Favorite place in Europe?

[Ellie3]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 8:27am

Where is your favorite spot in Europe, or the place/sight that you most want to see?

I have to see the leaning tower of Pisa!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:09am

This is really difficult.

I love London
Ireland is beautiful
The flower fields of Holland are beautiful
Germany has some interesting spots

I'll have to get back to you on that.

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:18am

Edinburgh, Scotland (I would have no problem living there)
Venice, Italy
Florence, Italy
London, England

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:21am

I enjoy St Tropez

[ckeaton]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:29am

Zermatt, Switzerland is where I would go to write my autobiography.
London, England is where I would go to have a good time.
Sorrento, Italy is where I would buy my villa.

(Ellie, I don't want to burst your bubble, but the leaning tower is really anticlimactic. You park, then walk about a mile into the middle of a field. There's a church, a baptistry, and a cemetery. A row of shops, and then a leaning tower. You take a couple of pictures, then have to drive an hour to get to Florence, because Pisa is just a university town.)

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:29am

The Cotswolds

[ckeaton]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:31am

Oh! Bath, England... A castle, a four poster bed, and a fireplace. I'm in heaven.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:32am

Edinburgh, Scotland
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

[Nina]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:49am

paris and Vienna have always been favorite cities of mine but I do tend to enjoy the lesser traveled spots a great deal.

Interlaken, Switzerland is a beautiful town nestled in the Alps and situated around a georgeous mountain lake. I stayed in a small village in Pescara, Abuzzi, Italy which was so quaint and untouched by time. It was a wonderful hillside town surrounded by farms and olive groves.

Florence is also magnificent for the art and arcitecture.

[Liam]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:55am

IRL.

[junglered]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:58am

Salzburg, Austria is probably my favorite place in Europe.

St. Remy in Provence is a close runner-up.

rlbgbc - I also like the Cotswolds in England very much.

ckeaton - I spent the night in a castle - Thornbury Castle - not too far from your favorite town of Bath a couple years back. It was magnificent. Put that place on your list.

[onceadancer2]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 11:52am

Paris, without a doubt.

Miriam

[imcuteloveme]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 11:58am

I've only been to Ireland but I definitely want to go back.

And I'm dying to go Paris and Montmartre(sp?-- it's been a while since I was in french class)

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:01pm

Anywhere in Italy

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:05pm

I absolutely loved Madrid-- it was one of my favorite places.
But Monaco was gorgeous, too.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:10pm

Right now; Barcelona.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:14pm

A little town in Northwest Tuscany called Lucca. It has an oval piazza that was once a Roman ampitheatre that rivals the piazza in Siena for historic charm. It also has a medieval wall around the outskirts of the town that is a block wide at the top--so they have turned the top of the wall into a park that rings the city with trees and grass and benches

[buddha2]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:15pm

Amsterdam, without a doubt, but Venice is a close runner-up and third choice would be Paris

[DaysOfWine&Roses]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:50pm

When I was 17 (1985) my mom and I along with my sister and grandmother all went on a 2 week trip to Europe. We spent something like 5 days in London, 2-3 days in Amsterdam and then drove to Paris and spent I guess about 5 days.

I'm SO GRATEFUL for that trip! Now that I'm older traveling like that is close to impossible (not to mention the state of the world today and safety issues). That trip was just a dream come true for me. When people ask "Did you go to the prom?" or whathaveyou during H.S. I respond "I went to Europe instead" (I had to pay for part of my trip from my bank account). I did'nt go to the school functions or the trips some people went on....but I went to Europe. I personally think I was the smarter one. I would'nt do it differently today.

That said.......my answer would be London. I would live there in a heartbeat. (Even though it's supposed to be terribly expensive)

[AndyHardy]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:52pm

PalJoey -- that sounds charming.

I am saving my pennies so that I can go to Scotland and Ireland. I have been fascinated for so long and, although I have been around Europe many times, I have never gotten to see the "wearin of the green". I have promised myself before my next "major" birthday I will go. Until then I read my Joyce and keep my kilt in the closet.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:55pm

Without a doubt, Paris...

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 1:03pm

69, rue de Lille
Paris

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 1:57pm

Absolutely Paris!!!

[ElTico68]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 2:18pm

Prague, no question.

Though I've never been to Barcelona and heard is fantastic.

[Princeton78]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 2:24pm

Have to go with the Ring of Kerry in Killarney.
A close second place has to be awarded to London. Anywhere in London.