Where Would You Go For A Year And What Would You Do?
I recently posted this question on my facebook pages:
I’m daydreaming because I don’t want to work. If I told you that you had to leave for ONE YEAR and go live in a foreign country and learn something (anything!!) new, where would you go and what would you do? I’m thinking I’d go to Paris – and here’s a huge cliche coming up – I’d learn how to paint.
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Anne Gerrish Mitchem Ireland….. Would love to learn to make Irish lace…and listen to everyone talk…do love that accent… Sigh
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Judy Waters Gallagher Definitely Paris…..learn to paint, cook and drink lots of wine. Vive la France! -
Tara White Robinett I’d go to Ireland and either tend sheep or learn to build a Guinness. Probably the latter. Or maybe learn to weave with the wool from those sheep. -
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Cathy Lamb Anne Gerrish Mitchem Ireland! I would love to go there, too! Judy Waters GallagherI know! Doesn’t Paris sound perfect? The city, the culture, the food, teh history….Tara White Robinett You should go with Anne Gerrish Mitchem to Ireland! -
Cathy Lamb Dana Velvet Pixie Bokelman Do you ever wonder, Dana, how the pope and cardinals can live in such wealth, such ostentatiousness, while Jesus had nothing? How do you think they justify that?
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Cathy Lamb Joyce Ferrell I believe you mean Jamie from Outlander? I read the first one and just loved that book.
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Judy Waters Gallagher We went about a year ago and utilized www.airbnb.comso we stayed away from the touristy hotels. The people were so very charming!! Our host was very gracious and we were within walking distance to anywhere!! I am already planning my next trip…..
Rent unique accommodations from local hosts in 190+…AIRBNB.COM -
Terri Johnsen I’d go to Australia, learn how to save the coral reefs of the world, and find an unknown ship wreck. Of course with massive amounts of diving! -
Cathie Hedrick Armstrong ::sigh: Yes, Cathy..she most definitely means Jamie from Outlander. The king of men! I swear he was the first fictional character I ever had a crush on in my real life. LOL! Pathetic, I know, but there ya have it! Have you seen the Starz adaptation? They’ve done a BEAUTIFUL job of it!!!
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Keleigh Wagner Baretincic I’d go to a tropical island, write and drink beverages with umbrella garnishes -
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Nancy Deress I’d go to Ireland and live in one of those cute little cottages with a wonderful garden. I’d learn to raise sheep. And I’d live off homemade bread and butter. Oh, and the cottage has to be by the ocean. -
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Joleen Wheeler I’d go to New Zealand and hook up with a tall beautiful hunk of a man! Run around in the sun -
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Maryellen Sparks Pallow Kathy Leahy above and I have the same wish~~I’d love to go to Italy and learn how to cook like my Mom cooked. -
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Cathy Lamb Carolyn Hollowell I want to go to Barcelona, too! I think I could eat my way through Italy, Kathy Leahy Katy Shandil Yes, excellent. YOu start your business in Australia and I will come and visit you immediately. Peggy Aube Strout I know. There’s something about Ireland.
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Cathy Lamb Nancy Deress Maybe I’ll go to Ireland, too. I can go and raise….little lambs. Get my joke?
