Five Famous Fictional Places I'd Love To Visit
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I Love to Travel
Ever read about a location that you know doesn't exist, but that would be great to visit? I'd love a house like Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit . Or have you ever seen a place in a movie or on TV that you'd really love to see for real? I thought I'd take you on a tour of some of the "far-away places with the strange-sounding names" that would be fun or intriguing to visit.
If you're not familiar with Bilbo Baggins's house in the books by J. R. Tolkein, then you need to imagine the most gentle farmlands of the Home Counties in England, soften the focus, and think Watership Down but with great interior decorating. Bilbo's wood-paneled corridors are tunnels into the hill, and all apertures are circular to maintain the tunnel theme. Cozy.
While the Lord of the Rings trilogy (was it really only three? z z z z z) bored me as a movie, the locations were gorgeous. And some of them actually exist, in New Zealand; however, it's architecture that intrigues me as much as landscape, and even more so when the architecture pays respect to its surroundings. How about this elven abode from the movie? Not as cutting edge as Wright's Falling Water, but it looks a darn sight cozier.
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A Flying City?
While cities aren't usually my favorite place to be, the idea that the Stargate franchise came up with -- to have their version of the lost city of Atlantis able to fly through the universe to another galaxy and then float on the sea -- is intriguing. I'd miss trees, but I suppose I could zip back to Middle Earth any time I needed some greenery. I like the idea of your whole environment moving with you -- maybe that's why I'm enjoying living in a camper so much. I know I can get on the road and go whenever I like. Can't get to another galaxy, true: but I'm sure there's plenty to see in America without having to break orbit. . .
Incidentally, to be honest, I don't much like the indoor decor of the Atlantis sets. The gate room is the most impressive, but the living quarters are antiseptic, to say the least. The ancients could have used some more color and texture in their interior designs: in fact, while the outside shots of the city are fabulous on the TV show, the interiors look like studio sets -- you can even see where the walls have been "set" on their marks, as there is always that tell-tale gap below the baseboards -- you know what I mean? Studio sets!
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Gulliver's Travels
Of course, flying cities aren't anything new. Swift's city of Laputa, Spanish meaning intended, was a flying island of nonsense-generating egg-heads with their mindless theorizing that led nowhere. Sorta like Washington. (I was going to write NASA, but that's unkind -- NASA tries: Washington underfunds.) I wouldn't want to visit, much less live there: the concept of the ivory tower of learning was shattered for me long ago when I started working at a university. But one "vanishing" town I would like to go to is Eureka, of the eponymous TV show. Although to be quite honest, it would be because the restaurant serves free food, and the sheriff is cute.
Hagrid's Hut. Nowhere near Walden
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Walden Pond
But the prospect of isolation is an attractive one. Even if it's on someone else's property (yup: Emerson owned the woods where Thoreau so famously sojourned). The tradition of the hermit who goes off to live by himself is a long and revered one; notice in passing, however, that it ususally only applies to men: historically, women who live by themselves are regarded as witches, or suspicious, or at the very least peculiar. But I digress. One cabin that I'd love to live in is Hagrid's hut, as described by Rowling and depicted in the Harry Potter movies. Of course, I'd need to have it scaled down a bit, what with Hagrid being a half-giant, and all; but it would be a cozy place to live. Makes me think of tea and toast and marmalade. And hot cross buns. Gingerbread. Poundcake and jam. Hmmmm, must be time for something to eat. . .
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Robinson Crusoe and Arboreal Architecture
I'd be very remiss if I didn't mention the great tree houses that were built for Crusoe and Friday in the current TV series about that perilously cast-away creator of all things ingenious, crafty, and better than their high-tech equivalents. Better than a bunker, more airy than an eagle's nest, more comfortable than a common treehouse, Crusoe's abode puts many a mansion to shame with its verandas and elevators and open-air alleys between the tree trunks. Tom Hanks had a volley ball and a hole in the wall in Castaway . Crusoe has a residence of regal proportions.
In fact, the writers of the show appear to realize that they have to remind the audience that Crusoe's very heart is breaking with loneliness at being away from his family: otherwise, he'd be daft to want to leave this home and go back to smelly old England, city life, and plagues, poxes, and purulent necrotic pustules.
So where would you like to visit? Let me know about your favorite fictional travel fantasies. The winner will be the person who can come up with the strangest but most comfortable fictional place to live, and the prize is a -- well. There is no prize. But it's something to think about, eh?
