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A country you would love to visit/ would have loved to visit

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Kim19 Fri 05-May-23 08:19:19

I feel very privileged to have visited most of the places mentioned here. My current hope is to manage some river ctuises. I certainly haven't seen as much of Germany as I would like.

Iam64 Fri 05-May-23 08:16:59

My desire to visit Canada, Vietnam and Cambodia disappeared when my travelling companion died. I’ve loved travelling with him but feel I want familiarity now.
I love Greece and have a solo trip planned

annodomini Fri 05-May-23 08:12:25

GMB, you'd love those cities. Salzburg reminds me, oddly enough. of Edinburgh, with its castle high above the city. The second time I was there, I was thrilled to visit Mozart's house.
I would love to visit Canada and take the train journey through the Rockies. This wish has been strengthened by the current 'Race Across the World' - spectacular scenery and friendly, helpful people. Then I would take a cruise from Vancouver to the coast of Alaska, which I have frequently 'visited' in the books of Dana Stabenow.

Grandmabatty Fri 05-May-23 08:02:48

I would love to have been to Austria, to visit Salzburg and Vienna and to see the Alps up close. I'm unlikely to do that now

Grandma70s Fri 05-May-23 07:25:27

When I visited Sydney (my late husband’s home city) in July, August and September, I found it very chilly at night. No central heating!

I’d like to have seen more of Germany. I’ve only been once, to sing in a concert in Saarbrücken, so I have never seen Ludwig’s castles, Berlin or Hamelin. I don’t travel now, so I will never see them.

I think India would be very interesting.

FannyCornforth Fri 05-May-23 06:59:59

Thanks nanna8, very informative smile

nanna8 Fri 05-May-23 06:37:13

Where we are, in the south, it can get down to 1 or 2 C in winter but that is unusual. It is usually between 12 and 43C. Very hot very briefly in Summer and vice versa. We don’t get snow here and frosts are unusual. The mountains get snow and a lot of people ski in the Australian Alps every year. You can find snow in Winter about 70 k from here, up the top of the mountain. Tasmania is a lot colder, they are nearer the Antarctic,further south.

NanaDana Fri 05-May-23 06:23:53

If it's somewhere I haven't been yet, I would pick New Zealand, as it has such a varied landscape, and seems so scenic. However, as long haul is out of the question for us these days because of health issues, we'll happily make do visiting the many places we've yet to see in our beautiful British Isles.

MrsKen33 Fri 05-May-23 05:55:25

Japan, in cherry blossom time.

FannyCornforth Fri 05-May-23 05:41:26

Out of interest nanna8, how cold does it get in Australia?
My aunty has an Ozzie pen pal who she has been friends with for 60 odd years; her little gd asked my aunty to send her some snow in the post!

FannyCornforth Fri 05-May-23 05:37:52

Like you - Alaska.
I’d also love to go to Iceland.
In fact I think I’d love to live in either of those places. Somewhere nice and cold! 🥶

nanna8 Fri 05-May-23 03:29:21

I would have loved to visit Canada and Alaska but it is such a long way for us I can’t stand the thought of the long journey now. I would have liked to see bears and wolves in their natural habitat but I guess I will have to cope with koalas and dingos ( not that you see many of those these days, either). We are about to go on a trip up to the Kimberleys which is thousands of kms away and that is just within Australia. Sometimes I wish they could shift the whole continent, we are so far from places!