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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Thanks nanna8, very informative

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.

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.

Japan, in cherry blossom time.

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!

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! 🥶