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Top 5 travel destinations -falena
But, wait. Does this mean the top 5 I've been to, or top 5 I want to visit?
These are five places I've been to that I've absolutely loved and would re-visit at the drop of a hat.
1. Colorado and New Mexico. There are mountains and horses, and bilingualism as a part of people's everyday life. Visiting the States is always a little bit like going to a different planet (in a good way, mind you), but I felt oddly at home in Colorado. Maybe it's all the coniferous trees? Maybe it's the bears? But then there's also the desert, and that really is like walking on the surface of a different planet, and just... I am at a loss for words to describe it all. It's amazing. I think about the mountains in Durango about once a week.
2. Northern Italy, especially the areas of Emilia-Romagna & Liguria. Specifically, the Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna are yell-incoherently-awesome, and the paths and villages of Cinque Terre are mind-blowing. (Though as I understand it, the serious influx of tourists has damaged the area in Cinque Terre, so access to the villages and hiking paths is limited these days. It would make sense if it is. The place was getting very, very crowded, and the hiking trails were getting dangerous from all the traffic. I'd say "damned tourists" if I wasn't one myself.) Anyway. Italy. I love visiting Italy. (And I really love eating in Italy.)
3. Lapland. This is pretty broad since Lapland* isn't in any particular country as much as it is an area that encompasses the northern parts of Finland, Sweden, Russia and Norway. I've only seen it in the spring and winter, and only the Finnish and Russian parts. The change of seasons up there is drastic, so the season you choose for your visit has a big impact on what you experience. There are reindeer and the wilderness feels endless (no mountains though), and... well, that's it really. It's just beautiful.
4. Edinburgh/ Scotland. Edinburgh is a Unesco City of Literature. I mean, do I need to say more? Sure, downtown is touristy, but what major city doesn't suffer from that? It's beautiful, there are bookshops, and people speak Scots. There's also castles, and gorgeous scenery when you start driving north.
5. Switzerland. There are mountains. (You may be noticing a theme here?) Cows move around fairly freely. There's cheese. There's a variety of French that I find comprehensible. It's an expensive place to visit, but the view more than makes up for it. Shit, Switzerland has so many mountains. So. Many. Mountains.
Here are 5 destinations that I plan on seeing in the coming years:
1. Southern Italy. Sicily especially, and Naples. It's a funny thing, Naples. In broad terms, folks in Europe mostly agree that Italy is an amazing place to visit. Everyone also kind of agrees that one should stay well away from Naples because it's sketchy as heck. I recently read a travel magazine that devoted an entire article to trying to convince Finnish readers that Naples is totally safe.
2. New Orleans/ Louisiana. There are people there who speak a variety of French. I must hear it. Oh, and the English as well. And music.
3. Bath. York. The Lake District. Are these one destination or several? I don't know. I suppose it's a little stereotypical of me, but what can I do. I'm an Anglophile. I really enjoy travelling in the UK and I want to do more of it.
4. Vancouver/Seattle. Again, not exactly the same place, but they're within reasonable roadtrip distance from each other. In Vancouver I might see orcas. In Seattle I... I'm not sure what I'd find there. I want to go find out.
5. South Korea? This is a lot less likely to happen than the others, but I'm holding out hope. I've never been to Asia, and I don't really know where to start to be honest.
*some prefer the English translation Sápmi since Lapland technically only refers to parts of Sweden & Finland.
Top 5 travel destinations -
falenaBut, wait. Does this mean the top 5 I've been to, or top 5 I want to visit?
These are five places I've been to that I've absolutely loved and would re-visit at the drop of a hat.
1. Colorado and New Mexico. There are mountains and horses, and bilingualism as a part of people's everyday life. Visiting the States is always a little bit like going to a different planet (in a good way, mind you), but I felt oddly at home in Colorado. Maybe it's all the coniferous trees? Maybe it's the bears? But then there's also the desert, and that really is like walking on the surface of a different planet, and just... I am at a loss for words to describe it all. It's amazing. I think about the mountains in Durango about once a week.
2. Northern Italy, especially the areas of Emilia-Romagna & Liguria. Specifically, the Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna are yell-incoherently-awesome, and the paths and villages of Cinque Terre are mind-blowing. (Though as I understand it, the serious influx of tourists has damaged the area in Cinque Terre, so access to the villages and hiking paths is limited these days. It would make sense if it is. The place was getting very, very crowded, and the hiking trails were getting dangerous from all the traffic. I'd say "damned tourists" if I wasn't one myself.) Anyway. Italy. I love visiting Italy. (And I really love eating in Italy.)
3. Lapland. This is pretty broad since Lapland* isn't in any particular country as much as it is an area that encompasses the northern parts of Finland, Sweden, Russia and Norway. I've only seen it in the spring and winter, and only the Finnish and Russian parts. The change of seasons up there is drastic, so the season you choose for your visit has a big impact on what you experience. There are reindeer and the wilderness feels endless (no mountains though), and... well, that's it really. It's just beautiful.
4. Edinburgh/ Scotland. Edinburgh is a Unesco City of Literature. I mean, do I need to say more? Sure, downtown is touristy, but what major city doesn't suffer from that? It's beautiful, there are bookshops, and people speak Scots. There's also castles, and gorgeous scenery when you start driving north.
5. Switzerland. There are mountains. (You may be noticing a theme here?) Cows move around fairly freely. There's cheese. There's a variety of French that I find comprehensible. It's an expensive place to visit, but the view more than makes up for it. Shit, Switzerland has so many mountains. So. Many. Mountains.
Here are 5 destinations that I plan on seeing in the coming years:
1. Southern Italy. Sicily especially, and Naples. It's a funny thing, Naples. In broad terms, folks in Europe mostly agree that Italy is an amazing place to visit. Everyone also kind of agrees that one should stay well away from Naples because it's sketchy as heck. I recently read a travel magazine that devoted an entire article to trying to convince Finnish readers that Naples is totally safe.
2. New Orleans/ Louisiana. There are people there who speak a variety of French. I must hear it. Oh, and the English as well. And music.
3. Bath. York. The Lake District. Are these one destination or several? I don't know. I suppose it's a little stereotypical of me, but what can I do. I'm an Anglophile. I really enjoy travelling in the UK and I want to do more of it.
4. Vancouver/Seattle. Again, not exactly the same place, but they're within reasonable roadtrip distance from each other. In Vancouver I might see orcas. In Seattle I... I'm not sure what I'd find there. I want to go find out.
5. South Korea? This is a lot less likely to happen than the others, but I'm holding out hope. I've never been to Asia, and I don't really know where to start to be honest.
*some prefer the English translation Sápmi since Lapland technically only refers to parts of Sweden & Finland.
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Date: 2019-01-08 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-09 05:57 pm (UTC)Yup. I vastly prefer hiking or road tripping over vacations in a city. Granted, there's always more to do in cities, but somehow the environment is so draining. After a few days, I'm usually pretty eager to get to see more scenery and fewer people.