Grand Tour Friday Five

In honor of several wonderful trips some of the RevGals are taking in the next few days, Songbird posts this Grand Tour Friday Five:

Name five places that fall into the following categories:

1) Favorite Destination -- someplace you've visited once or often and would gladly go again
Only one? Okay...I'll pick Australia. I went in 1991 for the World Council of Churches meeting. Got to stay a month on a study tour, but had almost no time to travel around, so I would like to see more of the country and go hang out in New Zealand at the same time. (But my favorite is probably just a regular old beach or mountain trip near to home.)

2) Unfavorite Destination -- someplace you wish you had never been (and why)
Besides the Oncology department, and the NICU (love how I sneak in more than one answer?), I would say....an unhappy trip to Rome with a sister and her husband when their marriage was breaking up. The tension on the trip took all the fun away, seriously. Ugh.

3) Fantasy Destination -- someplace to visit if cost and/or time did not matter
I don't know, but it would involve mountains and lots of water. An island somewhere, with someone to wait on me. And my family could come too if they let me sit and read a lot.

4) Fictional Destination -- someplace from a book or movie or other art or media form you would love to visit, although it exists only in imagination
Is it too cliche to say Hogwarts? Either that or one of the manor houses from Jane Austen's books. I'm rereading Persuasion now. And I did live in Bath for awhile, so that's not fictional, but the great houses where the characters lived otherwise are. And I would pick one of the big houses, not one of the small clergyperson cottages. I already live that life!

5) Funny Destination -- the funniest place name you've ever visited or want to visit
In preparation for a visit to England in January, I have been looking at maps, and I have to tell you British gals, there are some funny names there. But I do also like the little town in South Carolina called Pumpkintown.

And I am off on a little trip myself this weekend, which will involve a group of moms who write together, lots of good food, a great view, and skipping church. Lots to be done before I can leave though....