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I believe that they are trying to put a big windmill farm on the Isle of Lewis, you may want to get there soon.
Kate wrote: "Oh no, I hope it's not gonna be all gentrified by the time I get there. Just what I want to see ...more Lexus dealerships and IHOP's...
*rolls eyeballs* "
Oh I doubt that it would go that far, a fellow from the UK that I know sends articles about a potential wind farm on the Isle of Lewis. But there appears to be quite a bit of opposition. I hope nothing happens until you have gotten there and had the experience you desire.
*rolls eyeballs* "
Oh I doubt that it would go that far, a fellow from the UK that I know sends articles about a potential wind farm on the Isle of Lewis. But there appears to be quite a bit of opposition. I hope nothing happens until you have gotten there and had the experience you desire.
I'd like to go to Easter Island and get pictures of the Moai. I also find the steppes of Mongolia pretty interesting. It seems like in remote areas, you could still live like a barbarian horseman if you wanted to.
thinking on this one before i answer. a new approach for me...
I'm not sure any of mine are weird, though maybe my reasons are. I want to see New Zealand, for example, for both the scenery and the rugby.Ireland and Spain for the horses.
Thailand and environs for the food and the temples and the chance to see some of the gorgeous stuff my sister took pictures of.
Italy for wine and food.
And I love old, old towns and cities, so most of the parts of Europe I haven't been to are on my list too.
And I'd like to go back to Paris with actual money, since I was only there on a starving musician's budget.
I would love the LoTR tour too. The non-CGI scenery in those movies was gorgeous.
i want to go on a CGI only tour. can i do that from my house with some 3D glasses and a treadmill?
I've been wanting to go to Lapland for a long time. I hope I do someday.
I want to go to the Shetland Islands for the Up-Helly-Aa.Yes, probably because it involves booze & fire.
Lapland is way up north, I think it's part of Norway. Some of the people are still nomadic and they take their herds of reindeer to different places for winter or summer. I don't know if it's inside the artic circle or not. I read a few books that took place there, and my favortie movie, Cuckoo, is set there, a few National Geographic article...I really want to go there--but I will make sure it's summer when I do!
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But then again, I heard on NPR that the global economic downturn is even affecting those places with once-astronomical growth.
Yep, all those skyscrapers that Dubai was busy building are more than 1/2 empty.I've always wanted to go to Antarctica.
I thought Lapland was named for the locals habit of greeting each other with a big sloppy lick up the side of the face. Seriously, Lapland does not conform to any national borders. The Laplanders roam over parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
I saw a wild Travel Channel special on Dubai. Or maybe it was Discovery Channel. Anyway, it was all about their indoor ski hill, the insane hotels (something about a gold fountain) and creating a huge map of the world out of sand, big enough for buildings and the like. I think Rod Stewart owns Britain.
I understand that with the downturn, Dubai's recent rapid growth is grinding to a halt. The guest workers who are building everything are leaving like rats from a sinking ship.
so they have to turn off the snow making machines in the indoor ski slopes? Dubai has been on of the most blatant display's of wealth ever known.
It is my dream to travel all over the world! I would like to visit Egypt, but not only to see pyramides, but to be able to explore them, to be beside some scientists and archeologists, when they do their work.... I would like to visit other tombs, structures and monuments, and I would like also to visit some sites where ancient egiptians were studying stars.I would like to visit Greece, and especially the island Crete, where recently a new palace was discovered. I would like to visit all the cities, about which I learned during my history classes, and, of course, I would like to see the mountain Olympus- the house of Gods.
I want to visit Italy because it is one of the most interesting countries in the world, and I wouldn't want to visit only museums and churches and monuments, but also just to walk on the streets of Rome, to look at the sky of Sicily...
and I would like to visit India, and Tibet, and to have long conversations with the buddist priests.
And i want to see the mayan temples, the towns of Incas, the cave-paintings in Sahara....
There are so many interesting places to visit!!!
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so 8 mile is not like seeing the 80 story building covered in mink fur?i know what you mean sally but seeing the meteoric rise of a culture based on blood oil does not near excite me as much as a culture based on art, history and people
Kevin the Barbarian wrote: "so 8 mile is not like seeing the 80 story building covered in mink fur?
i know what you mean sally but seeing the meteoric rise of a culture based on blood oil does not near excite me as much as a..."
I agree Kevin, good points.
i know what you mean sally but seeing the meteoric rise of a culture based on blood oil does not near excite me as much as a..."
I agree Kevin, good points.
Knarik, I´m with you. I´d love to go to Egypt and really see the pyramids, and wander the streets of Rome, and get a gelato and hang out by the Fountain of Trevi and watch people go by...
i have a good long list. when i think of places i want to go i mostly think of the people i will meet
Yeah, Kevin that is all part of having the whole experience when you are some place new.
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Do you have weird places you'd like to see? Why do you want to go there?