Do you yearn?

I no longer yearn, I have found that place and it is Prague,I first went there in 1993 and long to get back but due to many other things did not make it back till 2002, since than and mainly due to Low Cost carrier flying from my home city I have been able to make about 3 trips a year since 2002,I will be spending new year there.

Budapest is the place I long to be; since my first visit in 2014 I have returned twice more, with a fourth visit booked for next May. Perhaps because I am half Hungarian, definitely because it’s a uniquely beautiful city and the people are so kind. I could go on and on, but not a day goes by in between trips that I don’t pine for it, and marvel that it took me 50 years to discover my most favorite place in the world.

Here's another vote for Prague! I love it. It never gets old! Feels like home in the best possible way. Will also be there this New Years. I try my best to go back there every winter.

The Lauterbrunnen Valley calls me. It's the one place we have gone on every single trip with the exception of a December Christmas market trip to Germany. The one city where I feel I could live and be totally happy is London.

Cathy I will be in Letna Park to bring in New year and back there to see the fireworks on New years day,will be down by the beer garden hopefully one of the stands will be open selling beer.

Toledo..... interesting. Now I can understand why Klinger (MASH) was always so anxious to get back there.

There are two places in Europe that often pop into my mind at various times of the year. Several places in Italy and also Switzerland (mostly the Berner Oberland). The changing of the seasons often prompts "yearning".

For me it's Ashford Castle, Ireland. Spent 3 days there in 2015 and I've wanted to go back ever since.

Roma. I yearn to be there every day. Fortunately, I can get there two weeks a year.

For me, it is anywhere in Ireland. Like a previous poster, not sure if it is because of my heritage but I have always wanted to go and when I finally made it there, I felt like my soul was home. I know it sounds so corny but I cannot explain it any other way.

There are really several places. One is Zagreb. It's a very nice town. We've been there now 4 times in 6 years. Another is Ljubljana. Again, 3 visits in 6 years. Finally Budapest is a wonderful place. I haven't been there since 2014. Perhaps we will go back next summer. While I am not Hungarian in my ancestry, I am Austria-Hungarian on my mom's side, with the ethnic roots of the Germanic part.

London, Rome, Naples. I also long to return to Germany. Haven't been to Scandinavia. I'm a restless traveler so cannot say definitively that the list will not get longer.
I remember this episode of Seinfeld, it's my all time favorite tv show!

Ken! I'm still smiling!

Ah, Toledo. The smell of the Maumee calls to me.

Well met, Ken, well met indeed:)

Ken, Klinger's Toledo was in Ohio, or did I miss the joke pal.

Venezia!!!!!!

Ken, I didn't know you were so droll.

My yearning is for the Val Gardena. I kind of wish we'd lived there during our Italy years. Might have stayed longer. ;-) My "win the lottery" dream is to own an apartment there for whenever we want to visit. Until then, we will have to settle for annual visits.

Second place goes to the Lauterbrunnen Valley, but Italy has better food.

There are plenty of places in Europe that I wouldn't mind waking up and finding myself there. But the one place on earth I've found that I long to return to, that truly renews my soul is Zion National Park, the majesty and beauty, the clear skies, clean air, the incredible colors especially at sunrise and sunset, it's all incredibly breathtaking. After 9-10 visits, it always fills me with a sense of wonder and peace.

Actually we shopped at a wonderful grocery store on the Calle de Toledo de Ohio in Toledo, Spain so I guess they get the joke too.

Bill! We've missed you at our travel group meetings. Don't you ever get a Saturday off?

My yearning is more generalized - I just yearn to travel. I want to toss the tent and sleeping bags in the car and take off for the nearest state or national park. I want to jump on a plane and head to our beloved Italy. I want to find a spot under a tree in a forest in New Mexico, and just sit there, listening to the birds. I want to go back to Poznań Poland, and see if that amazing pizza place is still on the Stary Rynek.

Sigh. Yes, we are fortunate to be able to travel as much as we do, but still... The yearning is there. And I hope it always will be.

Murren....always Murren. That is where, as another poster put it, my soul feels at home. The quiet, the beauty and the majesty never fail to speak to me.

That being said, I love being anywhere in the mountains. The Austrian and Bavarian Alps, Canadian Rockies, the Alaska Range are all favorites.

I was just thinking of this! Yes, I do yearn! Chamonix, France to be exact. Just to wake up and be surrounded by the mountains, the clean air, the clean cold water, skies that go on for miles!

Food tastes better, life seems better lol...isn't that a line from Seinfeld?

Sometimes I find myself daydreaming like George on the New York pier - but it's not about marrying Susan!

