Favourite places

What parts of the world do you travel to or would like to and why? Even if it's just a few miles away or on the other side of the world I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Or, are there parts of the world you just want to rave about how brilliant it is in general? Just write about it here.

betsy-co-ed (sp?) in wales, has a gorgeous waterfall!!!! could sit next to it for hours, the last time i was there i sat there and a robin was sitting next to me was amazing.
Then niagra falls was a place i would love to go back to such awesome power there.
And i adore california, it has some gorgeous beaches, venice beach is gorgeous as is laguna just sit at watch the waves crash on the shore.

ha ha just read my post and realised its totally and utterly to do with water.

My favourite place has to be glastonbury its not a million miles away but it has to be one of the most magicaly charged places in britain you can realy feel it especialy by the chalice well.

Hmmmm i feel a bus journey coming have not been there for a month or two.The only downside is some of the prices but they have got some amazing things.

I feel very fortunate to have seen a lot of beautiful places and met a lot of wonderful people but I think my favourite places are mostly in Paris - near the Seine, the Left Bank (the arty area), the area by Notre Dame and the Opera district there as well. We almost moved there at one time.

I love the Isle of Wight (southern areas) as well. Most of all I love our flat. I just love being at home more than anything in the world! We even have a view of the bay right across to Uphill church and Brean Down. We're very happy here.

I've travelled all over the UK but I have never been to Glastonbury! What's it like and what's there?

WEll, i LOVE Somerset....mainly cos because it has some of my fav favourite people in the world in it, but also its actually quite pretty, lol.

I desperately want to go to Thailand! The culture interests me so much and i love the scenery, its magnificent!!

I also want to go to Japan, cos because the whole Japanese culture intersts me no end, i love everything about it.

America is another of my places i want to go.....Calafornia, New York and San Fransico are some of the places i wanna go....and see my Uncles house...he liives out there, lol

Mexico. I loved it so much when i first went, and the MAyan Pyramids were absolutely fantasic!

thats about it for the moment, lol.

Wow, Mayan Pyramids! I'd love to see those!

Only been to Thailand on business but would love to travel around there one day.

If you want to know about Japan, I was there a long time ago but can tell you a lot of stories.

i'm very simple + only lov going 2 pizza hut which is 30 seconds walk 4 me

i thought you never came on here.....

Lunarcraft wrote:

Glastonbury is truly magickal but very commercialised as it exploits the special atmosphere, which I think detracts from the nature of the area.

That's a shame Sarah. Still, I think we'll probably still go and have a look around. It must still be worth a mooch.

Lunarcraft wrote:

I must say though that I do really love living in this area - there are so many beautiful places close by that cover the range of environments ... I am happy so long as I am near water!!!

We're the same, and we always love to be near water. It's very important to us actually.

I cannot reccomend glastonbury enough i agree its turned way way to commercial but theres still a few hidden treasures to be found.The high street has some amazing shops but your pockets need to be lined with gold.But if you are prepared for a ten minute walk up to the top of the high street and turn right for about 300 yrds you find The Chalice Well where the glastonbury spring appears from under the tor a truly magical place.They also hold workshops ,wiccanings and handfastings there as well as the most stocked book shop ive ever seen all those books you have seen online and thought i would love to read that its there.

Then of course theres the tor itself well worth the climb without a doubt the views on a good day are truly spectacular you can even see uphill hill.

You dont have to go down the commercial root ive been many times on the bus with a just a fiver.And everytime i come back charged with a new possitive energy.

I hope that persuaded you to go ook because id love to here what your impression of this truly powerfull place is.

p.s im married with three kids now so that fiver is now more like £30 but still worth every penny.

Thanks Matt,

I know we will definitely go. It won't be for some time as Gina is not travelling very much these days but i'm sure that once Winter comes it will be one of the first places we visit.

Thank you very much for the recommendations!

I really want to go to Japan...
but I also want to go back to Peru, Egypt, Greece, Death Valley/Grand Canyon, Turkey and places like that that I have already been to!

Wow, you're very well travelled. I ave never been to those places and would love to go.

Japan is a very interesting place to visit. Anywhere in particular you want to go to?

nope not really just around japan so I get to see all the main parts like ofcourse Tokyo but also I'd want to go around the japanese countryside and maybe some traditional temple type things... but yeh

There are some amazing sights to see.

Mount Fuji is close to where my father was brought up (in a Buddhist temple funnily enough) in an area where they are famous for their green tea. I was taken up into the tea growing hills when I visited as a teenager and it was beautiful. As I walked near the tea plantation dozens of ladies with large baskets on their backs suddenly popped up (almost synchronised!) from behind hundreds off tea bushes and waved to me. Very friendly.

Another place I visited was a large temple on top of a hill in a forest. The path up to the temple was through the forest and a winding hill path lined with hundreds of mini gods with offerings of food and mini hats and coats all the way to the top. What a sight to see.

Tokyo is a strange place - old and new mixed together. I was walking past many modern shops in a famous old district of Tokyo once (I think I went to meet a friend) and suddenly I was standing at the huge ancient old gates of a famous temple with two large carved gods guarding the entrance. As I stepped through the gates I entered a small bustlung market which was quite modern but in the centre of the market would be monks with the very large round straw hats that hide their faces. They would stand there in their old traditional priests clothes and hold their religious stringed beads in hand while also holding a bowl for any donations for their survival. Then the old temple would loom up ahead and suddenly you'd feel like you were in 14th Century Japan.

Quite a strange experience and well worthwhile.

Got loads of stories like these.

cool Mount Fugi is one of the places I really want to go!

Years ago I was told people went on pilgrimiges to Fuji.

Hokusai was a famous Japanese woodblock print artist who made hundreds of prints with Fuji (just one set being called the Hundred Views of Fuji). He spent his entire life trying to capture the essence of Fuji in his art and on his deathbed he made one final attempt which was a single line drawn as an outline of Fuji - he said he was happy and it was what he had always wanted to achieve, then he passed away.