Is traveling to Europe for everyone?

[annerk]

Originally Posted by DrVanNostrand

I'd say traveling in general isn't for everyone, not just traveling to Europe.

I agree with this. Some people have no interest in leaving the area they have lived their entire lives in, let alone traveling a great distance. While I would find that depressing, to each their own.

[sannonsin]

I don't believe that Europe is an overrared destination. Quite the contrary. It's a place for everyone, because you can actually find everything.
I've been to several places in Europe (Paris, Nice, Rome, Venice, Barcelona, Athen, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm) but definately my favourite city is Berlin Mitte.

[TaoVirg]

Originally Posted by sannonsin

I don't believe that Europe is an overrared destination. Quite the contrary. It's a place for everyone, because you can actually find everything.

Europe will not appeal to nor interest everyone.

[southdown]

Originally Posted by Drifter1981

Is traveling to Europe for everyone? Would one be missing much if they don't go to Europe?

Anyone who is not interested in Europe and may find other parts of the world interesting?

Anyone consider Europe an overrated travel/tourist destination?

What a strange question/s. What on earth does the OP hope to discover from the responses?

Would Europe mind if the OP didn't visit...?

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by ben86

Probably 99% of the Americans I've seen in Europe have been of European ancestry, so I'd understand somebody not having any European roots being less bothered about coming here. I don't think there's the same amount of history and diversity in the same small geographical area anywhere else on Earth, so I'd say most people would be able to find something they'd like here. I spent three whole months travelling around Italy and did not see everything I'd have wanted to - and it's smaller than a lot of US states. But it is crowded, and expensive, and everything's been seen and done by millions of other people before, and it's a long way from you.

I'm sure it's a lot less than 99%. You don't have to have roots in a place to be interested in it, we're all Earthlings, we it's natural we should all be curious to see our home planet, isn't it?

I've got no genetic roots in Europe, but I do have cultural roots there, and even if I didn't I'd be really fascinated to visit it, along with pretty much everywhere in God's green earth!

[ben86]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

I'm sure it's a lot less than 99%. You don't have to have roots in a place to be interested in it, we're all Earthlings, we it's natural we should all be curious to see our home planet, isn't it?

I've got no genetic roots in Europe, but I do have cultural roots there, and even if I didn't I'd be really fascinated to visit it, along with pretty much everywhere in God's green earth!

If we're interpreting European ancestry as being white then it literally is about 99%. I can only remember meeting two black Americans and one Chinese-looking over here, and quite possibly hundreds of white ones. Similar thing for Australians, I can only remember meeting two non-white, one Indian and one Aboriginal-looking. I've met a similar disproportionately low number of non-white British people abroad in the rest of Europe too. In my experience when most British Asian people travel anywhere it's back to their ancestral country to visit family.

[alamosakid]

Will this thread ever die?!