These are the world travel sites that did not make the initial 250 best travel destinations in the world list. They are simply listed, with short descriptions or information; in somes cases I have enclosed a picture and/or a link. They are listed by country, alphabetically with no attempt to rank them. They are still great places, certainly worthy of the traveler’s time and effort.  I will list approximately twenty (20) in each post.

       Europe

            Andorra — small mountain republic sandwiched between Spain and France

           Austria

                     Graz — (Walking Tour available for purchase on website)

                     Melk — famous for its Abbey, pictured below                        

Melk Abbey

           Belgium

                      Antwerp

                     Ghent — (Walking Tour available for purchase on website)

            Bosnia-Hercegovina

                       Medugorje — popular pilgrimage location for Roman Catholics

                       Mostar — divided city which epitomizes the cultural divisions between Muslims and native Balkan people

                       Sarajevo

            Bulgaria

                     Rila Monastery

                     Sofia (Walking Tour available for purchase on website)

            Croatia

                     Plitvice National Park — spectacular natural area with many lakes and waterfalls

                     Zadar — walled city near the Northern end of the Adriatic Sea (Walking Tour available for purchase on website)

                     Zagreb — Capital of Croatia (Walking Tour available for purchase on website)

              Czech Republic

                      Karlovy Vary — famous spa town (Walking Tour available for purchase on website)

                      Kutna Hora — (Walking Tour available for purchase on website)

                      Olomouc — charming Czech village

           Denmark

                    Aarhus

                    Odense

                    Roskilde

            Finland

                    Turku — old capital of Finland

            France

                     Beaune — adorable village in the Burgundy region (Walking Tour available for purchase on website)                                  

A street in Beaune

                     Carcassone — incredible walled city

                     Chartres — a short distance from Paris, featuring one of Europe’s most famous cathedrals                             

Chartres Cathedral

                     Dijon

                      Giverny — place where Claude Monet lived and painted his water lilies                                

                      Honfleur — adorable coastal artist colony in Normandy

                     Lascaux Caves — first discovery of ancient pre-historic cave paintings

                     Lyon — Focal point of French cuisine and training (Walking Tour available for purchase on website)                           

Notre Dame, Lyon

                     Reims

                     Strasbourg — largest city in the Alsace (Walking Tour available for purchase on website)

                     Vezelay