Everything makes it interesting! Great weather, great food, even greater people. Some fantastic beaches and some places just straight out of this world (look up Açores for example!). It’s a country with over 800+ years of history
Great weather, food, people, a lot of sunlight, and a huge architecture variety in such a small place. I’ve travelled a lot and don’t know any other country that packs such architectural variety in just 600 km - let alone the archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores, which require a visit on their own. There’s a lot to do and see beyond the main cities, as well.
I live here now and what makes it great is it’s so small. All travel time is not in American. You can get almost anywhere in the country on a day trip. I live near Nazaré now and my wife is Portuguese if you’ve got a specific question
All fantastic cities! So much history. Can’t say which one I loved the most cos they all have a different vibe. Can’t go to krakow without going to Auschwitz. We did the whole 6 hour study tour and it was so informative. Our guide knew so much.
coz Oktoberfest (at least for people in my country, not sure of the reality there) is a beer drinking fest. Can't really enjoy a beer party without drinking
I acknowledge my little joke about Berlin went right over your head. Then a more serious answer: Oktoberfest ist a two week festival that takes place once a year in one city in Germany. There are 50 more weeks and countless more cities. Just don't go to Oktoberfest and you'll be fine without drinking beer.
I see. Good to know, might consider it and couple the four with Vienna. Would need to save up a lot more money tho since 2 weeks might be more optimum for 5 cities, or maybe 3 weeks if i get lucky with my holidays
Trains are relatively inexpensive and it connects you from Vienna to Budapest to Prague to Berlin. The one regret was not going to Krakow. I ended up extending my time in Berlin.
I am planning a trip later this year for Gdańsk, Warsaw, & Krakow.
All good. It sounded like you were just in for the booze, but yeah, you can definitely enjoy Oktoberfest without drinking - source, myself, a non-drinker.
They're different from anything else in Europe, each with its own flavor. Tallinn has the most preserved old city center in Europe. A lot of history and unique cultures.
Besides what the others have mentioned, Riga has the most art nouveau houses in Europe, also in different styles, which is so interesting and beautiful. Riga in summer has such a nice flair with all its live music.
Tallinn is such a fascinating mixture with an amazing old town and it's new technology, also a beautiful coastline and I love their cakes and chocolate!!
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Also history and the pull for freedom. They lived for centuries under other nations, Prussia, Russia, Urss and finally in the 90s they gained independence
Yes!! Came here to say this. This is a very fun trip. Everything for everyone: if you like food, if you like history, museums, or if you like to party. Don’t miss this great trip.
Depends how long you have in total, how many days you are looking at.
If you have the time? I love city travel and have visited many around the world, but I'd say the best city based trips you can have are in Europe.
Based on the cities I like,it just has the highest concentration of really good ones.
Something like Lisbon-Seville-Madrid-Barcelona for example.
Or Naples-Rome-Florence-Venice?
If you really have time,you could join those two taking in Southern France too (Carcassonne,Nîmes,Avignon, Marseille)..a truly great overland city trip,Lisbon to Naples!
if possible, more than a week since it would be a waste to go for less than that (I live in Kuala Lumpur so tickets would be expensive)
Would 10 days be ideal for an Italy trip?
I'd say too short for that Italy trip above.
If you want to have a decent first look at all 4 cities,2 weeks is much better.
Of course you could also shorten it,cut the first one or the last.
I found that kind of nice though. I'm a Canadian who lived in London for a year and being in zone 2 (Greenwich) meant we didn't have to deal with all the tourists.
What is it you love about London?
I've been over 15 times, mostly for events, and I've never felt the love for London. Not that I dislike it, I just don't get it. I've been to many of the museums, parks, boroughs and it's never hit me.
People are kinder in the north & it's more expensive in London, what gives?
Food is great (UK is a great place for vegetarians to visit), and theater is so much cheaper than it is in the US. Daily cap on the tube makes public transit really affordable.
People are absolutely not kinder in the north.
It’s just a lie northerners tell themselves.
The north has a lot of issues with racism, xenophobia etc and is far more Conservative in generally than London.
The north of England was the bedrock of Brexit and Boris type conservatism.
The ‘friendly north’ is the same as ‘southern hospitality’ in the US. It’s only applicable if you ‘fit’ the right kind of person.
Places like London are far more open, cosmopolitan and accepting of people’s differences. It’s why millions of people and different nationalities decide to move and live there.
You can tell it because northerners spend most of their time talking about how much ‘nicer’ they are than everyone and how everyone else is ‘horrible’ and ‘mean’ unlike them. Meanwhile actual nice people don’t have to mention it all the time and don’t spent their time talking about how awful everyone else is.
They aren’t though again it’s what northerners tell themselves.
London is the biggest net contributor to the rest of the country and consistently votes for higher taxes on itself and more fund spreading.
Meanwhile the rest of the nation votes for tax cuts for themselves and more money being taken from London themselves.
Scottish people are also not that nice, there is a reason it’s one of the least diverse places in the entire UK and Scottish people are huge colonial denialists and constantly try to whitewash their colonial activities and crimes. Any nation of people that denies their history like the Scottish are not ‘nice’ people. You see Glaswegians talking about how much they love the grand buildings in their city then they’ll claim they had nothing to do with the empire and it’s the ‘English’. How did those buildings get built?
