h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The idea of WB Yeat's isle of Innisfree has always appealed to me (the poem can be read here, hopefully: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5379/SelectedPoems_frame.html ) I think there's probably something about the imagery of pure, simple peace that does it, the whole returning-to-nature urge we all get occasionally.

That said, realistically I'd probably get very-p****d-off and bored living in a mud hut on an island with no contact with the outside world, getting stung by bees I'm not sure that there is such a place as Paradise - we humans will always find something to get annoyed by, if we look hard enough.

How true. That's why vacations are generally short. It gives us our taste of paradise, but we leave before we can find the annoyances.

I think that a vacation anywhere in the world can be good and not annoying if one has enough of the little stupid green papers.

I sort of got the idea that the Yeats poem was about death? The first line gives a sense of resurrection. So Innisfree is a generic description of heaven.

I'll settle for the Gower Peninsula. I grew up near there and going down there is like going to another world. It's so cut off from Swansea, and so heartbreakingly beatiful: about 20 bays of all sorts of different shapes and sizes. Magnificent. There's an old vicarage smack bang at the base of Rhossili Bay (see the little house in http://www.explore-gower.co.uk/rhos.htm) which has lain unused for years. Imagine waking up to the sea every morning.