NecroJoe
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How would you plan a 2 week vacation in Europe?
We have travel vouchers we need to spend before 6/3...and I just found out what a shit show the next few weeks will be, and I need to get something planned and the trigger pulled by tomorrow...because I may not have any more time to devote to research, etc.
Anyone have any suggestions?
It's our first real vacation together, and her first time out of the country.
We want to stick to places that will be good for English speakers with no 2nd language abilities. Ideally some modern city stuff, some "old" stuff, and some landscape/scenery stuff.
We're A-OK with "typical tourist, Kodak-moment" style places...since we don't travel a lot, we don't need to "go where the locals go to really get a feeling for the local culture and people". For example: If we went on a trip that included Egypt, we'd want to see the sphinx, the pyramids, and then move on. No need to find a great local caf? that serves someone's grandmother's recipe for Aish El-Saraya.
We'd love to see some castles and centuries-old architecture, some amazing cliffs/fjords/mountains type things, and city to spend a few days where we can walk around.
I think in my perfect scenario, we'd see some fjords and castles, spend some time in London and somehow seeing some (and bunch) of really cool castles and old buildings...Amsterdam maybe?
As someone who's only ever been on 3 "vacations" in my entire life (drove to Niagra Falls from Wisconsin with the family as a kid, went to Portland for a week for vacation after working on a project there for 3 months off and on, and a week in New York), I'm panicking a bit.
I went to Germany for a month in High School, so preferably something other than Germany even though it was amazing/great!
We have travel vouchers we need to spend before 6/3...and I just found out what a shit show the next few weeks will be, and I need to get something planned and the trigger pulled by tomorrow...because I may not have any more time to devote to research, etc.
Anyone have any suggestions?
It's our first real vacation together, and her first time out of the country.
We want to stick to places that will be good for English speakers with no 2nd language abilities. Ideally some modern city stuff, some "old" stuff, and some landscape/scenery stuff.
We're A-OK with "typical tourist, Kodak-moment" style places...since we don't travel a lot, we don't need to "go where the locals go to really get a feeling for the local culture and people". For example: If we went on a trip that included Egypt, we'd want to see the sphinx, the pyramids, and then move on. No need to find a great local caf? that serves someone's grandmother's recipe for Aish El-Saraya.
We'd love to see some castles and centuries-old architecture, some amazing cliffs/fjords/mountains type things, and city to spend a few days where we can walk around.
I think in my perfect scenario, we'd see some fjords and castles, spend some time in London and somehow seeing some (and bunch) of really cool castles and old buildings...Amsterdam maybe?
As someone who's only ever been on 3 "vacations" in my entire life (drove to Niagra Falls from Wisconsin with the family as a kid, went to Portland for a week for vacation after working on a project there for 3 months off and on, and a week in New York), I'm panicking a bit.
I went to Germany for a month in High School, so preferably something other than Germany even though it was amazing/great!
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