Posted on 10/03/2024 7:29:43 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
If you spend most of your life driving or taking public transportation from point A to point B, there's nothing quite like breaking from planes, trains, and automobiles and exploring a destination on foot. Doing so allows you to slow down and savor all the sites around you, no parking necessary. With that in mind, we have rounded up 12 of the most beautiful walkable cities around the world (with a few in the U.S.) to inspire your future travel plans.
There are certainly many benefits to exploring with your own two feet, and we give all of the cities below a super high walkability score. Whether you are looking for a perfect weekend adventure or planning a girls' trip, we have plenty of destinations to add to your list (or even to travel back to), some even with beaches to walk along in addition to city centers full of historic streets and landmarks. Time to select a destination, book a beautiful luxury hotel, and pack your walking shoes!
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“Just visited Amsterdam....litter and trash everywhere.”
I was in Amsterdam for a couple of days years ago. Walking the streets at 1 am and the drunks and litter scattered about like autumn leaves. Had to leave for the airport at sun-up and walked those same streets (5 or 6 am?) the next morning.
The squares and roads were empty, and still glistened in the morning’s light from where they had been hosed down. No bums, no litter. I recall that there were no pedestrians or cars either but I’m probably wrong about that. I was probably just focused on how clean EVERYTHING was.
It was spooky - like it was a real-life “Soylent Green”, which had come out several years earlier.
Washington, DC and San Francisco, California?
Really?
Seriously, those shiteholes?
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