape entirely peculiar to the place. I'd like to stay in a cottage near the sea or something and just relax.
+ Caribbean islands
Because of those stunning-blue-water beaches, of course.
+ Rome
Again, because of all the cultural history. And because it seems so warm and sunny and well-worn. Because I’d like to lose myself there, amidst ruins and relics and in nighttime streets.
A disturbance in mirrors,
The sea shattering its grey one