Most intellectual holiday possible

Tim Robbins

What's the most mentally stimulating holiday possible or you've ever had?

orlaithd

Tim Robbins wrote: »

or you've ever had?

Personally a long weekend in Florence going to ALL the museums- It was a first holiday with the OH and both of us were too polite still to admit how bored we really were- there really is only so much renaisance art ya can take in!
Its been three years & we still haven't been to another museum together.

bills

orlaithd wrote: »

Personally a long weekend in Florence going to ALL the museums- It was a first holiday with the OH and both of us were too polite still to admit how bored we really were- there really is only so much renaisance art ya can take in!
Its been three years & we still haven't been to another museum together.

Yeah i second florence or any of the cities in italy. Amazing- full of art, museums & architecture. Cant say i was bored though- i loved them:D

rossie1977

my trip to grand canyon in april 1998, walking around the rim was cool but nothing compared to hiking down inside the canyon which was incredible.

watching the sun set and all the colours on the canyon walls is etched in my memory, darkness decended almost immediately upon sunset, amazing place

cmcsoft

Vienna was the most intellectually stimulating for me. It's a lovely small city, steeped in history

Tabnabs

Madrid; history, the arts & culture

Climate Expert

What is so intellectual about staring at some drawings all day?
Mine was probably in Ibiza when I read some good literature during the day and then went buck wild at night.

Fratton Fred

I did Pisa, Florence, Venice and Verona in the space of ten days a while back. Very interesting, very mentally stimulating and at times downright boring

florence...Jesus, how many museums can you fit into one city :eek:

P. Breathnach

All my holidays are about equally intellectually stimulating. That is because I bring the same intellect with me wherever I go (it doesn't weigh much).

It is stimulated in different ways, according to where I am and what I am doing. You don't need great art to have the intellect stimulated.

TingTong

For me it must be when we went to vegas on our honeymoon in 04'............. counting cards at the blackjack tables. Now that was intellectually stimulating.

Aurora Borealis

Doesn't all travel intellectually stimulate by the very nature of the fact that you are experiencing new things... Broadens the horizons etc.

Does for me and even from the comfort of my sitting room, reading up on it or watching travel progs. Think it is definitely my favourite pursuit and I know I'll always have the itch even if I've to pack a zimmer frame.

shrapnel222

amsterdam. never knew you could cram so many hallucinations, visions, life changing moments and revelations into one weekend.

Pythia

Petra, Cairo and Luxor (Jordan and Egypt). Nothing better than seeing history like that.

Second comes tour of Greece for ancient sites also.

Third comes Turkey.

Larianne

Learning to become a rescue diver in Vietnam. Lots of new skills to learn and putting them into practise. It was tough.

Also, when I was in Saigon and learning about the war at the excellent war museum there.

Hmm_Messiah

moscow/ st petersburg

architecture
history
writers
revolutions
culture
politics
art gallerys
icons/ church art

jonny68

shrapnel222 wrote: »

amsterdam. never knew you could cram so many hallucinations, visions, life changing moments and revelations into one weekend.

classic:D:D post of the year:D:D:D:pac::pac::pac: