Five Places I want to return to!
Take me home…
I found this really fun blog post idea at www.booked.net – Top Destinations to Go There. Basically, I had to think of five destinations I would like to return to. ONLY FIVE? I have so many favourite places in the world and so many more to discover. It was a hard choice, but here is what I came up with:
Paris, France
It annoys me immensely that the best Ramen in the whole world is in Paris, but there you go. I would go back in an instant to eat Ramen at Naritake. I want you all to know that I have eaten SO MUCH RAMEN in my life (five years in Japan make me an expert) and this is by far the best I have ever eaten. Jason agrees too, so it must be true. Also memories of us climbing up the Eiffel Tower with a beret and a baguette whilst wearing a pin-stripe t-shirt still make me giggle. A wonderful city for food and wine 🙂
Terengganu, Malaysia
Not all of you will know that my father was actually born and brought up in Malaysia. He loves to take us there. We went to see his old home and school and it was so lovely to see where he grew up in Kuala Lumpur. Then it’s beach time, often in Terengganu on the east-coast where you can stay in posh hotels for a small price. The fruit is fresh from the trees and melts in your mouth and the beaches are sandy and empty. The only thing you have to worry about is where that lizard in the bedroom went…
Oki Islands, Japan
The Oki Islands are a group of islands in the Japan Sea. We visited this summer and they are by far the most untouched and rural place I have been to in Japan. We got the ferry over and were then dropped off at the top of Matengai Cliff, which we slowly hiked down. The views were stunning, we walked by horses and cows (luckily they didn’t want to attack us) and we didn’t meet a single other person the whole time – it’s very much off the beaten track, but I would love to visit again one day.
Bruges, Belgium
One of our favourite trips ever. Bruges is stunning, we took a boat tour, wandered the cobbled streets and rented a bike and actually cycled along the completely flat roads all the way into Holland along the canals. The mussels in Brussels were great, the pancakes in Holland too, but the chocolate in Bruges was the best of it all – you people need to visit this lovely city!
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This city has something special – so many bicycles, lovely canals and on King’s Day the entire country goes orange – it’s something really wild and fun to experience! I love the feel to the city and how multicultural the people are. I would love to live in Holland one day… who knows, maybe it’s next on the list of places to move to!
I hope my blogging friends will also make a post like this! I’d love to read your versions Charlotte, Confuzzledom, Shannon, Janet and Eating Wiesbaden 🙂
There are so many more places I want to go back to one day – Israel has the friendliest people I have ever met, Mexico the most fun, Ghana the smiliest and England, well, I love England – best country in the world!! I have also found I love Germany, but I know there are many places I’m still waiting to discover…
Where would you like to return to one day and why?
8 Comments
Christie Dietz (Eating Wiesbaden)
Ha! I loved this, and it was totally making me think WHERE WOULD I CHOOSE?? as I was reading it but now I *really* have to come up with some answers! 😉 Thank you for asking for my version… I’ll give it a go once I’ve launched my new site, although I’ll probably have to tweak it to make it German food-orientated 😉
So here, for the record, are my five non-German food-related places I’d like to go back to: Georgia (not the American one: the most incredible food, the most generous, hospitable people), Kyrgyzstan (the most beautiful country I’ve ever been to), Malaysia (the food, the beaches…), the south of France (the food, the food, the wine, the food) and… Scotland (the beautiful, dark, wild countryside… and the fish… and the whisky!). I’m guessing the last two will be the first two I get to go back to first 😉
Vanessa Abel
I know – it’s so hard to decide! I tried to pick places that I’ve been together with Jason – but I just HAD to put Malaysia in there… guess I have to take him there soon 😉
You could always make a top-five-places-for-German-food!!! I’d love to read that!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE Scotland too and I’ve heard so many wonderful things about Georgia that it’s time I went. I used to be in a world music choir in London a few years ago and we actually learnt a song in Georgian – it must be a sign 🙂
Elora
This was fun! Belgium (although practically the whole world is on my list) is definitely up there on my list–and I’ve had Belgian chocolate, and it is to die for!! I was so ticked off when the store stopped carrying it. It was like this five-pound bar. Simply divine…I really need to get over there.
Vanessa Abel
Yeah, I can’t get enough of Belgian chocolate! We actually posted this morning on how to do EVERYTHING in Brussels in four hours – which would be perfect as then you can move on to other places in the area and taste their chocolate too – haha!
Shruti
Super list! And wow, you are quite the traveler! Oki looks just like Durdle Door, and I want to visit Bruges just for the yummy chocolates!!
Vanessa Abel
OMG – I’ve been to Durdle Door! The day after I passed my driving licence I was told I needed to bring a load of people there from London for a birthday party – first time on the motorway and first time driving in the dark – OMG – but the Jurassic Coast is SO BEAUTIFUL! 🙂
Alexander Iashchuk
Oki Islands in Japan are so nice.i wish that one day I will have the opportunity to stay there at least for a year!
Vanessa Abel
That would be amazing! I would love to do the same – maybe we will meet there one year 🙂