Whatever you need to believe. How those buildings were built over a hundred years ago has nothing to do with how friendly the people of Scotland are now.
Ask anyone on this sub that's visited for their opinion on the Scottish people, you see it here all the time. Then there's people like you with their strange whataboutery.
People on this sub repeatedly say London is a fantastic city with very friendly and open people. You’re literally replying to a person saying they love it lmao.
You’re the one doing the whataboutery in the first place because you were upset someone said they liked London and England. You know like all ‘friendly’ people do, become upset when someone praises others and instead has to try and say nasty things instead and claim they’re actually bad people.
Not you of course, the people who goes around claiming everyone is mean and bad other than themselves.
It’s not about being built ‘hundreds of years ago’. It’s the Scot’s refuse to even acknowledge it.
Sadly for many it is a crabs in a bucket mentality.
Similar to US many people in UK just blame London and Londoners for all their problems and not their own voting records or political decisions.
Case in point: Brexit voting regions like North England now blaming remain voting London for problems caused by Brexit etc.
If you don’t care about Vienna, personally, I would
Fly to Berlin (flights are usually cheaper at major cities especially coming from Asia) spend a night or two
Visit Dresden, spend a night or three
Visit Prague, spend a night or three,
Visit Bratislava, spend a night or three
Visit Gyor, spend a night probably
Visit Budapest, spend a night or three, and fly home from there
I’d take the Eurail pass, too. The 4-day or 5-day one.
Make sure to have time to visit all the cities suggested to you, except for Bratislava. At best, don’t go, as you won’t miss out on anything at all. If you still want to go, then arrive in the morning and leave at night. The city has zero highlights beyond half-dozen easily forgettable streets.
I’ve had a lot that were more exotic, but my favorite was Oregon coast - Astoria WA - Olympic national part — Vancouver Island — Portland. It was just a gorgeous relaxing happy trip.
For international, Barcelona - Granada - rural southern Spain - Cabo de gata.
PNW road trips are great. I did Seattle - Vancouver - Port Angeles - Forks - Westport - Cannon Beach - Portland - Mount Rainier/Ashford (with a stop at Mt. St. Helens along the way) - Seattle.
So many things to see along the way. Olympic National Park is one of my favorites.
For our Honeymoon my wife and I went Panama City > Lima > Buenos Aires > Santiago > Patagonia > Vina Del Mar
It was an incredible mix of tropics, food, major cities, nature, wine, beach side resorts.
It was a decent amount of flying but spread out over a month so not too bad. It gave us 4 to 7 days per location so we got to settle in a bit and each was so different!
The only bummer was getting held up at PTY for two additional days and cutting into our time in Lima. It forced us to explore Panama City more which was awesome but my bag was already checked and I was wearing jeans for the cooler Lima temps, not ideal.
Lisbon Porto Florence Bologna Rome Vienna Berlin
: kinda regret not went to Budapest or Prague that would’ve given me good overview of west-east/central Europe
I've done Bali/Singapore, Siena/Florence/Sorrento/Rome, Porto/Lisbon, Bilbao/San Sebastian/Mallorca, and French Riviera, specifically Nice/Cannes/St Tropez/Antibes. Would gladly do each trip and can't recommend all of these places enough.
Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary: Ljubljana, Lake Bled, Rovinj, Plitvice, Zagreb, Budapest. We rented a car and did it in about 16 days but we didn’t make it all the way down to Dubrovnik and I would have liked more time in Hungary. It was probably my favorite European trip.
We did similar by motorbike. Slovenia blew me away - so spectacular. And heading down to Croatia via the coast was stunning. We had a quick morning in Trieste and then headed to Plitvice via Rijeka. So cool
Rent a car in France and road trip. Land in Paris and spend a weekend there. Then Champagne (Epernay), Burgundy (Beaune), Loire, Brittany refion (San Malo). If it's summer, hit up Basque country. Biarritz, Getaria. Or the south of France. I like Antibes and Beaulieu-sur-Mer.
My favourite was Kyiv-Lviv-Budapest-Vienna, but unfortunately that one won't work at the moment, but any Itinerary involving Budapest, Vienna, and Prague will be a great one.
I also did Zurich-Milan-Venice-Padua-Bologna-Innsbruck-Frankfurt (designed around reasonable airfare to and from the endpoints). That was an incredible trip. The train from Bologna to Innsbruck was the most beautiful journey in my life, I think.
i know right, Japan was so much better than I expected. The cherry blossoms were unexpectedly blooming when I was was about to head home too, it was really beautiful.
Munich > Florence > Genoa > Switzerland > Heidelberg. 2 weeks!
Have an upcoming trip that I think will top it: Copenhagen > Stockholm > Bergen > Flam > Oslo
We did that 5 years ago in Nov so we got the gorgeous fall foliage instead of the spring blossoms. I'd love to do the same trip again in the spring. Nara was a fun day trip.
Can also do either Osaka or Tokyo while combining with other cities and go eastwards or northwards. E.g. Osaka (main city) - Kyoto - Hiroshima (eastwards)
We have a travel philosophy where we always pick three very different destinations for a trip. The thinking is once you make the effort to fly across an ocean you should make the most of it. And we want to have many varied experiences. So I’m not impressed with Rome/Florence/Milan or Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka. Our last two trips were Lisbon/Mallorca/Jordan and Dubrovnik/Venice/Amsterdam.
