Unusual places
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During a canoing holiday in Sweden, one evening (after peddling all day) we climbed a hill. Behind the top of the hill was a valley recently completely stripped from all the (pine) trees. Very eerie sight and feeling that was.
'Harvest'-time of that particular valley, our guide told us. New trees would be planted during the Autumn, next year another part or valley would be stripped and replanted.
Call it also a FCS plantage for pine wood, but it was awesome to see. Like your Death Valley, it looked very alien. Specially when we traveled (on lakes, where you could drink the water straight from the lake) amongs thousands and thousands of pine trees.
Call it also a FCS plantage for pine wood, but it was awesome to see. Like your Death Valley, it looked very alien. Specially when we traveled (on lakes, where you could drink the water straight from the lake) amongs thousands and thousands of pine trees.
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It really smelled of pine resin, which I always find a very nice smell. (For clearing the sinuses very quickly you have to step into the dispatch department of the company I worked for for years = alcohol factory 
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This holiday I took has been one of the more remarkable ones, as in perhaps one in your lifetime? Two weeks in the most unspoiled natura area you can imagine, canoing on crystal clear lakes, getting to know the others of the group (hardly any of us knew each other before, in total we had 4 Nationalities), every day is was around 30 degrees C. Oh, after three days we all got used to skinny dipping (there's a first time for everything)
Great time I had.
) This holiday I took has been one of the more remarkable ones, as in perhaps one in your lifetime? Two weeks in the most unspoiled natura area you can imagine, canoing on crystal clear lakes, getting to know the others of the group (hardly any of us knew each other before, in total we had 4 Nationalities), every day is was around 30 degrees C. Oh, after three days we all got used to skinny dipping (there's a first time for everything
) Great time I had.
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Never been to any of the places on this link, but there are some very strange names
Never been to any of the places on this link, but there are some very strange names
I was in the rainforest in Australia when I realised that I had lost the other two people I was with and I didn't have a clue where I was. I just stood still amongst the huge, overgrown trees for about 20 minutes and they came back as I knew they would, but in those few minutes I experienced and almost overwhelming feeling of peace and tranquility, even though it was quite noisy from the exotic birdcall. Beautiful moment.
Another unusual place was when we were renovating the top floor of a very old building in Penzance in Cornwall which had a butchers shop on the ground floor. We broke through a wall and found a little room with old cupboards on the wall. In the cupboards were old-fashioned medicine bottles, large and small, the type you see in antique shops. I still have a small blue one with a handwritten label saying morphine, and how many grains the dose should be.
Stonehenge at dawn on midsummers day (before it was fenced off), with a few druids and hippies, was a pretty wierd one as well!
Another unusual place was when we were renovating the top floor of a very old building in Penzance in Cornwall which had a butchers shop on the ground floor. We broke through a wall and found a little room with old cupboards on the wall. In the cupboards were old-fashioned medicine bottles, large and small, the type you see in antique shops. I still have a small blue one with a handwritten label saying morphine, and how many grains the dose should be.
Stonehenge at dawn on midsummers day (before it was fenced off), with a few druids and hippies, was a pretty wierd one as well!
Norway, way off the tourist areas. Learning skiing. The scenery was spectaculer. It has been 40 years and it is still fresh in my mind. The frozen waterfalls glistening in the sunlight and we were under canvas. I think the place was called Voss. At least that was the nearest habitat.
If I go back, It will have to be proper hotels. Answering a call of nature out there was a danger to your orchestrations.
If I go back, It will have to be proper hotels. Answering a call of nature out there was a danger to your orchestrations.
Woody, Sweden is amazing...my cousins have a summer house in a remote area with only one neighbour within one kilometre of them and a beautiful secluded freshwater lake surrounded by pine. Heaven on earth in a good summer - only downside is the mozzies!
- only downside is the mozzies!Jökulsárlón (or Glacier Lagoon) in Iceland (where 'Die another Day' was filmed')
I've been there a couple of times, and its a magical place.
some pics are Here:
More Here:
I've been there a couple of times, and its a magical place.
some pics are Here:
More Here:
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Matopos national park, Zimbabwe, wierd rock formations, troops of baboons running about, Cecil Rhodes is buried there in a grave cut into the rock
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