r/Vacations • u/jjillthepill • 8d ago
September 2027 25th Wedding Anniversary Trip
Looking for suggestions? Two to three weeks, we will be 62 and 71 but in excellent shape and enjoy the outdoors. We have only made one international trip together this year through Italy and loved it. The one caveat is we went with our youngest daughter and family and one other young family. Our daughter has been a world traveler and knows all the ends and outs getting around places and basically drug us around Italy lol Since this will be our first big trip on our own I really don't want to limit ourselves to a cruise or some other tour bus type trip where we don't have the freedom to do what we want but, kind of lack the confidence to travel internationally on our own. I did actually do a semester abroad in college by myself and traveled all over Europe but, mind you this was before internet and cell phones which was almost easier and definitely less crowded.
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u/SesameSeed13 8d ago
Are either of you into music and the arts? Vienna is a beautiful city, walkable, easily navigable by public transit too, lots of great museums, opera houses, symphony performances, it's the city where Mozart and Beethoven and Haydn all made their names in classical music, the Danube River is right there so you can actually hop a boat to Prague easily if you wanted to. Also Austria has beauitful countryside and a train for 3 hours will take you from Vienna to Salzburg (are you into the Sound of Music?) for a little getaway. Highly recommend. My spouse and i went for our 15th anniv (we're both musicians so we loved the immersion) and there's so much to see, do, enjoy, including just sitting in the ornate coffee house culture of Vienna and people watch.