StuDudley

Here are the number of weeks we've stayed in various gites in France. All of these entries are for stays that last for at least 7 nights. We typically stay for 2 weeks at a time:

Cote d’Azur
4 St Jeannet
4 Carces
1 Entrechaux
Provence
2 Vaison
8 Bedoin
2 Bourdiguet
4 Cabieres d’ Avignon
2 St Remy
Languedoc/Roussillon/Lot
1 Ganges
1 Lamalou les Bains
2 Estaing
2 Ceret
2 Cayreich
2 Puy l'Eveque
Dordogne
10 Cenac
Auvergne
1 Cantal
2 Olney
2 St Haon le Vieux
Ardeche
2 Lamastre
Loire
2 Loches
1 Saumur
Alsace
1 Requewihr
Brittany
2 Plancoet
2 Penvenen
1 Pt Aven
Alps
2 Annecy
1 Embrun
1 Briancon
Franche Comte
1 Poligny
2 Maiche
Burgundy/Beaujolais
2 Beaune
2 Julennies
Normandy
1 Canteloup
1 Ferrieres aux Etangs
Nord
1 Francq
Pays Basque
2 Osses
2 Sare
Pyrenees
2 Gaillagues
1 Bressac

Elsewhere

11 Paris
3 London
1 Rome
6 San Quirico d'Orcia in Tuscany
4 St Tropez

Stu Dudley

Improviser

pja1, that's not 'bending the rules', it's breaking the rule. That's why it says '7 consecutive nights'. It's a cutoff otherwise everyone would list places they have visited for a few days several times. That list would presumably become nearly impossible for some people.

Only the one place Peter_S? I'm surprised, that's all. Is it just that you have spent most of your travel time in places other than Europe?

outwest

London (x3)
Paris (x4)
Amsterdam once
Rome once

irishface

Salzburg (several weeks attending a summer school language program)
Amsterdam-- twice
London--5 times (plus many shorter visits)
Edinburgh
Brussels--four times (I had a friend stationed there)
County Wicklow Ireland (lived there for two years-probably doesn't count, but have been back for visits of week or more several times)
Conwy, Wales
Invermorriston, Scotland (near Loch Ness--happened on it by chance and used it as a base to explore the area)
Haarlem Netherlands
Doolin Ireland (we had a cottage there and it was a base for exploring but anther time would choose Ennis for that area. Did not fall in love with the place.
Munich
Dunquin Ireland (near Dingle)
Koblenz Germany (went for a wedding and spent some time exploring the Rhine from there)
Vernazza Cinque Terre Italy
Dubrovnik

Elizabeth_S

I bow in honour of StuDudley and resolve to emulate him.

HIroamer

Fonterutoli
Montepulciano
Venice
Vence
Sarlat
Loire Valley
Vaison
Paris

Peter_S_Aus

<<<< Only the one place Peter_S? I'm surprised, that's all. Is it just that you have spent most of your travel time in places other than Europe? >>>

Imp, I travelled to Europe in 1975, spending about a year in the UK and continental Europe. About 5 months in Maidenhead, England, where my five year old went to school, and we did heaps of short trips from there, but I don’t recollect any stays of seven nights. Maybe seven nights in Stuttgart, a week skiing in Oberndorf, a week in Wels, Austria, with friends. Almost 40 years ago, so it’s hard to remember.

An eight night cruise ship out of Sydney (don’t ask, but it seemed a good idea at the time).

Camping for a stretch of eight or nine nights many times beside a trout stream in Aus.

Six nights on a 30’ yacht from Sydney to Hobart – six nights, but we were hammered by bad weather, and it seemed like an eternity.

Sometimes when cycling around Australia, it seemed like I was in the same place every time I woke up. Wake up, make breakfast, fold tent, pack bike, mount bike, pedal, eat, pedal some more, set up camp, eat, sleep. Repeat many times.

http://www.fodors.com/community/aust...-road-trip.cfm

The first European trip with Lou, my wife, was a week in Venice, then Verona, Como, Florence, Assisi, Rome. We fell in love with Venice, became fixated with Venice, hence three more long stays.

michele_d

Geez Stu...trying to make us all look like newbies?

109 weeks of travel..You ARE my hero.

How many years have you been traveling?

ron

You say this is an annual poll. Can you direct us to the analysis that you have done on the data you collected in the previous polls in this series?