Oslo - such a beautiful place. I like the modern-sense of Oslo. I love the archipelago. It seems to me to be such a positive place. It's always on the top of my list to travel to again...just gotta convince my husband.

London. London London London London London. London.

Also: London.

I'm pretty sure it isn't just one place. Venice comes close. I definitely want to visit again. Toledo was my favorite medieval, twisty road, city in northern Spain. The countryside and small medieval towns in Burgundy are amazing.

If I yearn for anything, it's the sea. I grew up in San Diego sailing, surfing, SCUBA diving, swimming. If it was water related I was doing it. If not that, I was at the beach people watching, biking on the boardwalk or playing beach volleyball. When I moved away to college I lobbied for the state students' organization in Sacramento. I wasn't homesick as much as I had withdrawal symptoms being away from the ocean.

My dream, which will be realized in a few years, is to live near the water and spend half of each year sailing. Primarily around the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas.

Dubrovnik. I love walking the Stradun, the food, the art galleries, the people, Churches. I love sitting, having a drink, people watching. Going to the beach at 7 in the morning, leaving by 9, then swimming off the pier in the evenings.. Going again next August, taking my sister, BIL, daughter and SIL, all first timers except for my daughter. We love showing family and friends our city.

Fun reading. The only thing I yearn for is the funds to go back to Europe - anywhere will do.

Stockholm.

Well, I was thinking a place in Europe until Chani posted about Zion and for me the place where my soul belongs is Yellowstone. I feel different when I drive in the gate and yes, after a 9-9.5 hour drive the first thing I have to do is go thru the gate even if I am staying at one of the gateway towns. When I was going thru a stressful patch as caregiver for my elderly parents my wonderful brother would take a few days off work so I could go over to my bolt hole.

As far as European destinations - Paris, Paris, Paris. I speak almost no French and it doesn't matter. I am vegan so I don't go for the food like others do...and it doesn't matter. I don't drink much so I don't go for the wine that others enjoy...and it doesn't matter. Life couldn't be better when I've got a Navigo Decouverte and a fresh museum pass in my pocket! And bless Dimitri, the RS guide who made me love Paris after having hated it in the 70's!

Runner up but just by a hair - London. Yes, I could happily live here.

Next in line - Bath and Lauterbrunnen Valley

I yearn to go to Rome, but I've never been there. I really want to see the ancient history there.

The place that I've been that I always want to return to is the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia. It's where I grew up and to me it is the most beautiful place on earth. I don't live there anymore and don't get back as often as I'd like.

I'm an anglophile and will be going to London in the spring. I've been before and I can't wait! Bringing my daughters this time (age 9 and 13).

Hallstatt Austria, Chamonix, France. Well pretty much anywhere there are mountains.
I feel a sense of peace when I look up at the towering mountains and hear a river rushing by.

In the states it is Yosemite or Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona.

I love London and Venice and would happily return to both. But “yearning” for me means a deep longing, and that only applies to one place in the world, a wilderness lodge deep in Denali National Park. Nothing soothes my soul like that one place.

1. Charleston, SC
2. Florence, which reminds us a little of Charleston
3. London-never run out of things to see there and on day trips

Interesting that Paris isn't getting more votes.

Venice is my yearning spot. I've been lucky to go 4 times since 2008, but haven't been there since 2014 and am really itching to return (which I'm planning to do in 2019). The moment I laid eyes on it, I fell in love - and even more so once I learned to get up and go out early before the cruise shippers/day trippers arrive (at which point we hit the far reaches). Nothing else like it for me.

Not sure if I yearn. I think I’m more the type that pines, maybe even longs for. That said, I’ll say I find myself hankering to visit Yonkers, NY once again. But not yearning.

It depends on the season. In the summer the yearning centers on Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London. In the fall the yearning is for London and Paris.

I liked reading all the replies here. For me, the places that I desire to go to again are places where I saw the natural world, especially the Mediterranean Sea environments. Every video travelogue of a place in Europe hosted by Rick Steves (Rick Steves' Europe, from PBS Television network), at the end of it, while a woman's voice is advertising products from Rick Steves' business, is a quick view of a donkey, it is at some place in the Mediterranean world. Seeing that donkey evokes a good calm feeling in my mind. I saw donkeys on the island Naxos of Greece. That island Naxos, at the Aegean Sea, is the kind of place that I like to be at when I am on vacation. Blue sky, dry air, quiet, olive trees, a few goats, the blue Mediterranean Sea. The Marina at Naxos Town (Hora) is the best that I have seen. And Naxos has the best beaches in Greece. And no theft there. Another place at the Mediterranean Sea that I liked, very much, is the Cinque Terre at Liguria in ITALY. The trail between Corniglia and Vernazza, in the month March. The temperature of the air there was 70 degrees F. Blue sky, gentle sunlight. Standing near the edge, high above the Sea, I looked down at white sea birds that were gracefully circling in the air above the white Sea foam and rocks. I wish to go to there again, and bring something to sit on. I was informed that in recent years, too many people were at the Cinque Terre villages. It might be not very crowded with people in the month March. March is in the winter season in ITALY, but the Cinque Terre is the most warm place in ITALY in the winter. And, flying to ITALY from the U.S.A. costs less money for airline tickets for traveling in the month March, than in the months after March.

