There are a total of 50 countries in Europe, unless you count Bosnia and Herzegovina as two, then there are 51. But Bosnia and Herzegovina is actually just one country – Nice compromise everyone! Either way it doesn’t matter because neither Michèle nor I have been there. Combined, we hit 20 countries in Europe, but our city count might be close to 200 because it is the one region that we return to over and over again. Michèle has family and friends EVERYWHERE. I’m not sure if we can count Wales because we got lost driving around Western England and we were never sure where we were. All the signs and radio stations were in some funny sounding made up language, so we think we were in Wales, but we’ll never know for sure.
Here’s where we did go:
Andorra
Drove the entire length between Spain and France. Stopped midway for directions. Not surye why we stopped. It’s one roan in and one road out. The girl who gave me directions seemd like she wanted me to take her with me. She made an odd motion using her pinter to pull down the sjim below her eye. I aked her what that meant, she said be careful. The trafic in both direction was terrible. Andora is duty free do all the frence and spanich drive in and out just to get alcohol and cigarettes.
Austria
- Innsbruck
- Salzburg
- Saw Mozarts house and took a tour of the salt mine, Ate a lot of Lieber Kasse which I translated to Lovers Cake. It was actually liver,
Belgium
- Bruges (Multiple Visits)
- Had a lot of very strong beer. Ate a lot of waterzoi poulet.
- Brussels
- This is where Michèle and I decided we were meant for each other.
Denmark (Just Michèle)
- Copenhagen
- Bath
- Fantastic Sunday Roast in some Pub
- Canterbury
- Enjoyed the Church and the Canterbury Tales Motifs.
- Dover
- White Cliffs are spectacular. Saw from boat arriving from France.
- Exeter
- Salisbury
- London
- Indian Food
- STAY AWAY FROM TOURIST PUBS
- New Forest
- Salsbury
- Stonehenge (Multi visits)
- Second tome accicdentally arroved on summer solstice. Pagen rituals everywhere.
- Aix-en-Provence
- Fountains and Market Day.
- Amien
- Antibes
- GREAT RESTAURANT ALERT
- La Guinguette, 5 Rue Sade, 04 93 34 64 74
Dinner in rear courtyard, staff was great! Food was great. - They were the only restairant in Antibes willing to cork the wine i bought in Cassis.
- La Guinguette, 5 Rue Sade, 04 93 34 64 74
- GREAT RESTAURANT ALERT
- Arles (Multi Visits)
- Tha Bull Fight, The Market, The Cafe, The Courtyard
- Auxerre
- Avignon (multi visits)
- Danced on the Bridge and sang Sur La Ponte
- Beaulieu Sur Mer
- Michèle’s favorite city on the Aote dazur.
- Bordeaux
- Ate at Mcdonald’s, Royal with Cheese and a glass of Bordeaux wine.
- Drove in a ditch that happened to be the entrance of Langelus Vinyards. The o0wner came out and we toured the vinyard and bought some wine.
- Bourg-en-Bresse
- You must have the chicken here. It’s legendary. If you don’t have the chicken you are an idiot. I had steak.
- Caen
- Cagnes-sure-Mer
- Calais
- Cannes
- Carcassonne
- Fantastic preserved medievil castle and twalled village.
- Chamonix
- Courchevel
- Cassis
- Eze
- Grasse
- Gourdon
- Gordes
- Isola
- Isola 2000
- La Turbie
- Le Puy
- Les Baux
- Limoges
- Loire Valley Castles
- Menton
- Mount Saint Michele
- Narbonne
- Nice
- Nimes
- Paris
- Pech Merle
- Perpignan
- Rocamador
- Saint Etienne
- Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
- Saint Remy
- Saint Tropez
- Sarlat
- St. Milo
- St. Paul de Vence
- Sault
- Toulouse
- Villefranche
Corsica (France)
- Ajaccio
- Bastia
- Bonifacio
- Centuri
- Saint-Florant
- Sartene
- Aachen
- Augsburg
- Bad Munstere Eifel
- Dachau
- Eltz
- Friesen
- Gütersloh
- Munich
- Romantische Strasse
- Rhine River
- Rottenburg
- Trier
Greece
- Athens
- Crete
- Rhodes
Iceland (Just Joe)
- ReykJavik
Ireland (Just Michèle)
- Cork
- Dublin
- Abbazia di San Fruttuoso
- (Amalfi Coast)
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- Positano
- Praiano
- Amalfi
- Vietri
- Bologna
- Bordaghera
- Cinque Terre
- Capri
- Caserta
- Chuisi
- Ferrara
- Final Liguria
- Florence
- Fiesole
- Genoa
- Milan
- Padua
- Paestum
- Parma
- Pisa
- Portofino
- Pompeii
- Roma
- Sardinia
- La Madalena
- Sanremo
- Santa Margherita
- Siena
- Terrachina
- Savona
- Vicenza
- Venice
- Ventimiglia
- Verona
- Luxembourg
- Luxembourg City
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- Monaco
- Monte Carlo
- Netherlands
- Amsterdam
- Maastricht
- The Efterling
- Utrecht
- Maastricht
- Portugal (Just Michèle)
- Albufera
- Cascais
- Evora
- Faro
- Ferragudo
- A Ria Dinner
- Lagos
- Guia
- Ramires Chicken
- Lisbon
- Loule
- Saturday Market
- Mealhada
- Mertola
- Obidos
- Pinhao
- Porto
- Porches
- Tavira
- Tomar
- Quarteira
- Vilamoura
- Spain
- Barcelona
- Benidorm
- Figueres
- Madrid
- Malaga
- Marbella
- United KingdomSee England
- Vatican City
- Pope’s House
- Wales
Extensive as that list might seem, that still leaves a whopping 30 countries that we have not been to in Europe. Truth be told, Michèle and I would be happy just to return to France or Italy every year for the rest of our lives. Everytime we are in France or Italy, we plan on going left, end up going right, and have an even better, unexpected, experience. Like, Lyon, France for example. It’s always on our list, but we somehow never quite make it there. Though it’s a funnier story that we never quite get there.
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