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CW4 Craig Urban
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Any where there is cheese. Holland.
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CW4 Craig Urban
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Kos. Greece
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SFC Dagmar Riley
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Been to a couple of the places in Italy and grew up only 52miles from Rothenburg ob der Tauber that was listed which isn’t to bad; especially during Christ Kindle Market during the Christmas holiday shopping period. What I was surprised about, that Saas Fe in Switzerland wasn’t even thought of since they mentioned so many places in Europe and that one beats them all in my opinion. It is a tourist place but not well known if at all to the average income earner. I was lucky enough to have a boss that took me with her every year for a week while working for her because I definitely would not have been able to afford it to stay there for a week during what they call the “Winter Saison”. All the rich and famous spent their winters there and often you have to make reservations a year in advance to have a place to stay there. Saas-Fee can be reached by car or bus—postal buses run during much of the day, though none provides a service beyond the bus terminal through the length of the town during the winter. No cars are allowed to enter the city (they have to be parked in special car parks outside); only small electric vehicles operate on the streets (and some petrol-driven garbage trucks). The decision to exclude most motor vehicles was made by the village at the time of the construction of the road from Saas Grund in 1953.
Saas-Fee was the location where the video for Wham!'s hit single "Last Christmas" was filmed in 1984. The cable car that they get into to go up the mountain is labelled with the name "Saas-Fee" in the typical Saas-Fee font. This appears to be an artistic device as the cable car, now replaced by a more modern version, runs between the edge of Saas-Fee and Felskinn which is considerably above the normal height for residential buildings. Saas-Fee is also the setting of the second part of André Gide's novel Les faux-monnayeurs, as well as the setting of various ski chase sequences in the On Her Majesty's Secret Service film (1969) in the James Bond series.
Also saw some really beautiful villages in Korea that an American rarely ever gets to see and are absolutely breathtaking, like something from a Children’s Fairy Tale Book. I can see though why so many places they listed were in Italy since it really is beautiful as are many places here in the US if you just get off the major highways and start exploring.
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