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Ok, that's one vote for the Jetson's place. I always liked that flying car. . . .
great hub. as a kid i always wanted to go to bayside high school.....from saved by the bell......or midgar from the video game final fantasy vii
Very aesthetic title, while provoking reader interaction. Good going.
I'd like to visit a magical island Neverland-N2 and have a butler there. But I'd also like to come back to the place we call home of the brave.. after a few days.
This way, I could get a bunch of hub investors to put stock into N2 developments and each year I would go back to visit N2 without any strings attached or advertisments.
We'd have your camper spot right by the water.
Great responses! RealTruth -- that's a vote for Bayside AND Midgar -- I forgot all about video games (I'm JUST that little bit older and just missed getting into them) -- and I know there are all kinds of great fantasy worlds in them. Thanks for your comment!
Newsworthy -- magical islands'll do fine. Thanks for the spot for my camper -- you'd be welcome for margaritas under the awning anytime.
I bet Bilbo Baggins house was energy efficient, being built into that hill and all. Seems doable. Hmmm
I know -- sounds like a good idea, doesn't it?
Interesting read.
I'd like to be stuck in the Blue Lagoon with Brooke Shields.
I was wondering when that one would surface -- also, have you ever seen Walkabout with a very young Jennifer Agutter? A lot of guys (and a lots of women, too, let's be serious here, she's gorgeous) would like to be marooned with her, there's a nice lagoon in that one, too.
I never saw the movie, but I'll see if I can sneak a couple of clips and watch, and I'm sure I would be okay with being marooned with her.
I want to see what's really down that rabbit hole that Alice fell into. Nice hub!
Now there's a great idea -- Alice in Wonderland is a classic. I loved the Mad Hatter's tea party. . .
Add another vote for the Jetsons! Of course I would love to go the Camelot in the peaceful years. Atlantis would be a good choice...and just maybe Agartha....and possibly one of the planets in the Known Space series of Larry Niven's books.
Lots of good choices there. I'm not familiar with the Larry Niven books -- fantasy or sci fi?
I want to go to Hogwarts and witness a quidditch or even join one! :D
Hogwarts would be cool. I love the great hall where they eat and have school meetings.
Sci fi! I wish that I could get all his earlier books. I had them but let a firend borrow them many years ago and never go them back. I wish I could remember the one with the orange sky and 2 suns--I think. I need to get those books again!! I think I will be shopping with my own Amazon account!!
I just thought of another place--The garden in The Secret Garden. It sounds so magical.
Thank, Lady G. I'm much more into sci fi than fantasy. I'll have a look for them, too. Happy reading.
Oh yeah -- good suggestion. The Secret Garden it is!
Laputa! :-) Well, again you're timely Teresa, because this neverland kinda trip-hub comes when I'm stranded in Dublin on account of the airport being closed due to snow --definitely nicer to take up a little mental wandering than be stuck in reality :-)
I'd love to visit Susanna Gregory's 15th century Cambridge.
Oh Elena -- so sorry to hear you are stranded. There's nothing worse than wanting to get HOME and not being able to. Hope the snow clears soon!
Hey, LondonGirl -- yes, that's my favortie period in English history. Isn't Gregory the girl who wrot the Other Boleyn Girl? Or am I getting confused (wouldn't be the first time). Who is Phillipa Gregory? Oh rats, now I have to go look on Amazon.com. :) thanks for dropping by, as always, Puella!
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Neverland would be a great place to visit...
Oooooh! Yes! That movie was gorgeous, thank you for reminding me of it.
I'd love to visit Roke, the island in Ursula leGuin's Earthsea trilogy. And Hogwarts would be fantastic too, of course!
This is a very entertaining hub, Teresa!
I have been meaning to read some Ursula LeGuin for years, now -- thanks for reminding me to do so. Thks for dropping by, Amada.
Teresa..I loved Genovia..the country in 'Princess Diaries'..so cute and picturesque with quaint traditions !:)
Ok, Laila -- there's a vote in for Genovia. I am enjoying hearing everyone's suggestions.
Different authors. Phillipa Gregory wrote (among others) The Other Boleyn Girl. Susanna Gregory has written a series set in 15th century Cambridge.
Oh, thanks, LG -- I'll look for her books.
Coleridge's Xanadu.
Oh, nice literary allusion there, Shalini. Yes: a stately pleasure dome would be good, wouldn't it?
...with some honey dew and the milk of Paradise...mmmmmm :)
almost better than Guinness. Almost.
