Tell me the destinatation of the most gorgeous lovely place you have visited?

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This cold weather has got me dreaming of distant shores. Eight and a half years ago dh and I spent a few days in a beautiful little place called Pebbly beach between Canberra and Melbourne. It is totally unspoilt. Little sandy beach, hundreds of wild kangaroos, beautiful colorful parakeets that feed from your hand and the odd goanna lizard roaming around. We were the only tourists there and stayed in an old rundown caravan without electricity. Bliss...... Must go back have a family holiday there.

Nope!

It's a very untrod spot and the last thing I want is a load of company tramping along the track shouting 'UCM is that you?' etc!

Closer to home, the Chalice Well Gardens in Glastonbury town are lovely on a late afternoon in summer. Really peaceful (not a place to take young kids.) Even my DH loved it and he is utterly unimaginative and doesn't 'get' the idea of a place being romantic.

Gower Peninsula, s.wales
anywhere in cornwall
Venice

Dh and I were lucky enough to go here last year.

Don't think we'll ever beat it tbh. Stunning scenery, a breathtaking chateau, faboulous service and 2 michelin star food.

Devine.

Blu, ahh go on, we will all come along for a mn picnic, I promise to take all my rubbish home and wear soft slippers!

Maroochydore at the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. I cry inside everytime I look outside of my window on to the bleak English weather...

mull, v. happy memories watching an enormous red moon rising sitting outside our tent on teh beach.

tarn valley in france.

mourne mountains, n. ireland.

Iguazu Falls on the Argentinian and Brazil borders.
Truly awe inspring...far more spectacular than Niagra. There are over 270 individual falls and the whole thing stretches in and out for 2 miles. We went towards them on a boat... you could feel the spray from over a mile awa, and the force was incredible and then went over them in a helicopter and there was a rainbow at the time. It was 18 years ago but I will never forget the experience..

Peurto Escondido (Mexico)

Gilli Islands (Lombok)

Tioman Island (Malaysia)

Positano (Italy)

Paelahora (Southern Crete)

Bella Vista, Corfu. The day we first saw it I really understood the old cliche 'it takes your breath away'.

Gruyere, Switzerland. So beautiful you just can't help falling in love with whoever you're with (so beware).

In this country - Dartington Hall Gardens in Devon (with the sound of the choir floating over from the great hall).

Kiloran Bay, Isle of Colonsay ('if heaven's not like this, I don't want to go').

I woild second Oban and Isle of Mull. And Tobermory is totally Balamory! I saw all the different coloured houses sitting by the sea! la la la. Bestist place for me is Glen Coe, not far from either Mull or Oban. The most breathtaking mountains and lochs you will ever see. Hauntingly beautiful.

Perhaps one of the most unusual places I have visited without travelling to the ends of the earth is La Manga Strip in Spain.

Arran and Mull are pretty beautiful too.

Lake Garda

Lucerne, Switzerland
Burano - an island near Venice - a cross between Balamory and Venice
Austria - Salzburg

I went on a coach trip around Europe and it was great, as it was an organised trip, you got to see much more than you would if you were on your own

Capri

Absolutely the cleanest place I have ever been to, not so much as a fag end on the street

Beautiful, hilly, historical, light and water amazing

I look at it every single day of the week - Rocky Mountains - Colorado. Big blue awe inspiring sky, towering snow capped peaks and endless endless open space.

Oahu, Hawaii, we spent 3 weeks there for our honeymoon, also Acapulco was a great experience.

You may imagine that all of Florida is neon coloured and densely populated by fat white Brits in football shirts, well if you went to Orlando you'd be right. But there is an island on the south west coast about 20 mins from my Mum & Dad's house called Gasparilla with a small town called Boca Grande. It looks as though the houses there were built between the 1890's and 1920's and nothing since. The beach is long, white and deserted with sand dunes and wispy grasses. You can sit on the beach and watch pelicans dive and dolphins leap and the sky is always pure royal blue. The Gulf of Mexico is like a millpond most days and you cannot hear a sound. It is my own piece of heaven. It has a lovely East Coast meets Caribbean feeling and a fabulous beach bar where you can sample delights such as Alligator nuggets and grouper sandwiches.

Roll on August... a whole month of heaven.

Corsica
Jost van Dyke (BVI)

Maurtius - beautiful country

gohw

It sounds wonderful - tell us more....

My favourite is Bali, but not the beach which I sincerely hated but a small luxury hotel near Ubud, the cultural centre of the Island.

I might be biased because I'm a bit of an architectural junky and the hotel we stayed was one of the most beautiful buildings I have seen. It had a style that was trendy but not snob, relaxing to the point of being spiritual but not so much as to be dull.

Terraces looked into the rice terraces in the mountains but no window was overlooked, I had a bath full of petals in the middle of a pond (yes, really, bath placed in the middle of it!). The library had a 6 metres long wall covered in interior design and architecture books from floor to ceiling! (heaven!)

Plenty of candles at night, flowers by day, complimentary sorbets in the infinity pool or tea with biscuits in the terrace of your room. Everything that you may need had already being taken care of, from a umbrella by the door, a good back pack for excursions, plenty of candles for the terrace if you wanted to sit out and even mosquito repelent in case the little things were nasty. Little poems over the pillows at night, fruit plates during the day, and this was just the standard service.

What was it called?

Peru.Scenery just stunning.