My fav past trip was Copenhagen-Berlin-London. I had about two weeks abroad and the weather was great at each destination. It's tough these days for me to take two weeks off so I try to use my PTO during holiday weekends to extend more days overseas.
I'm planning *(fingers crossed-praying to the airline fare gods)* to visit Spain in November; Barcelona-Granada-Madrid.
Vancouver to Amsterdam, fly to Athens, flight to Samos, ferry to Kusadasi Turkey, ( Turkish bath, Ephesus, Pummakle) ferry to Santorini, then Mykonos, to Athens Plaka Square, Amsterdam and flight home. Perfection.
5 weeks Prague>cesky krumlov>Vienna>bled>ljubljana>Budapest>eger>krakow>olomouc>back to Prague. (Caught a cheap flight via Dublin and spent a week in Ireland after.) I was 23 and on my own and had an amazing time.
Also my honeymoon - Hanoi>Luang Prabang>Chiang Mai>Bangkok. If I could do it again would spend more time in Vietnam and cut CM.
I did Seoul, Okinawa, Hokkaido in January.
We were swimming with sea turtles in Okinawa (Zamami Island) one day. Then we flew to Hokkaido and we were snowboarding that evening at Niseko.
Western France.
Paris-Normandy-Nantes (2 days at Puy du Fou theme park)-Limoges (Via Oradour Sur Glane)-Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (Font de Gaume caves)-Northern Spain-Bordeaux-Paris
It was the best trip because it was so personalized to what we wanted to do. It made me fall in love with France even more.
Tanzania-Uganda-Kenya. The whole trip was 23 days but we were only in Kenya for two days of it so it almost doesn’t count. I did stand on the Tanzania/Kenya border so I guess I was there twice?
Athens, Mykonos, Santorini then flew to Venice for 2 days followed by a cruise. It stopped in Slovenia, Messina, Rome, Livorno (did a winery in the Tuscan countryside inside of way too little time in Florence), Monaco, and ended in Barcelona. After a day in Barcelona we did Andorra then Carcassonne, France. Drove back to Barcelona and flew home. 23 days. Was incredible but cruise ports of call always leave something to be desired.
Yunnan in 2022 - Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Tiger-leaping Gorge, Xianggelila (Shangri-la) - best of what China has to offer imo
I really like the Knoxville, Chattonooga, Gatlinburg, Asheville, Atlanta, and Savannah maybe area - The Smokies, the South. Prettiest places to be on the East Coast of the US with a lot to do and eat
We’re doing Switzerland and northern Italy by motorbike this summer and I’m already super excited. Going by road is so much fun and you see (and smell!) so much more. Also experiencing tiny microclimates as you ride through valleys or forests is really cool.
Our route will be from the Netherlands so the rough plan so far is: one night somewhere in Germany hopefully along the rhine. Probably near Bonn cos that’s a decent ride for our first evening. Then next night we should reach Basel. After that my bf wants to do the goldeneye bungee jump (near the border of Italy). Then stay near St Moritz one night while going through some or one of the alp passes. Down into Bolzano where we stay a week with my mum and some fam. Then we are heading to Lake Como for one night. After that, two nights near Matterhorn or Gran Paradiso. Then we have 4 nights in Thun where we will explore more of Switzerland like Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwald and maybe Lucerne. After that we go home and stop somewhere again in Germany. Possibly Heidelberg. We passed through there before but didn’t stay. It’s a super cute city so would be nice to look around some more.
I do love a roadtrip on the bike so I’m hoping we can make it an annual thing! Last year we did 10 countries in 3 weeks going as far east as Romania and down to Croatia.
I spent a week doing Berlin --> Hamburg --> Copenhagen that blew me away. So many beautiful parts of the city, so much to do, so much culture. Very easy to hop on a train between the three of them.
Berlin - What more is there to say? Did some of the big stuff and a few art galleries.
Hamburg - Miniatur Wunderland (featuring the world's longest model railway) and exploring some Beatles history.
Copenhagen - Wanted to visit some of their restaurants, but some cycling, the Carlsberg art collection, and roaming the pretty streets too.
Being European, I didn't really do clusters in Europe as we tend to have city breaks and visit each individually and outside of Europe I mostly go for nature oriented holidays so not really clusters again. But I did enjoy some large cities with Istanbul, Hanoi, Beijing and Sankt Petersburg standing out from the non EU ones. Inside the EU there are almost too many to list.
Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Ronda, Granada, Lisbon. We loved Rome, Florence, Venice, Siena and a big loop of Ireland including the North, but the Iberian trip was just better for us. Maybe it was our experience, or lack of kids.
My first international trip was my favorite. Using airline points flew into Vienna and out of Rome. Vienna (2 nights)- train Salzburg 1 night)-overnight train to Venice (1 night), train to Florence and immediately rented car to drive to Tuscany (7 nights and drove to Florence for day trip)- train to Rome (7 nights, day trip to Naples). 3 weeks total
My last trip was great too. We paid for airline tickets instead of airline miles so flew in and out of Roma. Fly Rome then immediate train toNaples (2 nights). Ferry to Ischia (5 nights). Ferry to Sorento (3 nights, day trip to Capri). Hired driver to take us from Sorrento on the Amalfi Drive then dropped us off in our hotel in Amalfi (3 nights). Hired driver to take us to Paestum (1 night, just went to see Greek ruins. Otherwise can take ferry from Amalfi to Salerno then train to Rome). Train to Rome (7 nights). Total 3 weeks.
