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From January to April, just about anywhere in northern and eastern Europe will be pretty cool, I would think. Pretty damn cold in a lot of places in fact
I predict disappointment, because the Millau bridge is the only thing you can think of that you want to see. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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How about an active volcano? You can, I think, get boat trips to Stromboli.
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/stromboli/news.html
Or Mt. Etna:
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/etna/current-activity.html ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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The whole city of Krakow because it's the only ancient central European city that wasn't flattened in WW2.
When you're there, visit the Wieliczka salt mine because it'll blow your mind. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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stinkwheel wrote: | The whole city of Krakow because it's the only ancient central European city that wasn't flattened in WW2.
When you're there, visit the Wieliczka salt mine because it'll blow your mind. |
I have put Krakow on my list, looks beautiful
Lake Bled and the surrounding area in Slovenia is stunning, just don't go in the summer as it is a tourist hotspot and therefore heaving. Budapest is gorgeous, as is Czech Republic and Prague. I would like to go back to Switzerland sometime as the scenery was truly stunning and didn't look real at all. I went to Interlaken this year and used it as a base to ride out from. ____________________ Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
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You may struggle to get up to Lake Bled at this time of year. There's a high chance it will be frozen.
Central Massif area of France is worth a visit. There are loads of neolithic sites and weird little villages perched on top of huge cliffs. Again, don't know what it's like in Winter, I usually go there to canoe the rivers in early summer.
In fairness, most people, even if they've never paddled before, could safely bounce their way down the middle sections of the Dordogne or lower Vezere and by mid June, it's at swimming pool temperatures. The geography of the place is simply stunning.
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Etna sounds good. Right down the bottom of Italy so getting the train out would be days of travelling. Hmmm, might look at flights. |
Personally, I think I'd prefer to see Stromboli. I think some of the boat trips are after dark, so you see the bright lava fountains and flows to good effect, whereas I think Etna is just venting steam and gases, with the odd minor quake.
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I am not a hiker and generic old buildings don't excite me but places of real historic importance do interest me.
People saying "oh go to [country], it's quite nice" doesn't really help. I am looking for specific destinations. Also trying to avoid the cold so Norway and Germany are not places I am thinking of. |
One of the advantages of exploring Europe is that you can rock up pretty much anywhere and usually find something nearby of interest. I was poking round a church in Logrono, Spain a few years back and found a small Michelangelo painting hidden at the back of the altar, most guidebooks for the area probably feature it nowadays but at the time it was a real WTF moment.
Castle of the Moors, Porto might be worth a recce if you stop in N Portugal. Madeira and Porto if you fancy checking out the national tipples.
Continuing southward there's Jerez for a highly commercialised intro to sherry and nearby Cadiz has a pretty little harbour entrance that was quite a challenge to enter under sail!
Cape Trafalgar a little further south and possibly tricky to get to if you're relying on public transport, has some obvious historical significance but probably little to appeal unless you're into ticking off sites.
Tarifa is a pretty little town, windsurfing capital of Europe, it was absolutely rocking during September festival time. It does have a Customs office...and a cell... Which reminds me, don't piss off the guards on Spanish trains, they have armed police with them who will throw you off the train if they don't like the cut of your jib...
Algeciras is quite a dump, most notably known as the drugs capital of Europe. And that's where my extent of Spain stops (unless you fancy stuff along the northern corridor between the Pyrenees and Cabo Finisterra)
Should you be tempted, Madrid is a humming city in the middle of nowhere so prepare yourself for a long boring train ride through a huge expanse of nothing notable if you are tempted by the Prado, El Escorial or any number of places in the historical seat of Spanish kings.
Gibraltar, as previously mentioned, is just weird but if you disembark at La Linea you can walk through the Spanish border and get to cross an airstrip on foot. (Also fun watching the planes land there, must be a bit of an arse clencher flying into that airport!!!).
If you do the Portugal to Italy thing and head to the South of France (personally, I prefer both France and Spain in August/September when the festivals get going and the alcohol flows) skip Marseille, very pretty but a beggars paradise. Just slightly North of there is the walled city of Avignon, with it's part remaining bridge, source of the old song 'sur le pont d'Avignon'. Again, absolutely rocking during it's week long arts festival in the summer. I haven't done much in the South of France, paddling excepted, but it does help if you can speak the lingo, more so in Spain where they don't tend to speaka da Inglis outside of Madrid. Seeking out the younger generation can usually get better results than trying to get an old Spaniard to understand loud English.
Long tours abroad are fun but can be bloody hard work if it's something you're not used to. It can be hard to get a feel for a place if you just hop off the train, bash out a few tourist sites and hop back on the train to the next stop. Sometimes far better just to stop in a place for a week and enjoy a leisurely pace of life. ____________________ Make mine a Corona. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 190 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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