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JOE LAUFER’S “BEST and WORST” TRAVEL DESTINATIONS

 

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!). 

 

  1. MOST ENCHANTING

Austria (Vienna and Salzburg); Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Belgium (Brussels); Monaco; and Seville, Spain.

 

  1. MOST MOVING (emotionally)

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.

 

  1. MOST EXOTIC

China; Istanbul; Turkey; Thailand; Australia

 

  1. MOST SURPRISING

Hong Kong; London; Puerto Rico (out on the Island!)

 

  1. MOST CULTURAL

Florence, Italy; Paris, France

 

  1. MOST EXPENSIVE

Switzerland

 

  1. MOST FUN

Germany  (Munich and villages); Paris; Edinburgh;  London

 

  1. MOST EDUCATIONAL

All of them…. (because I approached them with the attitude of a “student”.

 

  1. MOST MEMORABLE

Athens and the Greek Islands; Ireland (especially Northern Ireland); Prague; Thailand

 

  1. MOST DEPRAVED (BUT FUN!)

Amsterdam.

 

  1. MOST DISAPPOINTING (but still educational and a good travel experience)

Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark and Sweden). However, Copenhagen was a fun city
 

  1. BEST FOR SH0PPING

Thailand; Black Forest Region, Germany; Holland; Montmartre, Paris; Florence, Italy.

 

  1. MOST DEPRESSING

Quito, Ecuador; Caracas, Venezuela; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

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