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Today’s question is:
Has reading inspired you to visit a place in a book?
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Yes. I remember reading Robin Jones Gunn Sisterchicks do the Hula and said I am going to Hawaii. The response from mum wasn’t good but it didn’t deter me. I did get there and loved it. Also reading When Calls the Heart by Jeanette Oke had me wanting to go to Canada and meet a Mountie. Well I did go to Canada but the only Mounties were those on display in a couple of shops selling merchandise.
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Sadly no because I can’t travel, but there are many places that do sound amazing!
I don’t travel now cos of health issues so I do understand. but we can still dream about the places
I would love to visit the Cotswolds in England. I can’t remember all the stories I’ve read that have been set in or around there, but one was the Agatha Raisin mystery series.
Reading books set in Scotland or Ireland also get my travelling feet itching. Hopefully I’ll get to travel to all of those places one day.
Its amazing how books make us want to see places. Its also Why sometimes real towns rather than created towns can be so fun when we see the places. Now I have seen a little of Bird in the Hand in Pennsylvania I can understand the market set up much better. Although now I rarely read Amish books anymore. But just recently a book although historical talked about the Maid of the Mist that goes around the back of Niagara Falls, having done it also from the Canadian side It made that part of the book feel more real. I love how books make us want to see places or learn about places.
Oh, I agree. It’s fun to look up the real places online, especially pictures. Helps the imagination along.
Kind of relevant to the topic… reading about what people are eating and drinking make me want the same things! Back in the 80s I remember reading a few books with characters in cafes drinking coffee and eating cheese sandwiches. Seems bizarre now, maybe it was an 80s thing. It always stuck in my mind though, because it would always leave me with a hankering for a coffee and a cheese sandwich. :o)
I remember Robin Jones Gunns Sisterchicks down under talk about chocolate fish in NZ and I really wanted one. At a lolly shop in Adelaide I was in there as I always went when in the city. It was for cricket and they had some NZ chocolate bars and one was the Chocolate Fish so I had to get a couple. What could be nicer chocolate covered marshmello in the shape of a fish. I really did like them but they also had another bar I liked even better. But I had to buy the fish cos of the book.
Ah, I wondered about those. I just came across them on the NZ crime series, Brokenwood. Had no idea what a chocolate fish was! :o)
Absolutely. When I had a work trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2002, I took three rec days at the end so I could go to Prince Edward Island and do the ‘Anne of Green Gables’ things. It didn’t disappoint. I was fortunate enough to go back on a longer holiday in 2012 with my hubby, and I would go back tomorrow if someone could just send me an air ticket. It was the TV mini-series from the 1980s that made me want to go there. It was every bit as beautiful as I’d imagined.
Oh that would be so good I would love to see PEI and now I have friends in Nova Scotia so would had a base while there.
I remember when I was in the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia seeing where The Beachcombers was filmed. I loved the show as a kid and my friend lives there. We saw Molly’s Reach (even had the t-shirt for awhile) and the Persephone the boat from the show. It was so much fun.
I’ve been to British Columbia too, Jenny, but I’m not familiar with The Beachcombers. I know they have great studios in Vancouver and film a lot of sci-fi in British Columbia, as well as some of the Hallmark shows. I’m not sure if they do tours of the studios, but that would be on my list if I went back. I love Canada.
it was on when I was a teen I think use to be on the after school. My friend also pointed out where one of the producers of Stargate SG1 lived. A lot of the Hallmark movies and series like Aurora Teagarden are actually filmed in a place called Squamish which is on the way to Whistler. I have been through there and can picture it. I know Hope Valley (When Calls The Heart) is filmed south of Vancouver.
I too love Canada.
I’ve thought about it, but don’t want to travel alone and there isn’t someone in a position to come with me for various reasons.
These days it just seems like too much trouble to sort out travel arrangements and the cost is also prohibitive.
I can understand that. I read Coravilla by Meredith Resce and wanted to see Corio House. (I haven’t but its closer than most things).
I’ve definitely been inspired to visit a place in a book. When I was in high school, my best friend and I used to read Harlequin books (don’t judge me!), and many of the women lived in England and drove Mini Coopers. Years later I was so excited to travel to England. Until then I really thought Minis were made-up cars. Now, I’d love to have one—or at least drive one.
I also read two wonderful books, in particular, that inspired travel, one was about a woman who moved to Jordan and married a Bedouin man and the other by Queen Noor of Jordan. I’ve been to Jordan twice.
I love that about the car. I am glad you got to go to Jordan too. My Niece went with YWAM for 3 months to Jordan.