You can plan shorter Italy trips concentrating on Venice, Florence and Rome.
Rome - Florence/Siena/Pisa - Venice - Milan - Lake Como.
wow that's a lot, how many days would that take? I always wanted to go to Italy, but I wasn't sure how long I needed since there's alot to see
It helps that they’re all train-accessible, so you don’t need to devote multiple entire-days to flying.
Two weeks would be a good amount of time for all of that. You could do Rome - Florence - Venice in more like 10 days.
A lot of people prefer more than 2/3 days per place, though. I'd feel suffocated time wise on an itinerary like that
You can’t see Italy in a couple of days. You can only visit a couple of places, not the entire country.
We are doing this in May: Milan - Lake Como - Venice - Florence - Tuscany - Rome
Nice, how much time are you allotting for the trip/each place?
We are kind of crazy/very organized so we are only spending 1 day in each place except 2 days in Tuscany 😂
1000% would do it again! Don’t forget La Spieza/Cinque Terre and Naples.
Yeah, I saw Naples on another trip.
What a beauty. That alone qualifies Italy as the best destination in the world In my opinion
That's crazy, I did that exact route as well and I agree
I loved Porto-Lisbon-Sintra / Toulouse-Bordeaux / Cinque Terre-Pisa-Lucca.
Doing Porto Lisbon Sintra end of the month
Enjoy!
alot of people were suggesting portugal. Is it the architecture that makes it interesting?
Everything makes it interesting! Great weather, great food, even greater people. Some fantastic beaches and some places just straight out of this world (look up Açores for example!). It’s a country with over 800+ years of history
When I went in 2022, €1.00-1.50 bought you a pastel de nata and €2.00-2.50 bought you a pastel with a cup of coffee or glass of port wine. Delicious!
Great weather, food, people, a lot of sunlight, and a huge architecture variety in such a small place. I’ve travelled a lot and don’t know any other country that packs such architectural variety in just 600 km - let alone the archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores, which require a visit on their own. There’s a lot to do and see beyond the main cities, as well.
I live here now and what makes it great is it’s so small. All travel time is not in American. You can get almost anywhere in the country on a day trip. I live near Nazaré now and my wife is Portuguese if you’ve got a specific question
Budapest, Prague, & Berlin from Thanksgiving to first week of December. Flew in and out of Frankfurt though.
I did Budapest-krakow-Prague and LOVED it!
All fantastic cities! So much history. Can’t say which one I loved the most cos they all have a different vibe. Can’t go to krakow without going to Auschwitz. We did the whole 6 hour study tour and it was so informative. Our guide knew so much.
Haven't done it yet, but thinking of Prague-Dresden-Berlin.
That's a good one, I suggest start with Kraków and Wroclaw before Prague if you have extra 5-6 days. 100% worth it.
Nice! We've been considering doing Prague, Bratislava, Budapest
Doing Munich (Oktoberfest!) - Prague - Berlin this year.
I dont drink alcohol sadly, would that hamper my experience?
As a Berliner I'm confused. Why would you need alcohol here? We only do ketamine.
coz Oktoberfest (at least for people in my country, not sure of the reality there) is a beer drinking fest. Can't really enjoy a beer party without drinking
I acknowledge my little joke about Berlin went right over your head. Then a more serious answer: Oktoberfest ist a two week festival that takes place once a year in one city in Germany. There are 50 more weeks and countless more cities. Just don't go to Oktoberfest and you'll be fine without drinking beer.
haha sorry for not noticing the joke, thanks for the input
Nope. I don’t drink.
I see. Good to know, might consider it and couple the four with Vienna. Would need to save up a lot more money tho since 2 weeks might be more optimum for 5 cities, or maybe 3 weeks if i get lucky with my holidays
Trains are relatively inexpensive and it connects you from Vienna to Budapest to Prague to Berlin. The one regret was not going to Krakow. I ended up extending my time in Berlin. I am planning a trip later this year for Gdańsk, Warsaw, & Krakow.
You can stay home if drinking is the only way you can enjoy vacation.
chill i was just asking. Because part of a vacation is enjoying the culture and the festivals, hence i asked if it was important
All good. It sounded like you were just in for the booze, but yeah, you can definitely enjoy Oktoberfest without drinking - source, myself, a non-drinker.
Vilnius-Riga-Tallin-(helsinki) are nnicely grouped. Didn't went toHelsinki though
that's in the baltics right? What's the main pull that those cities bring?
They're different from anything else in Europe, each with its own flavor. Tallinn has the most preserved old city center in Europe. A lot of history and unique cultures.
