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After visiting Miserable Island in Tasmania, you may want to head for Happy, a town in the US state of Texas, with a population of 647. A film of the same name was released in 1999.
Have a romantic tryst at Love Lake in Canada.
Find paradise on Chocolate Island in the Philippines.
See if Pretty Hill in New Zealand lives up to its name.
Get Rich in Mississippi, and follow the lead of Thomas Harris, the writer of bestseller suspense novels such as The Silence of the Lambs.
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At a very young age, Harris’s family moved to Rich and he attended school there.
Hopefully you won’t be disappointed visiting the tiny village of Regret in north-east France.
Writers could get inspiration in Pen in northern Spain.
You might need your waterproofs at Umbrella Falls, Guyana.
Socks Glacier isn’t where expedition teams do their laundry, in fact, this small glacier was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition (1907-09) and named after one of the ponies taken with the South Pole Party. Socks, the last pony to survive the journey, fell into a crevasse near the glacier on 7 December 1908.
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