Travelling: stuff you like to experience

[shootingstar]

My dearie spent time cycling and seeing Spain for...over 3 wks. recently. He was cycling and took 1-2 short train trips. He was in Madrid and eventually made his way over to Seville where he was busy with meeting people, presenting at the Velo-city conference. Then he took side trip to Valencia for 1 day before going to Madrid and return to Canada.

The whole time he was there he did not visit any museum nor historic site. He did enjoy the architecture --meaning taking photos, looking but mostly I suspect he didn't know the significance of what he was seeing...which happens to many of us travelling overseas.

He enjoyed the Spanish tapas, paellas that he had. Stumbled into a Spanish wine festival at a place.

I'm the opposite --I want to see and go inside some of the key historic, architectural or artistic collections. So yea, I have to get off the bike.... For me, just to cycle through a foreign country, especially non-English speaking, I would feel I was wasting abit of the trip, the opportunity.

I would like to eat the local food ...which was why Copenhagen, Denmark was a disappointment to us, food-wise.

[roadie gal]

When my SO and I travel we plan to do a lot of walking and looking. We love looking at architecture, gardens, scenery, etc. We like checking out museums, churches and other significant buildings.

I like trying a lot of different foods but my SO is a very conservative eater. So we check out menus to see what would work for both of us.

Neither of us is particularly into nightlife. We'd rather be up early walking.

[Grog]

Like your sweetheart I'm not too much into museums either. I will walk EVERYWHERE, talk to people in pubs, sit for hours in gardens and parks, check out some galleries, eat anything local, shop at farmers' markets, cycle to see the sights... but the only museums I'm likely to visit are industrial/science museums and some historical exhibits. When my husband wanted to see the Louvres when we went to Paris I had to dig deep into myself.

[malkin]

I like museums well enough, but I know I'm more likely to visit them if the weather is nasty.

[Crankin]

We went to London and didn't go inside any of the museums or palaces... it was school vacation there, and some of the historical places had severely curtailed hours. We walked for miles, saw a show in the theatre district, shopped, ate, and we did do a one day tour of Stratford-Upon-Avon, which for me, was really work related at the time. DH took a lot of illegal pictures for me at Shakespeare's birthplace (you weren't supposed to use a camera); I used them for the next 4 years with my students.
I went into a few palaces/gardens when I was in Berlin and Pottsdam, but that trip was more for visiting my former exchange student. In Italy, it was all about the eating, scenery, and shopping, though we went into the oldest church in Florence, and one other art museum. We like exploring parts of towns that are off the beaten path. On the other hand, my bike tours in Europe had a lot of museums and history built in... I liked the brewery in the Czech Republic, too! We actually skipped some of the historical stops on that tour, especially on the days it was raining. I just wanted to get to the end of the riding on those days. But, we did do all of the historical side trips planned for after the riding day was over. Last year, when we went to Spain, we did tons of museums and palaces, both before, during, and after our tour.

[redrhodie]

When I was in Barcelona, I skipped the inside tour of Sagrada Familia in order to go to a bike expo. I kind of regret that, after seeing my friend's pictures of the inside. I was thinking it would be so crowded that I wouldn't enjoy it. Oh, well, it gives me a reason to go back!

[kelownagirl]

Like your sweetheart I'm not too much into museums either. I will walk EVERYWHERE, talk to people in pubs, sit for hours in gardens and parks, check out some galleries, eat anything local, shop at farmers' markets, cycle to see the sights... but the only museums I'm likely to visit are industrial/science museums and some historical exhibits. When my husband wanted to see the Louvres when we went to Paris I had to dig deep into myself.

I was bored stiff of the Louvres after about 15 minutes. Luckily Erik was too. LOL. My favourite part was losing my Bus Hop ticket and having to walk all the way back to our hotel. We walk a lot too - we go into some museums etc and I do love to see them but I'm not much into the expensive touristy places.