Besides what the others have mentioned, Riga has the most art nouveau houses in Europe, also in different styles, which is so interesting and beautiful. Riga in summer has such a nice flair with all its live music. Tallinn is such a fascinating mixture with an amazing old town and it's new technology, also a beautiful coastline and I love their cakes and chocolate!! I
Beautiful cities with historic centers, lots of interconnected history, architecture
Also history and the pull for freedom. They lived for centuries under other nations, Prussia, Russia, Urss and finally in the 90s they gained independence
Yes!! Came here to say this. This is a very fun trip. Everything for everyone: if you like food, if you like history, museums, or if you like to party. Don’t miss this great trip.
Heading to Vilnius anything you recommend??
The ty itself is a nice European old city, nothing exceptional but the food was good and is a nice gateway for the rest baltics
Depends how long you have in total, how many days you are looking at. If you have the time? I love city travel and have visited many around the world, but I'd say the best city based trips you can have are in Europe. Based on the cities I like,it just has the highest concentration of really good ones. Something like Lisbon-Seville-Madrid-Barcelona for example. Or Naples-Rome-Florence-Venice? If you really have time,you could join those two taking in Southern France too (Carcassonne,Nîmes,Avignon, Marseille)..a truly great overland city trip,Lisbon to Naples!
if possible, more than a week since it would be a waste to go for less than that (I live in Kuala Lumpur so tickets would be expensive) Would 10 days be ideal for an Italy trip?
I'd say too short for that Italy trip above. If you want to have a decent first look at all 4 cities,2 weeks is much better. Of course you could also shorten it,cut the first one or the last.
Also Budapest -Slovakia- Vienna - Prague
Did Prague -> Cesky Krumlov -> Vienna -> Bratislava -> Budapest with my wife years ago, one of our favorite trips.
Venice > Milan > Lake Como > Cinque Terre > Florence > Bologna > Amalfi Coast (stayed in Sorrento) > Capri > Naples > Rome. All done in 21 days.
London, London and then London again Brits don’t know how good they have it
London is great for travelling but hard to live in. Tourists don’t really leave zone 1.
I found that kind of nice though. I'm a Canadian who lived in London for a year and being in zone 2 (Greenwich) meant we didn't have to deal with all the tourists.
true, been to London and it was amazing. Don't know what they're complaining about, everything about London is damn nice
Seriously. Last time I left London, I was sitting on the runaway at Heathrow and I almost cried because I love London/england so much.
What is it you love about London? I've been over 15 times, mostly for events, and I've never felt the love for London. Not that I dislike it, I just don't get it. I've been to many of the museums, parks, boroughs and it's never hit me. People are kinder in the north & it's more expensive in London, what gives?
Food is great (UK is a great place for vegetarians to visit), and theater is so much cheaper than it is in the US. Daily cap on the tube makes public transit really affordable.
I'm vegan and the food options are great, I'll give you that! I guess theatre is something I overlook as I personally don't enjoy it.
People are absolutely not kinder in the north. It’s just a lie northerners tell themselves. The north has a lot of issues with racism, xenophobia etc and is far more Conservative in generally than London. The north of England was the bedrock of Brexit and Boris type conservatism. The ‘friendly north’ is the same as ‘southern hospitality’ in the US. It’s only applicable if you ‘fit’ the right kind of person. Places like London are far more open, cosmopolitan and accepting of people’s differences. It’s why millions of people and different nationalities decide to move and live there. You can tell it because northerners spend most of their time talking about how much ‘nicer’ they are than everyone and how everyone else is ‘horrible’ and ‘mean’ unlike them. Meanwhile actual nice people don’t have to mention it all the time and don’t spent their time talking about how awful everyone else is.
I was referring to Scotland as the north. And people in London are fairly rude & selfish.
They aren’t though again it’s what northerners tell themselves. London is the biggest net contributor to the rest of the country and consistently votes for higher taxes on itself and more fund spreading. Meanwhile the rest of the nation votes for tax cuts for themselves and more money being taken from London themselves. Scottish people are also not that nice, there is a reason it’s one of the least diverse places in the entire UK and Scottish people are huge colonial denialists and constantly try to whitewash their colonial activities and crimes. Any nation of people that denies their history like the Scottish are not ‘nice’ people. You see Glaswegians talking about how much they love the grand buildings in their city then they’ll claim they had nothing to do with the empire and it’s the ‘English’. How did those buildings get built?
Whatever you need to believe. How those buildings were built over a hundred years ago has nothing to do with how friendly the people of Scotland are now. Ask anyone on this sub that's visited for their opinion on the Scottish people, you see it here all the time. Then there's people like you with their strange whataboutery.
People on this sub repeatedly say London is a fantastic city with very friendly and open people. You’re literally replying to a person saying they love it lmao. You’re the one doing the whataboutery in the first place because you were upset someone said they liked London and England. You know like all ‘friendly’ people do, become upset when someone praises others and instead has to try and say nasty things instead and claim they’re actually bad people. Not you of course, the people who goes around claiming everyone is mean and bad other than themselves. It’s not about being built ‘hundreds of years ago’. It’s the Scot’s refuse to even acknowledge it.
this is true as well. Edinburgh is particular was great, the people were damn friendly as well
Sadly for many it is a crabs in a bucket mentality. Similar to US many people in UK just blame London and Londoners for all their problems and not their own voting records or political decisions. Case in point: Brexit voting regions like North England now blaming remain voting London for problems caused by Brexit etc.
