Chios, Nice and the Balkans in Europe: Fantastic travel experiences and a simple no thanks Camilla Liv Jensen
Nice: On holiday in the city that has everything
The best travel experience in Europe for me is in Nice Southern France. It is the place I have visited the most times on holiday - probably seven times. After vacationing there so many times, I no longer feel like a tourist and can therefore walk around without Google Maps on my phone despite my lack of sense of place.
In my view it has Nice all. There is of course the old town, Vielle Ville, which has its charm in the beautiful old buildings, crooked cobblestones and small shops with specialties in all kinds of things. Like many other southern European cities.
A short walk from the old town is Place Masséna. Here there is beautiful architecture, black and white tiles and last but not least - shopping! This belongs to any big city and there is actually really good shopping in Nice.
Promenade Des Anglais is the famous seafront promenade that runs along the south coast and thus also the beach in Nice. The promenade is seven kilometers long, which provides space for a lot of variety in the form of stalls and street shows on, among other things, roller skates and stilts.
The beach in Nice is a pebble beach, but you should not be intimidated by it, because there are actually two clear advantages to it: Once you have arranged the stones correctly, you lie really well and can lie there for a long time. The biggest plus, however, is that you do not have to bring sand home from the beach.
Mallorca: A great travel experience that must be seen by car
The next place I would like to travel to again is Mallorca. After 13 days of vacation on the island, I got a good idea of where I want to stay the next time I come down there. We had booked a hotel in the Bay of Palma not far from the airport and soon found out that we had landed in the party part of Mallorca, and there were many people on the beach and in the streets most of the day.
Playa de Palma in the part where we lived is stuffy, noisy and dirty, so it can not be recommended if you want a nice day at the beach. In return, there is a lot Cala'er, eg Cala Llombards and Cala D'Or, which can be reached by car, which can be rented for cheap money just like in the rest of Spain.
This is also my biggest recommendation for Mallorca: Rent a car on your trip! There is so much diversity on the island that it would be a shame to stick to one area. And the drives are good for experiencing a lot of nature on the island.
Next time I visit Mallorca, I will definitely stay on the west side of the island over at Magaluf beach, as it - surprisingly enough - was much quieter and more peaceful than Palma Bay.
Holiday on charming Chios
Chios is the fifth largest Greek island and is so close Turkey, that you can see over there when you stand on the eastern side of the island. Chios is an island with charm that can look very worn and old in some areas and in other places it just adds character to your trip.
On Chios the food is fantastic and if you know the locals you can get recommendations for restaurants in the most random places that you would never have found on your own, so be sure to ask the locals for advice when you are on vacation.
If you drive from one side of the island to the other on your journey, you will see that there are small restaurants up in the mountains, where you are served authentic Greek food. No menu card and barely a word of English, so you get what is served without necessarily knowing what it is, which is an exciting culinary journey in itself.
Pubcrawl in Dublin
I have been in Dublin twice; both times on a study trip with my high school class and my current study, respectively. Therefore, I would like to travel to Dublin again on holiday on my own with freer reins in relation to the content of the trip.
Dublin, and in general Ireland, is the most obvious place for one pub crawl, which I have also been to a few times, but I would definitely like to experience it again.
In connection with my first trip to Dublin, I spent a day in Belfast, where we were on a guided tour with a local who told stories from Belfast in the best Irish accent. Naturally, the trip passed Peace Walls, which are the walls that separate the Republican and Catholic populations from each other. It is an exciting experience that I would also recommend to others.
Brașov, Romania: Ski holidays and city breaks at the same time
I have been on ski holidays many times and I have been on city breaks many times but never at the same time before I visited Brașov in Romania, which was an exciting holiday.
Romania is a place with many prejudices and I had them myself too, but they were disproved almost immediately. We landed at Bucharest Airport, located in the south of Romania, and drove directly north to Brașov. It is clear that Bucharest is the poorest part of Romania, while the north is a little nicer both in terms of buildings and cars.
Although Romanians are not initially strong at English, they would very much like to gesture with one until we understand what each other means. A very friendly people. We also became good friends with our ski rental company, who gave us good tips for both skiing and sights inside the city.
It should of course be mentioned that everything is cheap in Romania - almost too cheap. You can have dinner for just around 100 kroner per person including drinks, and for lunch even less than that.
The place I will not have to visit again - Dubai
Dubai is a place that I wouldn't necessarily visit again. I traveled to Dubai in March, hoping for a holiday with sun in the middle of the wet Danish weather. To my dismay, it rained four out of the seven days I was there, putting my sun vacation on a bit of a hiatus.
In addition, I probably lived in a slightly deserted area. The only thing that was nearby was a small one template, but when you have spent three rainy days of your holiday there, you start to get bored. The Dubai Mall was of course also on the to-do list in Dubai, but with holiday brains where you forget the days of the week, we ended up coming on a Friday afternoon. Do I need to mention that there were a lot of people?
Maybe Dubai deserves a second chance, but I have no need to come back in the near future. I will find something else exciting instead, or return to Chios and beautiful Greece.
Nice trip!
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