If you could vacation to a fictional place, where would you go?
 

Any fictional place from stage, screen or literature will work just fine.

Fun Thread, thanks! <BR> <BR>Decisions Decisions, My first thought is Tom Bombadil's Home in the Hobbit, or Rivendell in JRR Tolkien's world, but Hogwarts's School of Wizardry sounds like fun too!

Utopia?<BR><BR>

Xanadu

Another vote for Hogwarts!

Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory. With all the frills: swimming in the river of fudge, being washed in the wonka wash, and flying thanks to the fizzy lifting drink.

Westworld

When I was younger and was reading "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" I always fantacized about going to Narnia.

Fantasy Island

I'd travel with Milo through his tollbooth to Dictionopolis and Digitopolis. I would include swimming in the Sea of Knowledge and a visit to the Soundkeeper and to Chroma. (And I'm happy to report that I know a lot of eleven year olds who want very much to go with me on this journey.)

Another vote for Willy Wonka's Candy factory. When I was little I wanted so badly to believe it was a real place that I could visit.

I would like to visit the mythical Irish place known as Tir na n-Og (The Land of Youth),an enchanted place somewhere off the Irish coast.It has been talked about for thousands of years in Irish legends.It is sometimes described as "An ait ina bhuil se ina shamhradh i gconai"-The place where it is always summer.Perhaps that story originated from an Irish monk who visited the U.S. long before it became the U.S.Legend has it that such visits took place as early as 1400 years ago when St. Brendan the Navigator sailed into the West.

Got my pup Toto am in Oz - and I don't want to go back to Kansas!!

When I was a little girl, I had a slim (Dell? Golden?) book of fairytales - not the usual pretty stories, some of these were pretty grim (but not Grimm). On the green cover was a big tree with children peeking around at the little elves (gnomes, maybe?) who had a house within the thick trunk of the tree. On the inside cover were little fairies resembling fuzzy spots of light. The drawings all had wonderfully magic elves and faeries, dancing by missty moonlight, living in the most fantastic hidden places, wearing flowers, leaves for boats. I wanted to live in that book. (Still do.) And so, as a child, I would walk to a window at night with my eyes squeezed tightly closed, open them, and wish on the first star I'd see that I would awake in that magical place. I guess I always believed what Jiminy Cricket said: "When you wish upon a star . . . ." (Still do.)

Islandia!

Two answers, with a connection to Europe, at least: <BR> <BR>When I was a kid, there was a Walt Disney version of Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper". And I dreamed of being that pauper kid and of getting to become the Prince and live there in that regal castle. And of course, I would have no interest in going back to being the Pauper. <BR> <BR>The name of the second place is, I guess, Sidhe. On the third track of Riverdance, there is a pair of songs/dances called "The Countess Cathleen/Women of the Sidhe". My interpretation of the second half is that Sidhe is some "village" (maybe a matriarchal society?) attacked by marauders, and that these women defeat them. I want to live in a place where the sole military is a bunch of step-dancing Irish women, and they always defeat the bad guys. <BR> <BR>Best wishes, <BR> <BR>Rex <BR>

Hogwarts or Brigadoon!

Nirvana

Tough choice: accompany Amy through the Phantom TollBooth (one of my all time favorite books - even have a signed copy ) or Shangri-La in Lost Horizons. For some reason dressing like Na Nuk of the North and having all the time in the world to learn how to play piano are rather enticing.

I want to go with Edmond.

To Pemberley, with Mr. Darcy of course! <BR>Judy :-)

To many real places that I haven't been to yet. <BR>

not all necessarily fictional: <BR> <BR>Nature: <BR>100 Acre Wood with Christopher Robin and the gang <BR>"Darkest Peru" to meet Paddington's relatives <BR>Land of the Lorax and the Truffula Trees (pre-rampant-destruction) <BR>The house all made of candy in Hansel and Gretel (sans witch) <BR> <BR>City: <BR>Eloise's Plaza <BR>another vote for Wonka's <BR>East 88th street with Lyle, Lyle Crocodile <BR>The LA of LA Story where traffic signs on the freeway talk to you <BR>each one from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities <BR> <BR>

Narnia or the Secret Garden!

Like Edmond, I was brought up with the legend of Tir na N'Og - the land of eternal youth - very compelling. Brendan must have visited Bermuda, definately not the East Coast of the US given our experience this winter! <BR> <BR>I have always wanted to visit Bram Stoker's Transilvania (mixture of fact and fiction)and Jane Austen's Bath (as it was then not now). <BR> <BR>Re Rex' posting Edmond - does SIDHE mean Fairy?

Definitely Brigadoon. <BR>Definitely Babylon 5 (as long as Bruce Boxleitner is still in charge) and Star Trek Voyager (as long as Captain Janeway is in charge; she's very cool). <BR>Maybe Shangri-La. <BR>Manderley, but I'd have to speak up. <BR>

Why, Shangri-La, of course! Everyone is young, healthy, no wars or hunger, and perfect weather, kinda like Camelot was supposed to be!

Judy, I was dreaming the same dream!! <BR>Couldn't we share Mr D'Arcy??:o) <BR>There's enough of him to go around. <BR>(A&E version, right? Laurence Olivier's Mr. D'Arcy is only in black and white, we need living color!)

Desiree: I could "swoon" when Darcy(Colin Firth) emerges from his swimming in his pond, and comes upon Elizabeth. Stuff with which dreams are made! Judy ;-) ps. I watch A&E's "Pride" whenever it is on!

Camelot.

Dinotopia!

I want to travel more so here are other places I want to visit: <BR> <BR>Oz <BR>The Jetson's <BR>The Flintstone's <BR>Gilligan's Island <BR>Narnia <BR>All Magic Schoolbus field trips <BR> <BR>Lots more, but I won't be greedy. <BR>

I know this place is real, but we aren't ever allowed to visit it: <BR> <BR>Santa's Workshop

Whatever planet my Wife's on...

Never Never Land! To be the only girl (besides Tinka) with all those boys & never ever get a wrinkle. And that adorable Peter in tights...

I think that even if I could go to a fictional place, I'd still want to travel from there! (just no satisfying that wanderlust!) The best sea voyage would be in Dr. Doolittle's large pink snail, and then a connecting flight onto the luna moth, to land on James' giant peach. From the peach, I would then cruise the land of Oz in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, right straight into Mary Poppin's picture park with Dick Van Dyke (Burt). Dine with the dancing penguins, and then off we go by umbrella to the Keebler elve's tree for dessert. Would another fodorite like to continue the journey from there? I've used up all my miles.

Another traveler to Dinotopia!

Pern - I've always wanted to ride a Dragon!

Horatio Hornblower's ship, whichever one he's assigned to....then shore leave whereever the ship docks.

Shangri-La. <BR> <BR>Rex: "Sidh" = "Fairy Mound." So translates into "Women of the Fairy Mounds." The ancient tumuli (grave mounds) of Ireland were commonly regarded as fairy mounds. "Sidh" can also be used to designate the inhabitants of the mounds; a 7th-century biographer of St. Patrick refers to the "sidh, or the gods who dwell in the earth." (I believe another word for sidh is shee, as in "the Shee.") In this sense, the sidh are a big part of the mythological history of Ireland; in that history they are known as the Tuatha de Danann.