Righty, this is an example of a Yang thread, so I'm going to use it to talk about something I love. Speace places. I can be quite a nostalgic/sentimental person sometimes, and there are those special places that you can go to and cannot fail to be happy. Glastonbury is one. When I walk through the gates and see the tops of the big dance tents every Summer, it just feels like I've come home. So many great times there, I've really missed it this year, and it's a bugger that it's so hard to get tickets. Machu Picchu, the once lost city of the Incas, is another. I went there a few years ago, and climbed the big peak that you can see in the background: Huayna Picchu the peak's called - the Young Mountain. It was all so perfect and so beautiful. I remember watching Motor Cycle Diaries, and seeing the bit where Che Guevarra travels to Machu Picchu. And as the scene changes to polluted and degraded Lima, he says, "How could they take something like this, and turn it into this!" So chilling, and so true - I remember thinking exactly the same thing myself. I'd love to go back one day, there and to Egypt, both two magical, special places for me. What are your special places? There you go, that was a Yang, try it out
hehe...you asked about peoples special places... RUDE!!! ahem.. sorry... one of my special places would have to be poole harbour..its just so beautiful.. and when im out on the water there i forget everything.. anything thats stressing me out just disappears and seems trivial.. because everything there will be perfect..its silent and breathtaking..and makes me feel happy.. countryside and seaside mixed together with rare wildlife such as the red squirrel and yet on the shore you can see mankind.. pretty lights lighting up the shore... i know what you mean about glasto.. when i arrive it feels like ive come home! so many good memories from that festival... another special place would be london.. in june before i came back home me and a friend stayed up all night and watched the sunrise over the thames.. it was fantastic...just us there it felt like we had snuck into something we shouldnt be seeing.. id recommend it!
There are a couple: One is St Donat's Castle, where the Storytelling Festival is held every year. That festival has been running since I was 4 years old and I've been going since I was 5. It has barely changed since and I'm glad of it. To get from the campsite to the festival site you have to go through some woods then down a hill that overlooks the sea to a castle. Most of the events are on "The Jousting Field". It's not a long walk but it does take in almost every fairy tale setting in one fell swoop. Another place I love is Camden. A lot of London is very... shiny... which I don't like, whereas Camden isn't like that. Yeah ok you need to keep tabs on your mobile phone a bit more but it's worth it. Finally Leicester. I love revisiting Leicester. It's where my heart is I think.
Camden's an interesting one, I can't decide whether I like it or hate it. Sometimes I think it's a fairly cool place, lots happening, some really pretty areas, and at other times I find it quite fake and shallow and full of cunts and dodgy people....
yeh camdens gone downhill a lot even in the last 5 years. Less originality and the same stuff selling in every market. its a commercialised version of what it was. still a nice place to be compared with your average london high street though. glastonbury is an obvious 1, i remember walking on site at the festival last year and a wave of happiness just came over me and total relaxation. iceland is an amazing place too - not rekjavik but all the other beautiful untouched areas christiania in copenhagen fethiye in turkey but glastonbury wins! definately, nothing can beat that
Are you going to Glastonbury next year? Loads of us on the forums go, you can come and camp with us if you like. Taz should be going, so you can meet your fellow St Helens student....
Asahigaoka in Shin-Kemigawa. My hometown in Japan *love love* Especially a road called "The green Belt" which is covered in Sakura (Cherry Blossom) during the season and just generally green and full of nature (Chikada noises!!!) for the rest of the year. Also, I love Tsudanuma, Inage and Kamatori's Raver's Cafe. Odaiba's "NAGISA" festival is also a wonderful experience.
Pictures.... what pictures? I'm not Japanese, I just lived there last year and I have a lot of friends who I consider to be like family over there. To be honest, Japan is much more like home than the UK has ever been. I'm not Indian or mixed race (Arrrrrrrrrrgh I get that a lot). I'm 1/4 aboriginal actually Infact, both my parents are light-skinned, as is my sister. I just got the dark genes. It pops up once every 3 or 4 generations in our family on my Dad's side.
The pictures that I took with my long range zoom camera from several hundred miles away Hehehe, no, the ones you put in your gallery silly. When did your family move from Australia?
Oh yeah... the gallery mwahahah! I don't know very much about my heritage. I just know that I'm like 5th or 6th generation British. I don't even know whether I descend from Australian Aboriginals or Asian Aboriginals. I should really do some homework on this!
I'm mixed race and think a lot about my heritage. It can be both a blessing and a struggle to be part of two cultures at once, especially two apparently warring cultures, but I wouldn't change anything. Multiculturalism is the future of the planet, everyone intergrating, communicating and reaching better understanding. It's something very positive to want to work for....
I agree with Kat about Poole Harbour, I was just walking along the Quay this afternoon, apart from the seaguls staring at me, I love it! Also another place I used to goto every year and went back to last week for the first time in years and years is Croyde Bay, I love it there.. nice little seaside town!! I dunno why I like it so much, must be childhood memories, it has a beautiful beach and a nice walk up to Baggy Point. Love it!
