Ten Things

As last month’s Ten Things was places I have no desire to go, I thought we should redress the balance with places I want to visit. So here we have …
10 Places I Want to Visit:

  1. Sweden
  2. Norway
  3. Japan — from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south
  4. Holland (again)
  5. Iceland
  6. The Amazon
  7. South of France
  8. Italy
  9. Bruges
  10. Antarctica

So why haven’t I been to these places? Well it’s a combination of …

  • Laziness.
  • I hate the hassle and stress of travel.
  • The cost; every time I look at maybe visiting one of these places I’m horrified how much it costs.
  • Several of these places have environmental policies of which I disapprove — see mostly attitudes to whaling in Japan, Norway and Iceland.
  • The general environmental damage we’re doing visiting these places, both in terms of long-haul travel and damage to their environment; I’m thinking here specifically of the Amazon and Antarctica.

All of which means I may never get to see these places.