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Have you been to a place no one else has been to?

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MrsTerryPratchett · 06/04/2023 03:18

I'll start. The idea is you name the place and a fellow MNer has to say if they've been there. However, you don't have to wait until you've been somewhere to post. Post your places and you'll meet the MNers who've been there. You can post 1-3 places (random numbers).

I've been to:

Rwanda
The Whisundays
Cathedral Grove (Vancouver Island)

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photoshop · 07/04/2023 21:56

NorthFaceofthelaundrypile · 07/04/2023 19:48

@photoshop - I’ve been to Timbuktu. Drove there with some friends.
I’ll add Dogon country to the list. Preferred it to Timbuktu.

I've been to Dogon country as well!

Mumtobabyhavoc · 07/04/2023 22:11

@MrsTerryPratchett @MrsHamlet
But I've still got the Tatshenshini and Chilcoot!!! Mwaa haa haaa... 😁😁😁
Mrs T what time of year were you in Whitehorse?

kennicott looks great! Was the pizza good MrsH?

MrsHamlet · 07/04/2023 22:14

@Mumtobabyhavoc it was so nice to eat something we hadn't cooked! It was raining and everything was damp (we were camping) so it was the best food ever in the universe!

I loved Alaska

Toomanylosthours · 07/04/2023 22:31

I've been to:
crater Lake
Lake titicaca
Rapa Nui
Bogota
Bantam Island
Kangaroo Island

My 3
Vanuatu (oceania)
Lake Gokyo (Nepal)
Pantanal (Argentina)

Toomanylosthours · 07/04/2023 22:33

Toomanylosthours · 07/04/2023 22:31

I've been to:
crater Lake
Lake titicaca
Rapa Nui
Bogota
Bantam Island
Kangaroo Island

My 3
Vanuatu (oceania)
Lake Gokyo (Nepal)
Pantanal (Argentina)

Adding a 4th random place I've been

Takoradi (ghana)

Mumtobabyhavoc · 07/04/2023 22:40

MrsHamlet · 07/04/2023 22:14

@Mumtobabyhavoc it was so nice to eat something we hadn't cooked! It was raining and everything was damp (we were camping) so it was the best food ever in the universe!

I loved Alaska

Yes, I know what that is like! Woke up to a downpour on 4th/last day of Chilcoot before heading for train. We feasted at the end, too. No one spoke for about a half hour except to say, "This is so good." Or, "Pass me the (whatever food)" from the cooler we had waiting for us. 😋

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 07/04/2023 22:52

Formentera - yep. Just after they'd built the first roundabout there, conveniently overlooked by an ice cream parlour for optimal viewing of the ensuing chaos - locals going round in random directions, French tourists giving way to the right, British ones to the left (and occasionally exiting on the wrong side of the road).

merrymelodies · 07/04/2023 23:07

How about Thingvellir, Iceland? Or Kaunaoa Bay, Hawaï? Or even Antalya, Turkey.

MrsDrDear · 07/04/2023 23:19

Gros Morne National Park
Newfoundland Insectarium
Dildo

(Nearly 20yrs ago on a road trip from East to West)

JassyRadlett · 08/04/2023 00:02

Toomanylosthours · 07/04/2023 22:31

I've been to:
crater Lake
Lake titicaca
Rapa Nui
Bogota
Bantam Island
Kangaroo Island

My 3
Vanuatu (oceania)
Lake Gokyo (Nepal)
Pantanal (Argentina)

I've been to Vanuatu and the Pantanal. This thread is reminding me that some of my old jobs were a lot more interesting and varied (at least in travel terms!) than my current job.

Dead envious of Nepal, it's definitely on my bucket list.

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/04/2023 00:06

@Mumtobabyhavoc it was summer. I'm not insane. However, I have been in Winterpeg, Manisnowba in winter. Do not recommend. I thought my face was going to freeze off.

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IndeterminateProblems · 08/04/2023 00:19

Edge of the world Saudi

Mumtobabyhavoc · 08/04/2023 01:03

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/04/2023 00:06

@Mumtobabyhavoc it was summer. I'm not insane. However, I have been in Winterpeg, Manisnowba in winter. Do not recommend. I thought my face was going to freeze off.

I'm not insane.
Made me laugh. @MrsTerryPratchett as did Winterpeg and Manisnowba. Very true.

I really enjoyed winter visits up north, though and have been in -20 with wind chill -40, at the coldest, but you don't do much outdoors for lo g when it's that cold.

SinnerBoy · 08/04/2023 01:55

Has anyone been to Twatt, in the Shetlands? Or the one in the Orkneys?

bangedupthebackofhyggetygge · 08/04/2023 02:20

Never been abroad so will post three places from UK …

Fanellan
Collieston
Culburnie

midsomermurderess · 08/04/2023 03:18

JassyRadlett · 07/04/2023 15:02

I am so late to this excellent thread. Sorry Mrs TP, I've got the Whitsundays too. But then I'm a Queenslander... Also got Rwanda.

My three:

  1. Kisangani in the DRC
  2. Boigu Island in the Torres Strait
  3. Bujumbura in Burundi

Ooh, Kisangani and Bujumbura here too. There was a little drive by a while ago, to the effect that we are all falling over ourselves to boast about the remote and exotic places we have been to. So, I’ll add Cassidy’s, a pub in Carran on the edge of the Burren in Clare. Home to relatives on my mother’s side. But a quick google shows me a now rather fancy pub cashing in on the ‘wild Atlantic way’, so maybe not.

MrsHamlet · 08/04/2023 06:21

SinnerBoy · 08/04/2023 01:55

Has anyone been to Twatt, in the Shetlands? Or the one in the Orkneys?

I've been to the Orkney Twatt. The Orkneys are lovely.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 08/04/2023 06:30

I've been to the Orkney Twatt.
Disappointedly few road signs. 🤣

BarbaraofSeville · 08/04/2023 07:04

Most of the Orkney Twatt signs were on the dive boat I was staying on so we could take 'hilarious' photos of us holding them up pointing at each other.

sashh · 08/04/2023 07:08

AllIwantforChristmas22 · 06/04/2023 14:19

In addition to
montevideo, Uruguay
and Syria (Aleppo, Damascus, Hama, Homs)

i am going to throw in Chisinau, Moldova

I've been to Montevideo.

youngestisapsycho · 08/04/2023 07:17

MrsTerryPratchett · 06/04/2023 04:29

I've been to Hobbiton!

I’ve been to Hobbiton too 😊 DH has been to Rwanda

SinnerBoy · 08/04/2023 07:21

MrsHamlet Today 06:21

I'll have to get myself to the Orkney one as well!

WandaWonder · 08/04/2023 07:24

Harrison Ford's ranch

Palmface · 08/04/2023 07:31

Juba, South Sudan
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dodoma, Tanzania

dfkdfc · 08/04/2023 07:35

KitKatflavours · 06/04/2023 06:56

Inside the (drinking) bar at the Tower of London (inside the walls)

I've done that too. GinSmile