Ask HN: where are your favorite places?

[RiderOfGiraffes]

If someone happened to be visiting your town, where would you recommend they visit?

In the UK I would recommend Quarry Bank Mill near Manchester, and the Falkirk Wheel north of Glasgow. In Paris, the Musee de l'Air (Bourget) and Musee D'Orsay, In Sweden the Vasa Museum near Stockholm, and in Australia, the gold mining town of Ballarat and the Fairy Penguins at Phillip Island.

I've left out hundreds, but those are my immediate highlights.

Where would you recommend?

[davidw]

pg asked about it a while ago, and I wrote up a fairly extensive list of things to see in the Veneto region of Italy:

http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2008/09/05/visiting-italy-...

[slackenerny → davidw]

pg asked about it a while ago

that'd be here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294321

[RiderOfGiraffes]

It's nice to be up-modded (thank you!), but contributions would be even better!

[ido]

Nitpick: these are all countries, not towns.

[RiderOfGiraffes → ido]

In what way are Manchester, Glasgow, Paris, Stockholm, Ballarat and Phillip Island, "countries" ?? Perhaps I've completely mis-understood your nitpick.

Besides, the originals are things near population centers. Technically some of the population centers are cities and not towns, but the term is sufficiently generic that I thought it was suitable.

And the things I've suggested are intended to be specific to hackers. The Flakirk wheel, for example, is technologically fantastic, and a tourist attraction, and a brilliant demonstration of Archimedes principle.

Similarly the others are, to my thinking, of interest to hackers.

Hence the question.

[ido → RiderOfGiraffes]

I read your post as a recomendation for someone traveling to "the UK...Paris...Sweden... Australia".

3 of those are countries.

But this is admittedly a silly discussion so lets not continue it, ok? :)

[RiderOfGiraffes → ido]

Agreed.

The intention was to find things that hackers would think interesting to look at or visit when travelling. Perhaps hackers either don't travel, or when they do, don't bother to look at things. I found the Falkirk wheel utterly brilliant, and the Musee de l'Air fascinating.

[vorador]

St-Germain des Prés, Paris.