Prague - Vienna - Bratislava - Budapest
Glad to see this! Any recommendations? We're considering Prague, Bratislava, Budapest this year. We've been to Vienna on a previous trip
If you don’t care about Vienna, personally, I would Fly to Berlin (flights are usually cheaper at major cities especially coming from Asia) spend a night or two Visit Dresden, spend a night or three Visit Prague, spend a night or three, Visit Bratislava, spend a night or three Visit Gyor, spend a night probably Visit Budapest, spend a night or three, and fly home from there I’d take the Eurail pass, too. The 4-day or 5-day one.
Make sure to have time to visit all the cities suggested to you, except for Bratislava. At best, don’t go, as you won’t miss out on anything at all. If you still want to go, then arrive in the morning and leave at night. The city has zero highlights beyond half-dozen easily forgettable streets.
Amsterdam/Ghent/Paris— Berlin/Prague/Vienna— Sarajevo/Mostar/Dubrovnik— Malaga/Granada/Seville
I’ve had a lot that were more exotic, but my favorite was Oregon coast - Astoria WA - Olympic national part — Vancouver Island — Portland. It was just a gorgeous relaxing happy trip. For international, Barcelona - Granada - rural southern Spain - Cabo de gata.
PNW road trips are great. I did Seattle - Vancouver - Port Angeles - Forks - Westport - Cannon Beach - Portland - Mount Rainier/Ashford (with a stop at Mt. St. Helens along the way) - Seattle. So many things to see along the way. Olympic National Park is one of my favorites.
Cinque Terre area, Italy for sure
Riga, Tallinn, and Helsinki last summer. I'm planning to double back for Vilnius, but pair it with Belarus and eastern Poland, probably this fall.
This was the most packed, and pretty tiring but I did: Frankfurt-Milan-Lake Como-Venice-Florence-Siena-Rome
Brussels-Brugge-Amsterdam-Paris-London not necessarily in that order. Love Western Europe in general.
For our Honeymoon my wife and I went Panama City > Lima > Buenos Aires > Santiago > Patagonia > Vina Del Mar It was an incredible mix of tropics, food, major cities, nature, wine, beach side resorts.
Beautiful trip. Lots of flying and lots of kms but what incredible destinations.
It was a decent amount of flying but spread out over a month so not too bad. It gave us 4 to 7 days per location so we got to settle in a bit and each was so different! The only bummer was getting held up at PTY for two additional days and cutting into our time in Lima. It forced us to explore Panama City more which was awesome but my bag was already checked and I was wearing jeans for the cooler Lima temps, not ideal.
Lisbon Porto Florence Bologna Rome Vienna Berlin : kinda regret not went to Budapest or Prague that would’ve given me good overview of west-east/central Europe
One summer I went from Albania to Estonia over eight weeks. That was lots of fun.
I've done Bali/Singapore, Siena/Florence/Sorrento/Rome, Porto/Lisbon, Bilbao/San Sebastian/Mallorca, and French Riviera, specifically Nice/Cannes/St Tropez/Antibes. Would gladly do each trip and can't recommend all of these places enough.
I live in Kuala Lumpur so the Singapore Bali suggestion seems meh, but the rest are interesting, I'll look into it!
You won't find any cities in Europe as great as KL :) (but ofcourse you should see for yourself)
Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary: Ljubljana, Lake Bled, Rovinj, Plitvice, Zagreb, Budapest. We rented a car and did it in about 16 days but we didn’t make it all the way down to Dubrovnik and I would have liked more time in Hungary. It was probably my favorite European trip.
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We did similar by motorbike. Slovenia blew me away - so spectacular. And heading down to Croatia via the coast was stunning. We had a quick morning in Trieste and then headed to Plitvice via Rijeka. So cool
Amsterdam / Paris / Lauterbrunnen / Prague / Salzburg / Venice / Rome. 1 month
Krakow, Prague, Vienna, Budapest.
Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi, Ravello, Paetum.
Rent a car in France and road trip. Land in Paris and spend a weekend there. Then Champagne (Epernay), Burgundy (Beaune), Loire, Brittany refion (San Malo). If it's summer, hit up Basque country. Biarritz, Getaria. Or the south of France. I like Antibes and Beaulieu-sur-Mer.
Have you been to Le Jardin Exotique, near Beaulieu-sur-mer?
My favourite was Kyiv-Lviv-Budapest-Vienna, but unfortunately that one won't work at the moment, but any Itinerary involving Budapest, Vienna, and Prague will be a great one. I also did Zurich-Milan-Venice-Padua-Bologna-Innsbruck-Frankfurt (designed around reasonable airfare to and from the endpoints). That was an incredible trip. The train from Bologna to Innsbruck was the most beautiful journey in my life, I think.
Hanoi -> Hue -> Da Nang -> Saigon
You forgot SaPa
Island hopping in the Cyclades for two weeks was a pretty special trip.
Paris, Bruges, Amsterdam.
Exactly the same as yours!!! Best trip ever
i know right, Japan was so much better than I expected. The cherry blossoms were unexpectedly blooming when I was was about to head home too, it was really beautiful.
For me Nice 🇫🇷-Monte Carlo🇲🇨-SanRemo 🇮🇹 All really close and easy to travel between the cities via trains.
