petitefrancaise

I have had many discussions with people over what "home" is and where it is.
At Christmas I was lucky enough to actually get "home" and this photo shows where my heart really belongs. The Wye Valley at Llandogo.
Anyone else care to share a photo of where their heart goes?

Lion in Winter

That's a beautiful place.

For me, it's the Big Smoke and Old Father Thames.

This is from my last trip there, in August.

lizzyq

For my first twenty years I lived in Buckinghamshire a stone's throw from where these pictures were taken, in the house where I was born on the last Friday of August after the local midwife broke the waters to "get things going" I don't think she wanted to be kept hanging around all bank holiday weekend! Living on the edge of a college town in rural central Pennsylvania feeds the part of my soul that needs fields, hills and trees.



Looks the same from the front - but I know it is very different inside these days.


The church where I was baptised, confirmed and married (first time around).


Village pond - used to catch the school bus by here, and in cold winters there could be enough ice to "skate" on.


Village hall designed by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis.

Lion in Winter

Village hall looks busy. The WI?

lizzyq

I think it was a martial arts class, but yes it is well used.

civilservant

Taunton, Somerset and the County Cricket Ground. Just over the river from where I grew up.

Jerseygirl

Great idea for a thread PF.

Originally from Sheffield but I lived in Cheshire for many years. If we moved back home, Cheshire is where I want to be.

Sorry for some reason it will not allow me to upload pics.

Nutmegger

Haworth Moor, where my ashes will repose one day . . .

SultanOfSwing

It's Carrick. Always has been, and always will. I don't care if I'm supposed to be 'happy' here, or that 99% of everyone I love in the world lives here is isn't Carrick and it never will be either.

Lion in Winter

Beautiful place.

Lion in Winter

Lovely with those hills behind the castle.

Cup of tea?

SultanOfSwing

Those hills are technically part of Belfast, the camera zoom makes them look closer (they're still only 12 miles away )

Cup of tea would be lovely. Actually I'd just had one when posting that.

Lion in Winter

This is making me homesick, and I've never even been there.

Mallory

My former home is about 10 miles from Llandogo. Not in Monmouthshire though, across the Chepstow bridge and into Gloucestershire. I lived very close to the river Wye, but on the English side. Of interest, Stephen Hawkings parents retired to Llandogo. A popular retirement village, probably a bit pricy now.

zzrmark

Anywhere that isn't Florida, preferably viewed from the bottom of a bottle of Caol Isla.

It's been a while but I actually feel most at home in a tent in the mountains, preferably sub zero (Celsius if you please) with a moderate gale howling outside.