New York
London
Broadmeadows
Melbourne, Singapore, Osaka.
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That really got me thinking. I guess mine would be (again in no order of preference):
Kyoto
Rome
Melbourne
With honourable mentions to Porto, Ljubljana and Florence, plus a bunch others.
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Barcelona
Paris
Athens
I do also love London, Copenhagen, Lisbon.
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Think I missed something when I visited Barcelona. It was in July, so it was just super busy and unpleasant, and we didnāt luck out on food or anything either. The sights were nice though, when you could get in.
Donāt have the Paris hate of many, it is a nice city, but not quite one of my absolute favourites.
I agree. I think I read somewhere it is the most visited city or top tourist destination in the world (something like that).
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Really? Found many small restaurants that had amazing tapas. Usually off the main roads, tucked away in little squares.
And yes, so many sights to see. They have three different hop-on-hop-off sightseeing routes to cover the whole city.
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Unfortunately my predominant memories of Barcelona are shoulder-to-shoulder crowds in La Rambla where you had to be on constant patrol for pickpockets, queues for literally everything, tourist-trappy food that disappointed, and an overcrowded, underwhelming beach.
Granted the Gaudi architecture and design throughout was cool, and we did have one or two good dining experiences, but we did Seville, Madrid and San Sebastian on the same trip, and Iād say we ate better and enjoyed our time more in all three of those cities.
Yet, I know so many people who rate Barca as one of their favourite cities, so clearly there must be something to it. Maybe it was us that just got unlucky, and perhaps I need to revisit sometime outside of peak season and give it another crack.
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We were continually warned about pickpockets but never saw or heard about anyone having this problem.
Travelling throughout Europe, the only country Iāve experienced something is Italy. Twice.
Once getting on a train in Bologna, as with my suitcase onto thr train, an older bloke tried to help me lift my suitcase up the stairs and his other hand went for my wallet in my front pocket. Lucky I frlt it and hit his arm away from me. He scurried awsy on the platform and I was left stunned.
The next time was in Rome near the Colosseum where groups of young kids were swarming around tourists, trying to distract them with pamphlets while others tried to pickpocket. I was almost distracted by what they wete doing but luckily my travel mates yelled out a watning.
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Thatās a tough one but Iāll go with:
Dubai
Amsterdam
Berlin
Dubai and Amsterdam I have visited multiple times and always go back if Iām travelling the Europe direction. Berlin is one city that I only spent a very short time in but have always wanted to go back.
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London,
Toronto
New York
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Maybe you didnāt walk it with real intent?
(If you tolerate this, then your children will be next).
Pro tip: donāt go to Southern Europe in the height of summer! Cannot understand this logic. I think the boreal autumn (late September to early November) is the best time for sightseeing in the NH.
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I learnt this fact the hard way that holiday. Had always done Europe in late autumn/early summer before, say May/June, and it was busy but nowhere near that bad. Will likely try September onwards next time.
Yeah we saw the few in Rome and Paris trying it on others, even caught a youngish kid with his hand in my pocket in Hanoi once. I just stared down at him and he shat himself and ran off. My habit of keeping my hands in my pockets at those places tends to help me.
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Yeah avoiding the busy July/August period is smart. May or September are really good if you like summer but want to avoid those peak crowds. Iāve done it in May before and it was perfect. I have also done it in the peak summer season and the crowds do ruin the experience in lots of places. We are considering going back this year in September.
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Mine are all in Australia,
Canberra,
Hobart,
Townsville (only in winter time though)
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Tokyo
Lyon
Amsterdam
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About time. T2 is the pits. I just hate everything about Sydney Airport. Essentially needs to be bulldozed and rebuilt.
Melbourne Airport recently unveiled a new internal corridor on the ground level of the arrivals hall, linking Terminals 3 and 4. In addition, two extra baggage carousels were installed in Terminal 3.
Brisbane airport is not much better. even the current upgrades underway will not help, and i feel like unless MAJOR work is done prior to the olympics it wll be a cluster fā¦k
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