.........At the age of 37
she realized she'd never ride
through Paris in a sports car
with the warm wind in her hair.........

I wish we'd got ourselves organised enough before we left for these parts and visited Northern Italy; Venice, Florence, Sienna. The problem was that once I started thinking of places to visit there were too many and in the end we just did a Eurostar trip to Paris. -Flederman had never been. After all there are many places to visit over here so you just replace one set of destinations with another. Or do you?

Where do you wish you had visited and think you never will, or what would you like to have done but can't see it happening?

That's what TV is for.... just get HD and it probably looks nicer than being there, and you don't have to mix with those nasty foreigners.

Actually this was brought home to me the other day when the hubby and his fam were planning a big ol trip to the UK with me as their tour guide.

I thought "shit - I haven't really been anywhere that I should have to have any idea" Stonehenge, Tower of London, Black Country Museum etc etc etc and all the other touristy places that you really just take for granted.

So my regrets are that I never visited what was on my doorstep all along - though I will be fortunate enought to do it in the next few years with all of my Canadian relations. That will make it kinda special

Sometimes wish I done more hiking in the mountains.

They are still close at hand but I can only look or attempt the easiest of trails, very frustrating.

on a similar kind of theme - i wish i had taken a year out before going to university - i was only 17 and looking back, too young.

i would have worked for 6 months, then travelled for 6 months.

the new dream however, is me, hubby and the dogs, and a road trip across canada!

I wanted to see Stonehedge before leaving but my husband says just look at the pictures of it on a website it's just a load of stones in a circle

What else, Legoland maybe. To be honest we have done quite alot in the UK.

Cassie, I agree with your husband - unless you are actually going within a stones throw() of the place then it's not really worth it - mind you I can say that as I have seen the place numerous times.

I wish I'd actually been 'Up North' a few more times and visited Scotland and Ireland, pretty much done a lot of the South of England. Maybe we should have 'done' a bit more Europe rather than jetting off to Florida.

The BIG ones for me to do are still the Galapagos/Ecuador, Alaska and maybe Egypt? I am looking forward to visiting Utah and some other States, really want to visit the Yukon and Northwest Territories also want to visit the Eastern Provinces so I suppose some of my destinations have been replaced by newer not previously thought of ideas.

I too wish I had taken a year out to travel, it's something I will encourage my daughter to do, she's already talking about doing a Semester in Japan though.

I must be very Lucky as I have done most of the world and most of the true wonders of the world are stateside, The biggest dissapointment was Egypt and the best was staying over night and watching the sun come up on The Bonnieville saltflats north west Utah or Zion Canyon souther Utah, or maybe paddling along side J pod of Orca on Vancouver Island, but then paris while the tour in coming threw, or Milan for shoe shopping or Cannes while the film festival is on.........................even better the Edinburgh festival ,,,, now thats a place to visit, or here in Dunoon Argyll 27/28th August for the Highland gathering 30,000 people and 200 Pipe band with the saturday evening march down the high street 1000+ pipes and drums,

Vegas was on my list since I was a youngster but i managed to cross that off my list last year

As a child, I dreamed of seeing Epping and Ongar. One day yet, inshallah.

I dreamed of visiting the 'North Shore' or 'Oakville' before they became overtaken by expats in search of brown sauce.

I wanted to go see Giant's Causeway. With luck I"ll get a chance this autumn!

Italy for me too, the Amalfi coast. The Pyramids, Barcelona to see the Gaudi buildings, oh and the Last night of the Proms.
Had all of Europe on my doorstep but kept flying across the Atlantic for holidays!!

Then you will be jealous of Flederman as he will be at Epping tube station on Thursday. He knows how to live the high life.

Not at Ongar though, that part of the tube was closed. It's since been reopened by hobbyists, presumably other people who's Mecca was the Hainault Loop (and I think I lead a spoddish geeky sort of life!), but only offers an excursion service on Sundays.