6 Awesome Tips For How To Find Hidden Feeling Places in Europe

It's not one of those kinda usual tips where it's like, oh, tips on finding the best accommodation or things like that, tips on driving a car.

This is, uh, tips for how to find sort of these, what I'm sort of terming hidden feeling places.

Now, y- y- we know no place is truly hidden, but you, I think you know what I'm getting at.

It's, it's maybe finding those places that are a little off the main tourist track because, you know, I'll go to places, and I always get this question is, "Well, how did you find these places?" And I realize that I kinda do have a little bit of a process, and I guess I'm, you know, and some tips and some things that I do that I thought could be nice to share with you.

Now, I wanna start with a little bit of a background because there's something that ties into this because I feel like these, you know, maybe these hidden feeling places are places that are less busy.

So, uh, I think it was in the last few weeks I came across an article, I think it was in The Wall Street Journal, and I, I probably, because it was behind a paywall, I didn't get to read all of it.

I got to read, like, a little bit of it, the beginning part of it, and I thought it was really, uh, I don't know.

I was sort of put off by this article.

But it was an article about how Europe has become too crowded.

It, it was s- it was something like, it was entitled something like Europe Has Become Too Busy So We're Doing This.

So it, they talked about how these wealthy travelers were chartering luxury yachts to escape the crowds, and I think there's somebody quoted that, uh, they had gone to Santorini, and they said they could barely make, move because there were so many visitors.

And I'm thinking, "Well, you went to Santorini.

You didn't go to maybe one of the other Greek islands." So I guess that's wh- that's where the, the impetus of this idea came from is, first of all, it's not fair to say that Europe is too crowded.

I mean, that's a huge generalization, right? There are certainly a lot of places that are very crowded, such as Santorini, or Venice, or Barcelona, or Rome, uh, you know, even Edinburgh.

The, the couple times I was in Edinburgh I was like, "Whoa, there's a lot of people here." And at certain times of the year in particular, they can feel really busy.

But Europe itself, Europe is not too crowded.

There are places that you can go where you can slow down, you can have a breath, there's not so many people around you, and you feel like you've discovered something special.

So these are those hidden feeling places.

Like I said, they're not really truly hidden because, you know, let's face it, there aren't, uh, any places that are hidden or that are secret.

But I think that there are those places that sort of feel like that.

Uh, there are plenty of places that, that receive fewer visitors that maybe encourage that slower pace, or they may be places that just don't get as much attention as their famous neighbors.

So, you know, I just did an episode on places that deserve more love, and this sort of dovetails a little bit in, into that.