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Ashton Gray
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I have been trying to discover where Bon Bon is located in the world with no avail so far so, I thought I'd post the question and see what happened. My belief is Bon Bon is located in either Britain or France. Care to enlighten us, Ms. Santato? Opinions from anyone intrested in giving theirs are also welcome, of course.
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Vanessa
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One year before I invented the story of Bon Bon I allowed myself a small trip, a vacation in a wonderful place in the north of Italy in the region of Trentino, close to the Austrian border.
http://italia.dascoprire.net/immagini/TRENTINO_ALTO_ADIGE.png
It was a small town named MOENA and I fell in love with it! 
http://www.trentinomtbhotels.com/binary/trentinomtb/localita/c_fassa.4014_2363_1.gif
So, the following summer I loaded my camera and went back to Moena because I had decided to locate Bon Bon there. 
http://www.fotoeweb.it/moena/fotoMoena/Desktop%20Moena%20piazza%20italia.jpg
http://www.dolomitibooking.com/moena/immagini/dolomiti-booking-hotel_09.jpg
http://www.fotoeweb.it/moena/fotoMoena/moena%2006%20p%20italia.jpg
http://www.fotoeweb.it/moena/fotoMoena/Piazza%20battisti.jpg
I took a lot of photos, but Moena only represented the most rural side of the idea that I had for Bon Bon, the landscape and the houses, but I needed something more!
So, after three hours of highway I got to Innsbruck, in Austria,
http://www.caesartour.it/Cartoline/Foto/Innsbruck-012.jpg
http://www.city-skylines.de/innsbruck1/images/innsbruck.jpg
and there I had the idea of the Delight Castle and the casino! 
In the center of Innsbruck there is a main road " Herzog Maximilian Strasse " with shops and coffee shops and at the end of the road there is a golden-roofed castle 
http://www.caesartour.it/Cartoline/Foto/Innsbruck-010.jpg
called 'Best Western Hotel Goldener Adler' or "“Goldenes Dach’l”" ex recidence of Mozart 
with the central part of the front quite similar to the Delight Castle  ! So that was the inspiration!
Moreover in Innsbruck there is the Casino and also the Swarowski Kristal world
http://www.tirolaustria.com/imperi/story/pic/glaswe.jpg
http://static.twoday.net/andiamo/images/Swarovski-jpg.jpg
the empire of the most valuable crystal in the world, discovered in a mine by cound Swarowski himself! Simon Blue and his diamond mine were born from this story!!!
So Bon Bon is a half of Moena (the houses and the surrounding landscape of woods and mountains) and a half of Innsbruck (the center of Bon Bon and the Delight Castle).
If you agree and are interested, I'll open a photo gallery in the site with the locations that I photographed to invent PBB!
Let me know  !
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I have too been wondering myself...and Oh wow! Those are some beautiful pictures and I can fairly see some of the similarities. |
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Ashton Gray
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Photographist, artist, writer, gentlewoman, does your skill set never end? A definite set of positive characteristcs for anyone to have. Beautiful photographs, Vanessa, brava. Turns out my guesses on where Bon Bon is located were far off the mark but I don't mind, I'm just happy to know where it is now.
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kommy
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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Northeast Italy, huh? Dang. I was guessing somewhere on the French-Italian border. Maybe it's own little mini-country like Monaco. I can definitely see why it's there, though. Those are quite colorful pictures. 
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Drake_Skyflyer
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Very beautiful picters..... i wish i could go there... a man can dream...
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Ashton Gray
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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"A person has the right to dream". I'm afraid I cannot recall who said it but I do know there are at least five variations of that phrase that I know of, though the only variation is in the gender of the person dreaming, man, woman, boy, girl, and child.
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For some reason, I thought BonBon probably existed in Austria, though I couldn't really explain why I thought that, as I've never been to Austria myself (or, for that matter, the contintent of Europe, though I hope to be able to visit some day). Another guess was somewhere in Switzerland, though I might as well have guessed Italy, seeing as that's where Vanessa lives (duh!)
Nice photos! I actually have a cousin who lives in Austria (he went to a music college there to learn to play classical guitar, and speaks numerous languages including Austrian and Italian). Your photos reminded me of some of his photos from Austria, though my brain is blanking on the name of the town he lived in.
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BrightAngelChii
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| Yes, many places in austria are wonderful (special everything in the middle of vienna). I live in austria and I am a big fan of Bon Bon, to know that it's inspirated a bit by the building of austria is really a pleasure for me. |
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Vanessa
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:46 am Post subject: |
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OOOOH! 
what a lucky you are!
I love your country, hope to have been right in the description! I hope to visit Vienna, I am a Sissi fan and I would like to visit Salzburg.
A lot of austrians tourists visit Trentino and so there people speaks german . In the all things that I love of your country, besides the classic music, the food ( sakertorte!  yum! And Mozartkugeln: Mozart balls! http://p.vtourist.com/1/1722000-Mozart_Chocolate-Salzburg.gif ), the Kommissar Rex, the artisanship and the nature there, is also that education and respect for the order and discretion . To Bon Bon, in fact, " no one asks who you are and people are extremely discreet with the activites of pleasure. The perfect place if you need to hide" !
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Ashton Gray
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Beautiful pictures, BrightAngelChii, I especially enjoyed the horse drawn carriage. Friends or, dare I say it, relatives of yours, Drake? 
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kommy
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Don't mind him, Drake. He's only horsing around.
Those are wonderful pictures. I've never seen that kind of architecture before in person. While my hometown, Annapolis, also loved to preserve it's old buildings, the majority of them are from the 19th century. Kinda makes it look like a factory and shipping town, due to the Victorian aesthetics.
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Drake_Skyflyer
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Haha so are you it seems 
They are missing the golden hair and braids to be in Drake's family
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Ashton Gray
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:15 am Post subject: |
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Come now, what's life without a little horseplay?
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Drake_Skyflyer
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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Drake is very good at horse play as you'll hear in the story.
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LabrnMystic
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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I was close. I figured it had to be somewhere around Italy, being your from there and all.
I'm especially grateful for this background information on BonBon, for I did not know that about the Swarowski crystal. That gives Mystic even more of an "excuse" to come visit BonBon.
Thank you Vanessa.
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Ashton Gray
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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I can't imagine many people needing an excuse to visit the town of Bon Bon, setting aside the women there, it's a very beautiful location.
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