Travel travel ideas in Europe...

katran26

katran26

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#1
Hi ladies! I recently took a trip to Munich and Vienna, and loved it! Vienna much more than Munich...but I liked the fact that both cities were very authentic and not crowded with tourists.

Besides the tourist hot spots I want to avoid (London, Paris, Rome) anyone here recommend a lesser traveled city in Europe that she loved?

thanks!
 
#4
There are endless options: Hamburg, Stockholm, The Hague, Antwerp, Brussels, Lyon, Budapest, Gdansk, Krakow, Edinburgh, Seville, Madrid, Lisbon, Milan, Genoa, Turin...
 
#6
I've found that most cities in Austria (except for Salzburg), Switzerland and Germany are less touristy. Even Berlin has a less touristy feel because you get a lot of national tourists. I'd recommend Hamburg (it gets a lot of local tourists, but very few international ones).

Scandinavian cities tend to be slightly less touristy as well, but it also depends on the time of the year. I've been to Copenhagen and Stockholm during the spring months and it was fine, but it can get busier in summer. Helsinki wasn't too bad either. Most cities in general are bearable if you go during off-season (except for aforementioned Paris, London and Rome - they're always awful). I've been to Venice in May and saw very tourists.

Other recommendations: Glasgow, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Lyon, Budapest (Spring/Fall), Antwerp, Rotterdam, Warsaw, Geneva, Zurich, Innsbruck, any Dutch city that isn't Amsterdam.
 
#10
Zurich
Stuttgart
Rothenburg (even though VERY touristy)
Konstanz
Montepulciano (small but very beautiful. Where the Twilight New Moon was filmed)
Geneva
Lausanne (not Lucerne...)
 
#12
lily25 said:
Alghero (Sardinia), Helsinki, Thessaloniki, Zurich.
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:P :lol:

i LOVE helsinki but i'm not exactly the average tourist, an ex-pat to be precise, so it's like going on vacation except your friends are there too. but to visit as a tourist if you don't know where to go and what to do it can probably be hideously boring, especially if you don't go at the right time. summers can be amazing (this past one was crazy warm) but i wouldn't recommend it from probably october-march/april, except for around christmas when it can be good too (if there's snow). there can be a lot of tourists in the summer though, it's one of the stops that the cruise ships make when they go around that area.

other than helsinki, i adore copenhagen (there can be a lot of tourists there too but not toooo bad. but i live in london so there are few worse places for tourists) and stockholm too. and i STILL haven't made it there but i hear good things about tallinn and i will go, one day.
 
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