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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:23 PM Nov 2020

If we ever get to travel abroad again, I want to go to ______ for some ______

Brugges Belgium, for some bitterballen at this restaurant next door to the Basilica of the Holy (dried) Blood. and some of the best beer in the world.

Rotterdam, Netherlands, for some pancakes on the Pancake Boat (is what it sounds like).

Koln, Germany, there is this other restaurant near a market that has a revolving door and some of the best Kolsch beer and weinerschnitzle in the world.


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If we ever get to travel abroad again, I want to go to ______ for some ______ (Original Post) NightWatcher Nov 2020 OP
I loved my visit to Brugges. GumboYaYa Nov 2020 #1
Ventura, California roscoeroscoe Nov 2020 #2
My home town, a destination. Wow! MoonchildCA Nov 2020 #5
How about that eh! roscoeroscoe Nov 2020 #14
Well, I used to live at The Shores. MoonchildCA Nov 2020 #15
New York Marthe48 Nov 2020 #3
Wow, I just had a great big smile on my face. Brugges, Belgium Paper Roses Nov 2020 #4
I would go to Sam's American Cafe/Restaurant in Boston. Then I would go to little applegrove Nov 2020 #6
We'll reschedule our two week trip to Italy... MoonchildCA Nov 2020 #7
WHEN we get to go pamdb Nov 2020 #8
i had bitterballen in The Netherlands..but i missed the pancake boat! samnsara Nov 2020 #9
Beer tripping? frazzled Nov 2020 #10
Italy... dawg day Nov 2020 #11
Iceland, The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2020 #12
ireland for some guinness. mopinko Nov 2020 #13
Pancake Boat SoCalNative Nov 2020 #16
They have them all over. Turbineguy Nov 2020 #17
I love Bruges, and I would love to go back for their wonderful smirkymonkey Nov 2020 #18
Wailea for snorkeling Sedona Nov 2020 #19
Amsterdam for some....isn't everything legal over there?? LeftInTX Nov 2020 #20
New Zealand Wawannabe Nov 2020 #21
Tokyo for ramen spinbaby Nov 2020 #22
Rome drmeow Nov 2020 #23
I want to go to Berlin jmowreader Nov 2020 #24
Galapagos consider_this Nov 2020 #25
Changing my vote after talking with my wife! roscoeroscoe Nov 2020 #26
Porto, Portugal Mz Pip Nov 2020 #27
Back to the West coast of Ireland... Harker Nov 2020 #28
If we ever get to travel abroad again, I want to go to Tintagel for some Cornish Pasties... Brother Buzz Nov 2020 #29
Edinburgh, Dublin, Rome, Krakow, St. Petersburg the Galpagos Islands and New Zealand DFW Nov 2020 #30

GumboYaYa

(5,942 posts)
1. I loved my visit to Brugges.
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:26 PM
Nov 2020

some of the best beer I have ever had the pleasure to drink.

Not abroad, but I want to go to New Orleans for the Jazz and heritage festival to use the tickets I bought for 2020 and hopefully hear a tribute to John Prine. And I will have a vodka and ginger ale.

roscoeroscoe

(1,370 posts)
2. Ventura, California
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:29 PM
Nov 2020

For some fish tacos and beer on the pier and a walk down the promenade, then over to the harbor for sunset. Going to do it... next summer!

MoonchildCA

(1,301 posts)
5. My home town, a destination. Wow!
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:36 PM
Nov 2020

Well, actually I’ve now moved inland 5 miles, but I still work and do all my shopping there.

roscoeroscoe

(1,370 posts)
14. How about that eh!
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:57 PM
Nov 2020

I'm from over in the ghetto in Oxnard; I always went to Ventura to surf and hang out. I mean, where are you going to hang out in Oxnard?

Marthe48

(16,949 posts)
3. New York
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:32 PM
Nov 2020

for some time with international students I met over the years, who still live there.

And other visits with other students.

Paper Roses

(7,473 posts)
4. Wow, I just had a great big smile on my face. Brugges, Belgium
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:35 PM
Nov 2020

Waterzooi,!

Wonderful people, great city. In fact the whole country is wonderful. Fantastic history, great architecture,, fantastic things to see and do.
My late husband and I were fortunate enough to go to Europe several times.
Brugges is top of the list of places we were able to visit. Yes there are plenty of other places to go and things to see but Brugges left a special place in my memory.
Wish I could go back. I can dream.

pamdb

(1,332 posts)
8. WHEN we get to go
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:40 PM
Nov 2020

Copenhagen

Berlin

Back to Greece and the islands I missed last time

Provence

River cruise in Germany and Netherlands Amsterdam.


