Where Do I Want to Go?

*NOTE* as you peruse this list, feel free to add suggestions!! Many of the places I’ve been, I went there solely because someone else told me to go.  So, list your favourite place, a place you’ve always wanted to go, or your hometown, and who knows, maybe I’ll add it to the list and stop by one day!

ARMENIA (Euraisa…often considered Europe, and certainly has a shared history!)

• Sanahin Monastery
• Geghard Cave Monastery
• Haghpat Monastery
• Yerevan
• Mt Aragats + Khor Virap Monastery
• Echmiadzin
• Fortress of Akhtala
• Jermuk Falls

AUSTRIA

• Hallstatt
• Graz
• Erlebnisburg Castle
• Innsbruck, round 2
• Schallaburg Castle
• Vienna, round 3 (to finally see Klimpt’s The Kiss)
• Vienna’s Hundertwasserhaus!
• Melk Abbey
• Hohenwerfen Castle
• Grüner See underwater park

BELGIUM

• Brugges
• Ghent 
• Antwerp
• Namur
• Mechelen
• Dinat & Chateau de Lavaux-Sainte-Anne

BOSNIA

• Mostar

BULGARIA

• Rila Monastery
• Sofia
• Carpathian Mountains
• Plovdiv
• Rhodopes Mountains

CROATIA

• Plitvice Lakes
• Krka National Park
• Trogir
• Hvar
• Brac
• Bisevo
• Sipan
• Korčula
• Istria, Rovinij, Pula

CZECH REPUBLIC

• Sedlec Ossuary
• Kutná Hora
• Karlstejn Castle
• Český Krumlov
• Brno
• Ostrava
• Křivoklát Castle
• Mělník
•  Chateau Hluboká nad Vltavou
• National Park Šumava
• Zatec

DENMARK

• Copenhagen
• Elsinore – Kronborg Castle
• Barnholm – Hammershus Castle
• Fredericksburg Castle
• Aarhaus
• Odense
• Faroe Islands
• Aalborg
• Viking runes (scattered throughout…)
• Ribe

ENGLAND

• Lake District (see comments below)
• Warwick Castle
• Cornwall – Plymouth, Penzance, Lizard, etc…
• Gloucester
• Canterbury
• Hadrian’s Wall: Vindolanda, Birdoswald, Wallsend…forts of the wall, Corbridge Roman Town, Newcastle,
• York (city)
• Bodiam Castle
• Coventry
• Brighton
• Cliffs of Dover
• Jurassic Coastal trail, Round 2
• Chester
• Lyme Regis
• Cotswolds, Round 2 (walking in The Cotswolds)
• Southampton
  
• Winchester
  
• New Forest!!
  
• Chatsworth Manor (Pemberley!)
• Peak District
• Yorkshire Dales
• Exeter
• Exmoor NP, Dartmoor NP
• Cheddar & nearby

ESTONIA

• Parnu
• Tartu
• Kuressaare + Castle
• Narva (Russian border)
• Viljandi
• Koluvere Castle
• Narva – overlooking Russia’s Ivangorod Fortress (Ivanograd)

FINLAND

• Helsinki
• World’s biggest snow castle, Kemi
• Rauma

FRANCE (I lived here for 3.5 years)

• Nice
• Cannes
• French Alps
• Vienne
• Corsica
• Nantes
• Paris round 2!
• Palace of Versailles
• Bayeux (tapestry…)
• Perouges
• Bordeaux
• Dijon
• Avignan
• Haut-Koenigsburg Castle, Alsace
• Château de Chenonceau
• Chateau de Peryrepertuse
• Ruins of Arenes de Nimes
• Loire Valley  Round 2: Other Lore Chateaux ; Round 3: Bike the Loire Valley! – Chateau de Chaumont, maisons troglodytes, Chateau d’Amboise…
• Bretagne (Brittany) villages – Vitre, Dinan, Becheral (books!), Mont Saint Michel, Saint Malo, Rennes, La Roche des Fées dolman
• Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse
• Strasbourg round 2 (At Christmas time…)
• Beaujolais Region (wine tasting…)
• Facteur cheval Palais Ideal
• Château de Joux (near Swiss)
• Burgundy Castle, France
• cliffs of Cassis, Les Calanques , Chateau d’If
• Lavender fields in Provence, Nimes, Arles, Eze
• Annecy round 2
  
