Anyone in Europe or who has travelled to europe: I need yer advice

[storch]

Originally posted by Ouaibe
Venise/Florence/Paris are great choices, you can't go wrong with them.

To Storch :
 

It will please Saintaw
Brussel is the belgium capital, Paris the french capital.

quoi? j'suis incorrect? say it ain't so

[Ripper29]

Originally posted by OIO

Now the big question: WHAT time of year would be best to travel? Aka no bad weather, no heat waves (lol)?

September.....still nice and warm and most of the "large" crowds have gone back to work or school.

[Saintaw]

OIO,

Venice absolutely stinks during the summertime (stinks in the sense it smells very bad => algae fermentation). I'd wait before the weather cools a bit before going there.

Italian alternatives are Firenze, Pisa, Roma, anywhere in Toscanna... be aware that the last time I took a train in Italy, I saw chicken running in the compartment

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Storch, I'm eagerly awayting your visit in Belgium...tap tap tap tap tap tap...

[Replicant]

Regarding weather:  I can only comment on Münich, just north of the Alps, the weather has been very good.  All the snow went about 6 weeks ago and we've had hardly any rain and plenty of sun (there is still snow in the Alps).  All the leaves are growing on the trees now so the weather can only get better.

I think you'll find they speak English in the centre of all major European cities.  I speak very little German and I haven't had any problems here.  My French isn't much better but I managed in Paris (I found I had to try to speak French in Paris otherwise they'd ignore you).  Netherlands they all spoke English too.

[Replicant]

Hey Saw'sage, I'm eagerly awaiting your visit to Münich!!  

[Saintaw]

Aye Nexx, I don't know the date yet, as I've had changes at work... but I'm looking towards it as well

Luxembourg is a nice place to visit as well (medieval city) the only downside is that you've seen it all in less than an afternoon  

[Replicant]

Well, if you come down, apart from the usual Münich sights, we could hire a car and go to Neuschwanstein (what Disney castle was based on) and Hitler's Eagles Nest in the Alps if you want?  (I'll let you drive though 'cos I'm not used to driving on the wrong side of the road (plus I can drink beeeeer)).

[Toad]

Originally posted by Nash
Paris is the only place I could see staying for a week. Maybe Rome. It's too long for everywhere else... 'cuz most of the smaller in-between places are just to small. You've basically seen it all in 2 days.

Unless they go for the lounging around type of vacation. In that case, it'd probably be hangin' out on the beaches of Cote D'azure. If they like casinos and stuff like that then it's good for that to. But it's not really France, or even Europe... I couldn't see going all the way over there just to do that.

AHHHH!!!!

I totally agree with Nash!

Help meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[Angus]

I vote for Aberdeen!

Well, seriously, railing over europe is no big problem.
Do like London-Paris-Venice-Munchen or something, all great places.
Well, London is getting kind of expensive, and Venice is full of tourists except mid-winter, Munchen is nice, Paris is great, Bruxelles looks good, - emmm,,,,full of good places.
Or do the south, Rome to Athens, consider a ferry from Brindisi to Greece perhaps.
Then there are the Mediterranian cruises also, like an 8 days circle of the inner med, Italy-Greece-Istanbul-Malta or something in that direction.

[Schaden]

Should have added - since I'm only working four days a month at the moment if they're in London and need to be taken to lunch for some of that food poisoning Storch keeps going on about drop me a line at schadenah@hotmail.com

[Curval]

All these people recommending Paris must have had VERY different experinces to mine.

Sure the city is beautiful....get rid of the Parisians living there and it might be nice.

Actuallly, I had one fabulous experience in Paris with an ex-girlfriend but basically all we saw was the inside of the hotel room...and a few restaurants in the very immediate vicinity.

[john9001]

i vote for Spain, on the Med coast, they speak the language.

[storch]

Originally posted by Schaden
Should have added - since I'm only working four days a month at the moment if they're in London and need to be taken to lunch for some of that food poisoning Storch keeps going on about drop me a line at schadenah@hotmail.com

never said it was food poisoning mate just not my favorite.  I'm of the opinion that england ended up with an empire because a few guys with ships wanted something palatable occasionally.  

[Schaden]

My current fave restaurant...

http://travel.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2004/10/30/etpaddy301004.xml

[Dinger]

As an american who's lived in Europe for many, many years, and who has toured much of the rest, I'll say that it all depends really on what they like to do, when they want to go, and who they are.
So let's do the match stuff:

A) how much do they like seeing old/beautiful stuff?
B) How much are they into technology?
C) How polite are they? How tolerant of other cultures?
D) What time do they eat dinner? How late are they willing to start eating? (this is a _big_ question)
E) Do they like big, noisy cities, or are they more at home in the countryside?

let's start with those questions, and work our way out.