Strangest vacation spot

I have taken the voluntary task of writing about a given topic, once in a while. I’m not the only one and if you look left you can see links to other people’s blogs, people who are doing the exact same thing. So here it is, today’s topic: Strangest vacation spot.


When I started thinking about this post I was sure I had nothing. I’ve never been in a former prison converted into a hotel. I’ve never climbed Mount Everest. I’ve never spent the night in an ice hotel also. But to be honest…how many people have? So, I ran the list off places I remember going to through my head and this is what I came out with.

I have been in a rather eccentric Woodstock wannabe. Actually I go there every year. It’s fun, free and you can camp on the beach, right next to the sea. It doesn’t get any better then that.

I have been at the ruins of an old castle, high up on a hill. Didn’t care much for the climb there but the view was amazing. I have also been at the ruins of another castle, this time much closer to the city. Civilization takes the fun out of pretending you’re ancient. Or at least medieval.

I have been in way too many cemeteries. I have a cemetery fetish. Ok, that came out wrong. I like looking at the pretty graves. Not much better, isn’t it? I’ll just drop this one.

I have been stranded in the middle of absolutely nowhere while at summer camp. The closest village was 7 km away and we walked that every other day for smokes. Yeah, we weren’t very bright. There was also absolutely nothing to do there. I don’t have very fond memories of that one.


Someday I might expand on some of those stories because they are worth to be told. But the winner is…the Parisian catacombs. It starts simple enough, a passage beneath the streets of Paris. You can see the marks on the bricks and the street signs of the streets above you. And then you enter the ossuary. It is such a surreal experience to walk through literally tens of thousands of bones stacked up neatly against the walls of a narrow tunnel. There is a nice history lesson here but I will keep history-freak-Addie in her box and not bore you with the details. The things that impressed me the most: the sense of humor the people who stacked them had. There is a skull with 2 bones crossed beneath it. Argh, matey! There are crosses-ok, maybe that’s not funny- and, my personal favorite, skulls arranged so they formed a heart. Yeah, you read that right. A heart. I know I said this once but it was so amazingly surreal and yes, a little creepy.






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