If this is your first annual poll, perhaps you can tell us what analysis you plan on undertaking and when we might see the results.

rialtogrl

Venice (many, many weeks)
Paris (also many weeks)
Florence
Budapest
Vienna
Bevagna (Umbria)
Taormina (Sicily)
Naples
Madrid
Girona (Spain)
Grazalema (Spain)
Oviedo (Spain)
Rovinj (Croatia)
Ljublana (Slovenia)
Istanbul
Dublin
Stroud (UK)
Painswick (UK)
Beaune (France)

After October I can add Zaragoza, Spain to the list.

StCirq

There is a big difference between staying in a region and staying in one village or town, but:

Paris
London
Venice
Lot
Quercy
Langeudoc-Roussillon
Pays Basque
Côte d'Azure
Provence - Bouches du Rhône
Tuscany
Umbria
The Lakes District - Italy
Frankfurt
Heidelberg
Strasbourg - Alsace
Vienna
Rome
Normandy
The Loire
Pays-Basque in France
Brittany
Obviously, the Dordogne.

Probably more, just don't have the memory at the moment.

socaltraveler

Sorry, but I have read nothing from the OP that would make me want to share anything with him. And what are you doing with this anyway?

nytraveler

The only places I have been for more than 7 days at one time are London and Paris.

I have been to MANY other cities or towns for a total of more than 7 days - but in more than one trip - some a bunch of trips.

But I'm not sure you premise is valid. I have been to Rome 6 times - and I don;t see how those trips (total of almost a month) don't count for at least the same as one trip of 8 days.

LSky

7 consecutive nights? At one hotel? Or in a region, like 7 nights in the Schwarzwald?


I've only stayed in 2 cities more than 7 consecutive nights:
Paris
Prague

janisj

My list is shorter than Stu's, and longer than rialtogirl's (Plus five years in the UK). But I won't post it here. The OP has said on another thread he is only here to stir things up and then he will depart Fodorville in the next few weeks. I'll wait til he's left the room.

If you notice- he hasn't posted his own list -- probably waiting to see what everyone posts and then will try to trump everyone w/ some cockamamie looooooong imaginary list.

(Thanks Stu, he'll have to go some to top you )

StuDudley

>>How many years have you been traveling?<<

We started in '77, but at that time we typically spent 3-5 weeks traveling around Europe each year - but only 2-4 nights in any one spot. In '97 we stayed in a gite for a week (Dordogne) - and got hooked on just staying in one place for an extended period of time. We retired early (in our early 50s) in '99, and that year we spent 2 weeks in the Luberon in Provence France, 2 weeks near St Remy, 2 weeks in St Tropez, 2 weeks near Vaison, and then 3 weeks in San Quirico/Tuscany. We've kinda done the same thing every year since then - often three trips a year - like this year. Staying in Gites in France along with staying with our closest friends in Tuscany (free) where they had an apt, makes it affordable.

Stu Dudley

swandav2000

Montreux, Switzerland (I've been staying there for two weeks for the past few years, though I'll skip 2013)
Paris (lived there for a year in 1975, been back for at least a week multiple times)
Wengen, Switzerland
Mittenwald, Germany
Gstaad, Switzerland (a few times)
Dresden, Germany (a Goethe language course)
Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland
Cannes, France

I've got a bunch of places that I spent only 6 nights in, and a few more with 4 nights.

s

phillyboy

Paris
Spello
Provence - countryside near Avignon
Piemonte - countryside near Alessandria
Aigua Blava, Costa Brava

Will add Sarlot to list next month. Still a piker compared to many here.

bilboburgler

Wow phillyboy, in some English speaking countries "Still a piker compared to many here" is pretty near the knuckle.

Most of the Contentin along the coast, St Malo, Dinan, Ile de Re, Le Havre, Zeebrugge, Ghoes, Hamburg, Au, Ulm, Cravant, Valle du Tarn, Barcelona, Madrid, Porto, Cadiz, Florence, Rome, Zell-am-Zee, Hopiteaux Vieux, Posnan, Kranjska Gora in the last few years. All in all probably 50 or 60 outside of the UK where I guess about the same.

kerouac

I am incapable of staying in one place for very long in Europe (since I live in Paris), so I can only say

London
Rome
Amsterdam
Copenhagen
Avignon
Encamp
Béziers
Batilly
Xanrey

(and those last three are family stays)