Places you would never want to visit.

[Sween]

Where in the world do you just have no desire to visit.

Mine would have to be New Jersey, Afganistan, Any where with sharks.

[BeardofPants]

What do you have against afghanistan? :rolleyes:

I'd like to visit lots of places... if only to get a better idea of different cultures. I think I'd only really draw the line at places which have the potential to put me in danger. So, some of the hot spots in the middle east, and Africa are out for the moment. Although, ONE day I'd like to do a dig in the region of the Gaza strip... if it ever settles down. There's so much history in that region.

[Elenka]

Any place in a desert. I hate the heat, grit, sand, and I love trees, which I hear deserts are kinda short on. Oh yeah, I like lots of water. The real stuff, not a mirrage.

[ArwenEvenstar]

places I want to visit middle earth



places i don't want to visit:
*the major war zones in the middle east
*deserts
*any really nasty place that i couldn't change and didn't have it's good points too

[katya]

i want to go to most places if only to see wha tthey were like. however i dont really want to visit the dentist's office...although i did today...oh well. i dont want to go to texas or back to florida (too hot) or africa (except maybe egypt). i dont want to go to mordor, naturally. strange as it may seem i do want to go to afganistan. not for long though. i have no real desire to go to china or japan but i wouldnt mind either. i dont want to go to school next tuesday...ok well maybe i do but i dont want to go to gym class!

[HOBBIT]

hmmm well i'd hate to be dragged to Cumbria (if thats even a real place - i have no idea and i dont really care).


I just said that because I live in New Jersey. I'm sorta insulted that you would list NJ FIRST on your list of places you don't want to visit. I got over it pretty fast but why would you say that? There is nothing wrong with NJ its just like any other state....... If you said that because JD advertises that he is from NJ - then that is understandable :D (note the smiley).

[LuthienTinuviel]

i wouldn't want to go to a farm. i love animals, but not a farm. i wouldn't want to go to Brazil right now either. scary scary!
i do want to go to fangorn, Mirkwood, Gondor, Rivendell and of course, Valinor! hehe

oh BTW, does everyone like my new avatar?

[Christiana]

its..er...interesting ;) :D.and i have no desire to visit the doctors office,the er,the dentists,or Angband.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Sween
Where in the world do you just have no desire to visit.

Mine would have to be New Jersey, Afganistan, Any where with sharks.
So you ended up trying to start something about New Jersey anyway. I'd HAPPILY give you a tour of NJ. But you probably just don't want to come here because we DO have sharks. Jaws is based on the NJ Shark Summer of 1916. You can read about them in these two books that came out last summer.


Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767904133/qid=1030684642/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-4645904-7881749?v=glance&s=books)
Twelve Days of Terror: A Definitive Investigation of the 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/158574297X/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/102-4645904-7881749?v=glance&s=books).

So that must be the real reason you don't want to come to New Jersey.


By the way I found this -


Coca-Cola's boost to tourism in Cumbria - The Lake District

Coca-Cola has teamed up with Cumbria Tourist Board to run some special promotions in supermarkets across the region. The partnership is part of the on-going campaign to help Cumbria recover from the effect of the Foot and Mouth crisis that affected the UK.

Cumbria, UK Lake District (http://www.cumbria-the-lake-district.co.uk/)


Don't you just hate American companies. :) You can't get away from us - American's are EVERYWHERE. :D

[shadara]

Angband, Cirith Ungol, Mordor, Minas Morgul, Thangorodrim, Orodruin, Nargothrond once Glaurung was through with it, Dol Guldur, Helcaraxe, Utumno, Avathar (the place Ungoliant lived). All those are places I would not want to go.

One place I'd find interesting (after the War of the Ring) would be Moria.

[BeardofPants]

Originally posted by jerseydevil

American's are EVERYWHERE. :D

...AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!

Oh. You mean you're not completely evil? Okay then. :D :p

[Shadowfax]

Originally posted by LuthienTinuviel
oh BTW, does everyone like my new avatar? Love it!:p

I wouldn't want to go anywhere with lots of jungle and nasty bugs. Like South America or Africa. I'm more of a Europe kind of person.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
Love it!:p

I wouldn't want to go anywhere with lots of jungle and nasty bugs. Like South America or Africa. I'm more of a Europe kind of person.

I had a friend that went on an Amazon cruise. I would like to take an Africa Safari, Oh wait - this a "where we wouldn't want to go" thread. There aren't too many places for me - I'd liek to see everything. Although I would not like to be in the center of an erupting volcano. Or in San Francisco during an earthquake.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by BeardofPants


...AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!

Oh. You mean you're not completely evil? Okay then. :D :p

I'm just evil to people that don't like us. And if that's the whole world - then oh well. :)

By the way BoP - one of the participating attractions in the Coke Cola promotion thing is just for you - Lakeland Sheep & Wool Centre. :D You better get yourself up to Cumbria right quick. :)

[Artanis]

I love travelling and seeing new places, so I'm not sure if there is a place I would not visit. Perhaps places with a lot of mosquitos.