• Auvergne: Chateau de Val (Bort les Orgues),
  • St Nectaire, Chapelle St Michel d’Aiguilhe, Le Puy en Velay church, Volcanoes, Puy de Dome
  • Chateau de Ravel, Château de Grangent, Château de Mauzan, Château de Buron, Château de Busseol, Chateau de Montmorin, Château de Tournoel
  • Grotte de Jonas, Collonges-la-Rouge, Lac Pavin
• Clermont Ferrand 
• Marseille 
• Pyrenées: Rennes-Les-Bains, Rennes-Le-Chateau, Foix, Ariege, Montsegur, more in Midi Pyrenées/Languedoc Rousillon?
• Hike some of the GRs in Pyrenees
• Queryas National Park
• Rocadamour
• Saint-Priest-la-Roche – Chateau de la Roche (between Lyon/Clermont)
• Alsace: Eguisheim, Colmar
• La Roche des Fees
• Les Quatres de Lastours castles (near Carcassonne)

GEORGIA

• Uplistsikhe cave town
• Tbilisi
• David Gareji monastery
• Vardzia
• Kazbegi
• Mestia

GERMANY

• Neuschwanstein Castle
• Hohenzollern Castle
• Burghausen Castle
• Cologne + Cathedral
• Hanover
• Dresden, round 2
• Munich, round 2 Schloss Blutenburg (how did I miss this??)
• Hamburg
• Rothenburg ob der Tauber village
• Lubeck
• Schloss Eltz
• Rakotzbrücke – Gablenz (Saxony)
• Saxon Switzerland National Park (no where near Switzerland…)
• Görlitz – Polish border town
• Bamberg – Bavaria
• Lake Schrecksee in the Bavarian Alps
• Lichtenstein Castle in Baden-Württemberg
• Mosel Valley medieval villages (from Eifel – Hunsrück Mountains)
• Tüchersfeld village in Bavaria
• Hiking in the Partnach Gorge (south of Munich)
• Tubingen
• Cochen Castle
• Marksburg Castle
• Schwerin

GREECE

• Meteora
• Crete
• Places on the coast and in Greek Islands (clearly I have done tons of research here…)
• Akrotiri
• Santorini
• Zagorochoria region

GREENLAND

• Nuuq
• Uumanaaq
• Coastline ferry (north-south)

HUNGARY

• Visegrad Castle
• Budapest, round 2
• …

ICELAND

• the Secret Lagoon
• Reykajavik, round 2
• Geysir and Strokkur in the Haukadalur valley
• the waterfall Gullfoss
• Þingvellir
• Þingvallavatn Lake
• Akureyri
• Vik

IRELAND

• Galway
• Wicklow Mountains
• Glendalough Monastery & valley
• Ring of Kerry
• Cliffs of Moher
• Kilkenny
• Limerick
• Connemara NP
• Hiking in the Burren NP – Mullaghmore
• Skellig Michel, Ivereagh Peninsula, Blasket Islands
• Aran Islands, Inisbofin
• Neolithic sites: Carrowmore, Carrowkeel, Deagh…
• Loop End
• Waterford, Lismore Castle (Northanger Abbey!)
• Wexford
• Ennis
• Sligo, Benbulbin Mountain
• Mayo: Ballycroy NP, Achill Island, Nephin Beg, Great Western Greenway, Croagh Patrick
• Co. Cavan (where my Irish ancestors came from)
• Meath, the Hill of Tara, Kells, Newgrange, Loughcrew
• Glenveagh NP, Slieve League cliffs, Donegal, Malin Head (N point), Mizen Head (S point)
• West Cork: Baltimore, Cape Clear, Sherkin Island, beaches
• Cork and Kinsale
• Scattery Island, Inishmurray Island, Clare Island, Inishkea Island
• Beara Peninsula
• Hag of Beara’s house; Lisheen House; Darty Mountains; Ox Mountains – Sligo
• Grainan Aileagh fort Donegal
• Roscommon – Ballintubber Castle, Rindoon
• Seefin Hill

