What is your favorite country in the world to visit? I like Italy. I've only been there once but

[applegrove]

the food....so simple and so good. I had a slice of a pie that was layers of cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes (repeat) one day while sitting on a bridge over a Venetian canal. Anywhere dirt could accumulate a flower would grow. A place that closes down for siesta is definitely I place I need to see more of. And the coffee? Those little coffee bars got me hooked on coffee for life. Some day I'll go back. I know I will. I read up and they have some outdoor horse trips through the tuscan countryside. I dream of this at times. Until then I'll have to find a good italian restaurant in my neighborhood.

[Kaleva]

1. I'd like to go to Croatia.

[applegrove]

2. Do you have family there?

[Kaleva]

4. No but the Austro-Hungarian Empire heritage intrigues me.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Went to England

It was nice down by Penzance, York, and enjoyed Scotland


edit: Tried to enjoy a different pint in every city I went through

[shanti]

5. southern france

is one of my dream destinations, as is most of italy. someday perhaps.

[bif]

22. Southern France=The Best!

We just spent nine days there and loved every minute of it. Mostly small towns. I love France in general and have been there many times. But this time we took our time and just soaked up the French way of doing things. Great food and wine. And not that expensive. I'd go back in a heartbeat.

That said, Venice is my favorite city in the world. There's simply no way to describe it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Japan, of course

I've lived there, and I've visited countless times, but I always discover something new every time I visit.

[applegrove]

7. Ever been to Kyoto? I have a brother there and hear it is really pretty but I'm hesitant to go to

Japan because it is a consumer driven culture just like North America...so why would I want to vacation there when it would cost so much money and I'd just end up feeling like I was at home.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Name a modern culture that isn't consumer driven

And Japan is not as expensive as people think.

You can stay in clean and safe "business hotels" (not capsule hotels, which are mostly for men who have been out drinking and missed the last train home) and get a single room for about $80 a night. If you pay more than $15 for a meal, you're not trying. Besides, you could stay with your brother, couldn't you?

I'm planning a trip to Scandinavia, and believe me, Japan is CHEAP compared to Scandinavia.

I can guarantee, you will NOT feel as if you are at home. Especially not in Kyoto in the area away from the train station.

Just don't go in the summer. The city is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is high humidity and no air circulation.

[applegrove]

9. Thanks. Food for thought. I was thinking rural Italy and Tanzania and the Seychelles when I wrote.

[elleng]

10. Definitely Italy. LOVE the language, people's attitudes, and food of course.

And art. Been there several times, drove 'around' it on honeymoon, and visited Rome when daughter ('made' in Italy!) spent college semester there.

[bikebloke]

11. I'd like to bike through Italy.

I've been through by train and hitch hiking.

[JCMach1]

12. I loved Luxembourg of all places...

[charlie and algernon]

13. I would love to go to Italy

to see where my great grandparents grew up, visit Rome and Vatican City, Venice, etc.

I also want to go back to Ireland. I went once as part of a class trip in college, but it was only for a few days and all but 1 were spent in Belfast. I'd like more time just to explore Dublin and the Irish Countryside.

[HERVEPA]

14. Nepal

[JCMach1]

15. Nepal is breathtaking... sometimes literally

Cough... trekking in the Anapurna range... cough...

[HERVEPA]

19. I trekked from Jiri to Deboche (just past Tenboche monastery)

three days from Kala Patar and Everest Base Camp.
Then the achilles tendon went.

[JCMach1]

24. I discovered I was neither fit, nor young... the altitude kiced

my a$$

Meanwhile my sherpa guide would be up around the next bend waiting for me to huff and puff my way to his position...

[JCMach1]

16. Do I have to choose? Also loved Greece and Armenia

Greece


Armenia

[Courtesy Flush]

17. Another vote for Italy

I've only been on one overseas trip, and it was to Italy. I totally fell in love. I could live there full time.

Did you see the Amalfi Coast? Stunning!

[elleng]

21. Drove along it, and stayed overnight; awoke w vinyard+ terraces in window!

[NightWatcher]

18. I want to go back to Netherlands and Belgium

I had a blast

[ohiosmith]

20. South Africa.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

23. England

Outside of a 2 hr shopping trip to Juarez in 1965 I have never been out of the country
And, no, the trip to Puerto Rico and St Thomas in 1978 does not to me count as "out of the country"
England because my ancestors on both mom and dad's sides came from there
France, 'cause those Normans on mom's side came from there, 1066 and all that