In My Footsteps Travelogue – You really must…

Here is my holiday wishlist:

UK

* Derbyshire (see Buxton, Bakewell, Chatsworth, Caves, Peak District)

* Shropshire

* Hay-on-Wye drive to Llanthony

* Manchester (it’s hip apparently)

* Lynton and Lynmouth (saw it on the telly – very pretty coastal scenery)

* Minack theatre performance www.minack.com/minack

* Isle of Wight www.hermitage-iow.co.uk

* http://www.cotswolds.info/places/broadway.shtml – told it is lovely to visit and go for walks

UK when with visitors staying with us

* Windsor, Eton and Virginia Water

* Whipsnade, Dunstable Downs, Aldbury Village, Tring Museum, Marsworth

* Bournemouth

* Longleat (Warminster)

Europe (exc UK)

* Venice by Orient Express (£££)

* Lappland – Northern Lights

* Azores (not Nov to )

* Italian lakes for a week

* Iceland for scenery

* Norwegian Fjords

* Croatian Coast and Islands

* Switzerland, Matterhorn near Zermatt

* Ireland with Rita (West Coast recommended)

* Madeira

* Grudziadz, Poland because when I went years ago I found it magical in a misty medieval way

* Copenhagen

* Romania – Dracula’s footsteps (bit spooky?)

* Bilbao – Guggenheim museum

* Greece – Kythira for example

This side of the world

* Lebanon (5 day sights tour or Beirut/Damascas/Jordan/Petra)

* Egypt (Pyramids/Luxor/Abu Simbel)

* South African short safari & Cape Town for Table Mountain views and penguins on Boulders Beach (when friends move back)

* Turkey ancient and geological sights – Pamukale etc.

* Namibia (to photograph that red and yellow desert with stark trees)

USA

* Boston and around (fall time). Visit Carolyn in Cape Cod

* Yellowstone park and geysers

* New Orleans and Houston – NASA

* New York – SATC tour with friends, Gershwin hotel – check trip advisor

Americas (exc USA)

* Vancouver, Alaska (N Lights?), Vancouver Island, Squamish (where Insomnia was filmed), Port Townsend, Seattle

* Argentina – Buenos Aires, Estancia, Glacier Park, Tierra del Fuego, Igazu Falls

* Easter island

* Montreal and Quebec

* St Lucia, Ladera Resort (£££)

* Lake Louise, The Canadian Rockies

* Chile, Peru – Machu Pichu

* Galapagos islands

* Banff – fly to Calgary

* Mexico – Chichen Itza

* Hawaii

* Rio Carnival

Far far away

* Thailand (Banyan Tree or Chiva Som luxury resort plus Bangkok briefly)

* Bora Bora

* La Digue, Seychelles (beach with amazing rock formations)

* New Zealand – Rotarua and S Island mountains plus Fiji

* Tokyo (city break)

* China

* Australia (the big sights inc Ayres Rock)

* Nepal temples, mountains and Buddhism – now Bhutan but maybe Nepal after all

* Great Barrier Reef

* Sri Lanka for baby elephants

* Hawaii

* Tahiti for wedding vows with as much ceremonial hoo haa as we please