Where Alph the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea
It's been a long time since I heard that poem. What a literary lot we are on HubPages!
Anyone got a damsel and a dulcimer?
Amanda does - a Donkey Oatey *grin*
Teresa - nah! nothing quite compares with a Guinness now does it?
I have to agree with your choices: Always wanted Bilbo's house. That picture looks so cool...I can't wait for the movie! (I also have to agree with your rating of zzzzzzz on LOTR. I fell asleep at the theatre...on two separate occasions!). I've always be a Robinson Crusoe fan. i haven't seen the new series, but I did catch a few minutes of it last week and had to ask myself why I wasn't watching it. I'm a big fan of the "deserted on a desert island" theme.
I'm not familiar with the others, but you've convinced me I want to go! Thanks!
One of my hubs (the books one, oddly enough) has a review of Susanna Gregory's books on it.
Awesome idea for a hub! I wish I would have thought of it.
Cloud City - Empire Strikes Back
Minas Tirith - LOTR
Fraggle Rock
Ooooooooops - I read Dulcinea instead of dulcimer - blame it on sleep weaving a circle around me not thrice but many more times!
How about Don Quixote's La Mancha?
Oooo, OOoooo. Can I be a muleteer? That Aldonza is hawt!
The Secret Garden sounds a great suggestion to me, and what about the land at the top of the "Magic Faraway Tree" by Enid Blyton or even "Narnia" as in the C.S. Lewis books.
As a muleteer, you might just have to ferry Sancho Panza around :D
Hi Teresa,
there's a fictional country in a Chinese story. We can loosely translate it as "The Kingdom of the gentle". Here everybody is so gentle. Everybody insists the other person has the right of way. Everybody admits fault should there be dispute (I wonder how it could take place). Every seller thinks that the buyer is paying too much. Of course, at the same time, the buyer thinks that the price is unfairly low.
This is one place I'd love to be at, to take advantage of everyone else and still get thanked for doing them a great favor.
cheers.
Hey Christoph, LG, Shalini, Dork, and Misty -- thanks for dropping by, and for your suggestion. I wonder if the Emerald city was really worth visiting, though?
I'm not familiar with the Magic Faraway Tree, although I read all her Famous Five books, so thanks for the tip.
Shalini, interesting mis-read! Glad everyone is a DQ fan (and no, that doesn't stand for Dairy Queen).
Benson, as Steve Martin used to call Jane Curtain: Benson (only he didn't say Benson, of course), Benson, you slut. You had me going with the gentle kingdom and its kindnesses!
I wouldn't mind visiting Piers Anthony's Xanth. One of my favorite childhood series of books.
That's another one I'm unfamiliar with, rmr -- thanks for the tip.
I want to visit Shire from lord of the ring too. Drinking with hobbits would be fun.
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I have a death wish!
Nightmares are ok, I guess. . .
Wonderful concept for a hub and yes, hubbers are definitely a literary lot! Having lived not far from the real Walden Pond, I can tell you it's much more exciting in imagination.
Personally, I'd like to revert back to childhood and visit Wild Wood of the Wind in the Willows (and of course Toad Hall). Also the House at Pooh Corner.
My adult choices skew toward the gothic. Manderlay from the movie "Rebecca" or Wuthering Heights....
Yeah, Mom, I was thinking about Pooh Corner just this morning, and thinking what a cozy spot it would be to visit.
As for the gothic choices, yes! Or Jamaica Inn! or Northanger Abbey! Or the Castle of Utranto! (?)
I always wondered about the brillig and slithy toves messing about in the wabe with the jabberwocky. That would be cool, if a little bizarre! Oh and a great scene in Peter Pan (the movie) where they fly out into the planets. Oh, and some of the great vista wallpapers scenes! How many wishes do I get? :-)
I'm going to be the boring one and ask to be transported to the 'Golden Pond' and then definitely Hogwarts.
Great hub regards Zsuzsy
last night i dreamed i went to Manderlay. i bet i spelled that wrong
Lifebydesign -- you get as many wishes as you like!
Zsuzsy -- I'm with you for those choices.
Dolores, it may have been Manderley, but who cares? As long as Mrs. Danvers isn't about.
I'll be moving into Badger's place from Wind in the Willows.
The tree from Swiss Family Robinson will do as a summer place.
Great choices!
Of course there's always Brideshead Revisited, but that exists and I've been there. Blenheim Palace that is.
