athena53
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
- Joined
- May 11, 2014
- Messages
- 7,415
We spent a week in Switzerland where we just went with the flow. It was kind of sad to see people on tours go up to the top of the mountain when we knew it would be socked in.
I agree. I've taken small group tours and cruises in some places where I didn't want to find my way around on my own (India, for example) or where the area was best seen/visited from a small ship. On my own, which is what I always do in Europe, my plans change depending on the day. Bad weather? Museum day. Not enough time to enjoy a place? I go back. I climbed Arthur's Seat 3 times in 4 days in Edinburgh last month. One morning I was going to go to Dunblane and saw in the entry underneath in the guidebook that Dundee had the restored ship Discovery, which was built there and set off for Antarctica in 1901. It was 1.5 hours away by train. SOLD! Great museum and we pretty much had the run of the ship.
I've also been avoiding major tourist destinations- was in Edinburgh but didn't visit the Castle and was in Paris but didn't visit the Louvre or the D'Orsay. (Been to all of them; the latter two are pure chaos.) I wandered a lot. It was a great trip.