Places you want to visit based purely on the name

[Kezzie200]

Martha's Vineyard

@CantStartaFireWithoutaSpark

Muff NI

Muff isn't in Northern Ireland. It's in Donegal.

Oaxaca.

There's a city in the US with our surname. Quite fancy there.

I'm from near Pratts Bottom. Always thought it fortunate they built the hospital in Locks Bottom instead, as that would have been some interesting birth certificates...

Cold Christmas in Hertfordshire.

I did want to visit Banoffee when I thought it was a town in Scotland where the pie originated, but someone put me right on that one.

We stopped for lunch in Truth or Consequences in New Mexico. Hadn’t planned to but who could drive through without stopping?

Tring because I once met someone from Tring in menorca when I was about nine and she was a pen pal for a while I don't live anywhere near Tring sadly .

Fingringhoe - a village in Essex

Wyoming

Okavango delta
Ngorongoro crater
Fingals cave
Giants causeway
Rotorua
The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Realistically speaking, the last one is the most likely to be achievable in the short term...

Tiptoe

I want to go to Timbuktu but fear it's too off-limits even for me! Ulaanbaatar Batar is fab - UB everyone drops! Have a pic of me at the Ouagadougou sign.

I always wanted to visit Loose Chippings. You often see signs saying 'Loose Chippings half a mile', but half a mile later there is no sign of it.😁

Has no one mentioned Wetwang yet?

Cheddar Gorge.

If I don't find a cave/valley made entirely of cheese that I can swan dive into, face first, I'll be severely pissed off.

Fucking.

Little sodbury

Went to wetwang based entirely on its name. There’s a place in Australia which has our surname. I’d like to go there.

Cheddar Gorge. It sounds ace

I wanted to go to Samarkand from the moment I heard its name when I was a small child. I finally got there eight years ago, in my late fifties, and returned there four years ago.

Zanzibar was another place I've been to, drawn by the name as much as what it offered.

Oh, and Kashgar. Another name that I got to visit just before everything turned to shit over there.

So yep. My traveling life has been pretty comprehensively influenced by names.

Puddington ;)

@MaryAndHerNet

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.

Was a pain living in South Yorkshire and working in sales when the head office algorithm stopped us typing Penistone and Scunthorpe because of the consecutive letters. (Weirdly, you can go from Penistone to Birdwell, take a small detour through Jump and end up in Wombwell)

@caringdenise009

Cold Christmas in Hertfordshire.

I did want to visit Banoffee when I thought it was a town in Scotland where the pie originated, but someone put me right on that one.

I've been to Cold Christmas, a friend used to live there. It's just a lane with a nice name, sadly nothing exciting there!

Yanbu is in KSA

Zanzibar

Oh, and I've been to Peñiscola (pron: pen-yis-colla) near Valencia. Partly for the lolz, but it's a beautiful little place. They filmed parts of El Cid there.