cold green places

i'm starting to realise that holidays in cities don't really feel too much like holidays to me. Too much of the same thing, i guess: Singapore's so hyper-urban that what i want from a break is to go somewhere green. With water. That's the other thing i've realised i love. Lakes and rivers and seas. The next holiday will have to be somewhere green, with water. i'd like it to be cold-ish, too. Not too cold. Between 10 to 20 deg celcius would be just right.

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There's definitely something about being too long in a completely built-up urban environment that slowly but surely withers the soul. You can almost feel your spirit drying up from all the hard dry surfaces -- the concrete, metal, glass, and plastic. 

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i guess i've just never adjusted as well as most Singaporeans to the completely-urban life. So many of my friends like taking 'city breaks' -- they'll head off for a few days to places like Bangkok, Taipei, KL, Shanghai, Hong Kong, to shop and eat. Not my idea of a holiday. Which is rather inconvenient, i guess, given that most of the cold green places with bodies of water in them, are rather far away.

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