Your Idea of a Dream Escape

[MrPants]

On a beach anywhere in French Polynesia with the sun, ocean & the swaying palms.

 

[Mr. Ed]

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[MaidMarian]

 

[Magna-Carta]

These iPhone photos I took were my dream escape for a few days recently; this is where I had planned and wanted to be: sitting on my hotel balcony, looking out over the pristine turquoise waters of Lake Brienz every morning as I ate breakfast, contemplating where to explore each day.

Interestingly, after I returned home, I read on the BBC News website and then other websites that Lake Brienz was one of the lakes where the Swiss military dumped munitions between 1916 and 1965. Environmentalists in the 1960s convinced the military and government that it probably wasn’t the best idea, especially when it was discovered that some of the munitions were still live!

So there I was, several days later, back home and reading the news, realising I had been looking out over a lake that could potentially be a bomb waiting to go off! A bit melodramatic perhaps, but these thoughts do cross one’s mind.

And then there was the memory of driving back to the hotel late one evening in a thunderstorm after spending the day at Grindelwald. I was caught in torrential rain, watching as the lightning illuminated the outline of the mountains. Then driving along the lake shore as the lightning lit up the surface of the turquoise lake, creating an unforgettable scene. But not a sense of danger, at least not until later reading the BBC News:
Switzerland offers prize money to get munition out of lakes









Grindelwald:



Lake Brienz

 

[oscash]

oscash, you were and probably still are stunningly beautiful... what a good looking couple you 2 were....

Thanks Holly for the lovely compliment.

 

[Trade]

A cross country motorcycle trip.

Who do I think I'm kidding? It might be fun for a couple of days max. After that I'd be miserable.

 

[Magna-Carta]

A cross country motorcycle trip.

Who do I think I'm kidding? It might be fun for a couple of days max. After that I'd be miserable.

This song always puts a smile on my face

 

[Lilac]

 

[Ruthanne]

Somewhere with a nice pool and place to sleep and most importantly Good food

 

[Ruthanne]

 

[Repondering]

Gotta keep stocked up on supplies.....long drive into town.

 

[MaidMarian]

I’d love to go to a spa and be pampered.

 

[Twostep]

Kachelofen Restaurant in Bamberg

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Know it well.

 

[Lilac]

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Yes, many places, and one accompanied with a song. Sitting on Solsbury Hill, an Iron Age hill fort looking over the City of Bath, Somerset, England. Whether that be at night looking over the city lights, or on a sunny afternoon, or in the early morning with the mist covering the city. Either way, I don't mind.

And the accompanying song? Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabrial. Witten after he left Genisis and moved near to the City of Bath. He received a "spiritual awakening" when he walked up Solsbury Hill, then he wrote a song.

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THE SONG

Peter Gabriel! My all time favourite singer/ musician

 

[Manatee]

Waikiki
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They didn't have those when I went to Waikiki in 1958.

 

[Manatee]

My grandson went to Hong Kong when it was still British.

I never got to go anyplace in Asia.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

 

[Manatee]

I spent one day in Tangier and one day in Columbia, South America, plus 16 other countries for longer visits. At age 91 I no longer travel.
Now I settle for travel videos.

 

[Lilac]

 

[KSav]

Onboard the Normandie . . .

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

Mine would have to be on the ocean.

 

[Trish]

If we are talking dream escapes - I'd choose to go back in time when the world seemed a much more peaceful and less complicated place.

 

[OldOld]

Waikiki
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I would stay way from kids.