Where is your favourite place in the world?

Infernal Racket

I swam down to Twin Falls in Kakadu National Park in Australia many years ago and I remember thinking it was paradise, haven't since found anywhere that captured me as much. I'm interested in hearing about other people's paradise.

yeppydeppy

Achill.

JohnnyFlash

Cheltenham racetrack is one of my favourite places in the world. Couldn’t make it yesterday, but over here for the next 3 days of drinking and gambling like a lunatic.

KilOit

Various parts of Peru

Hoop66

South coast of Brittany, just like West Cork/Cornwall but with sunshine.
or
Haft Howz (7 pools) in the foothills of the Alborz Mountains in Iran.

Rufeo

I can't answer that. I move around too much.

Deebles McBeebles

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Cheltenham racetrack is one of my favourite places in the world. Couldn’t make it yesterday, but over here for the next 3 days of drinking and gambling like a lunatic.

Best of luck, John. I've a few quid on it being ground zero for a Covid-19 explosion. Keep the immune system ticking along with Guinness. Be grand.

mackeire

Dalkey on a warm sunny day

irishevo8

NYC

cj maxx

The bog.
It's some where in either Monaghan, Fermanagh or Tyrone( I'm not sure) but it's still the place I remember fondly. Turf,tea ,dust devils. And yes even the midges!

JohnnyFlash

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Best of luck, John. I've a few quid on it being ground zero for a Covid-19 explosion. Keep the immune system ticking along with Guinness. Be grand.

Ara we’re fücked anyway, so might as well catch the fücking thing while cleaning out a bookie after landing a gamble.

tritriagain

Hook head. I'm lucky enough to live 2 mins drive away and can see it from my house

w/s/p/c/

New York. Just love the big city feel and hustle and bustle of the place. Nothing better than wandering the streets finding new things to see and do.

I couldn't choose between these:

Dingle Penninsula

Annapurna region of Nepal

Anywhere in Colombia

Patagonia

Sephiroth_dude

Time Square New York.

2lazytogetup

stoney grey soil of monaghan

endacl

Bed.

2lazytogetup

sandyford business park. concrete jungle, offices, people are great craic.

SmartinMartin

Pocomoonshine Lake, Maine.

Andrewf20

The w trail in torres del paine. The scale of the mountains blew me away. Camping beside glacier grey and hearing ice crack during the night was one of the highlights.

JohnnyFlash

Andrewf20 wrote: »

The w trail in torres del paine. The scale of the mountains blew me away.

Torres Del Paine is almost certainly the most beautiful place in the world.

FTA69

The Basque Country; great craic in the cities. Beautiful old towns in the cities jammers full of hopping bars with cheap drink; lovely food everywhere, every pub has pintxos (tapas) that are always lovely so you can be drinking and stuffing your face. Sandwiched between the mountains and the sea; I go every year and I love it.

Raffo69

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Cheltenham racetrack is one of my favourite places in the world. Couldn’t make it yesterday, but over here for the next 3 days of drinking and gambling like a lunatic.

I was there last year. It was freezing and the wind would cut you in half. Didn't win anything either. Hopefully you fare better.

Blingy

The Perhentian Islands are pretty special. Have been twice. Always somewhere I think of.

Raffo69

The armchair in my sitting room. In front of the tv, fire blazing, a tray of cans chilling between the freezer and fridge and a share size bag of KP dry roasted nuts on table beside me.

Witchie

Just south of San Francisco, Half Moon Bay. If I could afford it and Trump wasn't prez I would move there in a heartbeat.

In the meantime am happy living in my second, much more affordable place, Kuala Lumpur. I love that within an hour or so I can be on a tropical beach if I need to escape the city. Or go into the mountains or jungle if the notion takes me.

NSAman

I have a couple.

La Digue in the Seychelles, a beach there is simply paradise.

Love NYC, love the life the people and the madness of it all.

Derrynane in Kerry on a warm day and south Kerry in general.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

2lazytogetup wrote: »

sandyford business park. concrete jungle, offices, people are great craic.

I’m there now. It’s breathtaking.

Infernal Racket

cjmc wrote: »

The bog.
It's some where in either Monaghan, Fermanagh or Tyrone( I'm not sure) but it's still the place I remember fondly. Turf,tea ,dust devils. And yes even the midges!

My grandad used to tell us that the bog was the last place that God made. I hated the place

Ipso

Coral Bay in Western Australia.

Scarlet42

Ipso wrote: »

Coral Bay in Western Australia.

no way!! thats what I was going to say!!! Paradise Beach!

Ipso

Scarlet42 wrote: »

no way!! thats what I was going to say!!! Paradise Beach!

Something about the place; the color of the water, not over developed and the Whale Sharks nearby.

73bc61lyohr0mu

Jackson Bay, New Zealand.

magic_murph

My jax after a big weekend.

Graces7

Now I am housebound,, so many memories of treasured places here in Ireland... I used to leave the island every 2 weeks and explore and shop. All the ancient monastic places.. Ross Errilly, Riesk.. just so many treasured memories. Always ocean side and now here.

storker

Tuscany

elperello

A little spot on the River Shannon.

Ush1

Being on the day session in Dublin city centre, can't bate it.

clintondaly

Beara peninsula,West Cork

Slieve League in Donegal.

Keem Bay on Achill.

Coastal trek from Liscannor to Doolin, stopping into O'Connor's after for a feed.

It's on our doorstep.

Deebles McBeebles

Standing naked on the edge of Dún Aonghasa, screaming at the ocean.

Scares the other tourists but someone has to keep the watery bastard in check.

Seamai

clintondaly wrote: »

Beara peninsula,West Cork

I'd say some spot on the coastal road between Allihies and Eyries on a sunny summer evening.

Graces7

For me; going to the back garden here and just standing watching the wide Atlantic in whatever mood is current. serene or fractured.

Stan27

I've travelled the world and seen great places, but glendalough is imo the best place I've visited.

Seamai

Graces7 wrote: »

For me; going to the back garden here and just standing watching the wide Atlantic in whatever mood is current. serene or fractured.

I live about 10km from the coast so I see the ocean regularly but would miss it if I had to live nowhere near it.

It must be great having it that close Grace.

Infernal Racket

Top of Knockeyne in Westmeath looking down over Lough Derravaragh (children of lirs home for 900 years) on a sunny day is another favourite..

clintondaly

Seamai wrote: »

I'd say some spot on the coastal road between Allihies and Eyries on a sunny summer evening.

Outside Jimmy's pub in Allihies having a pint watching the sun go down

Rubberlegs

tritriagain wrote: »

Hook head. I'm lucky enough to live 2 mins drive away and can see it from my house

Another vote for Hook Head, my Dad was from the area, so had many trips there growing up. I still visit a few times a year.
Closer to home, I liove The Doneraile in Tramore. No matter how many times I walk it I still get the wow factor at the view of Tramore Bay.
New York is a great city, love the hustle and bustle but a few days is enough.
Edinburgh is great for a visit too, love the architecture of the old town.

JupiterKid

Connemara. In good weather it is simply stunning.

Plumbthedepths

It pains me what Italy is going through at the moment but it is my favourite place in the World, particularly the Tuscany region. I was there last August and presently booked to go in May (not optimistic tbh).
The Italians are an amusing and interesting people.

AllForIt

Manhattan