They have a lot of cool weather, which I love. And I've liked every Scottish person I've met so far, even if I have some difficulty understanding what they're saying.

Will spend a lot of time on the Isle of Skye. Also, other places in the Outer Hebrides.

"All expenses paid" would cover chartering a boat, right?

I’d make it Ireland.

… and if I ever get there, I’m not coming back.

Still pissed that my GGF left Scotland for the US by way of Canada—which would be my second choice, if only my kids would agree to learn to love winter… His 11 brothers also left Alba and wound up in Oz, which probably would’ve been better than we got stuck with. (Wish I knew the story behind the weird split in the family; probably a good story.)

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I would love to go back to Paris but I also want to go to Amsterdam. I want to see Anne Frank's house. Maybe I could take the all expenses summer in Paris and then take a side trip to Amsterdam on my own dime. Why not? Then I could do another side trip to Belgium. I think l may be onto something here!

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I would love to move there.

Summers are absolutely magical there.

I'd still be living there...I loved it! It's unbelievably beautiful.

I still have friends there, and on Salt Spring Island, so I can visit

I was stationed twice in England and twice in Germany and I'd love to spend a couple of months in either one just exploring and taking in their cultures.

I'd like to travel the countryside in England, Scotland, and Wales and visit the small towns and learn some of their histories. I've been to many of the tourist spots in England and toured Edinburgh so visiting the non-tourist areas would be great.

Same goes for Germany but I'd include some of its cities like Heidelberg, Munich, and Cologne. I'd take boat rides down the Rhine and Mosel Rivers and visit the the smaller castles and cities. One thing Germany has over England is the food is much better, especially their pastries.

I look forward to the food, especially in Rome.

And I'm not excluding backwoods Papua New Guinea.

I have two monitors for my work computer. One is for working, the other I use to play soothing piano music videos with images of Switzerland on a twelve hour loop. Long enough for a long workday.

I need a getaway in a place like Switzerland for a while. Mainly to lose my desire to throttle whoever it was who told Trump to keep the country on all-chaos, all-the-time mode; it’s exhausting.

I would travel, to the north pole,simply to, experience, history, and cold, on a physical basis,,no nothing more

I, live with, AC, and heat
I often wonder, how did people survive, there? Without Our phones, our websites, our comforts?
I would like to experience, extremes, without comfort. B
But then again,
I'm just a Democrat

Australia to see a live (AFL) Australian Rules Football Game. This would mean I
would need to go to one of the larger cities where the stadiums are located.
I would chose Perth AU that sits on the beautiful Western AU Coast right there
along the Indian Ocean.
While in the Perth area I would hope to see some of the AU bands whose
music I have discovered.
I would love to cruise through the Coastal towns like Cervantes and Jurien Bay, etc,
and hopefully make the trip to the Shire of Tooyay.

Tikki

don't mind---lets take a side trip Scotland.☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️

Chongqing, China or La Paz, Bolivia. The most vertical cities on Earth. Fabulous views.

As for my top choice, it comes down to nature and the Lord of the Rings movies. Israel used to rank #2 for me, but given current events, it’s no longer even in my top 15.

Although pretty much most time spent in the Republic

First month ish North, around Malin Head, as far north as you can go. The Inishowen peninsula. Maybe some time in Moville Greencastle. Then a few days in Derry, walking the wall, checking out the murals thinking of John Hume and Phil Coulters the town I loved so well.
Then all the way to the opposite end, around Cork city for some golf, history and fishing. The town of Cobh has an amazing history. It is where many emigrated from. Some to America, some to a Australia, wherever the crown was sending them. Cobh is the home of the Irish Alcatraz, the last stop of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Taking a boat out of Cobh may not be a great idea but it is beautiful.

Ireland sounds good also. Brazil would be the next choice. In the United States, would pick Bar Harbor and surrounding areas in Maine, for a laid back summer.

It has the most beautiful landscapes I've ever seen.

Maybe the UK generally.

list.

Paris to see the redone Notre Dame and hear the organ
Strasbourg to see the Cathedral and hear the organ
Cologne to see the Cathedral and hear the organ

I have cds of all these organs, now I want to hear them in person.

my favorite of all the ones you mentioned. And France would be my choice also.

We discovered it on a recommendation over 40 years ago. We liked it so much then that we thought we could try it again the next year. Rinse and repeat. Our one year old daughter who was with us in 1984 now joins us every year for at least one week with her husband and two sons. Our younger daughter, who lives in Germany, will also be stopping by with her man and two daughters, since they will be attending some World Cip games in which Germany is playing.

We will rent a house that is a one minute walk from a bayside beach, or a ten minute drive from our favorite ocean side beach (Long Nook beach). We have been going for so long that some of the locals are now old friends, and I guest on the local community radio at least once a year. In next door Provincetown, you could run into almost anyone. House Minority Whip Katherine Clark or Rachel Maddow are just two examples. Singers Zoe Lewis and Patty Larkin, humorist David Sedaris, a lot of etc. Any of them might turn up sitting next to you at any of the outdoor cafés or restaurants. A street banjo player once invited me to join him on guitar. I did and his take jumped from $15 to $45 (he wanted to give me half, and I told him no way—I went ahead and made his day).

