This also happens to be the title of my book of short stories, because each story relates in some way to a particular gemstone. But the content of this page is dedicated to a number of the places I have visited and which I also consider to merit such a title. Of course, I could plagiarise what others have written about them, but hopefully there’s enough information here to whet your appetite sufficiently for you to search them out for yourself. That’s the part I enjoy about about most of things I do, be it buying stuff, travel, history or writing – the research bit. Please do follow the links, visit these places and maybe you’ll agree with my classification.