"My favourite and dream destinations!" Personal Page by Sjalen

My top European destinations so far (in no order as you can't compare them):

Agrigento and the rest of Sicily
Edinburgh
Gotland
Budapest
Stockholm
Black Forest
Cornwall
Jukkasjärvi
North Yorkshire
Venice
Danube delta
Bruges (Brugge)
Lauterbrunnental-Wengen

After all those years as an Anglophile, I have discovered yet another love: Sicily - I feel I will return to this temple filled emerald island with its gorgeous sun filled food! I also need time for the rest of Italy and have a homely feeling in Germany to which I keep going back. Oh and don't think I'm cured of the anglophilia yet.

And my not yet visited dream destinations:

Mongolia
India (many places)
Egyptian pyramides
Prague
Vancouver
New York
Guilin
Provence
Isle of Mull
Andalucia

Others on my "want to" list include:

(amongst already visited countries:)

SWEDEN: Funäsdalen, Rapadalen, Nora & Grythyttan, Ulvön, south Gotland, Arboga, Mariestad, Vadstena, Mora, Orsa, Fjällbacka

AUSTRIA: Salzkammergut and Hallstatt, Innsbruck, Salzburg
BRITAIN: Shropshire, Warwick, Portmeirion, Blackpool, Sidmouth, Ilfracombe and the Devon coasts and national parks, Pembrokeshire, Inner Hebrides, Pennan, Hay on Wye, Northumbrian coast, Cambridge, New Forest, Giants Causeway, Norwich, Brighton, Ely, The Lizard
DENMARK: Skagen, Jelling, Ribe, Tønder, Ebeltoft, Kerteminde, Ærø, Samsø, Fanø
ESTONIA: coastal towns
FINLAND: Rovaniemi, coastal towns
FRANCE: Brittany, La Rochelle, The Pyrennees, Carcassonne, Champagne,
GERMANY: Dresden, Saxon Switzerland, Rügen, Lahn valley, a lot of Thuringia, Regensburg, Bamberg, Goettingen, Celle, Münster, Bremen, Lübeck properly, Hildesheim, Annweiler, Potsdam, Spreewald, Görlitz, Meissen, Coburg, Schwäbisch towns incl. Tübingen, Augsburg, Ulm
GREECE: Skiathos, Crete, Santorini, Meteora, Corfu, Zakynthos, Kefalonia, Athens properly, having only whizzed through at night
IRELAND: Connemara, Cliffs of Moher, Kinsale
NORWAY: Bergen, Aalesund, Lofoten
POLAND: Wroclaw, Torun
ROMANIA: Transsylvania
SLOVENIA: Lake Bohinj, Maribor, Piran
SPAIN: Barcelona, Bilbao
SWITZERLAND: St Moritz, Lugano, Sion, Thun, St Gallen, Lausanne, Geneva, Gruyeres, Saas-Fee, Murten, Schaffhausen, Chur

COUNTRIES NEW TO ME: Czech Rep (Karlovy Vary, Plzen, Kutna Hora, Czesky Krumlov), Western Samoa, China (Beijing, Xian, Hong Kong), Russia (Moscow, St Petersburg), Singapore, Vietnam, New Zealand, Australia (Uluru), Canada (Quebec, British Columbia in general), USA (Grand Canyon, Boulder, Oregon, Yellowstone, Florida with Key West, New Orleans, Alaska), Cuba, Portugal (Lisbon, Albufeira), Morocco (Marrakesh, Fez), Jordania (Petra), Ethiopia, Namibia, Tanzania, Croatia, Bosnia (Mostar), Ukraine (Odessa), Bulgaria (Nesebur, Bulgarian mountains), Turkey (Istanbul, Ölu Deniz), Iran, Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile (Easter Island, Valparaiso and lots more), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Ecuador (Galapagos).

But don't think this means I'd say no to anywhere else I'd be asked to go to!!! :)

FAVOURITE MUSEUMS:

British Museum, London
In Flanders Fields, Ieper (Ypres)
Castle Museum, York
Vasa Museum, Stockholm
Deutsches Museum, Munich

FAVOURITE CHURCHES:

Aachen Cathedral
Durham Cathedral
San Zeno Maggiore, Verona
Kiruna Church
San Marco, Venice

FAVOURITE NATURAL SIGHTS:

Kleine Scheidegg & Lauterbrunnental, Switzerland
Postojna Caves, Slovenia
Lapporten, Sweden
Fårö, Sweden
Yorkshire Dales, England

FAVOURITE BUILDINGS

Stockholm City Hall
Ice Hotel, Jukkasjärvi
Aachen Cathedral
Houses of Parliament, London
Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred

FAVOURITE TRAVEL FOOD

Sicilian savoury "oranges"
German cherry yoghurt
Cheese & onion pasties
Reindeer & horseradish breadrolls