Ever since we had to stop our international travel (due to family and now personal health issues) about 8-9, no 10 years ago, I have yearned. The UK is the place I miss most. And London and the Highlands of Scotland just about tie in my yearning. London is such a vibrant, interesting, multi-facetted city! I don't think I could ever totally experience all of it. And as someone else mentioned, the day trips that are possible just add to the appeal. But the Highlands have my heart. I agree that I has to have something to do with heritage- my sister and aunt have looked into it and , according to Ancestry DNA -at least-, we are more British than most residents of the UK!!!! LOL. We know many of our ancestors were from Scotland (and via Scotland, from Scandinavia). So I guess there is some connection. But the views, the people, the water and the moors, the music and the dancing, .... and the whisky all pull at my soul.

Ron - I had a friend go to Cinque Terre in either March or April last year (I think it was April) - and in her photos - the weather looked amazing - and no crowds!

Another vote for Stockholm. If my boys would come with me and I could work there......

I can identify with all these answers, especially Jane's and Nancy's (and love Paul's as well).

Yearning for me is mostly about Hungary -- Budapest and Kecskemet, where I had the pleasure to live at times in my life when I was learning and growing and making one lifelong friendship.

Also Scotland, and I could also answer London London London London. And Sicily, where we got a taste and haven't yet been able to go back (had hoped to go for our 10th wedding anniversary in September or even October, but my husband's boss wouldn't allow).

And back home anywhere with my family. OK or LA or NM. Currently thinking of a trip that may have us in Santa Fe in April for my dad's 80th birthday. It would be a special return for some of us, and special to share with my sister-in-law and nieces for the first time.

Venice, on a cool and foggy night, the day-trippers gone, when walking around some out-of-the way calle you can almost feel transported back in time.

I yearn.....not to look like a tourist when traveling.
(Was just reading Frank's thread How Not to Look Like A Tourist).

Yearn to live anywhere in the countryside of England, Scotland or Ireland.
Small town/village will do.

Ireland would be it for me. Again, maybe it is my heritage but the first time I got off the plane in Shannon I felt like I was home. I began to cry and every time I am there I feel the same way. I think it is in my soul.

Rebecca, I can sign on to your comment as well - and yours too, Nancy. Countryside Scotland, England, or Ireland, or indeed Dublin or Glasgow in addition to London. But I'm really a countryside girl at heart (as long as I can visit my cities).

I forgot -- I now yearn for Tuscany, specifically the Val d'Orcia, since our trip there this May. Had been to Tuscany before, but only Florence/Siena/San Gimignano. But to see the countryside -- the rolling hills, the cypresses, the GREEN, the vineyards, the villages -- oh MY. I yearn for more time there absolutely!!

Roma (Zoe, is it just you and me?) It grabbed my heart the moment I arrived. I want to go back endlessly.
Cynthia

ponygirl813, I recently found myself longing to return to Rome... yearning even. I suggested to DH we change our 2018 plans to end up in Rome instead of the Netherlands, but he was not enthusiastic. Maybe 2020?

Venice and Paris!

For me it is the lovely stone cottage along a babbling brook where we stayed in Cahersiveen. It was a little bit isolated--not a tourist in sight--and it really felt like home. That part of Ireland is beautiful and I could happily settle down there indefinitely!

pony girl, there are millions of us!

Hard to decide a city. Italy called for months after returning, but it has been 15 years since then. In winter I jhave a favourite restaurant in 'Little Italy' downtown. Find an Italian based book, reserve the table by the fireplace, turn my back to the snow and let an Italian white and a good veal dish teansport me for a couple of hours.
The real heart stealer is Tanzania....enough so that I had to remove myself from the travel forum in order to live my 'here and now' life. That is a place I truly yearn for.

Another vote for Murren, always Murren, where my soul feel it is home, on paths strewn with wildflowers, hearing only cowbells and waterfalls, surrounded on all sides by the protecting mountains.