So I know I’m supposed to come up with something exciting for this prompt. The picture above is Italy, and I’d definitely love to go there someday. There’s also Iceland, which fascinates me. I’m sure there are lots more. But if I could choose one place to visit (or even better, live), it would be my ancestral homeland. My parents are both British, and moved to Canada before I was born. I’ve only ever lived here, and yet the only place I feel a rooted sense of home is in England. I’ve always wanted to live there, but never made it happen (too broke, mostly, then got married, had a kid, and now I have so many medical issues I think I’m stuck here permanently, much to my everlasting disappointment). I haven’t been back in twenty years, and I really, really miss it. I want to take my kid there, I want to visit family, I want to go back to the places I spent time in when I was a kid, and I want to soak in the various landscapes. It feels like where a part of me comes alive and I can breathe. It feels like a place a weird part of me that is missing suddenly comes back. It feels like home.
What about you guys? Do any of you have a similar feeling for an ancestral homeland? Where would you like to visit or move if you could go anywhere?
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England is a lovely place – so many beautiful spots to visit.
Agreed!
That’s how I feel about the state of Florida. I was born and raised there, and although I have lived more of my life in Texas than I have in Florida, Florida is home and always will be. I feel a sense of calm and like I belong when I am there. I hope to live there again sometime in the future as well.
Yes, that’s exactly the feeling I was trying to capture! I hope you do make it back home at some point!
Italy and Iceland sound great. As an English person I can definitely say there are some really beautiful places here.
Yes, I’d love to explore them someday. Yeah, I would love to live in England at aome point. It has some absolutely wonderful areas- and quite a variety of them, too!
I think for all readers of books in English there’d have to be a sense of homecoming about England. Nobody in Mother’s direct line of ancestry has gone back there for ten generations, but in a less violent world where air travel was civilized I’d want to go there today.
Possibly to Adrian Mole’s town, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Hard to believe a real place could be called that, but Mother’s progenitor lived there, five hundred years ago.
Though of course I’d want to see London. And Glastonbury. And a walking tour of the Lake District, please!
Meh. Airline officials have valid reasons for inspecting the insides of our shoes.
I hope you do get to visit it one day! I love it. There are some truly fantastic place names there. London has a great feeling of history. And the Lake District is wonderful. Half my family is from there!