Basically ANYWHERE!!!!!

Oh, back to northern England and Scotland-(my family is from Yorkshire) DH never got there.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
10. Beer tripping?
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:44 PM
Nov 2020

I’ve been to Brugges and Rotterdam several times, and though I’m sure I had beer, I’m not sure that would be the main reason to travel to either of these wonderful towns. How about museums and architecture (old and quaint for Brugges, postwar modernism for Rotterdam)?

Never been to Koln, but a good friend lives there. She called this weekend because they were repeatedly running segments on German television that suggested the entire city of Chicago was imploding from Covid. We reassured her.

Prague is a great beer city, though I am not so Pilsner oriented. Still, I’d go to Prague again in a heartbeat. Or Vienna. How about Paris or Copenhagen or Stockholm or Rome? Or Tokyo!

I’d go anywhere, if travel were possible (or affordable). But, frankly, not for the beer.



mopinko

(70,090 posts)
13. ireland for some guinness.
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:56 PM
Nov 2020

and to meet some irish cousins.
and to stay in a haunted castle, and see if haints will drink w me.
and to sing in the pubs.

SoCalNative

(4,613 posts)
16. Pancake Boat
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 07:08 PM
Nov 2020

Also operates in Amsterdam. They used to come by my window all the time when I lived on the Ij.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
18. I love Bruges, and I would love to go back for their wonderful
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 07:21 PM
Nov 2020

Moules Frites. Their frites are the best I have ever had anywhere - so crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. And they have all different kinds of sauces to put on them.

Wawannabe

(5,657 posts)
21. New Zealand
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 07:41 PM
Nov 2020

For the fjords!

Would be my first time abroad. But I got my passport in very early 2020 to travel and then, well.... 😩

spinbaby

(15,089 posts)
22. Tokyo for ramen
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 08:15 PM
Nov 2020

I haven’t been back to Japan in a couple of years. I want ramen and a cold can of coffee from a vending machine.

drmeow

(5,017 posts)
23. Rome
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 08:57 PM
Nov 2020

to start the cruise to celebrate my in-laws 50th anniversary which was supposed to start this July and take us around the boot and up through the Adriatic and back

Sydney, Australia because it, SF, and Boston are my 3 favorite cities.

Seattle to meet up with the friend who I was supposed to attend a conference with there in May.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
24. I want to go to Berlin
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 10:29 PM
Nov 2020

The barracks my unit occupied is now a hotel. (http://www.aparion.de/) I want to stay in my old room, eat pfannkuchen (jelly donuts, which the rest of Germany calls Berliners) currywurst (mild sausages cut into slices and covered with ketchup and curry powder), doner kebab (a Turkish lamb sandwich) and schweinshaxe (uncured ham hock) mit kartoffelsalat (potato salad) und steckrube (spiral-sliced turnips - they're great) and, of course, ein Mass Budvar (a liter of Czechoslovakian-made Budweiser, which is far different and much better than American-made Budweiser) oder Berliner Kindl (which is pretty much Berlin's favorite beer) every night.

roscoeroscoe

(1,370 posts)
26. Changing my vote after talking with my wife!
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 04:19 PM
Nov 2020

How could I forget our favorite spot - Sam Choy's beachfront restaurant on Pearl Harbor... just the nicest place ever. That's the place; once you're there anything on the menu is going to be pretty damn nice. Aloha!

Brother Buzz

(36,422 posts)
29. If we ever get to travel abroad again, I want to go to Tintagel for some Cornish Pasties...
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 07:12 PM
Nov 2020

and a barley sandwich when the pub opens

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DFW

(54,369 posts)
30. Edinburgh, Dublin, Rome, Krakow, St. Petersburg the Galpagos Islands and New Zealand
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 08:19 AM
Nov 2020

Since we live in the German Rheinland, we've seen a lot of what there is nearby, and when you live in Germany, LOTS of places are nearby. It's two hours or less by air to most cities, but one needs time to go explore them. The trouble is that some of them are just so cool, you always want to keep going back. I run down to Barcelona all the time for work, but it remains one of the most incredible cities in the world, and I never have enough time there. Prague is another of those. I haven't been up to København for a couple of years, and I'd like to go back just because. But I've heard great things about the cities I haven't been to, and we're not getting any younger. New Zealand would require a lot more time than our usual extended weekend jaunts, and for the moment, we're not exactly welcome anyway. We're not under any illusions about the food in Ireland, Scotland , Russia or Poland, but we know how good the food can be in Italy. My Polish is only rudimentary, but I can get by, especially since many Poles in the Western parft of the country know either German or English. I have no language problems in the other places, so that wouldn't be a burden.

Maybe in a year or two.................

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