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What's one place (or many) you've always wanted to go but thus far never have?
For me, Bhutan.
Iceland.
What's one place (or many) you've always wanted to go but thus far never have?
For me, Bhutan.
What's one place (or many) you've always wanted to go but thus far never have?
For me, Bhutan.
The place I always wanted to go ever since I was a teenager was Paris, France. But now I've been there something like five times, and although I still can't get enough, well.... I've been there.
(I speak French passably well now, by the way. Learned it mostly from African refugees here in the States, so I'm sure the Parisians think I sound like a black girl. I did get some funny looks last time I was there. )
Next "wish I were there" place was Venice, Italy. We went there in April last year, after a week in Paris... and it was a blast!
(Learned a little bit of Italian beforehand, but secondary languages include German and French... not much English, but menus are available.)
The best part of Venice was taking the "vaporetto" -- the bus boat -- to the different islands around Venice. One island used to be a military base in WWI... but now it's overgrown and colonized by pygmy goats. They were put there to keep the vegetation in check... and whoever bought them wasn't choosy, so there are all different kinds of little pygmy goats. They have straight horns and curly horns; twisted and curved; long fur and short; shaggy and silky. There are so many goats that we decided not to try to pass the herd even though they weren't aggressive, because we figured that as long as they were peaceful, it was in our best interest not to arouse their ire -- those horns looked sharp!
So we had a quiet picnic, just my hubby and me, on a berm that overlooked both the channel and the field where the goats were hanging out... and not another soul in sight.
That was the great thing about Venice... if you did a little exploring, you could end up on an island totally away from the crowds.
-- Paravani
Normandy beachheads.
Machu Picchu.
Solomons and Vanuatu.
A summer paragliding western Europe.