Friday off-topic. Quaint places that you cherish

[airiefairie]

Which is the quaintest, coziest, cutest place you've been to? A place that makes you feel warm inside, where you've caught yourself sighing with relief and purring with joy? A place as if taken from a post-card, or from the fairy tales of yore? Perhaps it is a place that you relate to a personal story that still makes you smile? Or one where you just feel at home like nowhere else. Come on, name such a place in the world! And maybe post a picture or two?

Mine:

The hills around Theewaterskloof dam in the Western Cape, South Africa, are awash with tasty spring colours. A cute little house near the shore is what I could call my family's personal paradise.

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[fridi]

Lake Kleifar in South-West Iceland, where the traditional annual gathering of my clan happens every first six days of the year. There are bonfires, fireworks, music and dance, lots of strong drinks and weird food, open-air theatre, games, competitions, old rituals, horse-riding, fishing, ice bathing and sauna, stargazing, watching the northern lights, and then everyone burns a huge wooden ship in the end. Crazy stuff, in a nutshell. It's where I've always felt complete, and part of something bigger than myself.

[abomvubuso]

And music like this.

[fridi]

Everything about that event is so fucking epic, it blows my mind and keeps me charged for the rest of the year.

[kiaa]

I like this version more. Björgi et al performed for us at Kleifarvatn in, what was it, 2015?

[abomvubuso]

2016. Unplugged. With some traditional instruments at the background. I cried. Long and hard.

[asthfghl]

Gawd I feel like getting drunk with mead and doing a wee invasion on some English monastery just by listening to this.