The Americas
(because it’s fun to refer to the continents like a 15th c. European explorer)
Argentina: Buenos Aires, Patagonia, Mendoza / wine country, Salta, Ushuaia, Códorba
Uruguay: Montevideo, Colonia del Sacramento
Bolivia: Sucre, Potosí, Tarija
Mexico: Tulum, Chichén Itza, Mexico City, Izamel, Guadalajara, Mérida, Islas Mujeres, Palenque, Oaxaca
Costa Rica: Wait and hope that my mum will keep enthusiasm about coming here …………………… 😉
Colombia: Medellín (also I can show off about the fact I actually know how to pronounce this, in a smug #polyglot way) Cartagena, Ciudad Perdida, San Agustín, Bogotá, Barichara.
Europe
Italy: Florence, Milan, Tuscany, Cinque Terre, Siena, Pisa, Bologna, Perugia, Genoa, Turin,Verona, Trieste, Padua,
Germany: Cologne, Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg, castles + small towns in Southern Germany (the Romantische Strasse)
France: pretty much everywhere, apart from any slightly ugly town or city which might potentially threaten my vision of France as The Perfect Country
Greece: Would like to go island – hopping
Spain: Cuenca, San Sebastián, Salamanca,
Belgium / Iceland: / Macedonia Jake (…)
Portugal: Porto, Lisbon, Alentejo, Sintra, Monsanto, the Azorean archipelago.
The places I think of as ‘Prussia’, regardless of whether they were Prussian or not: Bratislava, Budapest, Warsaw, Bucharest, Sibiu, Nida, Skopje, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius, Prague, Berat, Lake Bled, Buthrotum
Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod, Kazan, Kaliningrad, I kind of want to go on the Trans-Siberian express, also have a sadistic desire to exile self to Siberia.
Africa
Egypt: Cairo, Red Sea, Aswan, Valley of the Kings, Edfu
Sudan: Naqa
Middle East
Jordan: Petra, Amman,
Israel: Jerusalem
Iran: Shiraz
Turkey: Istanbul
Asia
Hong Kong
Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hakone, Nikko, Koya-San, Tsumago.
Vietnam: Hôi An, Halong Bay, Ho Chi Minh City, Hue, My Son, Cu Chi tunnels,
Thailand
India: Golden triangle – Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Goa, Madya Paresh, Assam
Such a shame I’ll never be able to get a job, with all this travelling, and that I’m going to have to invent some form of free travel system.
n.b. this is just a ‘note to self’ which is why I haven’t bothered putting in tags etc.
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