Chuckanut
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Much, though not all, of my past travel has been visiting various places in Europe, and skipping about from one place to another, staying 2-3 nights at most. Now, I feel that we should set down the luggage for a longer term in a city and more thoroughly explore it and its surrounding environs for about a week or two.
We are considering either a two week stay in one city, or two one week stays in two different cities. (Yes, we would like to stay longer, but that is not possible at the moment.)
We are looking for cities that in and of themselves would be interesting places to spend a week at least, maybe two. Also cities where the environs have interesting stuff to explore outside the city that allow for getting back to our room at night. (An example would be the salt mines outside of Krakow Poland.)
The cities should have a good transportation systems within them and to get to interesting environs around them.
We are not the types to spend day after day at the beach reading, or hanging out at our favorite cafè people watching, though that is a great thing to do at times.
What cities would you recommend and why?
Rome and Paris are out for various reasons, but other than those two biggies, we are wide open to suggestions.
We are considering either a two week stay in one city, or two one week stays in two different cities. (Yes, we would like to stay longer, but that is not possible at the moment.)
We are looking for cities that in and of themselves would be interesting places to spend a week at least, maybe two. Also cities where the environs have interesting stuff to explore outside the city that allow for getting back to our room at night. (An example would be the salt mines outside of Krakow Poland.)
The cities should have a good transportation systems within them and to get to interesting environs around them.
We are not the types to spend day after day at the beach reading, or hanging out at our favorite cafè people watching, though that is a great thing to do at times.
What cities would you recommend and why?
Rome and Paris are out for various reasons, but other than those two biggies, we are wide open to suggestions.