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antimatter · 14/05/2015 18:29

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.

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stumblingalong · 04/06/2015 08:23

The Happy Isles of Oceana by Paul Theroux. I really need to visit the South Pacific now.

Knottyknitter · 04/06/2015 08:33

Lancre, and ankh morpork, obviously
The Shire
Diagon Alley
Avonlea
The Valley of Adventure
The version of london inhabited by Becky Bloomwood of the shopaholic books (to give her a slap)
Book world from the Thurdsday Next series. (Of course then I could visit All The Books, preferably in the company of Miss Havisham)

PestoSwimissimos · 04/06/2015 09:05

OMG Occams! It sounds amazing - I can't believe Peter Duck's cave actually exists too!!

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 04/06/2015 10:28

I thought I'd been to Swallowdale but I've just remembered, it was a valley that dh thinks is Swallowdale and no-one else does rather than the one with the cave Grin
Must go to cave!

SDTG, Wild Cat Island is very doable. It's close to the shore (and near a carpark) so you can get to it with only the most basic of boats, if you're not up for swimming! And then, of course, you can go and have tea on the terrace at Brantwood (Ruskin's house) and watch the Gondola chugging up and down the lake Smile

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 04/06/2015 10:31

Has anyone mentioned Thackers from A Traveller In Time, aka the farmhouse in Derbyshire where Simon Groom from Blue Peter lives and which his dw and he run as a B&B?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 04/06/2015 11:31

I had forgotten Thackers - and I didn't know it really existed - thanks, TheCountess! And I could go and stay there with a real Blue Peter presenter - wow!

Tillytootles · 04/06/2015 12:00

Another one for Manderley ??

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