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Places you want to visit based purely on the name

77 replies

Kezzie200 · 16/04/2022 22:39

Martha's Vineyard

OP posts:
Serena1977 · 16/04/2022 23:38

Mevagissey

DorritLittle · 16/04/2022 23:40

Sandwich.

Sinuhe · 16/04/2022 23:41

Titicaca

elQuintoConyo · 16/04/2022 23:41

Fanjeaux - I've been there, have a daft photo of me in front of the sign Grin such a twat!

Medicine Hat, Canada.

Martha's Vineyard is a good one.

Ulelia · 16/04/2022 23:42

Banff. Both Scotland and Canada.

MaudOfTheMarches · 16/04/2022 23:45

Bumthang. Have been to Titicaca and can can confirm it was worth it Smile.

TargusEasting · 16/04/2022 23:49

Huish Episcopi - A small village in Dorset or Somerset.

Iceland - when I need peas and fishfingers because I just know they will be perfectly frozen.

Chishnfips · 16/04/2022 23:50

Tijuana

CantStartaFireWithoutaSpark · 16/04/2022 23:51

Muff NI

TheGirlWhoLived · 16/04/2022 23:51

Twatt- not had chance to go yet!

TheMoreYouKnow · 16/04/2022 23:52

Beat me to it came on to say Ham and then Sandwich!
Been to Westwood Ho! The only place with a ! in its name.

Subjectivist · 16/04/2022 23:52

Nova Scotia

TheMoreYouKnow · 16/04/2022 23:53

Or that place in Wales with really long name that ends with gigolo.

TheLovleyChebbyMcGee · 16/04/2022 23:53

Lake minnewanke in Canada. I've actually been there, its beautiful!!

TheMoreYouKnow · 16/04/2022 23:54

NOT GIGOLO!!Grin go go go! Predictive text wouldn't let me type it!

AliceMcK · 16/04/2022 23:55

Tahiti every time I hear it I think of a movie I saw which I think had Eddie Murphy in it saying “getting neeked in Tahiti” it just makes me smile, Id loved to get Nekked in Tahiti haha

MaryAndHerNet · 16/04/2022 23:56

First time i went to Sc*nthorpe, I had to giggle. There's also a Penistone I've been too. I've been through Spittal In The Street too.

Serena1977 · 16/04/2022 23:56

@TheMoreYouKnow

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Sinuhe · 16/04/2022 23:56

@MaudOfTheMarches - that's good to know!
I will be going in June. 😁 After taking in the more famous sights!
I used to have a map of South America as a writing pad on my desk as a child... I have always fantasised about visiting this lake with the strange name...

seashaken · 16/04/2022 23:56

Steeple Bumpstead. It sounds like a made up place in a children's book.

LetitiaLeghorn · 16/04/2022 23:58

Timbuktu - not been
Kathmandu - have been (nothing like I expected sadly)
Zanzibar - not been

C25kBecky · 17/04/2022 00:07

@DorritLittle

Sandwich.
Sandwich is lovely, I nearly got married there.
ElaineMarieBenes · 17/04/2022 00:10

Vasco da Gama (Goa) - only I did visit on my first visit to India. This was possibly a mistake as it’s an industrial sea port!

Purplecatshopaholic · 17/04/2022 00:12

Bonkle (Scotland) - been a standing joke with me and my friends for years for some childish reason (and I have been there)

Cattenberg · 17/04/2022 00:14

Yes to Timbuktu and Westward Ho!

I also fancy Hell in Norway (apparently it does freeze over) and as I’ve been to Easter Island, I’d quite like to go to Christmas Island too (the one near Australia). I used to imagine the Azores as tropical islands with white sand beaches and was quite disappointed when I found out that they weren’t.

I’ve been to Mevagissey. It’s a nice Cornish fishing village, although there isn’t an awful lot to see there. In nearby Charlestown, you can sometimes see tall ships in the harbour.