For me, Zug, my family’s home in Switzerland, is amazing in the summer.
Other than Edinburgh, where I live…
- Paris
- NYC
- Amsterdam
- Berlin
- The Scottish Highlands
What’s the best thing about living in Switzerland?
I don’t know.
Nor do I, but the flags a big plus.
I love my city chicago because of the transit and lake and nature options. Toronto is the only place I ever wanted to move because its like my city but in canada.
I never really considered that Toronto is like mirror-image Chicago. But I see what you mean!
oh yeah. transit, the lakefront, airport, natural areas. every time I look at a map it kinda blows me away.
Strangely enough, a city I found absolutely and unexpectedly delightful was Himeji, on Honshu in Japan.
A question, if I may… my family is looking to travel to Japan. How necessary is it to be fluent in the language? More from an “I don’t want to be an asshole” standpoint as opposed to a “I’ll be lost forever” standpoint.
It’s not at all necessary. Google Translate works super well, and a lot of Japanese also speak English. Pretty much all the important signs are also in English.
That’s good news… I’d love to not be the stereotypical “ugly American”
Much more important than learning the language is learning the culture of politeness. I highly recommend looking up non-clickbaity youtube videos that talk about how to behave in Japan for your first trip. The cultural differences are pretty strong.
That makes sense, we’ve started studying it just a bit along with basic language lessons. Thanks for the advice though!
Even apart from the castle? Okay, that’s it, I’m moving up the castle (and the region) higher on the to do list :)
We didn’t go to the castle, we just wandered around in the city, and just found it delightful.
Had a similar experience in Hakone. The village wouldn’t have been much to look at, yet I spent a good couple of hours extra there, just enjoying the ambiance and the people. Exactly the way I pictured it when reading Murakami when his main characters visit a village.
Another unexpected delight was Aomori. It was nowhere near as cold as I expected, and we had the best fucking ramen I’ve had anywhere in the world, at this tiny little shop.
I’m really fond of the Netherlands because it neatly distributes towns, water and farmland. Admittedly I don’t think it has the most effective system of wilderness, but I appreciate it for the many things it achieves.
I’m fond of all the cold places in the world - Alaska, Canada, Finland and Russia, for instance. That said I now love warm weather much more than cold weather, but I like the appearance of snowy places.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Tromsø in Norway.
Me too!!! My favourite Norwegian city I think
lerwick, isle of skye, inverness, nairn <3
I’m a fan of a small isle off the southern coast of Norway, Møkkalasset, mostly cause it means “Load of Dung”.
The name is a drift from an older phrase meaning “Very Frothy Sea”, which is less glorious but still a fine example of the extremely unimaginative naming style of Norwegian places.
Antarctica. Not many people are there. Should be quiet…
Do you have cuckoo clocks there? If yes then I’ll pick whatever you have.
If not while I can appreciate the mountains the northern Scandinavian forests is where I feel at home.
Outer Hebrides !
Çanakkale from Turkey becuz of my fam and me is from there, good history n place, good ppl and so.
