One Happy place is sitting Infront of my small TV in my room and playing Conduit on my Nintendo. Conduit reminds me of Halo. It is a very fun game and has a similar look and feel to Halo. I would play the network part of the game so I would shoot people's avatar in first person mode and they would shoot me. I would pick a map and a game mode and weapon set and the other players would do the same then the computer would randomly pick which configuration to play with. I always choose explosive weapon set , Marathon mode and the streets map, the streets map was just one street with little buildings and ledges for people to stand on. The explosive weapon set was a Rocket propelled grenade (RPG) gun and Marathon mode was every man for himself for 10 minutes with unlimited respawns. The secondary gun on the explosive weapon set was a plasma gun. Many people had no use for that gun except for me. I found it worked well shooting up staircases and over ledges behind a wall. I would use the plasma gun to pick off people that were hiding at the top of a staircase in ambush. I would know they are there because of my radar screen. I was a good player in my own eyes because I always found a use for the secondary gun in each weapon set and would always take out people that were hiding in ambush. The network part of the game is gone now.
Another place I am thinking of is Abbey Park in Torquay. When I first got my driving licence in my 20s, I went back to a favourite childhood holiday place for the booth family. The Hotel we would go to every year was gone. It had been demolished and turned into flats but there was a special park that is still there, abbey park. Abbey park in toquary is a hidden paradise. It has a river flowing through it and a small forest and several lakes. It had lots of hills and I felt it was a place of outstanding natural beauty that few people are aware of. Many people don't know that there is a place called Abbey park in Torquay Devon UK and many people never will. When they Visit Britain they go to London and never know there are little pockets of natural beauty throughout the island.