Would love to visit Middle Earth and Atlantis both. Nice read!
What a fun hub, Teresa! Great idea.
Hmmm... my first thought was that I would like to visit Prince Edward Island from Anne of Green Gables- but that's real! I can!
So as far as fiction goes, I'd have to say Narnia from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. Not only is the land beautiful, but you would be able to encounter the most amazing creatures. Awesome.
Thanks again!
Thanks for stopping by, guys -- some more good choices. Narnia seems to be the most popular so far.
Among my earliest reading memories was Enid Blyton's Enchanted Wood, where the trees go "wisha wisha" and in the middle there's the Magic Faraway Tree with all sorts of little people - Moonface, Silky, Mr Watsisname, the Saucepan Man. And at the top, there's a hole in the clouds with a ladder to a new Land that keeps changing... memories, memories. Later, I wanted to go to Greyfriars School to play cricket with the Famous Five. Didn't like Bunter though!
Hi Teresa - I've decided. Narnia, and the lake in Swallows and Amazons, for me.
Paraglider: Billy Bunter was a bit too English for me, as I didn't get some of the references. But it's still a family joke that, if we're ever borrowing money off each other, we'll say "I'm expecting a postal order" a la Bunter. Not familiar with the wisha wisha tree, though.
Narnia is an enchanting place. Good choice!
I would like to visit Three's Company. I was born at the tail end of the 70's and would love to have the community and hi-jinx that are ever present on Three's Company, however there might be more sexual harassment suits these days if one was there. I love the clothes, the ease of living and the message of friendship at the end of each episode! It's all just been one big misunderstanding! Mr. Furley's character would make each day worthwhile in itself.
What an interesting choice, Peppermint! Thanks for stopping by.
Great hub idea, Teresa! I'm with you on Middle Earth - looks really fascintaing. I'd also love to be able to visit Jerusalm during JC's lifetime... just to see for myself what REALLY happened.
I'd accompany you to the Pagasus Galaxy and Atlantis. In second or third grade, I read a book about a place that one entered by walking under a small bridge in a small town. The world beneath was full of firendly creatures who all liked children. I am fascinated by bridges and their cities to thsi very today.
Entertaining Hub, certainly. Thumbs up!
Thanks, Constant, thanks, Patty, for stopping by and for reading.
wow this is really great i would love to visit them all ...but among them i liked that sky one..flying city which is amazing....i wish i can live there.....thanx for sharing such a great hub.
Thanks for stopping by -- yeah, I've only ever seen one other flying city like that, and it was in a very old (first season, I think) episode of Stargate SG-1.
This hub was fantastic! If I could go to some fictional places I would go to:
The Labrynth, Neverland and one that actually isn't fictional but yet uninhabitable: an upstairs apartment above New Orlean Square at Disneyland!!
Or better yet -- how about an upstairs apartment on Bourbon St. in the real New Orleans?
I love this fictional places! cheers! thumbs up to this hub!
Atlantis, as in Stargate: Atlantis, is actually very tempting. It's my favorite fiction place.
In Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym", at the end, he describes a journey to the South pole, but a kind of a fictional one. It has no ending and I kept on wondering what is there and what happened later on.
Hey radijator -- that's another one I'm not familiar with. Imaginative conceptions of real places are intriguing, especially because no one had been there at the time. Sorta like what the bottom of the ocean still is for us, even now.
In his novel 'Lost Horizon' author James Hilton speaks of 'Shangri-La' as a city of ancient mysteries and forgotten wisdom; it never stays in one place for very long and phases in and out of time. An inhabitant of Shangri-La could go to bed in the year 820 and wake up in the year 1820 the next day, or virtually any other year for that matter.This is one place that intrigues me the most...!
this is a great hub... :)
Oh Yes! I remember reading Lost Horizon and loving the notion! Thank you for remindin me of that great book -- I'd certainly love to go there.
Marble Falls a place near the end of the world from the Book Quest for a fallen Star. Middle earth is the most interesting place in fiction I have been Going there since 1982.
. . .and traveling there is so cheap, too. . .I go whenever I can. . .
and ofcourse to 'the restaurant at the end of the universe' from the book Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy..!
of course! The Restaurant at the end of the universe! I think we might have a winner, here!
How about Monk's Coffee Shop?
My vote is for Narnia also - especially Cair Paravel! I'd also like to visit the attic in The Magician's Newphew which is the precursor to the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Chronicals of Narnia are some of my favorite books. I would also love to visit any planet or time with Dr. Who (the new one played by David Tenant)! I have a thing for cute nerdy guys! Great hub to get me daydreaming again - thanks!
