I thought about what Fiona had said,
the female lead in ‘The Bear Came Over the Mountain’
about her developing interest in Iceland,
how she looked at travel guides,
read accounts of famous writers who had visited,
Auden, William Morris,
but didn’t really plan to travel there herself.
There ought to be one place,
she said,
one special place,
‘you thought about and knew about
and maybe longed for
but never did get to see’
*have you a place like this?
John Malone 
I agree, John. And I haven’t seen the sea beach. I want to go snorkeling in Andaman-Nicobar. I long to but can never really get there. Once I visit it, there will still be the desert cities and the tea gardens left to see. I wish I could. I know I would.
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sounds like exotic places: I understand their pull; maybe one day …. but maybe Fiona is right 🙂
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Yup, I really do agree! There’re so many places which occupy a special place in our hearts, but which are unreachable or just impossible to visit right now…once everything becomes normal, we’ll probably fulfill our wishes 😄😎
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I suspect that too — but we’ll have to scramble to make up for lost time —
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many places I have yet to see –
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you won’t see them all, Beth: no way — you’ve got to settle on one or two 🙂 and then maybe ….
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one at a time and don’t have to see them all, I’ll see where life takes me, but I am just so full of wonder for the world, both near and far
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that’s the way to be, Beth; it’s the best path to take in this world; Buddha and Jesus and all the poets walked such a path; at any one time there would not be many walking it —
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Hi. I think that if someone can afford to visit the place of their dreams, and if all other circumstances allow them to go there, then they should go there.
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we will have to wait till covid releases its ugly grip, Neil 😦 but yes, airlines here are talking of international travel opening up by Xmas 🙂
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That’s a great question. I think yes, but I think it would just come down to a small cabin in the woods.
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a small cabin in the woods is a great place for an artist or writer to work; I can picture myself there beavering away at my blogs 🙂
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“Beavering away at blogs” love that!
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thanks Bob; every now and then I strike a felicitous phrase 🙂
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I just fulfilled one of those dreams. Hiked into Grey Owl’s cabin this past week. Still basking in that before thinking about the next.
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sounds like a great place for sustenance and renewal 🙂
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Absolutely, came back feeling lighter.
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I hope I get to see every place I want to. But if there is one such special place then that would be the North Pole. 🙂
I’m too afraid of the cold.
Just fascinated with it.
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:brrrrr; me too; Nepal: I always wanted to go to Nepal; I wrote a poem about it once called ‘Lost Horizons’; will see if I can retrieve it 🙂
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Thank God I got to see that place and it was pre-Pandemic in April of 2019. Jerusalem. Sacred ground. Underground passageways. Delectable Middle Eastern food. Beautiful churches, Magnificent hills, The tops of small mountains, The beauty as opposed to the warfare amongst the Golan Heights. The trip with my spouse, Kristine, was other worldly.
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good on you; you got to go to your special place: that’s one thing you can rub off your bucket list 🙂
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I’ve actually had a place I’ve wished to see for quite sometime: Paris, for the Eiffel Tower, (and the food) really draws me!!!😀😀😀
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Paris would be great; I only got to spend one day there in the seventies and we missed the Eiffel Tower 😦
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Oh no! That’s too bad!
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I’d like to visit the hidden parts of Greater Toronto, where I grew up. I grew up on the periphery and didn’t really have a chance to explore by GO Train or taxi … I’d like to give it a whirl.
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then you gotta do it, if it’s calling to you: special places always call to you 🙂
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I think I am resigned to never getting to many places. If there’s one benefit of this awful pandemic, it’s reduced travel –> reduced carbon emissions. Also, when we were in Turkey in 2009, we went to the Travertines. But they’d kind of been ruined by tourism so there was no water in them. They were trying to let the system clean out. It made me so aware of how places get overrun by human excitement. Even Mt Everest has traffic jams these days. So while there are many amazing and beautiful places I would love to go, I won’t be disappointed if I don’t get there. Perhaps leaving them to the imagination keeps them more magical. I have to say, when I got to see the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, I was utterly underwhelmed.
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thanks Worms; I feel much the same: the world is being over-run by tourists; are there travelers any more? I feel sick when I see such crowds: infestations by humans: gawking, polluting, debasing. There is talk of allowing cruise ships into Victor Harbor 😦 No No I shout, No!!! maybe there are too many of us, Worms; maybe that’s it?
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Hi John,
I’ve always wanted to see Fiji. Maybe one day. 😀
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I reckon Fiji you could manage; I stll haven’t got there but it’s not been big on my bucket list; for me, maybe Nepal 🙂
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I was in Nepal in my twenties, did a short trek, and I loved the place and people. Definitely worth going. The Nepalese are some of the kindest, sweetest people I’ve met.
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that’s tremendous, Eden; I still may get there 🙂
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I have been travelling a lot both in private and with work but I never been to Australia. Looking forward to a lock-up after Covid so I can go.
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if you make it to my hometown, Adelaide, be sure to let me know, It would be super, as the Austrians say, to meet in person 🙂
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Looking forward to that.
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we can sink a few beers over the barbie, enjoy some fine grilled steak and great wine, meet my sister and family —-and my partner, if I have one 🙂 we could go late into the night, Ulle; so much to talk about , so many jokes to crack …….
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That one special place…I have many places in my bucket list. And I’ve been fortunate to travel to many places. I long to visit Jerusalem, Australia, and Ireland (sorry, John, couldn’t pick one). But my favorite place, due to all the craziness of people inhabiting my favorite parks, will always be a cabin by the mountains and rivers, all alone.
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a cabin in the woods sounds an ideal retreat; I would like to see Ireland, the land of my ancestors, but it is unlikely, or Nepal; but I’m in a great country, Australia, so that’s pretty good 🙂
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Nepal would be wonderful! I have a friend who climbed there. She said it was a beautiful country with wonderful people. I have ancestry in Ireland 🇮🇪. I love your country!
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thank you: it is a special place — and I still call Australia home 🙂
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Wonderful!
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I appreciate yours too; our blogs share a certain optimism — except for my darker ones but they are fairly infrequent 🙂
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You’re welcome, John! I agree! 🙂
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