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redsquirrel80

That's weird, I spent a quiet moment (hour or two) at work yesterday afternoon writing a list of places that I want to go, either again or for the first time...

Brighton (again)
Hastings (again)
Devon
Cornwall
Paris
New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
Florence
Rome
Work on a farm in Tuscany (see my avatar)
South of France
Assorted nice rural bits of Italy, Spain, France
Central/ South America (as much of it as possible)
Prague (again)
Sweden (again)
Switzerland (to visit friend who lives there)
Madrid
Barcelona
Poland (spending two weeks there in the summer, 3-4 different cities, can't wait! :j)
Russia
Canada
and many more that I'll remember as soon as I post this :rotfl:

Things to do.. oooh.. not even started on that yet.. write a book or two, get singing lessons, play musical instrument in public again, do marathon (walking one hopefully completed this June!).. change my mind regularly on the having children bit... have a proper garden one day.. find a job I actually enjoy one day.. just generally be happy..... off to daydream now

ampersand

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

Pania's lovely isn't she? Oooooo was it anyfing exciting that you were handing over ? lol

You're right she really needs to go and get her eye checked, worst case scenario is you'll go blind Pania - don't play with it - go for your appointment!!!!!!

Someone else's turn to be the bully now.

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No, def. NOT exciting.
But has a slightly amusing b/g - little village PO up road in France applied postage label to sender's side of pkt, so it eventually came back to me, rather to pania. It's been with me ever since - just some bits to link pania to her personal nirvana.

ampersand

Ever since I saw your pic redsquirrel80, I go straight, in head, to Frances Mayes........
Haven't seen the film though - someone told me it was a disappointment, plus ça change etc.etc. but I love the books, and much of their poetry, hers and Ed's, though the nasty side of me cries out how little they know of REAL hardship etc.etc.
I told you it was my nasty side............
Hope you use Mr T's CC vouchers to pay for YHA stays in Scotland and UK, provided it's being in the place that's important to you.
Oh yes, I'll do the Grand also........too many lives and extremes lived already, but I do know both, intimately.

redsquirrel80

ampersand wrote: »

Ever since I saw your pic redsquirrel80, I go straight, in head, to Frances Mayes........
Haven't seen the film though - someone told me it was a disappointment, plus ça change etc.etc. but I love the books, and much of their poetry, hers and Ed's, though the nasty side of me cries out how little they know of REAL hardship etc.etc.
I told you it was my nasty side............
Hope you use Mr T's CC vouchers to pay for YHA stays in Scotland and UK, provided it's being in the place that's important to you.
Oh yes, I'll do the Grand also........too many lives and extremes lived already, but I do know both, intimately.

There's a film? *goes to google* Oh yes, there's a film! Might rent it and see what it's like. My mediterranean longings can mainly be blamed on parents' friends who have farms in such places and used to send lovely photos and letters - we never went to visit (and they still haven't been) because of lack of money, which has made me even more determined to get there myself. I'd love to one day pay for them to go to...

Oh and Rick Stein with his bloomin programme, he seems to find the most fantastic little places away from the touristy areas, helps having a TV production budget behind you I suppose! :rolleyes: In a dream world (bit like who would be at your ideal dinner party) I'd take him to cook for me and Michael Palin to show me around.. though ideally when he was a bit younger and better looking :rotfl: Oh and Stephen Fry.....

Karmacat

Oooh, lots of longings at the turn Pania's thread has taken... excuse me butting in....

Places to visit. More of Spain. More of Canada (not been to French Canada or the west coast yet). More of Greece (not seen much of the west coast, apart from getting the train through as a student). Those are my beloved countries - ou je me sens bien dans ma peau, bien sur. North Africa. America (west coast, centre, relatives and MORE shuttle takeoffs). Mexico and South America. New Zealand. India. Myanmar. Tibet. More of Turkey.

I just googled Frances Mayes... oh dear, more books to be bought

Thanks for this - a reminder of why I want to be debt free!

pania

butt away Karma no problems with that what so ever...

embarrassed_about_my_debt

Hey P, hows you?

Work picked up any?

redsquirrel80

Ooh I forgot about Greece.... ahh it's no good, you've made me all restless.. I'm off to pack my backpack....

Karmacat

Oh yeah. I have a new passport, y'know I can stay away for a long time!

ampersand

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

There's a film? *goes to google* Oh yes, there's a film! Might rent it and see what it's like. My mediterranean longings can mainly be blamed on parents' friends who have farms in such places and used to send lovely photos and letters - we never went to visit (and they still haven't been) because of lack of money, which has made me even more determined to get there myself. I'd love to one day pay for them to go to...

Oh and Rick Stein with his bloomin programme, he seems to find the most fantastic little places away from the touristy areas, helps having a TV production budget behind you I suppose! :rolleyes: In a dream world (bit like who would be at your ideal dinner party) I'd take him to cook for me and Michael Palin to show me around.. though ideally when he was a bit younger and better looking :rotfl: Oh and Stephen Fry.....

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Ah, but have you googled Rick Stein+wife?
Good for Mrs S - imo, Oz interloper gal seems pretty opportunist.
I scent regrets - is RS unconvinced by Edith Piaf?
Then again-thanks to RS chatting with Christopher Hope - HE of one of my much-loved/re-read signal titles, 'Love and Death in Languedoc' - I am now certain I know where he lives, near where my b'day lunch was and we dug up wild pines....
Then again, NO thanks to RS quoting it(ditto self now:rolleyes: ), Patience Gray's 'Honey from a Weed' is even more expensive than it was when I first scoured for it years back....un de ces jours.
S. Fry? - def. yes. Who cares about proclivites?
Years ago, a mawkish thing on R4, 'Crown House'[Francis Brett Young?] if anyone remembers - had a line I've always remembered. A certain coupledom was being denigrated and someone replied 'But they made a happy life together.'
There's worse than that.
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And yes, karmacat - there are oh!too many books left to be found for my lifetime.
Anyone else LOVE John Baxter's 'A Pound of Paper'?
rs80-use some Mr T's for Eurotunnel £49 each way, if you don't want to part with real money. But if you can, travel with Speedferries - have done since they began. CHEAP! - bookings work on the easyjet/ryanair principle. Sooner=cheaper, odd times and days ditto.
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Remember this digression is not a fantasy wishlist - it's for Things you can/could do, Places you can/could be in.
It's as real as any passage that's brought you, here, to DFW - so can be just as real for you as you make your way out.