Top Ten Tuesday-Bookish Settings

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This Week it's Ten Bookish Settings I'd Visit. With the type of books I like reading, there aren't many I'd want to go to!!! I'm looking at specific places within worlds to get my full ten.

1) Kirrin Island
I was fascinated by this place in Enid Blyton's Famous Five books! I would love to own an offshore island like this with a castle and dungeons, underground tunnels and stuff where I could go and enjoy the peace and quiet. It would be the perfect place to be safe in an apocalypse...

2) Winterfell
I love that castle with it's extra heating, that beautiful tree by the water, the friendly people like Hodor and Maester Luwin, direwolves to play with and cuddle, with the added bonus of eye candy like Robb, Ned and Jon to look at! I would love to have stayed there.

3) Diagon Alley 
The first time I read Harry Potter, I just wanted to go here and explore all these amazing sounding shops. I'd be so happy in the bookshops and trying out all the food on offer. It's a lot more exciting than shopping in my town!

4) Rivendell
I loved the idea of staying with the elves in a place of natural beauty with all that peace and quiet to read in. It would be so relaxing and the ideal place in Middle Earth to write your own books like Bilbo did.

5) Hogwarts
Who wouldn't want to go to a school of magic like that! Think of all those amazing meals to enjoy, no chores to do, a nice relaxing common room, going to cheer on your team, the huge library...I'd have loved to have went to a school like this.

6) Bag End
I just love the idea of living in a hobbit house! Bilbo's house just looked so warm, cosy and welcoming and Hobbiton is a nice laid back place to live. It also has the friendly local pub and life is just calm and stress free.

7) Narnia
As a kid I was obsessed with meeting Aslan and I was forever to be found inside my gran's huge old wardrobe, tapping on the back of it behind her coats, trying to find a way through! It was a bit disappointing never to have got there but I still enjoy turkish delight!

8) Dragonstone
Something about this place fascinates me. I could be by the water which relaxes me, explore the brooding castle and the caves, sit at the map table reading...and it would be a perfect place to retreat to in an apocalypse as no zombies would ever be able to get there!   

9) Hogsmeade 
I'm all about the shopping again. I can't imagine not visiting Honeydukes for a ton of the sweet stuff and I would want to try Butterbeer on a cold snowy day!

10) Mount Everest 
yes I know it's a real place but it does feature in a lot of books I've read. I'm fascinated by big mountains like this and K2. I don't want to climb them but I'd love to journey to Base Camp to photograph them!