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Readers response: What is one fictional place you would like to visit?

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We asked our readers what fictional place from a movie, TV or book world they would love to travel to. Here’s what they said.

Ann Sigley – Hogwarts and Diagon Alley.

Alison Jane – The Magic Faraway Tree.

Peta Alto – The Secret Garden.

Graham Moss – The Shire from Lord of the Rings.

Kath Wilkinson – Robinson Crusoe’s island.

Ken Harris – Emerald City.

Betty Howarth – Marigold hotel.

Matilda Jambour – Camelot.

Joy Gardner – Narnia.

Jean Rose Paoli – The garden of Eden.

Jennifer Halemba – Brigadoon.

Regina Johnson – Pemberley.

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