r/AskEurope • u/Galway1012 Ireland • May 19 '24

Travel What are your favourite & least favourite European capitals that you have visited?

From your travels across various European capitals, which has been your favourite and why?

And which has been your least favourite & why?

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u/alikander99 Spain May 19 '24 edited May 19 '24

I've visited: Lisbon, Madrid, Dublin, London, Paris, Andorra la vella, Rome, Vatican city, Brussels, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Warsaw, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Skopje, Tirana, Malta and Athens. So 28

Let's start with the bad news:

Least friendly people: Vienna

Least beautiful: Bucharest

Least interesting: Andorra la vella

Worst food: Dublin/Amsterdam/Bratislava

Most expensive: Luxembourg

I personally hate it for no reason: Amsterdam

Honrific mentions: Sofia, Helsinki (I expect Sofia to get a lot better)

And now the good ones:

Most friendly people: Tirana (BY FAR)

Most beautiful: Rome/Paris

Most interesting: Berlin

Best food: Rome/Madrid

Most inexpensive: Tirana/Skopje

I personally love it for no reason: Brussels

Honorific mentions: Budapest, Copenhagen, Riga

If you have any grievance I can explain my thought process in a comment

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u/FlyingLittleDuck Netherlands May 19 '24

Other than fried snacks, Amsterdam doesn’t really offer any authentic, great Dutch food (but this can be said about all of the Netherlands).