Favourite Places

Liverpool Castle -this is my favourite place. Its lonely, quiet and set against a beautiful backdrop. Beside it is a huge lake.

Its a part of Lever Park, near Bolton -North West England. Bolton of course is a strange place to expect to find Liverpool Castle !

It was built by Lord Lever, a hundred years or more ago. Its two thirds the original size, and is an exact replica I think. Lever Park is a large public park with several follies.

To view it you need to down load "Google Earth". Here are the coordinates you will need to find it:

53?36'46.28"N, 2?33'48.14"W

So, where is your favourite place ?

 

I haven't found one yet, but I intend to travel extinsively until I do. I like to visit places rich in history. Charleston, St. Augustine, Savannah, and other historic towns are among my favorite. I also enjoy visiting places that are said to be haunted. Obviously, England is on my list of places to visit, so you have to tell me what to add to my itinerary for when I go.

 

Surely there is a beautiful quiet place you like to go to picnic, or just relax.

With you interest in history and haunted places, I would say before a trip to the UK, google for "the national trust" . This group own many medieval properties and preserve them for the nation. The public can visit all year round. Some of the properties are haunted. Hampton Court in London is a haunted place to visit. The Tower of London too I think. Many people were beheaded there. One of Henry V111's wives was, I think it was Anne Boleyn

You might also wish to visit Warwick Castle- one of the best examples of a Norman Fort in the UK. If you like ancient history why not visit Avebury- its attraction is the many stone circles there, some of which dwarf Stonehenge.It was built by Neolithic people about 5500 years ago they think.

http://www.avebury-web.co.uk/

Beautiful areas include the Lake District, the Scottish Highlands, the Yorkshire Dales, Cornwall and Devon, and the beautiful Cotswolds, with its picture postcard towns like Chipping Campden, with its medieval market in the middle of the high street.

Enjoy the UK Tori, take care in our big cities. Its just as nasty as anything you have over there in yours.

 

Glastonbury Tor is my favourite place in the whole world. The peace that emanates from that hill has to be felt to be believed. It's a bitch of a climb to get up there, but SO worth the effort.

I go there a couple of times a year (at least)....just to relax and recharge.

 

Tori....avoid Stonehenge like the plague. I used to live right by it. You can't get near the stones these days, in fact the best view is to be had driving up to it. Don't waste your money paying to walk in a huge circle around it.....just drive past it, you'll see more that way!

 

Thanks for that Feckless, I knew of Glastonbury but not the Tor. Have you had a look at Google Earth ? It is fantastic. You can spy on the earth via a satellite in space. You can almost read newspaper headlines with it.

 

It is hard to beat Bubba's Beer and Boobie Bar.

 

It might be hard to believe, but I really don't. Maybe it is because I have moved around so much, or that I just don't ever have time to recharge, or maybe it is growing up near the city where there is no such thing as a 'beautiful quite place'.

I found it about a year or a year and a half ago. It is fantastically addictive. I love looking at real estate and I always look it up on Google earth to see where the property is located and what is around it.

 

Have you got the Google earth co-ordinates ?

 

I must be culturally anemic, because I would rather spend a week in the sticks of the Indiana State Forrest than to travel about to famous international landmarks.

Honestly, if a ****ing leprechaun gave me a choice between touring all the wonders of the world in first class style, or sitting on the muddy banks of the White river and smoking out of my never ending magical baggy of skunks, Ima take the river. Either I'm a simple man, or a drug addict redneck.

 

Sounds like the muddy banks of the White River is your favourite place, and you didn't even know it..

 

Yep. I'm easily amused. An acute appreciation for the simple things in life.

 

Yup, been there, even saw my house....LOL!

 

On a boat far enough out to sea to have nothing on the horizon but water.

 

I love the ocean.
I've always thought the perfect house would be on the cliffs overlooking the ocean. If I actually found a house like that, it would probably be my favorite place, but since I haven't, I am currently without a favorite place.

 

They've got beautiful homes on the hill over looking the Homer spit. I had the pleasure of spending the weekend in a million dollar home once there. The view was awsome!

 

I love the ocean too. There is something deep about huge breakers crashing on feral beaches.

 

I just looked it up and it is beautiful. I also have Alaska on my list. Of course, there aren't many places that aren't on my list.

 

I'm like Jhonny , give me a spot on a river. Substitute a six pack for the weed.

 

I love the North shore of Lake Superior from Duluth to the Canadian border.. Tons of waterfalls from all the rivers draining into the lake over the rocky shoreline.. Absolutely beautiful.