Friday open thread: beautiful places
Aug. 21st, 2020 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12This week's Friday open thread has a simple prompt: tell us about a place (or places) which you think is staggeringly beautiful.
This can be somewhere you've only visited once on holiday, or it could be something you see every day in your ordinary life. Either way, this should hopefully be a chance to look at photos of lots of beautiful places from around the world!
I am fortunate enough to have grown up in two really beautiful cities, to currently live in a lovely part of the world, and to have had many opportunities to travel widely and visit many wonderful places. But the two places which basically rendered me speechless when I visited them were:
The Alhambra (links go to Instagram photosets); and
Jökulsárlón (link goes to the Wikipedia page as when I visited I did not have Instagram and all my photos are locked away on Facebook)
I like that my two places are practically polar opposites: a stark, austere ice lagoon, and an elaborate castle baking under the southern Spanish sun.
I felt a similar sense of speechless awe when inside Newgrange, but it was more from the age and sense of ancient human ingenuity than from the actual physical beauty of the place.
As always, feel free to interpret this question as broadly as you like, and feel free to chat with each other in the comments.
This can be somewhere you've only visited once on holiday, or it could be something you see every day in your ordinary life. Either way, this should hopefully be a chance to look at photos of lots of beautiful places from around the world!
I am fortunate enough to have grown up in two really beautiful cities, to currently live in a lovely part of the world, and to have had many opportunities to travel widely and visit many wonderful places. But the two places which basically rendered me speechless when I visited them were:
The Alhambra (links go to Instagram photosets); and
Jökulsárlón (link goes to the Wikipedia page as when I visited I did not have Instagram and all my photos are locked away on Facebook)
I like that my two places are practically polar opposites: a stark, austere ice lagoon, and an elaborate castle baking under the southern Spanish sun.
I felt a similar sense of speechless awe when inside Newgrange, but it was more from the age and sense of ancient human ingenuity than from the actual physical beauty of the place.
As always, feel free to interpret this question as broadly as you like, and feel free to chat with each other in the comments.