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:
- Sweden
- Norway
- Japan — from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south
- Holland (again)
- Iceland
- The Amazon
- South of France
- Italy
- Bruges
- 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.