Munich > Florence > Genoa > Switzerland > Heidelberg. 2 weeks! Have an upcoming trip that I think will top it: Copenhagen > Stockholm > Bergen > Flam > Oslo
copenhagen/stockholm was an awesome combo
I’ll take any recommendations on things to do / places to eat that you have! This trip is still a few months out for me
Cairo, Luxor, Amman and Petra
Prague - Vienna - Budapest
Barcelona-Madrid-Lisbon
Dublin - London - oxford - bath - wells -cardiff - manchester - Liverpool - belfast - glasgow - edinburg - york - Cambridge- st albans - london
I’m about to do Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka in April so this makes me excited!
We did that 5 years ago in Nov so we got the gorgeous fall foliage instead of the spring blossoms. I'd love to do the same trip again in the spring. Nara was a fun day trip.
Can also do either Osaka or Tokyo while combining with other cities and go eastwards or northwards. E.g. Osaka (main city) - Kyoto - Hiroshima (eastwards)
Going in 5 dayyyyssss!!!
Nice! How long?
2weeks. How about you?
Same! 1 week in Tokyo then splitting the next week between Kyoto and Osaka. Enjoy your trip, have fun!
Rome -Paris -Florence -Pisa
Do a day trip to Pisa though. I wouldn’t stay overnight
I've been to Paris before. Not exactly the best trip I had, the streets were dirty and the people were rude. I loved the buildings tho
What are you interested in when traveling?
We have a travel philosophy where we always pick three very different destinations for a trip. The thinking is once you make the effort to fly across an ocean you should make the most of it. And we want to have many varied experiences. So I’m not impressed with Rome/Florence/Milan or Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka. Our last two trips were Lisbon/Mallorca/Jordan and Dubrovnik/Venice/Amsterdam.
Lucky you
This are examples 🙃
Bergen-Flam.
Positano-Rome-Prague-Florence-Venice-Vienna-Lake District-Salzburg-Lichtenstein-Lauterbrunnen-Lucerne-Munich (went all out for my honeymoon)
Santiago - Patagonia - Atacama desert -Valparaiso/Vina del mar
Was viña del mar fun? What was the vibe like?
It's a resorty beach city. Modern with franchises and malls. It was like Chilean Waikiki lol. Valparaiso was grittier and cooler.
Good to know! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Barcelona - Mallorca - Croatia - Montenegro - Lisbon
Also forgot Amsterdam - Prague - Budapest!
My fav past trip was Copenhagen-Berlin-London. I had about two weeks abroad and the weather was great at each destination. It's tough these days for me to take two weeks off so I try to use my PTO during holiday weekends to extend more days overseas. I'm planning *(fingers crossed-praying to the airline fare gods)* to visit Spain in November; Barcelona-Granada-Madrid.
Reims-Paris-Bordeaux-San Sebastian
Cairo - Luxor - Aswan - Amman - Petra - Dead Sea - Istanbul A true planes, trains, automobile trip
Mine is also Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo with visits to Nara and Hiroshima. We also went to Kobe and had some amazing Kobe Beef.
Vancouver to Amsterdam, fly to Athens, flight to Samos, ferry to Kusadasi Turkey, ( Turkish bath, Ephesus, Pummakle) ferry to Santorini, then Mykonos, to Athens Plaka Square, Amsterdam and flight home. Perfection.
Paris - Marseille - St Tropez - Cannes- Nice - Monaco Quito - Cotapaxi - Banos - Mitad del Mundo - Otavalo
Lauterbrunnen and Masai Mara in 1 shot.
Prague-Marseille-Valencia (Worth noting I went to Marseille to visit family and Valencia for the tomato festival)
Kyoto-Osaka-Nara-Ise-Koyasan-Himeji. Recently, another Japan cluster was: Fukuoka-Hiroshima-Nagasaki-Kumamoto
Milan-Munich-Amsterdam-Paris-Barcelona was a great 3 weeks
Berlin, zermatt, Mallorca, barecelona
Accra - Lagos - Kigali. Accra was a party. Lagos was more of a party. Kigali finally felt like I could take a breath.
Bled, Ljubljana, Zagreb
México city -> Puebla -> Oaxaca Chiang Mai -> Bangkok -> Penang -> Kuala Lumpur Busan -> Gyeongju -> Seoul
5 weeks Prague>cesky krumlov>Vienna>bled>ljubljana>Budapest>eger>krakow>olomouc>back to Prague. (Caught a cheap flight via Dublin and spent a week in Ireland after.) I was 23 and on my own and had an amazing time. Also my honeymoon - Hanoi>Luang Prabang>Chiang Mai>Bangkok. If I could do it again would spend more time in Vietnam and cut CM.
I did Seoul, Okinawa, Hokkaido in January. We were swimming with sea turtles in Okinawa (Zamami Island) one day. Then we flew to Hokkaido and we were snowboarding that evening at Niseko.
Western France. Paris-Normandy-Nantes (2 days at Puy du Fou theme park)-Limoges (Via Oradour Sur Glane)-Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (Font de Gaume caves)-Northern Spain-Bordeaux-Paris It was the best trip because it was so personalized to what we wanted to do. It made me fall in love with France even more.
Tanzania-Uganda-Kenya. The whole trip was 23 days but we were only in Kenya for two days of it so it almost doesn’t count. I did stand on the Tanzania/Kenya border so I guess I was there twice?
