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I was just wondering where everyones favourite place would be if they had the time, money and, dare I say it, permission from the other half!?
Dave Farrant
19-12-2003, 16:35
I don't think it would be so much where, as with whom, I would like to be.
Anywhere with some good freinds, round a campfire and stories to relive of the days adventures. That is what I would call Ideal.
for me it would be the desert :-D
any desert in north africa or the middle east would do
larry the spark
19-12-2003, 20:14
I loved the lakes and forests of Finland though very 'samey' for miles around, and I adore the Highlands of Scotland but my dream destination would be the Rocky Mountains or the forests and mountains of New Zealand methinks. One day, one day...
bigjackbrass
19-12-2003, 22:45
The Maine woods. Sigh...
For living, I would pick the upper peninsula of Michigan, for sheer wilderness beauty, western Montana and British Columbia although I also love Finland, especially the Punkaharju area.
I'm with Stuart.... the desert is just so peaceful ;-)
Ed
It's not the desert you guys are on about but I love Canadian winters, the tundra etc... Peaceful and clean. I did three winters out there and loved them. Now I just wish I had the dosh to go back!!
I'd go for British Columbia/Yukon/Alaska.
When my boys are old enough, we'll be out there with gold pan and fishing rod!
For me it has to be Alaska, although Artic Sweden around Absiko comes a close second.
If i had the cash climbing in Antartica would be cool.
there are so many places i'd like to go. some places i have already been, i just wish i had the knowledge i have now back then. :-? 8-)
the idea of the yukon holds a special magic for me.
mostly i'd like to win the lottery and go and visit a load of friends around the world, to see what their local playgrounds look like. 8-)
cheers, and.
Lapland, I was there this summer and hopefully going back this summer. A more peaceful an beatiful place is hard to find.
Alesjaure July 2003
http://hem.passagen.se/jedi29/abiskokeb2003/foton/dag_2/slides/15.jpg
bigjackbrass
21-12-2003, 20:39
Lapland, I was there this summer and hopefully going back this summer. A more peaceful an beatiful place is hard to find.
I'll be there this time next week and I'm greatly looking forward to it. Prior to this the furthest north I ventured into Sweden was Stockholm.
Praires of Alberta or even better the mountians around Banff or wainwright - in other words Canada!
We have friends in a town called "Swan River" in Canada. I have a hankering to go there in the near future. Sounds Idyllic
My ideal place is the countryside around Oban in Scotland. Oban also contains the finest independant backpacker hostal it has been my pleasure to stay in.
I would dearly love to see some of the wild places of Canada and New Zealand. not very likely, but there's always the lottery...
Milton Park Wood in Dorset.
This woodland has everything!........if you are into woodlands that is!
The woodland gives off a wonderful aura. It is loaded with history and you can trace it’s land use and it’d landowners from the Saxon period right up to the 21st century. It has some wonderful examples of tree fashions throughout the century’s and you can still see them and touch them and carve your name in them like people have done for generations. You can get lost in there and it is a Bushmans dream. Like most woodlands you can free the it’s romance and smell it’s history and you can forget all your problems...................... ..
Jack
Powderburn
10-01-2004, 00:26
there are so many places i'd like to go.
mostly i'd like to win the lottery and go and visit a load of friends around the world, to see what their local playgrounds look like. 8-)
What Andy said! I've made so many friends around the world and want to share a campfire with all of them in their ideal places. :uu: 8-)
Roger Gregory
10-01-2004, 14:09
A few favourite places, given the chance....
The Vaynol Arms, Llanberis pass - supping Guinness and swapping lies with departed friends, followed by sitting under the stars watching the satellites pass over while handing round a bottle of single malt....
The Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire - just watching the deer and the birds
Then again, I want to visit Canada. Hudson Bay in June.....
Roger
Womble
I agree - the area surrounding Oban is a wonderful place. Especially as it is not far from Glencoe.
I do a lot of wrok at the coastal quarry on the other side of the loch. Where abouts is the hostel?
I would like to go to Finland someday in summer.
My favorite places on earth are the deserts. That is why I chose to live in the Sonoran Desert. I feel so good when I'm in the desert. One place high on my list is Death Valley. Not in summer though.
