Question
What is the best place on earth you have ever been to?
Answer
Leave Dublin airport in Ireland, travel northwest for hours by car to a small town called Cavan, take a left turn for about minutes. Along this road you will find facing west a dirt track like any old dirt track leading to farmland etc in the heart of farm country. Get out of your car. Walk down the dirt track, you will be met by the glory of a large river valley and if its evening the river glistens like a silver ribbon in the drowning sun. The fields across the valley are alive with vibrant greens and move with the life of rabbits, birds and other woodland life comeout in the cool evening air. The river breathes a freshening mist on these cool evenings and walking through it is like a welcoming cool shower after a hot days toil. Cross the only bridge on this river and see you an orchard of golden, red and yellow apples ready for the fall and among this apple full forest see the playing pet dogs dancing and running among the tall grasses. The sun is a darker shade of red as it touches the horizon for the night to swallow it whole. By the orchard you will see a gathering of small sheds for the animals of this valley in times of storm, or for their feed in times of peace. And nestled here among them abounded by luxurious flower gardens, a lazy swinging chair of comfy cusions and a dappling dribbling fountain is a house.brIt is an old house with a kitchen built from years of cooking and baking centred with a table that beckons one to settle the appetite, a family table for fights, for laughter, for love and carefor family!brAnd from above the sheds streak missiles of birds dancing in the dipping sun. Feel the mist ooze up the orchard to just down the dirt road from the house and sit on the porch bench thinking of the days gone by dreaming of the days ahead. brIf you can picture this in your mind dear friend then you know what home means to me and why quothomequot is the best place i have ever been to on earth, not because its the best place in the world but because it IS my world. Even when i am long gone from it and the developers crush the orchard with concrete and drian the river of its fish it will always be the best place in my heart.
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