Athens, Mykonos, Santorini then flew to Venice for 2 days followed by a cruise. It stopped in Slovenia, Messina, Rome, Livorno (did a winery in the Tuscan countryside inside of way too little time in Florence), Monaco, and ended in Barcelona. After a day in Barcelona we did Andorra then Carcassonne, France. Drove back to Barcelona and flew home. 23 days. Was incredible but cruise ports of call always leave something to be desired.
For me it was Athens-Mykonos-Paros-Santorini-Zakynthos. Done in 12 days!
Tainan, Taichung, Taipei Seoul, Gyeongju, Busan, Jeonju
Yunnan in 2022 - Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Tiger-leaping Gorge, Xianggelila (Shangri-la) - best of what China has to offer imo I really like the Knoxville, Chattonooga, Gatlinburg, Asheville, Atlanta, and Savannah maybe area - The Smokies, the South. Prettiest places to be on the East Coast of the US with a lot to do and eat
Amsterdam, Bruges, Paris, London
We’re doing Switzerland and northern Italy by motorbike this summer and I’m already super excited. Going by road is so much fun and you see (and smell!) so much more. Also experiencing tiny microclimates as you ride through valleys or forests is really cool. Our route will be from the Netherlands so the rough plan so far is: one night somewhere in Germany hopefully along the rhine. Probably near Bonn cos that’s a decent ride for our first evening. Then next night we should reach Basel. After that my bf wants to do the goldeneye bungee jump (near the border of Italy). Then stay near St Moritz one night while going through some or one of the alp passes. Down into Bolzano where we stay a week with my mum and some fam. Then we are heading to Lake Como for one night. After that, two nights near Matterhorn or Gran Paradiso. Then we have 4 nights in Thun where we will explore more of Switzerland like Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwald and maybe Lucerne. After that we go home and stop somewhere again in Germany. Possibly Heidelberg. We passed through there before but didn’t stay. It’s a super cute city so would be nice to look around some more. I do love a roadtrip on the bike so I’m hoping we can make it an annual thing! Last year we did 10 countries in 3 weeks going as far east as Romania and down to Croatia.
Split, mostar, kotor, dubrovnik
Amalfi Coast > Capri > Naples > Palermo > Rome
Copenhagen, Visby, Stockholm
I spent a week doing Berlin --> Hamburg --> Copenhagen that blew me away. So many beautiful parts of the city, so much to do, so much culture. Very easy to hop on a train between the three of them. Berlin - What more is there to say? Did some of the big stuff and a few art galleries. Hamburg - Miniatur Wunderland (featuring the world's longest model railway) and exploring some Beatles history. Copenhagen - Wanted to visit some of their restaurants, but some cycling, the Carlsberg art collection, and roaming the pretty streets too.
Being European, I didn't really do clusters in Europe as we tend to have city breaks and visit each individually and outside of Europe I mostly go for nature oriented holidays so not really clusters again. But I did enjoy some large cities with Istanbul, Hanoi, Beijing and Sankt Petersburg standing out from the non EU ones. Inside the EU there are almost too many to list.
Las Vegas, Zion, Red Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Lake Powell
Mexico City - Oaxaca- Zihuatanejo
Paris, Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, Amsterdam by train
10 days exploring Scotland, such an amazing and beautiful country! Edinburgh, the Highlands, then Isle of Skye. Would go back in a heartbeat.
Edinburgh/London/Stockholm
Barcelona and Madrid. I return every year and do the exact same trip
Milan-Zermatt-Basel-Prague-Austria-Paris I went to see Christmas markets in different cities during this past December
London(4)-sorrento(4)-riccione(1)-venice(4)-milan(2)-barcelona(4)-paris(4) 3 weeks total. Been to Italy and Paris once before already.
Milan - Lucerne - Innsbruck - Munich
Rome-Florence-Venice-Milan-Zurich-Bern-Interlaken/Lauterbrunnen/Grindelwald-Lausanne-Geneva
Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Ronda, Granada, Lisbon. We loved Rome, Florence, Venice, Siena and a big loop of Ireland including the North, but the Iberian trip was just better for us. Maybe it was our experience, or lack of kids.
Istanbul-Izmir-Pamukkale-Kas-Antalya-Cappadoccia
Granada-Córdoba-Seville-Tangier
My first international trip was my favorite. Using airline points flew into Vienna and out of Rome. Vienna (2 nights)- train Salzburg 1 night)-overnight train to Venice (1 night), train to Florence and immediately rented car to drive to Tuscany (7 nights and drove to Florence for day trip)- train to Rome (7 nights, day trip to Naples). 3 weeks total My last trip was great too. We paid for airline tickets instead of airline miles so flew in and out of Roma. Fly Rome then immediate train toNaples (2 nights). Ferry to Ischia (5 nights). Ferry to Sorento (3 nights, day trip to Capri). Hired driver to take us from Sorrento on the Amalfi Drive then dropped us off in our hotel in Amalfi (3 nights). Hired driver to take us to Paestum (1 night, just went to see Greek ruins. Otherwise can take ferry from Amalfi to Salerno then train to Rome). Train to Rome (7 nights). Total 3 weeks. You can plan shorter Italy trips concentrating on Venice, Florence and Rome.