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Your favourite place in the world (outside of Ireland)

snowstorm445

Basically, what place have you been to outside of Ireland that you love the most. It can be a city, a country, a region, a restaurant, a landmark, anything.

A place that stands out in my mind is the Alentejo, in Portugal. Basically the area between the Algarve and the city of Lisbon. Its far removed and quite remote, and very hot during the summer, but I loved the landscape of cork trees forests and vast, open plains. Most of it is basically rural, but what towns there are tend to be small, with picturesque white buildings and clay tiled roofs, small cafés and old churches. Very traditionally Portuguese, and far removed from the crowded streets of Lisbon and the Benidorm style resorts in the Algarve. I would love to go back some day and see more of it.

In terms of cities, my favourite was Barcelona. Apart from the humidity, it has a great atmosphere, good places to eat out and an abundance of places to visit (although the queue trying get into the Sagrada Familia is always massive).

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saintsaltynuts

Liverpool.

Its Only Ray Parlour

Northern Ireland.

Menas

Fiji is my top destination. Pity it is so far away.

biko

The Greek islands for their beauty and the people.

thelad95

Thinly veiled 'I can afford to go on foreign holidays' thread?

Madam

Blue mountains in Australia a close second would be Brittany just for the people alone.

tony 2 tone

Krakow. Great food and drink, and really laid back feel to it.

TheSheriff

Brasov, Romania

The tacky Hollywood of eastern europe

Miseryguts

Rome... beautiful architecture, lovely weather and nice food.

TheSheriff

Miseryguts wrote: »

Rome... beautiful architecture, lovely weather and nice food.

+1 on this, super expensive tough

lufties

Goa, India.

snowstorm445

thelad95 wrote: »

Thinly veiled 'I can afford to go on foreign holidays' thread?

Thinly veiled "thanks baiting" attempt?

Daveysil15

Prague.

lufties

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Prague.

why?

Menas

lufties wrote: »

Goa, India.

Have you been there in the last 5 years? It really is a dump now compared to what it was in previous decades.

Daveysil15

lufties wrote: »

why?

Why not? It's a great place. I'm never bored in Prague.

lufties

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Have you been there in the last 5 years? It really is a dump now compared to what it was in previous decades.

I went in 2005/06

Menas

lufties wrote: »

I went in 2005/06

Hang on to the memories. Dont go back!!

lufties

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Why not? It's a great place. I'm never bored in Prague.

well i have never been but i've heard very mixed opinions

lufties

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Hang on to the memories. Dont go back!!

Lots of russians, chain hotels, and less parties..so I've heard.

thrashmetalfan

my brothers house in London. free food, free bed, and free drink!!

angeldelight

Carambola Beach Resort on South Friars Beach in St Kitts - heaven on Earth

Larbre34

Edinburgh

Daveysil15

lufties wrote: »

well i have never been but i've heard very mixed opinions

Ahh sorry, I thought you were one of the Prague haters.

Well yeah I've heard mixed opinions too, but you'll get that with almost every city. I really enjoyed Prague, I've been there twice. Great architecture, great women, cheap beer, lots to enjoy.

I was in Lisbon recently and thought it was a kip despite having heard so many good things about it.

furiousox

New York.

lufties

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Ahh sorry, I thought you were one of the Prague haters. Well yeah I've heard mixed opinions too, but you'll get that with almost every city. I really enjoyed Prague, I've been there twice. Great architecture, great women, cheap beer, lots to enjoy.

I was in Lisbon recently and thought it was a kip despite having heard so many good things about it.

no worries, I'm newly single so I could do with a trip somewhere like that...Although, I went to budapest some months back and hated it.

Daveysil15

Yeah I remember the "Cities you'd never return to" thread. I must add Lisbon to that list. The whole place bored the hole off me. Prague is awesome and its very cheap too, but that's just my opinion.

bnt

I couldn't have just one, either. For a city I would choose Toronto, despite its reputation as "boring". I think it's a nice mix of Canadian and other influences e.g. UK, France and USA.

For a rural area, it would have to be the area I spent part of my childhood years: the north-west of (KwaZulu) Natal in South Africa, now called Amajuba. The climate is moderate, in between the extremes you can find there, and the landscape is beautiful. It would have been even more fun had I been old enough to drive.

Balmed Out

bnt wrote: »

For a rural area, it would have to be the area I spent part of my childhood years: the north-west of (KwaZulu) Natal in South Africa, now called Amajuba. The climate is moderate, in between the extremes you can find there, and the landscape is beautiful. It would have been even more fun had I been old enough to drive.

Beautiful area alright. Reminded me of parts of west Cork or south Kerry except everything on a bigger scale.

Id go for Canaimo national park in Venezuela, loads of table top mountains, rivers the colour of smithwicks and waterfalls including angel falls.

Einhard

Krak de Chevaliers in Syria. Very sad to see it's been targeted in the fighting over the past few years.