What places do you like to visit?
@jewelenterprises (1996)
Australia
March 21, 2008 6:12am CST
I'm considering a holiday and would like to get some recommendations. I'd also like to learn more about some other places.
When on holidays I love to visit churches, Cathedrals and sometimes even temples. I find them to be fascinating places... another thing I like to visit is graveyards (morbid I know). I like to read the inscriptions on the gravestones even though sometimes they make me cry.
I remember one graveyard I visited in Beechworth, Australia. One of the graves belonged to a woman credited with having brought in the first rabbit infected with miximatosis (spelling? Anyway, it's a disease that blinds, cripples and eventually kills rabbits) This rather infamous woman was given nothing more than a large boulder with a plaque as a gravestone.
So what places do you like to visit when on holidays? And what type of attractions?
6 responses
@jewelenterprises (1996)
• Australia
4 Jul 08
Never let go of your dreams, apply yourself and plan toward them... they will happen!
@VeronicaWilson (15)
• Berlin, Germany
21 Nov 13
Hi.. kakafly...Milan, Italy is also my favorite destinations, i love villas and beach resorts of Milan. I wish your dream comes true soon..
@AnnieP (24)
•
12 Apr 08
If you like visiting churches then go to Malta. They say they have at least one church for every day of the year! The most spectacular one is one which was bombed during the second world war and was not harmed in any way. Now that is spooky. Fantastic graveyards can be found all around Britain. The best one I have been to is in Whitby the home of Dracula....
@jewelenterprises (1996)
• Australia
14 Apr 08
Yeah, that sure does sound spooky... it makes you wonder doesn't it.
The thing I love with graveyards is reading the epitaphs... you can find out some really interesting things from them... especially the ones with a family plot (ie. more than one member of the family buried in the one grave) I remember reading a really sad one once where there was a 1 day old baby buried, then 11 months later another baby, just two weeks old... followed by the mother just four weeks later from a 'broken heart'. How sad is that?
Whitby is the home of dracula?.. I thought that was supposed to be Transylvania in the US
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
22 Mar 08
I also like to visit buildings with lovely architecture like churches, cathedrals synagogues, temples and mosques. I have been to Jerusalem and seen the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock. I have a very old church in my home town and it is on a hill top overlooking the sea. It has an interesting grave yard. I can see that you read some fascinating grave stones.
I really love to travel and tropical countries and islands are my favorite places to go. I have been to Samoa where I saw a Polynesian pyramid in the rain forest, some spectacular water falls, some exciting bole holes and some beautiful palm fringed beaches. I have been to French Polynesia where I cycled around an island and went out on a snorkeling trip to see sharks and sting rays. I have been to Belize where I enjoyed staying in a tree house, went on a cave adventure and climbed Mayan ruins. I love to see native wildlife. I have seen kangaroos and koalas in Australia, dolphins and penguins in New Zealand and lions and zebras in Kenya. I like to meet the local people, hear a foreign language and find out about other cultures.
@jewelenterprises (1996)
• Australia
22 Mar 08
You sound like a well travelled person :) Good for you... personally, I often find it hard to get out of my home town. But I certainly like to save up for a nice long trip every few years.
And you're right. I think it is the architecture of those buildings that appeals to me. I've always wanted to visit the 'seat of civilization' meaning Southern Europe and the middle east just to see the ancient buildings etc.
One of the specific things I want to see is the Egyptian pyramids. Did you know that the Egyptians had some technology to cut those stones so evenly that nothing but the most advanced modern lazer cutting technology could match it? Very curious. The stones fit together so closely that you can't even slide a credit card between them (except in places where the rock has crumbled)... and that's without considering how on earth they managed to transport it and get it into place.
Like you, I also love nature walks. I love waterfalls.
@manya_pearl (1901)
• Singapore
21 Mar 08
I have no other place i want to visit the most. I love my hometown, i just wanna back home. Home sweet home...my home is the best home ever.
I'm sad to leave my beloved family in my country, while i'm just alone here. hmmm. I even cant eat my fave food, nobody cook for me, and i dont know how to find the ingredients to make the same food. hhhhehehe...
@jewelenterprises (1996)
• Australia
22 Mar 08
I feel sorry for you, being homesick like that. As the saying goes... 'There's no place like home.'
But once in a while it's nice to have a holiday too. In fact, I would say it's necessary to stop you going crazy... and then it's even sweeter when you do go home :)
@jewelenterprises (1996)
• Australia
22 Mar 08
LOL, well, sport isn't really my thing... I'm a sports widow. My ex husband would watch any type of sport and ignore me. He'd flick through all the channels till he found sport (no matter what it was) to watch. If there were no sports on he'd get cranky LOL.
So maybe you can understand why I'm really not in to sports
@jewelenterprises (1996)
• Australia
22 Mar 08
I had the good fortune to visit California in 1997 and spent three weeks in Santa Cruz. I wasn't there the whole time, some of the time I was in San Francisco too and I've got some really cool memories (and photos) of the trip :)
