Okay, in truth I'm well travelled. Here's a long post.
Went all over London and Essex several times as a child (including a couple of fortnight-long boat trips along the Blackwater and Thames Estuary). Went to Cornwall for a week on a school trip. Used to have family up in Yorkshire and in north Wales... (Wales is beautiful. Mountains next to stone beaches, crystal clear water. Peak District is pretty.) Got family living in Devon now. (Dartmoor National Park - Also nice)
Been to Scotland a few times, Loch Lomand is incredible in Winter. Isle of Skye is the furthest north I've been (walked half way up a mountain, was fun). Was kindly taken to the Isle of Wight back in '10 by "Middlesboogie" (old FC moderator and OWF vet) and her family, did touristy things there...
Was taken to "the mainland" as a child back in '96 on a family holiday, spent a couple of weeks on a road trip through France, Holland and Belgium visiting various touristy attraction things (like
the Antonium, the Eiffel tower... Got a puerile laugh out of the
Mannequin Pis.)
During my relationship with 'Alector' between '07 and '09 (another old OWF vet) I ended up spending a year in total in Germany over several visits. Lived with her in different parts of Leipzig for several months (the city is a little run down in parts but has a lot of character and history, parks surround and run through it).
Her mum and one of her friends ('The Blue Scrab', another obscure member of ye olde OWF) lived in west Germany near the Palatinate forest, the river Rhine and the French border, so we went between the two places a lot. Explored that area a bit (including staying in the medieval town of Worms - pronounced "Voorms" - for a couple of weeks, with BlueScrab. Ew, her old screen name sounds like an STD when written that way). The East/West divide is still incredibly evident and deeply rooted in German culture...
We ended up staying for a few months with another of her friends who lived in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (a few hundred km to the south of Berlin near the Polish border). With him, we went on several road trips throughout the country... Up to the island of Rügen (white chalk cliffs overlooking the Baltic sea, forests, beaches - Hitler went and built big ugly blocks of flats on it as a "Holiday resort" for workers which still stand today). Lake Constance (town split in two by Swiss border, beautiful large lake, short drive away from the Swiss alps).
Said friend also worked in Berlin - I wish I saw more of the city considering how often we passed through it.
By some weird circumstances I later ended up cycling around parts of Mecklenburg alone for 2 months. Flat, small (a few km wide) lakes. Quaint country towns... It's a good way of really getting to know a place.
I'd love to go to the Scandinavian countries one day (Norway, Sweden)...
When I go to a place I enjoy being down to earth and seeing its natural beauty, perhaps in the company of some of the locals. I don't get the touristy crap. Or flying half way around the world just to stay in a hotel or a resort without really seeing any of the country you're in, then flying back home. What's the point of doing that?
It's overrated.