And the dentists, of course. :(

[Sween]

Originally posted by jerseydevil


I'm just evil to people that don't like us. And if that's the whole world - then oh well. :)

By the way BoP - one of the participating attractions in the Coke Cola promotion thing is just for you - Lakeland Sheep & Wool Centre. :D You better get yourself up to Cumbria right quick. :)

not the sheep and wool centre thats in my town. Nooooooooo. thats the hideout if your ment to be rivising and want to play pool.

im quite impressed that someone all the way across the world knows of one of the crummiest attractions in the world.

[osszie]

Philistines.. I visit Castle Rigg (in Cumbria) every May Day and it's just beautiful.

As for places I wouldn't want to visit.....

A lot of Russia doesn't interest me. A friend of mine moved out there and he says the standard of living is just appalling (not to mention the crime rate)

Australia......heat (yuck)......and if their society is anything like that neighbours tv programme it will be just too terribe to contemplate
;)

[Draken]

Ah, and there was I in the Lakes all last week, up on the fells, walking round the lakes, spending time in great pubs serving proper beer, watching rugby league games... if ONLY I had known there was a special regional deal on a gut rotting soft drink!

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Draken
Ah, and there was I in the Lakes all last week, up on the fells, walking round the lakes, spending time in great pubs serving proper beer, watching rugby league games... if ONLY I had known there was a special regional deal on a gut rotting soft drink!

And beer isn't a liver disease waiting to happen drink? :D It seems as if beer is more gut rotting. :)

[Draken]

You know me, always in moderation! Plus it depends on the beer...I wouldn't trust the stuff pumped full of chemicals in the big fizz factories, but I was sticking to real ale...the Coniston Bluebird was spot on, shame I can't find it on draught anywhere else!

Was a seriously good holiday - nobody here can believe I've got a deep tan from a week in Lakeland!

[Sween]

So you have all been sampling jennings then? The brewery is just over the river from my house i can see it from my mum and dads bedroom :) .

me and my mates managed a dareing robbery the other week. the beer store backs onto the river and theres a hole in the fence we floated some beer down the river and into my house were we are working on drinking it :D

[Sween]

Originally posted by Draken
You know me, always in moderation! Plus it depends on the beer...I wouldn't trust the stuff pumped full of chemicals in the big fizz factories, but I was sticking to real ale...the Coniston Bluebird was spot on, shame I can't find it on draught anywhere else!

Was a seriously good holiday - nobody here can believe I've got a deep tan from a week in Lakeland!

last week was gergeous i can asure you its not allways like that please come more often if you are bringing that kinda weather with u.

[Draken]

Yup had a pint of Sneck Lifter in a pub near Grasmere...very nice it was too!

Don't worry, I know all about Cumbria's usual weather, visit it quites often with it being quite close! That said, we ARE usually quite lucky...only suffered one one deluge to date (weekend of the Barrow v Widnes game, "summer" of 2000).

[Celandine]

I don't really like small towns, with a ton of old buildings they are freaky.

[Eleniel]

I wouldn't want to go to anyplace that scorns music or is big on rap, even though I live in Boston, MA, and am big on NYC.

What's wrong with NJ? I practically live there during the summer because I have cousins down there. I find it beautiful.

I wouldn't want to go away from the big cities. I'm a city person, but I love nature too.

I'm not big on Mexico and Spain. No offense, I'm just not.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Eleniel

What's wrong with NJ? I practically live there during the summer because I have cousins down there. I find it beautiful.

You're on my good list now. :D

[Erawyn]

there isn't anything wrong with NJ or the rest of the states! (just withthe goverment!)

I want to go everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Celandine]

originally posted by Eleniel
I wouldn't want to go away from the big cities



I am a city person also:)

[Sween]

im defintally a country boy im never happier than when i have some clean air and im in a river. Citys allthough nice and having lot to do just arnt my thing

[sun-star]

I wouldn't go to any city more than once by choice, and I'm not too interested in Africa or Asia. America's the place I really really want to visit, and I want to go round Europe a lot more too. But the best place to explore is Britain, for me.

[Christiana]

i wouldnt want to go to paris.the airis so polluted it takes ten years of ur life in one breath.:rolleyes: ;) :D

[Renille]

I wouldn't want to go to equator- area Africa. TOO HOT!!! Or antartica. TOO COLD!! Otherwise, I would go anywhere. Anywhere but Wisconsin is good.:)

[Blackboar]

My brither went to the Galapagos Islands for his honeymoon which is right on the equator; he said it was cold. He went in the middle of their summer.

[Varda Oiolosseo]

I would hate to go anywhere with lots of big bugs and creepy crawlies!
:( :( :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Draken]

"From Hull, Hell and Halifax may the Good Lord preserve us"

But if I had to choose just one to never visit, it would have to be Hull! :D