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Originally Posted by Garuda747400
or possibly before global warming hits it
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So, don't tell me, you will fly there??
Anyway, I have only travelled a lot round Europe, and the countries I have visited are: Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Southern Ireland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Italy and Spain.
My top 5, from best to worst, currently are:
1 - Scotland! I live here, and admitted, there are a lot of complete ****s here as there are elsewhere, but I just love my country nonetheless. It's beauty never ceases to amaze me.
You see, I live a stones through away from the Highlands, so it takes a LOT to REALLY impress me scenery wise.
2 - Poland. This is the only country I've ever been to where I didn't feel like a foreigner, even though I couldn't speak a word of the language. It was strange but at the same time wonderful.
3 - Italy. We have Italian friends who live in Milan and have a holiday home in the Dolomites, so we have had many a happy visit to them in the past. Yet, I still feel like a foreigner there. Hmmmm.
4 - Northern Ireland. It's a country I've come to like more and more with every visit, and I need to investigate even more, it intrigues me.
5 - Switzerland. Except for all the rather passe Alp bits (along with France Germany and Austria), which are nowhere NEAR as rugged as Scotland anyway and so, bore me to tears, I like this country for it's watches, chocolate, and it's railways.
I think Denmark was rather nice, but I was last there when I was 8, so I cannot possibly comment on it now.
Elsewhere, bits of England and Wales are nice, don't get me wrong, but the last time I was in Wales, I was traveling by train from Cardiff to Fishguard for the ferry to Roslaire (ROI), and it was about as interesting as the sandwich I was eating*
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After the ferry, and the next day in Southern Ireland, I got the train from Roslaire to Dublin, and the countryside just seemed to remind me of 'rural' farmland in the southeast of England - same kind of green, everything. The coast was nice, but nothing really much to write home about.
Oh well, the Guinness made up for at least some of it.
I have been to Donnegal, etc before, and they were nice enough, but I don't really remember it terribly much, other than the big ships at Sligo.
Like I say, it takes a lot to impress me.
* - Savoury cheese and onion if you are wondering.