Places you'd love to go before you die

[shirlthegirl43]

I would love to explore San Francisco more fully as we were 'done out' of a trip to Golden Gate park by 9/11.

Madmax, after all the travelling he has done, say simply - HOME. Failing that, back to the Far East.

[Snadger]

Don't know about before I die, but I'd always planned to be buried close to my parents in a beautiful graveyard at Castleside.
To my dismay the graveyard is now full and that beautiful vista over the Derwent valley will not be for me!

If I can't be buried there they can do whatever they like with me when I kick the bucket!

[bobleponge]

Quark you had it right for me. Follow Sir Dickie I say. Travels and animals?? Brilliant.
I think the most wonderful place I have ever been in the world (changing the tack of the thread slightly if I may) was Fjordo Falcon in Chile. A dry river bed (thats what it said on the map) about 300ft wide and about 15ft deep in glacial water. Walked all the way to the source, came round a bend and saw ....a glacier. If you've seen one you will know what I mean, if you havent, I cant explain. Staggering

[valmarg]

Sydney, Australia, plus Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, any where down the antipodes. Also anywhere in New Zealand.

valmarg

[lumpyjumper]

I would love to go to Rome, just me and the hubby, we were going for our 10th wedding anniversary and didnt' we're nearly at 15th so maybe by the time of our 20th!

I'd also like to go to New Zealand, and the Maldives and yet there are times I am very happy to just stand on the top of Hay Tor on Dartmoor on a bright and clear day and shout into the wind what a great day it is to be alive!!!

Taking our daughter to Paris in July, and would like to take her to Sydney when we next visit my sister in Australia...and to take her to Copenhagen and Berlin...before she gets too old to want to accompany us!

[MrsC]

back far enough to see my dad again if possible, sorry but no other place could compare, probably not the answer you were looking for though

[Seahorse]

Don't know about before I die, but I'd always planned to be buried close to my parents in a beautiful graveyard at Castleside.
To my dismay the graveyard is now full and that beautiful vista over the Derwent valley will not be for me!

If I can't be buried there they can do whatever they like with me when I kick the bucket!

Snadger. I'm sure it's not the same but if you want someone to dig a crafty pit and stash your ashes near your Ma & Pa, if I'm still around then, I would do it! I'd plant something nice on top of you too!

[veg4681]

If I could go travelling anywhere - I think I'd liked to have hitched a ride with David Attenborough over his long and stunning career - there's not much that amazing man has left to uncover amongst the myriad of life of this planet.

Nobody can beat him for all the spectacular places he's been to. He's a truly blessed man by the grace of god with the best job in the world. I would have love to hitch a ride on his Gorilla expedition.

have done a few things that i wanted to do, scuba diving on barrier reef, whale watching, climbed the highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales, surfed on bondi beach, had high tea at Raffles in Singapore.

hopefully in summer we are doing a road trip across Europe to Slovakia and back again, in planning stages at the moment but i want to see as many countries as possible.

Why no Singapore Sling at the Raffles Hotel ? I can dig the diving in Barrier Reef and whale watching as some of the things we dream about doing before we die. Where was whale watching done? Australia? Will you be driving through numerous of the Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Slovenia etc)?

to be back in Cornwall

Don't know why but of all of the touristy destinations in United Kingdom, I have this love affair with coastal parts of Devon and towards Cornwall way (not yet been to Cornwall though so before I die....). Idyllic rolling hilly countryside with chocolate box scenes of thatched roof cottages with cottage style English gardens, cream teas and strawberry jam scones .

My dream has always been Egypt, the boat trip down the Nile and the camel ride out to see the pyramids - I have no idea why (maybe I was an Egyptian in a previous incarnation) but it has always held a fascination for me.

The packaged holidays to Egypt is relatively cheap, probably even similar price to Spanish destinations. I went to Luxor (lots of attractions here) but didn't go so far as Cairo for the pyramids but did make a short excursions to Aswan & Abu Simbel. If my trip was 2 weeks, it would have been possible to do both Cairo and Aswan from your base Luxor.

If I had one wish it would be to stand on the peak of K2. After that, everything else would pale into insignificance. I have, (when I was younger and also pre family) climbed and trekked throughout UK, the Alps, Canada and Australia but K2 would just be the perfect place to call it a day.

K2, why not Everest ? Is it because it's supposed to be higher than Everest, though much disputed?

[veg4681]

Before you all say how nice and you got paid for it I did long hours was hijacked by the Russian mob for a week and didn't really see the nice bits unless it was on the way to an industrial estate. That said some of the scenery was pretty and I don't regret one single minute of it at all.

Wow some adventures you've had on the road and still alive but you can say you've lived.

[Snadger]

Snadger. I'm sure it's not the same but if you want someone to dig a crafty pit and stash your ashes near your Ma & Pa, if I'm still around then, I would do it! I'd plant something nice on top of you too!

Gee!!!!!!! Seahorse thats very kind! I'll give you a bell when I'm about to snuff it!
PS Watch the Vicar doesn't catch you though, he's a mean bit of work!

[HeyWayne]

I like to go to Heaven....to see if its there...and if it is I would start praying.

It is there, my brother's been: Heaven London

[Farmer_Gyles]

i havent done anywhere near as much travelling as i want to
i'm just waiting now for the right woman to come along and then got to places like rome, barcelona, paris, venice, new york etc etc
it'll happen one day ...

[JanieB]

Brian and I loved travelling and wanted to do alot more when we retired. As he's no longer here, I intend to do it for both of us.

But first I have to do up my house and put the garden in order.

I want to go back to Egypt, I would love to see Israel again. I want to see the Terra Cotta army, the Maldives, Peru, the Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains, Machu Pichu (spelling?), Australia and New Zealand. My plan is to take a long time to go round the world seeing the bits that are a long way away first and seeing relatives, then take trips each year to the nearer bits. At 60 I don't know how long I've got or what my future health will be like. And travel companies are making it more and more difficult for older people to travel abroad.

[smallblueplanet]

I'd like to see lots more of the ancient sites in the Mediterranean, the cave-paintings in France, the temples in Malta.

I'd love to go on an archaeological dig in Avebury Henge or Stonehenge. Its time travel rather than geographical travel. To actually be the first person to be seeing surfaces and items no-one has seen since neolithic (or earlier) times, fabulous. (I was lucky enough to do some of those things last year but hey, you can never have enough of a good thing! )

[momol]

For now I can only think of Russia (St Petersburg) and south pole (but I can't take cold ).