Truro is a 15 minute drive south of Provincetown. Fifteen minutes from relaxed hustle to tranquility. Provincetown in the summer is nearly impossible to park in for under $25 unless you are willing to make a long walk. The reasoning behind that is to keep it a largely pedestrian town and it works. Restaurants range from modest to expensive, but since I am married to a gourmet chef, we rarely eat out. We just buy our fish from one of the local shops, buy the spices and veggies where we can find them, and she works her magic. A local place makes their own ice cream, and their key lime cheesecake ice cream alone is worth the trip over to America.

It’s our place for needed yearly decompression.

We live in the German Rheinland. Every month for my job, I am in Paris, Brussels, Utrecht, Barcelona, Switzerland, etc. If we want a weekend or even a week in Scandinavia, Prague, Budapest, Croatia, Portugal, Italy, etc. it’s a spur of the moment decision we can make any time. They are all one to three hour flights at most. But to just chill out and let nature and lack of planning be our flag bearers, it’s back to the Outer Cape for us.

beach on the Cape and various others and get various foods--especially fried clams. I enjoyed walking around the beach towns and taking in the town shops. Have a wonderful visit with your family, DFW.

We have every intention (especially if I survive tomorrow!)

I can speak a bit of Italian. If I spent a whole summer there, I'd be fluent, even at my age.

That made me want to go to Sicily, too. Gorgeous scenery and architecture.

Netflix is one of the few things we don't have.
Sounds cool, though.
I've been to Italy 40 something times but never south of Naples. Our family is from Sicily and I've never even been close.
My dad was there several times while he was in the army as a medical corps translator in Naples. He was there 3 years, so had plenty of opportunities to see family.

I've never seen the earlier movie with Burt Lancaster for comparison, but doubt that version could be any better.

I've been to Italy twice, but never south of Rome. Like so many European countries, there's so much to see and it takes many trips unless you can stay for a long visit, despite it being more compact than the U.S.

I hope that you get to go to Sicily someday.

...there will be no Sicily visit.
As much as I had to travel for my job, being retired means not going anywhere.
I worked in 41 countries outside the US having taken around 650 business trips. I'm not going anywhere by plane ever again.

You've had enough travel for a lifetime.

Russia from your home.

Also to see the waterfalls, the redwoods, the wine country, and enjoy cool weather

Having grown up in Alabama, I hate summer.

...the place.

Somehow I never managed to take my wife with me. The all expense trip paid won't be accepted if she could not come with me.

I did, on the off hours during business trips, take in the culture of Paris, mostly the art. The city - and the art - had a certain, well, erotic import as I saw it. I thus missed her intensely while there. Our kids were young then; we had no one who could watch them who we trusted, and anyway, I had lots of work to do when I was there, long days and long nights.

I'd love to bring my son as well, as his French is far superior to my own. When he speaks to me in French, I have to struggle as I sometimes did with the real French.

I used to joke with the French = it was during the Clinton years that I worked with them - about the relative merits of our respective countries, telling them for instance that Paris could profit by being more like New York. I was lying though, just to defend my country. New York is a great city; but Paris is well, Paris.

We were in Paris this past October for the third time.
I want to go back again!

The 10 days I spent there 12 years ago were not nearly enough.

traveled there once for a week; would love to stay for the summer and use the trains to explore around Europe

and ask if me and my family can stay.

We’re planning to leave NYC just after the Fourth of July Sail 250 Celebration to sail to Maine and back. It’s a voyage we’ve made before but this time we want to explore further down east into Maine. Acadia National Park beckons.

Although we have to pay our expenses, cruising on a small yacht— in our case a 27-foot cutter— is much less expensive than traveling on shore primarily because we have our home with us so there are few hotel bills. It’s like traveling in a recreational vehicle. Since we sail, our fuel costs are diminutive and our solar panel along with the Diesel engine’s alternator keep our batteries fully charged.

In a typical week, we will anchor at night 3-5 nights which is free. The other nights we stay at a marina which varies in cost but typically is equivalent to a room at a discount motel chain. Those stops are helpful to reprovision our food, replenish our water, buy fuel and pump out our sewage tank.

We feel excited, fortunate and grateful to have these opportunities to see our world as explorers.

Bar Harbor.

Like Sweden or Finland.

county Cork and Kerry to be specific. Oh and to have a really nice road Bicycle.

Met my wife there

Force Base. Maybe it is time to visit the,

Never mind one country or area - but I'll take any of these: Scandinavia, including the cities and a Norwegian fjord cruise, or China/Japan/Vietnam, or Greece/Turkey. Given that most of our spring and 2 full days of summer have been mostly rain, perhaps the latter appeals the most!

and use that as a base for exploring not only the U.K, but Europe also.