I think it is sometimes the situations you are in or the folk you meet in places not even so touristy In a roof top hot tub in the mulberry savannah GA,some 20 years ago when the place was still decked out original colonial decor Sat there supping a can overlooking the Savanahh river with a full moon and a paddle steamer setting off on a nights jaunt It was unreal Back to the room and looking out over courtyard a limo rolls up and a coloured girl decked in white steps out and behind her a giant of a fella with large trilby and white full length coat Who is that, it was George Foreman checking in Couldnt tell anyone all pre tinter tex Just lucky to do it at my age then Top class hotels at Premier prices back then over there
No I didn't Stan, but Carmel was a strange place, just totally different to anywhere else I have been in the States.
Whitby. Cropredy (little village near Banbury in Oxfordshire, home to a wonderful music festival). Yorkshire Dales, Yorkshire Moors, Yorkshire Wolds. Cornwall. None of this foreign muck.
In the late 70s you could rent a bicycle at any of the entrances to Central Park and ride around, you could get a dollor joint where you got the bike, really good weed, as you biked around there was music, people playing sports, comedy. You could leave the bike at any of the entrances. I got smashed out of my head there and fell asleep on the grass. Smoked it, fell asleep on it... Great day!!!
Home. Its here that I know best, the area is familiar to me with all its pluses and minuses, I don't wander around just looking at the best bits, I know I have to careful at certain times and unfortunately these days I don't like being out after dark, just a sign of the times I suppose. I have seen many wondrous places around the world and of late I have been visiting many places in England, some truly spectacular, but I don't know the places like I do with being home. I'm just back from deepest Essex, Brentwood/Romford, again some nice areas and architecture no more no less but much of a muchness, just like many places these days. Beaches don't interest me I've seen enough piles of sand during my working life on building sites without sitting for hours in the stuff, so I just wander around wherever I go and not just to the touristy bits. And here lies the problem, with not knowing the area I don't know what dangers there may be but just 'wandering around' and sticking to the touristy bits is not often seeing the best bits. Benidorm, not exactly know for its architecture and culture, but you would be surprised at what I've found away from the bars and beach's, and for a couple of euros a bus ride to Alfaz, Altea and Albir brings more sites worth seeing. Having said that wondering around the insides of the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge was just awesome. Greece is a wanderers paradise, if you like old ruins that is, its just so hot in the summer. As for America, its hard to pin down, the 'have a nice day' thing just seems to be imprinted in the culture, I'm not sure it means anything but its certainly a different experience. I have not visited another country where I have flown in November like I did from Las Vegas in shorts and t-shirt and landed in Denver during a snow storm no wonder I got some funny looks. But travel is a bug I have, mostly the UK these days but its always nice to be back home.
Not really a favourite place but memorable, in its own way. Dungeness. please log in to view this image
City wise love Vancouver and Amsterdam, nature wise has to be Banff or jasper in the Rockies, beautiful
Spent a week in santa cruz,hated it,so did the couple i was staying with,helped them move back to SoCal at the end of the week ,not that keen on san francisco either,but i'm definatley in a minority there.
Well if we're going down this road I once went to Harlow, and survived. I also lived, yes actually lived, in Slough!
Historically, geographically and geologically, areas of Denmark and the Netherlands are effectively less foreign to someone from Hull/East Yorkshire than Cornwall. And only relatively recently linguistically. There was a great map, for history/geography data geeks such as ourselves, I saw that showed journeys from UK cities around 200 years ago (estimated obviously) and there were far more interactions and travel between Hull to Scotland and Hull to Scandinavia/NW Europe than into Lancashire or towards London... shipping/fishing being the obvious reasons. There was practically zero correspondence or travel to the south west. EG
As its just over 3 and a half hours away it's very similar to us going to many mediterranean countries. Whilst I was there some years ago now many of the younger Australians went to Kuta for the wind surfing.Got invited to attend a religious ceremony in one of the temples in the hills but had to dress in local attire. A real experience.
