My story was mostly about family bonding between a father and his newborn child, but I referenced remembered places in the story. Would I be penalised? Kicking myself at the moment.
You can probably see some form of 'place' in your story if you try and find it. In our trials some people ignored the precise guidelines of the question and the marker didn't care (it said write about a place you RETURN to) but people who didn't return still got 13/14s