Where would you go If your older self is revisiting your favorite place in Europe one last time?

Budapest will be my final destination.

Oslo and Copenhagen.

Budapest--I would need to see the storks on Margit sziget. I had a weird potentially life-threatening health scare in early 2017 and all I could think was that I needed to see my Budapest again, and my memories of past trips there got me through my issue.

The Lauterbrunnen Valley.

Val Gardena, Venice, Lauterbrunnen Valley, and London. Can’t pick one. When I am completely decrepit I’ll make my son take me one last time.

Budapest for me too, and Kecskemet.

Anywhere, my Ireland.

Paris... my hometown, my first love.

Italy has long been on my travel agenda. I’m going there in May. If I’m lucky enough to make another trip to Europe, I would love to return to Stockholm.

Conques - next summer, I hope.

I guess it would have to be Paris. But maybe I'll find a new favorite place before it's time for the Last Trip.

I'll be in Paris with Susan! Or maybe London. Love both!

Anywhere France to attend all the jazz festivals happening in 90 days there;

Toledo for me. Would to finish out my life within those ancient walls.

Pam, I’d love to be there with you.

Knee-jerk reaction -- Paris! But then, there's Mürren ... and London ... and Orvieto ....
My daughter has been told that I want her to take my ashes (after any spare parts are donated for transplants) and scatter them at Hanalei Beach.

... good choice Laura. Very romantic indeed.

Sadly, here in Europe, in many countries, we can't do that, you'd be fined by Health and Safety (well, the equivalent gov dept anyway) for "polluting", I'm serious. Ashes can be either kept in an urn, or buried in a cemetery, but not disposed of anywhere else. Still, say at a later date, someone wishes to dispose of the ashes one was keeping, the urn should then be taken to a recycling centre.

Having said that, some people still take the risk and do scatter one's loved ashes in beautiful secluded places anyway.

update: English-speaking natives do help here please: is my last sentence properly constructed? I obviously meant the ashes of someone you love, not the "loved ashes" of someone ;)

Andalucia! Perhaps Seville or Granada. Although the idea of ending in Rome has a certain historical appeal, I think I’d like the magic I find in Granada one more time.

And Enric, I’d write it as “a loved one's ashes”. The way you have it indeed implies that the ashes are loved (but it’s obvious what you actually mean).

Provence

loved-one’s ashes or the ashes of a loved-one

Enric, I know you want to use English correctly, but don't worry. Your command of the language is a lot better than some who were born and raised here.

It would have to be Venice for me...

Sadly, here in Europe, in many countries, we can't do that, you'd be
fined by Health and Safety (well, the equivalent gov dept anyway) for
"polluting", I'm serious. Ashes can be either kept in an urn, or
buried in a cemetery, but not disposed of anywhere else. Still, say at
a later date, someone wishes to dispose of the ashes one was keeping,
the urn should then be taken to a recycling centre.

That's the law in California (the state I am most familiar with) as well, they have strict standards. I doubt it's that different in other states, although of course I may be wrong since I don't know their laws. One needs a permit even to scatter ashes at sea and it has to be at a specific distance from land. Urns cannot be deposited in sea/ocean unless biodegradable (and then the EPA is notified).

Right now, if I had one last time, it would be Umeå and then Stockholm, Sweden. However, I hope to get my fill way before then. I've always thought that when I was old and barely mobile, I would return to Paris and sit at a cafe near my hotel and watch people. So, it depends how mobile I am on that last trip...way in the future.

Laura .... she will have to be very discreet. I don't think any state "allows" ashes to be spread in public places (but that said .... mom did get her wish to be spread in Cannon Beach "shhhhh")

Right now, if I had one last time, it would be Umeå and then Stockholm, Sweden. However, I hope to get my fill way before then. I've always thought that when I was old and barely mobile, I would return to Paris and sit at a cafe near my hotel and watch people. So, it depends how mobile I am on that last trip...way in the future.

As an interesting aside, I recently read a book "Christmas In Paris" about WW I and a veteran who made one last trip to Paris to remember his wife, shortly after her death and shortly before his.

For me, it's the Balkans. I just can't get enough of Croatia, Bosnia-Herzogovenia, Serbia, Slovenia. We have yet to visit Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia (NEVER North Macedonia - silly Greeks), or Greece. Or Crete for that matter. We've only gone once to Turkey.

For my wife, it's parts of France, especially Bretagne and Normandie.

We're back to Croatia next summer.

London
Venice
Paris
Rome
Naples
I think I would visit new places like Provence, Scandinavia, Greece, St. Petersburg, Russia, Switzerland. Many places in Germany.

The very last time in Europe: .Paris and Berlin plus a small town, Lüneburg.

Agnes- the law does not stop anyone from doing it. At sunset and sunrise is a popular time to do it, when few people may be in the water so no one is affected by the ashes. It is very expensive to charter the boat to take the ashes out to sea, I have looked into different companies that offer the service locally.