ITALY

• Sicily (island): Ragusa, Caltagirone, Siracusa, Enna (village), Akragas Temples, Selinunte, Erice (mediavel village), Segesta Temple
• Palermo – Convento dei Cappuccini (catacombs), the cathedral at Montreale
• Mt Etna
• Aeolian islands (options: Vulano, Panarea, Stromboli, Salina)
• Cinque Terre
• Torino
• Sacra San Michele
• Fenis Castello
• Aosta & Valley
  
• Castello di Sammezzano & Peacock Room
• Procida
• Craco
• Matera
• Sardaigna (island) 
• Venice round 2! Next time, enjoy less-crowded Venice: Dorsoduro, Castello, Giudecca & Lido
• Tuscany & Tuscan villages
• Rome, round 2
• Sirmione
• Umbria & villages: Narnia, Spello, Assisi, Spoletto, Trevi, Todi, Orvietto, Carsulae archeological park, Gubbio, San Giovanni, San Francisco park, Bevagna mosaic house, Bettona, Arno, Mt Subasio
• Naples (particularly the archeology museum!)
• Perugia
• Villages of Lago Como
• Puglia villages
• Genoa
• Bergamo
• Aragonese Castle – Ischia
• San Gimignano
• Calabria region
• Baiae + underwater archeology
• Pompeii, Herculaen, Mt Vesuvius

LATVIA

• Cesis
• Cessis Castle
• Riga, round 2
• Longer trek in Gauja River Valley National Park

LIECHTENSTEIN

• Vaduz + Vaduz castle + Schalun Castle
• Balzers + Gutenberg castle
• Schaan

LITHUANIA

• šiauliai (Hill of Crosses)
• Kaunas

LUXEMBOURG

• Luxembourg City
• Bock Casemates in Lux. City
• Château de Vianden
• Echternach
• Esch-sur-Sûre
• La Rochette
• Chateau de Beaufort

MACEDONIA

• Lake Ohrid & Monastery
• Skopje
• Bitola
• Štip
• Kokino megalithic site
• Stone town of Kuklica
• Parks such as Mavrovo & Galičica

MALTA

• Valeta
• Gozo
• Ġgantija temples
• Victoria/Rabat city

MONTENEGRO

• Budva

NETHERLANDS

• Amsterdam
• Utrecht
• Leiden
• Kasteel de Haar (Castle)
• Tulip gardens
• Leeuwarden (Friesland)
• Delf
• Geithoorn
• Dordrecht

NORTHERN IRELAND

• Giant’s Causeway
• Causeway Coastal Route
• Londonderry/Derry
• Mourne Mountains + Slieve Donard
• Dunluce Castle (Narnia!)
• Carlingford town & Fjord (also Narnia!)
• Portballintree
• Ballintoy Harbour (aka Pyke!)
• Bushmills + Bushmills Distillery
• Glens of Antrim
• The Sperrins
• Boa Island
• White Island & Devenish Island
• Cuilcagh and Marble Arch Caves, Florence Court
• Slieve Gullion tomb (Armagh)
• Rathlin Island & bird sanctuary
• Lesser-known Mourne Mountains hikes

NORWAY

• Svalbard Isles (below)
• Tromsø
• Pulpit Rock
• Stavanger
• Svolværgeita
• Mt Besseggen
• Jotunheimen
• Ålesund
• Lofoten Islands
• Trondheim
• Trolltunga
• Heddel Stave church
• Borgund Stave Church (plus other stave churches…)

