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"a long wandering or voyage . : an intellectual or spiritual wandering or quest" where would you go?

I have several in mind ( money being no object of course lol) , the first to travel by train all around the UK, somewhat in the manner of Bill Bryson, stopping at places I would like to explore.

The second would be to visit the locations used in books i have enjoyed.

Hello Rose,

You are up late !!

I too would love to travel around the UK, such beautiful countryside and lots of lovely old Pubs - just waiting for me...

So much world to see :-)

PS: not too sure my journey would be either 'intellectual' or spiritual...

Susan

Hello Susan, I just noticed the time! I haven't been sleeping well, partly due to the hot weather so I'm putting off going to bed until I'm really tired.

A very nice place to stay i think would be a country house that was recently featured on a tv programme here, built in the 16th century in Cheshire , I was very taken by the history of it and the four-poster bed looked inviting too lol.

http://www.oldhallatmadeley.com/index.html#/about-the-old-hall

I would like to travel the coastline of Britain......Then all the inland waterways.

Too good a question to let slip down the board.

I am having a think about this but one quest would be to visit all the places of my ancestors. I have been to some but not all. It would also be good to do this in each place in the company of the local history 'buffs'.

Another would be to visit the garden of Monet and then the locations of some of his paintings, preferably when there was nobody else there (i.e.coachloads!).

Ditto Versailles (empty, no tourists).

Then I would like to travel the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland, avoiding motorways of course, and staying in small guest houses to meet the people.

Ah well, not only not enough money, not enough time left either. Still dreaming is good.

I'd like to explore the mountains of Wales and Scotland. When I was a kid, visiting these places, I was a nightmare for my parents, because always at the first opportunity I would be off up the hillside, by myself, with no equipment, but I just had to explore!

I should have taken up hill-walking when I was younger, because I now can't do it, and regret not doing so back then (though to be fair, in my teens I lived in the flat fens, hills were so far away :-S

Rose, if money and responsibilities were no object and I was single, I would go off wandering the world and the country until I found my spiritual home

Sounds good to me Uggers :-D

because I've not got roots in a specific place having moved so much as a child , I do feel that there is maybe somewhere 'out there' that I would recognise as 'home' in a way places I've lived have not been. LOL , maybe that won't be in this world though !

just transport hop where ever it was going ,train.plane etc.,,,,,not knowing where you'd end up would make good traveling....

I'd change me name to Palin. :-D :-D :-D

...and write a best seller about it Kay? :-D

RMS St Helena.It is the ship that delivers the mail to St Helena and Tristan da Cunha, maybe Pitcairn. Then it goes on to South Africa I think, and has even been known to go up to Walvis Bay.

It takes about three months I think and that is how the people who live on the islands get here and to other places in the world. It is not modern luxury cruising but a more peaceful, old fashioned way to travel. beef tea and library books.

When I win the lottery I will take this cruise especially if it goes to Walvis Bay. Another month or so in Namibia, see my mates, then fly home because I would be desperate to see some rain.

I would also like to wander the small towns and villages of my ancestors, tho9ugh born in south wales and living there for 7 years before emigrating, my "home" is north Wales, I want a cottage by the sea, time to write, to reach out and touch peace. Mostly I want some peace within.
I would also love to trace the steps of my Ogilvie forebears who settled in 'The spice islands' specifically Grenada.
My nephew spent a year in a kibbutz in Israel between his 2 degrees (funny place to find a Baptist LOL). That year definitely impacted on his life in a very positive way.

Susan with numbers - can I join you? I'd like to do the coast to start off with - I love the series Coast :)

I'd also love to do a tour of where my ancestors came from too :)