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

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

Old Mar 23rd, 2001 | 10:38 AM
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Well, let's see----ME!! <BR> <BR> <BR>I've never been to me!
 
Old Mar 23rd, 2001 | 10:53 AM
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My fictional place would be a spacious, clean hotel room in London for a reasonable price.
 
Old Mar 23rd, 2001 | 11:11 AM
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But R, <BR>I bet you've sipped champagne on a yacht and have seen some things that a woman isn't suppose to see. You've been to paradise .....
 
Old Mar 23rd, 2001 | 02:16 PM
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Tolkien's Rivendell, in Dr. Who's Tardis anywhere, on Voyager to Delta Quadrant, Atticus Finch's home in To Kill A Mockingbird (provided a young G. Peck is AF), Camelot.
 
Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 08:26 AM
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Green Mansions.

I would like to observe the exotic romance that takes place in the South American rainforest between Abel and Rima, the birdlike creature. But I'm sure the mosquitoes would bother me so never mind.
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 08:42 AM
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C. S. Lewis's Narnia chronicles were my favorite books of all time when I was little so I would have to say Narnia. On my way to Narnia, I would have to have a layover at Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory!!
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 08:44 AM
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 08:50 AM
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I'd like to go down to the wonderland of Alice.
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 08:55 AM
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The land that sprung from the hand of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Macondo.

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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 08:57 AM
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Shangri-La, Brigadoon, or Middle Earth (as long as I arrived at the height of the average hobbit)-- to start.
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 08:57 AM
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 10:40 AM
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What a great find. I think this one predates my arrival on Fodor's.

I'd be torn, I think, between Devon with the Famous Five, Vikram Seth's India or Anita Shreve's New England
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 10:43 AM
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And to go back to Rex's question Sidh is fairy in Gaelic. Banshee is white fairy.
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 10:53 AM
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Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren set a novel on a small island in the Baltic Sea called Saltkrokan.

Fantastic place that I have been longing to go to ever since (if it only existed...)
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 10:54 AM
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From &quot;Enchanted April&quot;, the villa of San Salvatore!
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 11:17 AM
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I'll have to continue the 'voyage' as I'd have to travel...


Definitely end up in Pern riding a dragon -- that's been a fantasy of mine since I discovered the books 22 years ago!!!

Narnia is a positive (post white-witch and pre-Last Battle).

I'd love to visit Tir-na-n'og, but remember -- the sidhe (it is spelled that way and pronounced shee in gaelic) were not always nice. Think Puck on a BAD day. Bean Sidhe (pronounced Banshee) actually translates into Fairy Woman -- and traditionally her haunting wail heralded a death in the family.

Where else? Oz of course... and Scotland of Jamie Fraser in Outlander

Uh... running out of miles here. Time for a quick jaunt to Middle Earth? Or Hogwarts?

If I could choose just one, though, it would be Anne McCaffrey's Pern, planet of Dragonriders, no religion, and instant transportation
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 12:05 PM
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After driving around Salzburg for what seemed like forever just before Christmas I would have voted for the fictional Altstadt.
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 12:21 PM
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Molvania, of course!!
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 01:29 PM
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How about the planet Raiza? Any Star Trek Next Generation fans out there?
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Old Jan 14th, 2005 | 02:49 PM
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