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Lynne Pinola Italy! My heritage. But not to cook, no no no!!! Tall, dark and handsome! Yes Yes Yes!!! Then off to Greece or Austria with my tall, dark and handsome following….awww a girl can dream!!!-
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Raejean Mast Mattison Maybe I would come up with a different answer if I thought longer, but 2 answers came to mind quickly. Thailand, or that region to work with elephants in refuge, caring and working for those gorgeous beauties, while learning about a part of the world I…See More-
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Connie Binion I lived in Spain and I miss it ,I learned to take it hour by hour don’t push things ,things get done when they get done-
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Michelle Maxwell Lisenbee Ireland or New Zealand….learn to hand weave or knit from yarn I made myself…from freshly sheared wool to the knitting part…I might like to learn all of that. Or maybe Costa Rica to learn Spanish. Or maybe Canada to learn snowshoeing? Although there is so much I still want to see and learn right in my own country!-
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Jacqueline Mallon Spenger We sell Balsamic vinegars, so I would want to go to Italy and see where it is barreled! And all the other fun stuff there! My mum is from England so I have been there, but loved all the history…so maybe Ireland or Wales or Scotland.-
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Tiffani Long Switzerland, The Alps!!! I watch “Alps from Above” EVERY Sunday morning, so I would take my choice of learning dairy farming, pipe organ making, chalet owner or beekeeper….just to name a few-
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Angel Morgan Australia and scuba every day. I want to see the great barrier reef in the day time and the night time. I want to find Nemo.-
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Debbi Paolillo I would go to England as that is my dream country. Jane Austen anyone? Also Sylvia Plath is buried there and tons of authors in Westminster Abbey. Bring a lot of books with me too……..-
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Colleen Mason I have had the privledge of living in Europe for the last two years and also Kenya for a bit before that. As an American there was 1 thing well actually 2 things that I needed to learn before all else. #1 to be still. Mindfully still. #2 patience because the rest of the world no matter how busy it seems moves at a much saner pace than America does. If we learn those two things then all other things really are easy.-
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Stacy McCarthy McCain I’d go to Italy because it’s on my bucket list to see all the relics and I’d learn how to grow grapes and make wine while I was there. The beauty of it makes me smile – the sign of a great daydream, right?-
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Theresa Stewart I am overwhelmed by the idea. I have to ponder it for a bit!! Scandinavia possibly Denmark or Australia!!-
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Elaine Donoughe Allen I would go back to Santorini, and read, read, read! I think it is the most beautiful and peaceful place on earth.-
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Stephanie Coffey Ireland is my first choice because I am Irish but I don’t want to live through their winters! I’m in upstate ny right now and I’m sick of the cold and snow-
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Kristin Johnson I would live in Ireland. Off the top of my head, I don’t know what I’d learn to do there. I’d soak up beauty and history and culture.-
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Becky Ritenour Hmm….I’d move to England and use that time to write. Does that count as learning something new? If not, then I’d learn archaeology/history.-
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Radhakrishnan Unplugged Would love to go to Israel, would spend time in researching and writing philosophy. -
Sandra Jean Lawrence I’d go to Italy, and maybe learn about wine. Or how to grow grapes. And eat tons of good Italian food. -
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Gillian Dorrance Fish I would also go to France. Paris a wonderful place to find inspiration as everything is so beautiful there…from light posts to doors. I think I would also explore the countryside and here is my cliche…write poetry. -
Whimbrels Center on the River, Seaside, Oregon Ecuador is my choice. I would learn how to live a simple life. -
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Marcia Kammann So many places, hard to decide. I would go to the Cinque Terre, and learn how to live like the Italians -
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Shannon Heinz-Potenzo I would go to Ireland and learn how to take things slow. Become a historian and learn about all the old castles and cultures. I would also be a connoisseur of beer by visiting all the local pubs. Ahh… a girl can dream. -
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Patricia Howell White I’d love to go to Ireland and take the time to write. That’s pretty much a cliche as well. -
Virginia Reynolds New Zealand and learn how to be a Kiwi! Not to mention the sheep farmers there – I’d like to hang around and learn about that in honor of my dad as that’s what he used to do a lifetime ago. -
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Maria Ulery Italy and I would learn how to speak Italian and garden like they do there veggies make ours taste like dirt -
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Belinda Lang Moul Italy, and I would love to learn to cook and bake. Or maybe learn photography! What a great place to learn how to take great pictures. -
Letty Peña Blanchard Tuscany. I’d like to improve my cooking skills and perhaps learn to make wine. So I guess I’d have to live on a vineyard!! -
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Joan Beldin Geisbrecht Ireland and learn everything I could about the culture. I’m74 so it’s on my bucket list -
Valerie Haddox Russell Either Greece or the coast of Italy, and I would learn to eat the Mediterranean way, and how to live a healthier more enjoyable life style. -
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Kelly J. Phillips Like many others here, Ireland would be my country of choice. Not sure what I’d do. But it would definitely have to do with horses. -
Cathy Doces Foster Greece as that is my heritage but I would love to learn how to cook with a Greek flair and enjoy the food, more. -
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Billy Sunshine I would go to New Zealand and stay there, at least until I walked the entire countryside, built my dream hobbit hole and tended my garden for the next 40 years. Just call me Mr. Underhill. Of course, with a long stopover in Ireland. County Kerry, aaaaaaahhhhhh. The home of my grandfathers and grandmothers. -
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Simi Zuckerman Israel and work with victims of terrorism. Also some place where there is a refuge for gorillas and learn how to help them. -
Charlene Bell Parker I love that picture!! I would go to Tuscany and learn to tend for fancy gardens. -
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Call me crazy for not wanting to travel far, but i have always wanted to live on Martha’s Vineyard for a year to relish all seasons, maybe run into Carly Simon for a concert under the stars?
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