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dreamy dreams - travelSubmitted by Henry on Sun, 07/08/2007 - 8:05pm.
If you (and your kid(s) and partner(s) - if you have one) could go anywhere on earth for three weeks where would you go and why? To the eAst Coast, just because I've never seen it. PEI, New Foundland, New Brunswick and all those crazy little provinces over there. we've got to let love rule St Kitts: The Island of the Drunk Monkeys http://www.funnyanimalvideos.com/monkey-videos/drunk-monkeys-at-turtle-b... DH ad I saw this a couple years ago and decided that this was our dream vacation. Yeah, that was before baby when all we thought about was getting drunk with island monkeys i'm going to croatia and bosnia for a week in august for a friend's wedding, and this really is a dream come true. but i'm going without BD or DD, and i suspect that it's gonna be both a dream and i nightmare (my first trip away from DD!) i'd love to go back there with them when dd is a bit older, rent a villa on an island in the adriatic. just relaxing in the sunshine and crystalline waters, drinking wine and eating fresh seafood with friends is heavenly to me. and it's only like a 7 hour flight from here. Oh well. Which is where we got married, really cute and 20 min from Barcelona which will take your breath away. Spain in general. Places I haven't been but would love to check out: Brazil Italy, esp Sicily Menorca, Majorca Portugal and The Azores Australia and/or New Zealand Iceland First choice, hands down, Switzerland. Second is a three way tie between France, Italy, and Sweden. "There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice." -Ayaan Hirsi Ali I have just always had an affinity for all things Indian. Close second is New Zealand.
We'd probably go to Costa Rica. Partially because I have "family" there, partially because it's Spanish-speaking but SAFE (unlike, oh, Columbia, Cuba, and El Salvador, all places I want to go to but not with H until she's at least a teenager). It's BEAUTIFUL, amazing beaches whatever your taste, awesome food, awesome wildlife...can't say enough. I also want to go to India, but again, not until DD's significantly older. Somewhere in Europe could be fun, too...Prague, perhaps? Easy safe travel, familiar, kid-friendly. I like San Jose - even the seedy parts. It has the nicest airport in all of Latin America, and I love the diversity of the country - beaches, rain forest, cloud forest and rugged mountains all within a day's drive. My one complaint is that other than the fresh tropical fruit, the food is lame! Hehe, I disagree--probably because gallo pinto rocks my socks. I could honestly eat nothing but rice & beans and fruit all day...of course, it probably wouldn't do great things for my GI system, but you know, that's secondary to taste. because the air and light are so beautiful, the food is SO delicious and the place makes me feel alive. would bring dd for sure. every friday evening, thousands of people do a city-wide inline skate as traffic is shut down for hours. |
My how things have changed
with side trips to Czech Republic. I lived in Nitra, Slovakia for three different time periods of 5 wks, 6 months, and 15 mo. Slovakia is my favorite place in teh world, and Prague is my favorite city. I haven't been back in 10 years and I miss it every day. I get physically ill every time I think of being separated from my second home like that.
PEI is my second favorite place. We spent our honeymoon there and it's idyllic.
There are so many places I want to visit and see in my lifetime, but yet I feel that even if I never went anywhere different than these two places again, I'd die completely happy and fulfilled.