Places heard of but never seen. Maybe you have?

**withnallstoke** · 22-05-2009, 11:16 PM

Come about through songs or poetry, stuff that said things about places in a way that made me want to go and have a look for myself. Some i've made, but this thread is about the ones that i never got 'round to. If anybody else has been there, are there places that you haven't made yet?

1) Australia

2) Never Never Land

3) Fire Lake

**withnallstoke** · 22-05-2009, 11:33 PM

4) The big rock candy mountain?

**hirondelle** · 22-05-2009, 11:55 PM

I've been to paradise but I've never been to me...

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sorry I don't quite get this thread but wanted to play anyway

bollox... how do you enable embedding?

**November Rain** · 23-05-2009, 12:01 AM

Is 'Hotel California' in California?

**November Rain** · 23-05-2009, 12:04 AM

Or Coleridge's Xanadu might be interesting...

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced :
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war !

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves ;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

**mad_dog** · 23-05-2009, 12:13 AM

Makes me wanna go

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**withnallstoke** · 23-05-2009, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by November Rain

Or Coleridge's Xanadu might be interesting...

Frankies version. Never been there?

**Loy Toy** · 23-05-2009, 12:29 AM

After Mathos's great picture threads I would love to visit here one day.

**Loy Toy** · 23-05-2009, 12:34 AM

Definately Kashmir!

**withnallstoke** · 23-05-2009, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

After Mathos's great picture threads I would love to visit here one day.

Link.
Been to the place, cloaked in a grey shroud of mist. People were/are hardened folk, scenery might have been good one day back in 1339 before the rains kicked in.

**withnallstoke** · 23-05-2009, 12:37 AM

Good call, Kashmir. Never been there either.

**Loy Toy** · 23-05-2009, 12:40 AM

I've never been to the Caribbean for a Dreadlock holiday.

**withnallstoke** · 23-05-2009, 12:43 AM

Originally Posted by hirondelle

sorry I don't quite get this thread but wanted to play anyway bollox... how do you enable embedding?

No rules, other than post something about a place you've never been.
The embedding seems to have changed overnight. Just copy the adress bar and paste onto your reply.

**withnallstoke** · 23-05-2009, 12:44 AM

Ever been to the land down under LT?
Apparently, women glow and men chunda.

**Loy Toy** · 23-05-2009, 12:46 AM

Penny Lane, well I don't know if the place actually exists but if it does there are plenty of people there I would like to meet.

And those fish and finger pies sound delicious!

**Loy Toy** · 23-05-2009, 12:49 AM

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Ever been to the land down under LT? Apparently, women glow and men chunda.

Mate I think they wrote that song based upon my life.

Well not only about me but Nedwalk and Terry and Nawty and Davearn and ................................about 10 million other aussie blokes.