Yeah -- I've always wanted to travel in the Tardis. . . thanks for visiting!
With virtual reality coming right along maybe you will get to sooner than later.
Good point. . .
Wow it almost makes me want to come up with my own list. Have you read Larry Niven's novel "Ringworld"? I think you would like it because it's about a really fantastic place.
Hey Dark Faery -- no, I haven't -- so thanks for the tip.
It wouldn't be my first choice, but you'd stay young in Brigadoon for a long, long time. Where I'd really like to be is with The Borrowers (books - not movie, which I refused to see). I always wanted to shrink down so I could live in a dollhouse. And I still dream of jumping into any of the great horse books I read as a child - particularly those by Marguerite Henry. Thanks, Teresa, for taking me on a wonderful trip.---Oh, and it's Castle Howard, not Blenheim, that stands in for Brideshead. My favorite British country home by far. I'd be happy to be a scullery maid there!
Thanks, Mindfield -- Castle Howard is fantastic.
I used to want to live in a dollhouse, but I also used to stare and stare at the burning coals in the fire, and imagine I saw caves and castles and cliffs that I'd want to travel through. . .without the flames, of course. . .
I used to do that, too, Teresa - a phantasmagorical world in the burning logs. (I'm from Oregon - more lumber than coal!)
I'm sorry I'm late to the party. I very much enjoyed reading all of the comments and ideas. You all are so creative and diverse!!
Charlie's Chocolate Factory would be first on my list. Lady Guinivere had it right with The Secret Garden. That would be second. The Three's Company apartment wasn't on my list until I read the comment above. I LOVED that show. I always had questions about the layout of the apartment. So we'll move on to the home of 'Mama' on "Mama's Family". I always loved the yard and the front porch--not to mention the downstairs bathroom where her husband spent most of his time and finally died. Raytown in general would be a hoot!! And lastly would be the setting of "Anne of Green Gables".
What a fun hub!!!
Have you ever seen the film, 'What dreams may come' starring Robin Williams. In the film his children died ,then his wife committed suicide and then he died,depressed yet? well in the film heaven was a picture that his wife had painted and oh so beautiful, the house itself was by the lake surrounded by hills and flowers and trees..there he met his children...exactly the place I want to see
ALSO his wife went to a place of despair,beyond the see of faces, he travelled through a library so vast flying to the top was the solution, It is here that i could spend such a long time.
Oh the ending was happy, he found his wife and eventually returned to earth in order to find each other again............and they did..Wonderful film
Hey Proud Mom -- The Chocolate factory! How could I forget that one! I'd love to be let loose in there. . .
Hawkesdream -- ooh yes. That was a beautiful film -- visually symphonic (dunno how else to describe it, but it had different movements like a symphony). The images on the ceiling in hell, and that final gorgeous scene in her painting. . . and the dog was there. . . yeah. I could spend a lot of time there, and thank you for reminding me of it.
In The Last Battle by C.S.Lewis he would describe your hub as a person drawn by the Great Northernest. I am confident that he words in the last battle are cities I have not imagined are found by going Higher up and further in
Great Hub!
Proud Mom took my idea, darn it =] But ever since I was little, I always wanted to go to Green Gables!
Hey -- let's all go, why not?
I'm ready!!
What a fun hub!! :) I wouldn't mind visiting Hogwarts myself :)
I've always wanted a cuppa tea in Hagrid's hut, myself.
I found this hub by making my through extreme hub makers. I have been logging too many hours in my timemachine. I haven't thought about this stuff since I was a young kid. Thanks for the adventure. Too cool. Got any hubs on life in Northern Ireland?
Thanks for the read. Nah -- I mention several things about NI, but it's difficult to write about, for some reason. Take a look at http://hubpages.com/hub/Top-Ten-Reasons-to-Visit-N though -- it's a great place for a holiday nowadays.
Teresa thanks.
Great hub
A very interesting hub you have here Teresa.
I myself being a Sci-Fi buff, agree with you on
the fact that imaginary landscapes are of intriguing
interest for many reasons...such as the ones I feel
to be intriguing in my screenplays and books.
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Good hub. Some places I would like to visit.
I'd love to go to Narnia and meet Puddle Glum, but I am still having trouble with the wardrobe!
I think the star ship enterprise, travelling through space and meeting new cultures.