POLAND

• Mazury Lakes/Suwalki
• Wieliczka Salt Mines
• Krakow round 2
• Sopot’s Crooked House
• The Upside-down house
• Crooked Forest
• Zamość
• Gniezno
• Bialowieza NP to see the wild bison
• Southern Poland: Zywiec, Nowy Targ, Pornin, Niedzica Zamek
• Ogrodzeniec
• Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki

PORTUGAL

• Lisbon
• Porto + The Livraria Lello Art Nouveau bookstore
• Sintra Castle – Quinta da Regaleira
• Algarve
• Óbidos
• Guimarães
• Braga
• Faro
• Albufeira
• the Douro Valley vineyards
• Azores Islands
• Evora
• Monsanto rock houses
• Marvão village
• Penada Grenes Natural Park

ROMANIA

• Biertan Castle
• Bran Castle (Brasov)
• Trappold Castle
• Fagaras Castle
• Rasnov Castle
• Hunedoara, Corvinesti Castle (Corvin Castle – Hundoara)
• Sighisoara
• Craiova
• Bucharest
• Sibiu
• Carpathian Mountains
• Snagov Monastery
• Tragoviste + Castle
• Peles Castle, Sinaia village
• Marmures Mountains
• Viscri Fortified Church
• Transfargasen Highway
• Poenari Castle (Real Dracula’s Castle)
• Moldovita Monastery
• Suceviţa Monastery

RUSSIA

• St Petersburg 
• Moscow 
• Kizhi Pogost wooden church
• Orda Cave
• The Columns of Lena
• Kazan

SCOTLAND

• Inverness
• the Highlands
• Fingal’s Cave
• Eilean Donan Castle
• Outer Hebrides
• St. Kilda Island
• Knoydart Peninsula
• Orkney Isles + Skara Brae
• Isle of Skye
• Ben Nevis
• Invergarry Castle
• Oban
• Fort William
• Fort Augustus
• Perthshire in autumn

SLOVAKIA

• Bojnice Castle
• Kosice
• Trenchan Castle
• Spišská Kapitula, Slovakia
• Spiš Castle
• Banská Štiavnica

SLOVENIA

• Ljubljana
• Triglavski National Park
• Lake Bled
• Kostanjevica
• Lake Bohinj
• Predjama Castle – we tried!! Arrived on the day they were filming The Witcher and could not get into the castle…grr!

SPAIN

• Toledo
• Grenada
• Bilbao & Basque country
• Sevilla
• Cadiz
• Pyrenees
• Santiago del Compostela + trail
• Salamanca
• return to the Andalusia region for more pueblos blancos! 
• Santoña
• Ronda, round 2
  
• Madrid, round 2,  round 3
• Marbella
• Alcázar of Segovia Castle
• Albarracín
• Santander
• Girona
• San Sebastion
• Avila
• Cuenca
• Alhambra
• Cordoba
• Ceuta
• Castillo de Almansa
• Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca & Formentera)
• Setenil de las Bodegas (village in rock, Cadiz region)

SWEDEN

• Malmo
• Gothenburg
• Swedish Lapland
• Uppsala
• Visby Island
• ..?

SWITZERLAND

• Geneva
  
• Château de Chillon
• Lausanne 
• Lucerne region, Round 2
• Zurich

SVALBARD

• Longyearbyen
• Spitsbergen isles

TURKEY

• Istanbul (the airport!)
• Rock tombs in Myra, Lycia, Turkey
• Cappadocia rocks
• Efesus – Roman Ruins
• Derinkuyu cave town
• Göbekli Tepe

UKRAINE

• L’viv
• Tunnel of Love
• Swallow’s Nest Castle (Crimea…)

WALES

• Conway Castle
• Snowdonia NP