I was in a part of northern Arizona early this week and got to hike all though this landscape. I found signs of acient stoneage life here. I didn't want to leave.
http://photos.imageevent.com/boynhisdog/endlessjourney//Surreal.jpg
gurushaun
11-01-2004, 02:12
Glen
As always your photography leaves me absolutely awestruck, both with the subject matter and its execution :-D
Cheers
Shaun
Great Pebble
11-01-2004, 13:10
Wilson's Prom National Park, Victoria, Australia.
But.....
Only if I can get there overland by Land Rover.
Someday...
Nick in Belfast
Northern Finland - we have friends in Sumosalmi , near Kajaani where we spent ten days in a hunting cabin seven years ago. Superb...
or
Joshua Tree USA where we were six years ago...
but best of all..
Here on Islay, where the wilderness meets the sea. Great for everything except snow.. :-D [/img]
Rob:
I can't remember the name of the street it is on, but it's in town, just opposite what was (in 2001) an Irish themed basement pub. Of course, being an independant Backpackers hostel it's full of aussies, kiwis & north americans, who are doing the highlands; but it's got THE most comfortable comfy chairs I've ever sat in!
anywhere with trees and some like minded friends to share them :-D
Thanks Womble, I will check it out next time I escape the island for an evening on the beer :-D
Anywhere out in the woods will do me, preferably somewhere that I can light a fire and do a bit of rovng without fear of shooting anyone :lol: Helps if you have some like minded company too. :-)
A few favourite places, given the chance....
The Vaynol Arms, Llanberis pass - supping Guinness and swapping lies with departed friends, followed by sitting under the stars watching the satellites pass over while handing round a bottle of single malt....
The Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire - just watching the deer and the birds
Then again, I want to visit Canada. Hudson Bay in June.....
Roger
Bloomin eck !! Not been in the Vaynol for ages. Is Gregor still the landlord ?? :-)
Not been to the Vaynol for years ...and it's just down the road from me!!! :shock: :-?
Make 2 of us.
Used to spend alot of time in the Vanyol at uni when I was supposed to be climbing.
Then nip down to Pete's Eats for breakfast- just until it stop raining enought to go out (honest).
Pete's still there!
Make 2 of us.
Used to spend alot of time in the Vanyol at uni when I was supposed to be climbing.
Then nip down to Pete's Eats for breakfast- just until it stop raining enought to go out (honest).
[quote="Adi007"]Pete's still there!
[quote="EdS"]
Sure is. Was there a few times last year post walking cuppas. never tried the vaynol pub though, sounds like I am missing out.
Paul
TheViking
18-07-2004, 16:39
Hi...
I think I would live in a selfbuild log cabin in the great woods of Canada! :o): :o): :o): :wink:
Praires of Alberta or even better the mountians around Banff or wainwright - in other words Canada!
Yep with you on that, but also like Grytviken in the southern Hemisphere and ULu Tutong in the tropics.
To be honest just about anywhere in the great outdoors has it's own beauty and as a result I wouldn't mind where too much, but the above would be preferable :wave:
I'd like to see the highlands...like go walking there one summer (I go to Scotland every year...but down south). I'm hoping to go to university in Svalbard (www.unis.no), and see what the arctic is like, and I think they do an expedition to the north pole once in the year. I'd be studying arctic geophysics normally. But it's just an idea for the moment...
Then I'd like to live in Norway (or Svalbard but I might get fed up of the not-so-good snow: I'm a skiing fanatic), in some not-too-remote place (not a city, but well placed for work, accessibility, mountaineering etc.) And if it's possible from the training I'd get in Svalbard, become an Arctic/Antarctic scientist, and go off to the poles for scientific expeditions.
I'd quite like to visit a bit of Canada too (great snow there I got told), get a taster of a jungle (like a one week course, anywhere with big fat bamboo), and maybe see Mongolia, Siberia, the Rockies and Australia.
As for hot, sandy deserts of Africa and middle east...well I don't like heat much, so that's out of the question. And arctic deserts are also calm (I imagine). Australia would be hot though.
Basically, I'd like to live anywhere where it's possible to ski, and have some real wilderness quite close, where I could do ski or telemark touring. (You can't go anywhere here without a trace of civilisation), and travel to those other places just to see what they're like.
Inverinate on the shore of Loch Duich, a tiny little place about 12 miles or so from Kyle of Lochalsh, West coast of Scotland - or Otter Haven area on Skye.
Spent best weekend ever there last October.