My favorites:
The Shire (How lovely is the greenwood for a modern Druidic sort like me!)
Rivendell (I get teary-eyed seeing that very first panoramic scene...Elrond's dwelling in among those high mountains...like being embraced by the Divine Mother, it would be.)
Lothlorien (Definitely a haven for a world-weary soul. Water rushing, and practicing my seership in Galadriel's mirror would be a plus. ;-)
Fangorn Forest (I think talking to an Ent would be lovely!)
Narnia (I think my favorite part would be talking to Aslan, really. I LOVE lions--or any other big cat for that matter.)
Hogwarts (I loved their great hall where the ceiling always changed according to the weather or the seasons. And the Gryffindor common room looks absolutely cozy. Perfect for studying or reading for leisure.)
The "Heart of Gold"--ship from "Hitchhiker's Guide." (Who wouldn't want a knife that toasts your bread while you slice it? And Zaphod is egotistical but hilarious!)
The Tardis (I prefer the older Dr. Who actors, like Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, though.)
I would also love to visit the magical scenes as conjured by Swiss electric harpist Andreas Vollenweider. His two CDs, "White Winds: A Seeker's Journey" and "Book of Roses" often paint such fantastical pictures in my mind (because the albums are like stories that take you on tours of those lands) that I want to visit them.
great suggestions, thanks --
I love your article! I loved Watership Down and also the Hobbit. I would just love to visit Ireland. It seems magical to me as my grandfather's ancestors came from there.
Sorry to come in late - we want to move into Snoopy's Doghouse. It's tiny on the outside, so low maintenance costs and it should fall into the bottom tax bracket. But it's got everything you would ever want or need inside!
LOL --2Pats! love the idea!
When I was a kid I always wanted to visit Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree.
Now I'd love to visit George R. Martin's Westeros, but I'd have to be high-born lady I suppose.
Great hub! Though I'm a bit late on the uptake, I admit.
As a Faulkner fan, I've always thought visiting Yoknapatawpha County would be interesting...just to run into his brilliant characters.
I would also definitely enjoy visiting Central Perk and running into THOSE characters.
But my first choice...and I can't believe nobody has mentioned it...would be Oz. Especially the Emerald City. I always wanted to ride a horse of a different color.
Nice hub! Azeroth would be number one on my list (World of Warcraft).
Ernest Hemingway's island in his " Islands in the Stream "....eating conch and sipping strawberry daiquiris by the open sea...great conversations with passing sailboat folks...grandkids on the weekends for some surf and sand games...
Great Hub...Thanks, Larry
This is so cool. I am a new blogger! When I grow up, I want to be you!
Oh, this feeling is the worst. Knowing the perfect places only exist in our imagination and we will never be able to be there...unless I buy a town and make it like the Shire. =) It would be self-sufficient so we would not need to deal with the crazies out there. It is great to dream.
I'll be sure to send you an invitation to the Shire, Teresa, if I ever build it.=)Great hub!
What a great hub! You've got me imagining all sorts of fictional places I would like to visit - and a few that I wouldn't.
Surprised that no-one's mentioned Discworld yet. Even though Ankh-Morpork would be a dangerous place to visit I would like to go there if I could stay at the Vimes' house. Then there's Quirm, and Lancre, and the Chalk, and Bad Blintz, and Genua, to name but a few. I might even get to the Counterweight Continent or Foureks. Just follow Rincewind...
Most of the other fictional places I would like to visit have been mentioned already - Narnia, the Jetson's house, Middle Earth, the Hundred Acre Wood, Camelot, Atlantis, etc. And, of course, the TARDIS.
Definitely some food for thought there :)
The Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork would be a sight to see. I'd also like to eat at Milliways and see the binary sunrise on Magrathea.
I see the Hundred Acre Wood has been mentioned and I wouldn't have thought of that otherwise. Fangorn Forest sounds absolutely lovely and there's a few others that would be fantastic to see.
Ingary from Howl's Moving Castle. I'd like to see the castle itself and spend the day with Howl, Sophie and Calcifer (the book versions, not the movie ones)
Wonderland would be great to visit as well. I always liked the Cheshire Cat and the frog footman.
They are wonderful places worth visit. Thanks for sharing.
C. C. Riter 3 years ago
Well, since you're talking fictional it has to be the home and city of George Jetson. Their garage has a flying car to go with it and a robot Maid, Rosie I think is her name. Many years have passed since that hit the airwaves.