New City

There is an addictive feeling about landing in a new european city, at the train station, or bus station, or airport, and having to figure the city out. You step off the train, and immediately have to figure out what language you are going to work in, how to get the currency, what direction is the old town in, do you buy a bus ticket at a kiosk or on the bus, is metro or bus better. And there are a million things to notice- what are the names of the main squares? what time period was the cathedral built in? how do modern buildings blend with the old? who is on the currency? how are people dressing? what is the racial mix here? what does fast food look like? how much time do i have before my next connection and how much can i see in that amount of time?

Looking at the streetplans with green parks, blue rivers, purple pedestrian zones, yellow main squares.... man it is a huge rush for me. i love exploring.

How many times have i gotten to go and explore a new European city?

Well the list below is of European cities and towns that i have gotten to explore on foot- not just driving through- but really getting to walk around and get a feel for the place.

Ones with an asterix I have spent the night in. Ones with two asterixes, I have spent the night in somebody's home who lives in that city.

Not a bad list over 12 years of European travel, eh?

Alaverdi, Armenia
Altheim(Alb), Germany
*Amsterdam, Netherlands
Arromanches, France
Avignon, France
Bacharach, Germany
Bari, Italy
*Berlin, Germany
Binz, Germany
Bled, Slovenija
*Borjomi, Georgia
Bratislava, Slovakia
Buyukada, Turkey
Cavtat, Croatia
*Cesis, Latvia
**Cologne, Germany
**Dubrovnik, Croatia
**Dublin, Ireland
Druskininkiai, Lithuania
**Frankenthal, Germany
Frankfurt, Germany
**Freiburg, Germany
*Friedrichshafen, Germany
Gardabani, Georgia
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
**Giessen, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Happsalu, Estonia
Heidelberg, Germany
**Heilbronn, Germany
Helsingborg, Sweden
**Helsinki, Finland
*Helsinor, Denmark
*Herceg Novi, Montenegro
*Innsbruck, Austria
*Interlaken, Switzerland
**Istanbul, Turkey
*Kardla, Estonia
Karlsruhe, Germany
Kaunas, Lithuania
**Kazbegi, Georgia
Klagenfurt, Austria
**Klaipeda, Lithuania
*Kobenhavn, Denmark
Koblenz, Germany
Kotor, Montenegro
*Krakow, Poland
Kretinga, Lithuania
*Kuresaare, Estonia
*Kiev, Ukraine
**Lezhe, Albania
**Liepaja, Latvia
Lindau, Germany
*Ljubljana, Slovenija
**London, UK
*Lucerne, Switzerland
Ludwigsburg, Germany
**L’viv, Ukraine
*Mainz, Germany
Mannheim, Germany
Mont St. Michel, France
*Mostar, Bosnia Hercegovina
M'ts'kheta, Georgia
*Munich, Germany
*Narva, Estonia
*Nimes, France
*Nurnberg, Germany
Nykoping, Sweden
Oostende, Belgium
Palanga, Lithuania
*Paris, France
Parnu, Estonia
Pescara, Italy
*Prague, Czech Republic
*Regensburg, Germany
*Riga, Latvia
Rijeka, Croatia
**Rivne, Ukraine
Rothenburg o.d. Tauber, Germany
Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany
*Schwaebisch Hall, Germany
Shkodra, Albania
Siauliai, Lithuania
*Sigulda, Latvia
*Slav’sko, Ukraine
*Starnberg, Germnay
**Stralsund, Germany
**Strasbourg, France
*Stockholm, Sweden
*Stuttgart, Germany
Sveksna, Lithuania
**Tallinn, Estonia
Tartu, Estonia
*Taize/Ameugny, France
**T'bilisi, Georgia
**Tirana, Albania
*Ulm, Germany
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
*Valmiera, Latvia
**Vanadzor, Armenia
*Veliki Lyubin, Ukraine
*Vilnius, Lithuania
**Wermelskirchen, Germany
*Warsaw, Poland
Wien, Austria
**Yerevan, Armenia
Zdolbunov, Ukraine
**Zolotonosha, Ukraine
**Zurich, Switzerland