I should mention - we probably will want to be lazy and keep the traveling down once we get to nice location. After 2 months not seeing the girl I am planning on not trying to get up to early most days. :P
Cam:
I thought about Monte Carlo - but something about trying to get everyone to call me Bond, James Bond and losing the traveling fund while playing blackjack with a British accent seems like a bad idea...
Admittedly I didn't spend to much time thinking about the French Riviera - any place around there you would suggest?
Freesail:
Any suggestions on wineries to visit in Southern France?
teshannon:
Croatia sounds interesting... what has made it your favorite place?
Thanks All!
Byron, Croatia has the most beautiful coast line I've seen. Great people, great food, great wine. It was also very cheap but I think they are on the Euro now and so that may not be as true today. The last time we were there it hadn't been "discovered" yet but that also may not be true now from what I read.
In March, if your into skiing, you must go to Austria...Innsbruck, Kitzbuhel, SaalBach, Hinterglemm, Zell am See, are all Austrian favorites. My wife is Austrian, so I am very familiar with it. In the Dolomites, Northern Italy, there is Cortina, a wonderful little mountain village and South of there is Lake Garda, we honeymooned there, amazing place. Switzerland isn't out of the question either, if you want to travel a little more North, and the winter is a beautiful time to visit. Of all the places in Europe, for mountain villages, Zermatt was one of my favorites, no cars so to speak of and you can only get there by train. Grindelwald near Interlaken and the Jungfraujoch are allot of fun and breathtaking!
If not into skiing, head down to Positano, the Amalfi Coast...unreal, but be prepared to shell out some cash .
Where ever you go you can have a great time.
Although last spring I took a bunch of students to France, Switzerland, Germany & Italy.
They had no fun at all:
PS - We'll be taking another batch back this May.
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If your going to Crotia, Try debrovnic. It a walled city built in the 1100s. There are some beautiful resorts just out side of the city. France is pretty expensive right now. I just got back from there. Bordeau is nice to visit, but I was staying with my girlfriend's family or I would probably gone where its less expensive. I did a trip to Bosnia so years back and had a great time. Thats when I saw Debrovnic but we only spent a day there. It was a lot less expensive.
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...it would be good if you said what your budget is and something about your preferences (urban vs. landscape, well known glamurous places vs. getting a byte of old Europe real life, etc.).
Budget - probably up to about 3k (US) for everything once I get over there (hotel, food, entertainment) for 6 nights, 7 days.
Really don't have any preferences. I love big cities, but would love to see the landscape in the rural areas. Glamorous places would be fun, but getting coffee in a rural French cafe would be just as fun. Just since I have never been to Europe, I am looking for places I would have never even thought of.
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I do have one piece of advice though: avoid doing what very often Americans travel agencies try to induce you to do (i.e., try to see all of Europe in a week) and concentrate in one or two nice interesting places: you will have much less little crosses marked in your atlas but you will get a much higher reward that with the feeling that "you spent a little bit of your life there". But that's my personal preference, which may not match your own preferences.
Oh - don't worry. I agree with you completely. The goal is really to take the entire week to explore one area (which still would not be nearly enough - but works calls eventually).
Oh - and I should mention... I can't ski. Every time I hear one of you talk about the skiing... I think you are just trying to kill me off Last time I went snowboarding my ass ended up redder than a red assed baboon.
Me:
I appreciate all the ideas, now I just have to look all these places up.
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