And here's another one for good measure

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1096747]

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[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Iceland!

I've no idea if I really want to go to the North-West Passage, but it's very resonant in folk song, and the very mention of it tends to make me slightly teary eyed as a result. (I cried in Westminster Abbey when we saw the monument to Franklin.)

[wryelle.livejournal.com]

What she said!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

To Iceland? (great) or the N-W passage? (never been).

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Thirded!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You'll want to see John Rae's tomb in Orkney cathedral.

And Iceland is magnificent. Reykjavik is a tad over-rated, IMHO, but the countryside is superb. Absolutely superb.

Anyway, how's you?

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes. Must get around to doing some more planning for that Orkney holiday. We tend to get these ideas... and then forget to actually book anything, on the grounds that it's "ages away".

We're fine. Still tired from not enough sleep at the weekend in London, though. And bright red and weary at the moment after two hours of solid dancing practice.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

*Oh for just one time, I would take the North-West Passage...*

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

St Petersburg in the winter.

You seem to know a lot of people who prefer colder weather. Perhaps we ought to get together and form a specialist holiday company for heat-phobes? :-)

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

[X] Antarctica for me please if I'm going anywhere cold

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes, that wasn't an option, was it?

Out of interest - why Antarctica, and not the Arctic?

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

1)It's the only continent I haven't been to.

2)Plus it's a continent, and that makes it more interesting than ice on sea (which you can get there anyway).

3)Penguins!!

[gramarye1971]

I'd also want to visit the Falklands, if we're going for latitude extremes. But Iceland and the Faroes are my current 'if I had the money to spend and the time to take off' dream trips.

(Not to mention my secret dream of being a complete Cold War geek and visiting an old DEW Line station up in Canada someday.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Mmm, that would be fun. I'd also like to see the Falklands.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Also Patagonia and the Magellan Straits!

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I'd like to go to those too. I'd particularly like to go to the Welsh speaking part of Patagonia.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Oh, and if you go to both Argentina and the Falklands on the same trip, then be sure to remember to call them las (islas) Malvinas...

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Mais naturellement. Having devoted a sizeable chunk of my DPhil to the guy who set up a French colony on the Malouines and later ceded them to Spain en route to the Pacific, I'm hardly likely to forget that ;-)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

The Falklands Islands Corporation is an audit client of our Nottingham office. (Yes, I know it's not exactly local, but then we're hardly likely to give it to the Argentinian office!) Apparently they don't have any shortage of volunteers, even though to get there involves an RAF transport to Ascension Island and then another to Stanley. One of Nottingham's new recruits this year is a Chinese girl (as in from China, not just ethnically Chinese) who worked for us in Plymouth for a few months. Her knowledge of the geography of Britain is bad enough that she chose Nottingham office (as opposed to say Preston office) so that she could be close to a friend in Lancaster, so I though I'd better warn her that the Falkland Islands are in the south Atlantic!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

My brother in law once sent a few months working on Ascension Island.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Add Kerguelen Island (Cook and O'Brian's Desolation Island) for me, please ;-)

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Also Iceland and Finland.

In Antarctica: South Georgia. Kicking myself for not spotting the job of Curator when it became vacant earlier this year.

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

Neither oop north nor yet a warm beach - in addition to Norway I'd like to go south to the French Alps and ski - something that I will actually do in February over my birthday.

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

Good grief. Doesn't anyone (aside of course from alexdownunder, currently enjoying a heatwave) like it warm? I ticked the 'warm beach' option, though actually I find beaches pretty boring - you should have said 'warm climate'!

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see I'm not alone ;-)

[sally_maria]

I prefer warm climates as well, but don't do beaches - unless I'm paddling, in which case they're quite fun for a hour or so.

I emphasise *warm*, rather than hot. Warm enough to swim in an outdoor pool, but not so hot moving about becomes an effort. So, Spain in June, but not in August.

[sally_maria]

Norway would be interesting from a cultural point of view though, and in that case I wouldn't be too bothered by it being cold.

[meglorien.livejournal.com]

It is NOT true that it is always cold in Norway!!!!

[sally_maria]

I suppose not, any more than it's true that it always rains in the UK. :-)

It's just that people seemed to be contrasting a group of cold destinations with warm beaches, and I wanted to point out that sufficiently interesting history and culture would make me put up with any kind of climate.

[meglorien.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't just thinking of your post, but about the comments in general. People back home (Portugal) always ask me if I miss the sun, and the fact is that Norway is quite sunny. I agree it doesn't go up to 40 degrees Celsius, but then again you can't do much in such a temperature expect for lazing around, and staying inside where it's cooler. On the other hand, when we visit Lisbon in the winter we always feel too cold, much more than here.

In short, what I meant to point out is that the assumption that Norway is a cold destination is not quite right, because it depends on when you come and visit.

[meglorien.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes! And since you fancy Norway, you could come and visit us. We'd be glad to show you around ;-)

[sally_maria]

Thank you - that's a very kind offer. Sadly I think my holidays are tied up for next year, but maybe some day.

In the meantime I've realised I don't have you and foradan friended, and that at least I can correct straight away. I hope to see more of you around.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

All the above, plus Iceland (which like Norway I've been to, but want to go to again), and because I am really quite sad, Kamchatka and Jan Mayen, because both have volcanoes.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Siberia.

I'd like to do the not-too-cold bits of Greenland in the summer, when the weather isn't too bad and it's pretty green. :)

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Norway! I adored Trondheim and took the train from there to Oslo... some of the little stations up in the mountains looked fascinating.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd forgotten you had been there.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I've only ticked Norway because there are friends there we'd like to visit. I'm not that keen on cold climates of the sort you mention, nor do I like things like warm beaches: beaches are boring and too close to the sea! Give me somewhere temperate any day.

[foradan.livejournal.com]

If you come in the Summer (not last Summer), Oslo is often warmer than many places in the UK.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

I ticked Norway because I've been there in May and it was snowless, warm and had wonderful mountains, so a return trip (especially with visiting folks) would be interesting. I don't cope with hot weather very well so places like Aus & NZ, the tropics generally are only do-able for me in their winter/spring periods (well unless I get acclimatised during a sea voyage of several weeks ...).

Beaches can be fun swimming, snorkelling, or just paddling and enjoying a few drinks with friends

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I don't cope with hot weather very well so places like Aus & NZ,

The climate in NZ is *much* closer to that of the UK than it is to Oz. The winters are slightly milder in most of NZ than the UK. I went in Nov/Dec last year, and it was comparable to the UK 6 months earlier. It rains even more than here, and the locals talk about the weather even more than here!

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

If I had the stamina and the money, I'd go to Antarctica and pretty much anywhere in the South Atlantic. I've been to quite a few places Oop North and would visit them all again if I could.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

I'll never choose to be chilly.

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

Sweden.

[purplecat]

B. has managed to wangle some sort of research collaboration that involves Svalbard (something to do with how reindeer walk on snow) so I'm holding out for a free trip of some description.