People always ask me for my choice of a favorite place I’ve ever visited. My response has to be, “it depends on who I was traveling with and what I learned, felt or discovered” – so here are my awards for the best and worst: (NOTE: As a stand-alone list like this, you don’t get the full flavor or WHY I made my selection – when I lecture, I go into the details!).
Austria (Vienna and Salzburg); Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Belgium (Brussels); Monaco; and Seville, Spain.
Omaha Beach, Normandy; St. Peter’s, Rome; Dachau Concentration Camp, outside of Munich; The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin; and being in Hungary and the Czech Republic when they first opened up to tourists; visiting the village in Germany from which my Great Grandfather emigrated in 1883; on the beach in San Salvador where Columbus first landed.
China; Istanbul; Turkey; Thailand; Australia
Hong Kong; London; Puerto Rico (out on the Island!)
Florence, Italy; Paris, France
Switzerland
Germany (Munich and villages); Paris; Edinburgh; London
All of them…. (because I approached them with the attitude of a “student”.
Athens and the Greek Islands; Ireland (especially Northern Ireland); Prague; Thailand
Amsterdam.
Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark and Sweden). However, Copenhagen was a fun city
Thailand; Black Forest Region, Germany; Holland; Montmartre, Paris; Florence, Italy.
Quito, Ecuador; Caracas, Venezuela; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic