Places from books you wish you could visit

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I saw this tweet from goodreads and thought I would like to visit several non-fictional places (I hardly read fantasy).

I would sit next to Theo and ride across the country from Las Vegas to NY in Goldfinch.

Visit 1930s Moscow as described in Master and Margherita by Bulghakov.

Prague of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Botanical garden where Paulette grew in Kolkatta as described in Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.

Horse stables somewhere in East London where Henri Lachapelle was teaching his granddaughter dressage in Horse Rider by Jojo Moyes.

And many many more!
Share yours here please.

Westeros, Braavos and The Wall
Discworld
Northern Lights
China of Wild Swans
The Moors of Wuthering Heights

Finmory from Jinny and Shantih. I know it's based on Talisker in Skye, and as I am in NE Scotland, it's not that far away.

Malory Towers.

Ravenstow from Elizabeth Chadwick's trilogy.

Hallstatt in modern day Austria, but it serves as Epona's mountain village home in Morgan Llewellyn's "The Horse Goddess"

Pern

Reading The Miniaturist recently made me want to go to Amsterdam again - I haven't been there for decades. Lulworth Cove because Antonia Forest "used" it as Yetland Cove in her Marlows novels.

Would it be appropriate for me to boast mention here that I canoed to Wild Cat Island at half term? The secret harbour is absolutely brilliant in rl and there was already a boat in it flying a swallow flag

The Corfu described in 'My family and other Animals'
Seems magical

I always wanted to visit the Tiernsee from the Chalet School books. Preferably in the 1930s. But I thought it didn't exist in RL.
Now dd2 insists it does exist with another name, and we could visit it, so we might go this summer.

The Faraway Tree. Would love a go on Moon-Face's slippery slip!

Where Maria Merryweather lived. Moonacre?

Would love to go to the March house from Little Women and Pemberley to visit Elizabeth and Darcy. Also Mole's house from Wind inthe Willows

How has no one said the red room of pain? Just me then?

Reminded by LauraChant's name, the farm in The Changeover - would love to visit that house.

Moonacre - perhaps especially the gatehouse where Loveday Minette lived.

Narnia, yy. Especially the beginning of Prince Caspian.

mrstwee - snap! and Maria's round bedroom at the top of the tower!

Narnia and Lothlorien.

Italy in Enchanted April
Spain in any Hemingway novel
Prince Edward Island
New York as recreated by Ed McBain
And, yes, the magic faraway tree.

I longed to go to Amalfi after reading Lorna Hill 's Rosanna Joins the Wells. I did and it was just as she described it. And Loch Awe, which was in another Wells book - (someone will remind me). Just fab.

niminypiminy yes! I didn't mention that because I knew that I'd be too big to get in through the tiny door. Never mind, I could take tea and peppermint lozenges with Miss Heliotrope, before she married the parson...
Do you not feel that Loveday Minette is the friend waiting for you just out of sight?
The truth is, I'm not sure its fiction at all....

Fiction you say?? Are there some people who think it's made up?

Maybe we can sneak into the grand tea party with all the geraniums in the parlour?

Countess - Me and dd swam to wildcat island! It was during the heatwave we had about 3 years ago. She was only 9 but she wore a swimming vest and we took a body board so if she got cold she could get on it. It was a brilliant adventure. We also sailed round it but were too scared to try to land. On the same trip we climbed kanchenjunga (Coniston old man), wild camped and walked up to what is reported to be swallowdale. It was brilliant.

She's now obsessed with the hunger games. I don't plan to recreate that.

I'd like to go to the netherfield ball.

oh yes! marmaduke scarlet and all.

Sounds lovely Occams
We did the Old Man on the same trip too. I would love to swim round the island, like John does in the first book - I had a swim later that day but it wasn't warm enough to do a circuit.

Fictional worlds -

Pern - I would love to Impress a dragon - or even fly on one as a passenger.

The Discworld - to meet Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and the City Guards of Ankh Morpork.

Hogwarts and Diagon Alley.

Non-fictional:

Many of the locations Nora Roberts uses - Alaska, New England, Maine, Ireland - the list is endless.

I have visited some of the Arthur Ransome Lake district locations (and seen some of the boats that inspired the stories - in a museum there, iirc) - but I would like to visit the actual island that the Swallows camped on.

The cornish coastline - from Rosamund Pilcher, and other authors.

The Bernese Oberland - location of the later Chalet School stories - and some of the places that they went to visit - the Falls of Rhine, Geneva - and many others I can't remember (not enough coffee in my system yet).

Dh and I once tried to find the location where the murder took place in Five Red Herrings, by Dorothy L Sayers - we got pretty close, but since I had not thought to bring the book with me on holiday - and we couldn't find a copy up there, on the day when we went looking (this was way before the days of kindle and google, sadly) - we didn't find the exact location - I would love to go back sometime, and visit all the locations in the book.

What was Swallowdale like Occams ? I would love to find it and explore all the places in the Arthur Ransome books. They were my absolute favourites!

Pesto - it was ace!

We had already walked up Coniston Old Man during the day, and then we decided to go and have a look at Swallowdale. Of course there isn't really one place that's agreed as Swallowdale but I found a thread online that suggested one possible location so we went to have a look.

I just did some googling and I think it was this thread.

Anyway that was where we went because I recognise the car park and sheep enclosure on google earth from our photos.

It has a stream, waterfall, Peter Duck's cave and it's a beautiful walk. Our plan was to walk up and check it out and then go back for the tent and camp there. We were on a mission to tick off DD's 50 Things to do before you're 11 3/4. It is quite a walk up though and after the walking we'd done that day we didn't have energy left to go back up with our camping gear, so we actually wild camped on Old Man near the car park where we only had to walk 5 mins with the tent.

I would love to camp in Swallowdale or on Wildcat Island (although I'm sure that's not encouraged)