If you could choose your one most favorite place (city or town not attraction) in all of Europe where would that be?
Example - Someone told me they would never leave Lucerne if they ever went back. I went and fell in love with a place I never thought of going to before.
Also what is one thing you did and loved in europe?
Example - I went to a high ropes course in Mt. Pilatus.
I've done many wonderful things in Europe, but I think the best was a tour I took to Stonehenge, where we were allowed to walk inside & photograph the stones for about 30 minutes. It was early morning, and no one else was there. Fantastic.
Korcula, Croatia. Quiet, beautiful. Great beaches, great food. I'd go back tomorrow.
Second choice: Larochette, Luxembourg. Great hiking trails, lush forest. Off the beaten path from other tourists. Close to Luxembourg City which is also wonderful.
Third Choice: Strassbourg France. Great architecture. Wonderful canals. The best of both Germany and France.
Hiking in the Dolomites in July. Staying in Ortisei and hiking the Alpe si Siusi as well as in the Puez Odle. Beautiful scenery, minimal crowds, great food, riding the various gondole, hiking from refugio to refugio. I wish I could spend two months there every summer.
Paris and Paris! :-)
My very first trip to Europe 10 years ago I went to England, with a couple days side trip to Paris. I started the trip in Bath (so lovely), and took a day tour to Stonehenge and the Cotswolds. The English countryside is so beautiful and I enjoyed it immensely. I distinctly recall sitting at an old picnic bench outside a centuries old inn where we ate lunch in a town called Lacock, listening to the chirp of the birds and feeling so at peace. A few months later at a family reunion my uncle was mentioning that he had traced our family all the way back to the 1400s to a town in England called Lacock!
Right now my travel dreams mostly focus on Italy, but some day I will go back to England.
This is tough. Favorite small city would be Ljubljana. I could live in this city. Favorite town would be Taormina, Sicily. Favorite more touristy place would be Dubrovnik, Paris. Favorite adventure would be going to the very top of Europe-Jungfrau joch. Riding in a horse drawn carriage, sipping Gluhwein, on my way up to Neuschwanstein in the snow. Going to a Turkish bath.
Thank you guys for your reply's. I appreciate them all. The reason behind my questions is a took an unexpected trip to Jungfrau when i was living in Switzerland and it literally took my breath away being there and being able to walk outside. I did this by myself and felt almost like I was in a dream. The same in Florence. It was a city that wasnt high on my list to go but everyone said to, so I did go and I loved sitting at a coffee shop at one of the plazas and feeling like i belong. Its moments like these that I want to have when I backpack next summer for 2 months through Europe by myself.
Some of the suggestions I have added to my trip!
The charming old town of Ribe, Denmark.
Paris. Always Paris. Walking along the river and around Ile St. Louis and Ile de la Cite, sitting at an outdoor cafe and spending hours in the Luxembourg Gardens is heaven for me.
Staying in Murren and doing hikes there, the scenery takes my breath away. My son would say paragliding from Murren. And going to the to the top of Mont Blanc in Chamonix was spectacular.
Keswick, the Lake District, and there, Castlerigg Stone Circle.
Venice.
Inishmore in Ireland.
I once stood on a hill top and saw this very image. I returned and returned, and returned and ......
Well for me it is the Weissenstein in the Swiss Jura. I go there several weekends over the summer when it gets too hot in the city. It's cool, friendly, great views and cheap by Swiss standards. It is also off the tourist trail so for the most part the only visitor they have are locals.
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Too hard to pick one. The top two.... always Berlin and Paris, agreed with all the above reasons for Paris, walking in the different parts of the city, both in Paris and Berlin, just the atmosphere and milieur, always worthy of return visits.
Certain towns in France and Germany are tops for their atmosphere, attraction, just walking around and soaking it in, etc....Amiens, Fontainebleau, Strasbourg, Lüneburg, Weimar, Potsdam, etc.
