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04 Jul 2011, 06:22 AM | Post: #11

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(29 Jun 2011 05:25 PM)Talli Roland Wrote: I love Hay on Wye. Books, books, BOOOKKKKKKKS!

But I also love Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ingonish Head is a rocky outcrop and you can see the sea for miles and miles. It's glorious.

I actually live in New Brunswick Canada, and only went to Cape Breton (which is about 7 hour drive) for the first time last year. What a beautiful place!

My most inspirational place is the beach. The sound of the waves... sooo relaxing! Smile

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04 Jul 2011, 11:16 AM | Post: #12

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(01 Jul 2011 01:36 PM)skate Wrote: I live on an Australian farm. Behind our house is a hill. From the top of the hill you can see for miles. In summer it's like desert, in winter it's green rolling hills and you can see the town ten miles away and the hill behind the next town thirty miles beyond that. In the late afternoon, the trees on the hilltop glow golden red. It's a beautiful place and the place I go when I need to air my mind.

We are on a farm too, in Tasmania. Woolgrowing and cropping. Best season for years, great wool prices, ewes almost 100% pregnant. Massive rocky outcrop where you can see across the valley to the neighbouring vineyards and south to where even further south, some thousands of km's, is Antarctica.

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04 Jul 2011, 03:20 PM | Post: #13

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I believe inspiration comes from many places, whether it's a windswept hilltop, a long sandy beach with clear blue sea lapping at the water's edge, a dirty city, an industrial landscape or a simple room. What is important to me, is using the places I visit and managing to introduce them in some form in a story.

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07 Jul 2011, 07:42 PM | Post: #14

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I love the early morning picture painted by Celia. I also like the Camargue and Agde, they are both places which seem to be perched on the margins on earth and sea.

I like your idea, Nick, of trying to use the places in your writing. I guess this also makes travel tax-deductable.

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20 Jul 2011, 03:32 PM | Post: #15

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Martin. I've used the Camargue in a book I'm about to self-pub as an ebook later this month or early August. It's called Murder He Forgot and is about a man who forgot he tried to kill his wife -twice. I visited the Camargue before I started to write it. A wonderful wild and desolate place.

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20 Jul 2011, 06:32 PM | Post: #16

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Oddly enough I am just writing a suspense story set around Beziers and Agde. It started with a photograph I took of the view along the Canal du Midi at a lock on the outskirts of Agde.
We visited the Camargue last year, Nick - what an amazing place - it was so different from anywhere else I had ever been. I like Martin's comment about it being on the margins of land and sea. It is very like that, so much water everywhere, and the flamingoes flying over at sunset.

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22 Jul 2011, 01:32 PM | Post: #17

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The Camargue is a wonderful, other-wordly place. (My youngest who had wandered along the track ahead of us came back screaming that he's seen an alien Guinea Pig - it was a Coypu.)

I was in Beziers and Agde last year. You can sense the history from them.

I reckon Sete would make a great setting for a novel about the dark-side. Very raffish.

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22 Jul 2011, 04:48 PM | Post: #18

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The abbey at Arles sur Tech in the French Pyrenees and the stunning view down into the valley from Montferrer - actually plotted a Dan Brown type novel there based on local characters. And I am not an author! It connected the Cathars with modern events. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse came out 6 months after I was there - I'm sure she pinched some of my ideas - joking!

And sailing into Vathi harbour on Ithaca from the windy Ionian sea.

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(22 Jul 2011 04:48 PM)Notoriety Wrote: And sailing into Vathi harbour on Ithaca from the windy Ionian sea.

Definitely.

Ever been to Santorini / Thira? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorini / Google Search Images)

Entering the caldera by boat is truly jaw-dropping. I am not a science fiction or fantasy writer, but if I were then I reckon it would be one hell of a place to stimulate the creative juices.

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04 Aug 2011, 02:54 PM | Post: #20

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I visited Cornwall recently on a day when the sky was blue and cloudless. We stood alone on a cliff edge, overlooking the raging blue sea and watched the seagulls swoop down every time the waves crashed against the black rocks. Magical, mysterious and moving.

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