Whats your favourite holiday Destination?

[Sputnik]

Back when I was at university, in the Pleistocene Era, the grad asses who taught the German language classes always pushed Wien as the "schoenste stadt der welt." (I've probably botched that badly.)

Not so bad, actually. It's "schonste," and there's an umlaut over the "o"... so, "schönste." But I forgive you that. Overall, well done, but did you get the musical reference?

[Nijinsky Hind]

For me, Yosemite. I went on a 2 week backpacking trip on the John Muir trail from Yosemite Valley to the Devils postpile when I was in my 20's (all by myself) and ran into people on the trail from all over the world.
Nothing else compares. I have since taken my family to Yosemite maybe 5 times. Fishing, Hiking, rafting., camping. But I must admit I've never been out of the US except for a week in Mexico, and a few days in Canada.
My idea of Holiday Destinations are meant to get me away from cities, cultures, and crowds.

[moecurlythanu]

Not so bad, actually. It's "schonste," and there's an umlaut over the "o"... so, "schönste." But I forgive you that. Overall, well done, but did you get the musical reference?

The umlaut goes to an e following the vowel, when rendered in English. For example, my last name Guenther is an English rendition, and in German is Gunther, with an umlaut over the u. It provides an oo sound, although we treat the e as silent, making the first syllable like the English gun.

No, I didn't get the musical reference.

[Sputnik]

The umlaut goes to an e following the vowel, when rendered in English. For example, my last name Guenther is an English rendition, and in German is Gunther, with an umlaut over the u. It provides an oo sound, although we treat the e as silent, making the first syllable like the English gun.

OK then, you got it right! I just defer to my high school German. I didn't know the English conversion.

No, I didn't get the musical reference.

One of my favorite Billy Joel songs called "Vienna." Check it out.

[Trane]

Back when I was at university, in the Pleistocene Era, the grad asses who taught the German language classes always pushed Wien as the "schoenste stadt der welt." (I've probably botched that badly.)

No need to go that far back to say you're an old geezer (like the rest of us)

The Holocene will do since we've basked in the Anthropocene (precise starting date to era change remains to be defined precisely >> 142, mid-XVIIIth C or later, but the Great Acceleration was WW2/1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene

[Rarebird]

Not so bad, actually. It's "schonste," and there's an umlaut over the "o"... so, "schönste." But I forgive you that. Overall, well done, but did you get the musical reference?

Well, if no umlaut is available, they use an 'e'. See for instance Hölderlin, that became spelled as Hoelderlin.

[Lopez]

Cheesy at it may be, my favorite vacation spot is Niagara Falls (Canadian side — Hi, Lino!). When I was little, my family took a vacation to Niagara Falls. We stayed on the Canadian side on Clifton Hill with all the nutty tourist traps. We didn't do any of the cool tourist traps like Maid of the Mist, Cave of the Winds, etc. My mom said they were too dangerous. My wife and I spent part of our honeymoon in Niagara Falls (slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch...). We loved it, and did all the "dangerous" activities that I was denied as a yout. When my kids were old enough to appreciate tourist traps, we went to the Canadian side (twice!!) and did all the dangerous stuff again. Loved every bit of it. One of these days, we'll go there in the winter time.

[SteveSly]

Cheesy at it may be, my favorite vacation spot is Niagara Falls (Canadian side — Hi, Lino!). When I was little, my family took a vacation to Niagara Falls. We stayed on the Canadian side on Clifton Hill with all the nutty tourist traps. We didn't do any of the cool tourist traps like Maid of the Mist, Cave of the Winds, etc. My mom said they were too dangerous. My wife and I spent part of our honeymoon in Niagara Falls (slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch...). We loved it, and did all the "dangerous" activities that I was denied as a yout. When my kids were old enough to appreciate tourist traps, we went to the Canadian side (twice!!) and did all the dangerous stuff again. Loved every bit of it. One of these days, we'll go there in the winter time.

We went to Niagara Falls for our 10th wedding anniversary and loved it. We stayed on the Canadian side with a room overlooking the falls. We were there in April so it was still the off season. It was really cold and we had the whole place practically to ourselves. Maid Of The Mist was still closed for the season, but we did Cave Of The Winds and walked all over both the Canadian and U.S. sides of the falls. They also have a casino which we enjoyed as well.

[Trane]

Cheesy at it may be, my favorite vacation spot is Niagara Falls (Canadian side — Hi, Lino!). When I was little, my family took a vacation to Niagara Falls. We stayed on the Canadian side on Clifton Hill with all the nutty tourist traps. We didn't do any of the cool tourist traps like Maid of the Mist, Cave of the Winds, etc. My mom said they were too dangerous. My wife and I spent part of our honeymoon in Niagara Falls (slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch...). We loved it, and did all the "dangerous" activities that I was denied as a yout. When my kids were old enough to appreciate tourist traps, we went to the Canadian side (twice!!) and did all the dangerous stuff again. Loved every bit of it. One of these days, we'll go there in the winter time.

Niagara falls was not considered by us Torontonians as "holidays", just a "one-dau excursion" (only went there twice, because it is such a tourist trap)