15 Amazing Places in Europe I’d Return to in a Heartbeat

So one of the themes that came up was about returning to places.

And, you know, returning to a place isn't necessarily repeating.

So let me just kind of start with this.

Y'all know that I love discovering new places.

I think so many of us feel that way.

Some people don't.

But I say most people because there's just that excitement of going somewhere new and you're arriving there for the first time and you're, oh, what am I going to discover? And I definitely have a list of places that I still want to go.

Just even little places within a country I've been to or even a region that I've been to.

You know, I think about places like in the Dolomites or places that I haven't been that I would love to go to.

There are places here in Scotland that I would love to go to.

There are definitely places in France, even, you know, the couple of places in like Normandy in the Loire Valley that I was in back in autumn of 2025.

I thought, oh gosh, I didn't get here.

I didn't get there.

So, you know, I think we always have a list of places we want to go to, right? But I also really love, as you know, If you've been part of the Wonder Your Way universe for a while, I love going back to places.

And if you listen to the episode, it was just a handful of episodes ago where I talked with Renee Hannes of Dream Plan Experience.

We talked about slow travel, but we also talked about returning to places we've already visited.

And the one thing that Renee said that really stood out was returning doesn't mean repeating the same trip because every visit can be different.

You might be going to the same place, but it's going to do different.

It's going to feel different.

You're there, you know, you're there at a different time of year.

So it's going to be a different experience.

You, you know, I like to return because like I say, I always like peel back another layer, dig a little bit deeper, whichever metaphor you want to use.

You know, I find a trail that I didn't know about.

I explore another village that's part of the area that I didn't make it to.

Maybe there's a cafe or a restaurant or, you know, some beautiful place for me to photograph because that's one of my favorite things to do too.