Brought to you by a wee touch of wanderlust and wishing for magic...

[byslantedlight]

Eeh but the middle of the week is sometimes so mundane... I don't even have a veggie box to look forward to today, cos I forgot to order one... just more marking and expense sheets... *sighs* So I went for a wee search and found The 15 Most Magical Places in the World... gorgeous photos for days of dreaminess and wanderlust...

A sorcerer's castle and an enchanted forest...


A wizard's town and a magical lagoon...


The Emporer's palace and the knight's ship...


Prince Charming's castle, and the Golden Pagodas...


The Faraway Tree, and Rapunzel's tower...


The Wishing Bridge, and the Warlock's castle...


The Snow Queen's lair, and a hobbit house...


...and finally, the Lake of Dreams...


How fab are they? There are other pretty, wanderlust-y pictures over at that website too, if you're feeling like a wander... I think my favourite of this fifteen is actually The Faraway Tree - which seems strange, if I'm longing for magic and adventure, to choose what's perhaps the most mundane (though gorgeously atmospheric) picture of all of them, but... I do love some of the others - Versailles! I must visit one day! - oh, and Giverny too, I want to see Giverny...sorry, where was I?! The Faraway tree! There's just something about a magical mist, and maybe it harks back to growing up and just longing to be in just that sort of magical, quintessentially English place... Oh, or the road ahead, where you can't quite see what's over the rise - especially if you're heading to the seashore...

Aaaand... back to work... *sighs*

Edited to Add - Sleeping Beauty's Castle!

Comments

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Lovely photos, and very inspiring. And, like you, I love the tree one best of all. There's something that's just so right about a tree like that, and the tales it could tell. But then, I think I'm a woodlands sort of person. *g*

I hope something exciting (but pleasant comes your way very soon!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I do like the woods too - though when I'm by the sea I like the sea, and when I'm... *g* Really I should live somewhere like the Isle of Man, which has got everything all tumbled together - except big cities, which I like for visits now and then too... *g*

There will be excitement soon - MS is on stage in Windsor in just two weeks, wheeee! I completely missed AMFAS, so I'm so pleased I'll get to see him live after all!