Sightseeing in Europe is Wonderful

Who on Earth said Sightseeing in Europe was about the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower or the Big Ben?

There’s this thing about human nature: nothing can seem special and desirable until everyone else thinks the same. Anyone who’s been on a train in Europe knows how unbelievable the natural beauty of the continent can be. There’s something about the Europeans that they are able to live such modern lives in their up-to-the-minute modern cities and yet preserve their countryside a few minutes outside of their cities in such a way that when you arrive here, you could be forgiven for thinking you traveled a few hundred years in the past. And yet, sightseeing in Europe, for Americans, is usually about catching all the important monuments and museums, hitting the right fashionable streets and so on. Why do people who ooh and aah over the landscaping at Disney World for “how natural it all seems”, when they come sightseeing in Europe, never stray from the must-see sights?

The answer to that question is probably that we never accept that something is beautiful enough to make an exclusive trip for until everyone else confirms our suspicions. In reality, Europe is a continent that is special for one thing more than anything else – how it has kept in touch with its roots. The countryside there isn’t about mechanized farming and cattle farms where everything’s said by machine. Take a hike in England in some unadvertised place like the Cotswold countryside and you’ll wonder about how on earth such stupefying beauty can exist in plain sight with no one talking about it. You don’t need to go to some colonial Williamsburg to find out how people used to live in the centuries past. Here, all across Europe and England, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, you’ll see profitable living and working farms that really are run today in the way they’ve always been run. You’ll see darling little castles, little ponds with ducks and swans in them, apple trees that have children trying to scramble up them, rabbits nosing about completely trusting of people, little brooks babbling along that the classic Water Babies could have been written for – there’s almost too much beauty to take in in one lifetime. How sad it is then that for most tourists, sightseeing in Europe is all about catching the Eiffel Tower and the Big Ben.

So what do you do the next time you plan to travel to Europe? Try these sightseeing opportunities to take in the real beauty of Europe. You can tell yourself that it’s European culture you’re looking at – what could be more cultural than a real look into the lives of the rural folk live in a new country?

Try Taveyanne, a tiny farming village that’s so real, it doesn’t even have electricity. It’s situated next to Lake Geneva in Switzerland. It’s a tiny sleepy village that feels like the scene from the Milka chocolate wrappers. On these lush hills far from anywhere, you see the healthiest and sleepiest cows you ever imagined. All the people ever seem to do over here is to farm the land with old-fashioned tools and serve the fruits of their labor to visitors in the best traditional ways. You haven’t tasted milk until you’ve come here for a foaming glass fresh in the morning.